Record Collector

Butterfly - The Hollies  1967 Well, first of all, I forgot to write an article yesterday even though I said I would write an article a day lol.  But don’t worry I will write an article today! Speaking of The Hollies, have you ever listened to Butterfy ?  Or have you heard of them before? If you are into psychedelic music or soft rock, I guess you must listen to Butterfly . Allan Clarke, Graham Nash, and Tony Hicks mainly wrote songs by The Hollies, but notable songs from this album was written by Graham Nash.  He contributed to making this album better. Butterfly followed their psychedelic album, Evolution, which was inspired by The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's , and has some psychedelic songs like "Maker." They used sitaar in this song! It seems many musicians used sitaar in the late 60's.  Such a psychedelic song! My fav music is psychedeli rock and acid folk (and that's why I write about albums of these genres here), but this albu...

The Move 1968 Maybe many of you have heard of Electric Light Orchestra before and are even fans of them, but do you know ELO was a band called The Move? It seems to me even may fans of ELO don't know this fact. And that's why I wanted to pick up their album here lol. This album is the band's debut and was arranged by Tony Visconti.   Roy Wood played an important role in this album as he wrote most of the songs except Weekend (this is Eddie Cochran's cover), Hey Grandma (this is Moby Grape's cover) and Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart.    Also, they were particular about the recordings (you can see that from the sue of the reverse tape technique), and thus this album was experimental in my opinion. Though some songs like Flowers in the Rain and Cherry Blossom Clinic were controversial at that time, they succeeded to make this album more fun to listen to. As for their sound, several songs were similar to The Who in the 60's, but it can...

Odessey And Oracle - The Zombies  1968 Though Odessey And Oracle is known as a masterpiece now, it seems it wasn't so famous as it is now when it was released in 1968.   The Zombies became very popular when they released their single, "She's Not There" in 1964, but their first album, Begin Here , wasn't so successful as their record label had expected.  Decca records decided to end a contract with them, and the band agreed to make a new contract with CBS in 1967.   Though this album was recorded at Abbey Road Studio right after The Beatles recorded Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the band got an opportunity to welcome a new engineer, Geoff Emerick, who also worked as The Beatles' engineer, they had to face lots of difficulties during the recordings. Colin Blunstone and Paul Atkinson left the band during the recordings and the rest formed a new group called Argent.   It seemed that this album released one month after The ...

Stargazer - Shelagh McDonald released in 1971 This is the first album I write about here, and I'm so excited to wriet about this album because this is one of my favorite albums! Though I like this album, I believe many people have never heard of her name before. She only released two albums before she suddenly disapeared from music scene.  No wonder many people don't know about her. But I'm sure you guys will be hooked on her music if you give it a listen! This album, Stargazer following her first one, Album, has a sound similar to Joni Mitchell or Sandy Denny (if you don't know Sandy Denny, I highly recommend her music too!), and as you can see from my explanation, fits in the catgory of Acid Folk. Leaving Scotland behind in the 60's, where she was born and grew up, she got an opportunity to meet another folk singer, Keith Christmas at folk clubs who introduced her to Sandy Robertson's September Production, and released her first album fro...