TIME MACHINE A Vertigo Retrospective (1969-1973) 2005 3CD MP3@320

TIME MACHINE A Vertigo Retrospective (1969-1973) 2005 3CD

Time Machine is a fascinating look at a equally fascinating time in music, containing 41 tracks from the first golden age of the Vertigo label including rare and classic tracks from the likes of Aphrodite's Child, Black Sabbath, Colosseum, Gentle Giant, Jade Warrior and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. Also contains a 48-Page Booklet containing biogs, rare photographs and exclusive interviews. Whether you are a fan of Psychedelia or Prog Rock, there's something here to excite your senses.



TIME MACHINE A Vertigo Retrospective (1969-1973)

Disc One = 78:09

01 - The Kettle (Colosseum)

02 - Who Do You Love? (Juicy Lucy)

03 - My Heaven (Clear Blue Sky)

04 - Traveling Lady (Manfred Mann's Chapter 3)

05 - Behind The Wall Of Sleep (Black Sabbath)

06 - To Play Your Little Games (Cressida)

07 - Introduction (Gracious)

08 - Three Sisters (Affinity)

09 - Walking On (Bob Downes)

10 - I Don't Know (May Blitz)

11 - Torrid Zone (Nucleus)

12 - Handbags And Gladrags (Rod Stewart)

13 - Nothing At All (Gentle Giant)

14 - The Influence (Ben)



Disc Two = 76:58

01 - Evil Woman's Manly Child (Dr. Z)

02 - Borne On The Solar Wind (Jade Warrior)

03 - The Man (Patto)

04 - Thinking Of My Life (Juicy Lucy)

05 - Half Baked (Jimmy Campbell)

06 - For Madmen Only (May Blitz)

07 - The Lady's Changing Home (Tudor Lodge)

08 - Time Machine (Beggars Opera)

09 - Bring Out Your Dead (Colosseum)

10 - Mouthpiece (Warhorse)

11 - Lady In Black (Uriah Heep)

12 - Through The Years (Freedom)

13 - Midnight Moses (Sensational Alex Harvey Band)

14 - Lord Of The Ages (Magna Carta)



Disc Three = 79:17

01 - Living At The End Of Time (Atlantis)

02 - Life Child (Ramases)

03 - McArthur Park (Beggars Opera)

04 - Song For The Bearded Lady (Nucleus)

05 - Pantagruel's Nativity (Gentle Giant)

06 - Ballad Of A Peaceful Man (Gravy Train)

07 - Powers Of Darkness (Ronno)

08 - Paper Plane (Status Quo)

09 - Little Known (Ian Matthews)

10 - Let It Happen (Vangelis Papathanassiou)

11 - Mwenga Sketch (Jade Warrior)

12 - The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child)

13 - Spiral Architect (Black Sabbath)



AllMusic review:

The sheer collectibility of anything on the Vertigo label is one of those peculiar quirks that few people, collectors included, can truly quantify. True, Vertigo was blessed with one of the most compulsive label designs ever devised: a black-and-white swirl that can, indeed, induce vertigo in anyone who looks at it for too long. True, too, the label prided itself in giving voice to talents who might otherwise never have been heard, and wrapped almost every Vertigo album in the kind of ambitious packaging normally reserved for supergroup concept conceits. And one can also be impressed by the label's insistence on defying even the most remote limits of the period's (the early '70s) commercialism, with a clutch of albums that seriously could not have been expected to sell more than a handful of copies apiece. But it is astonishingly unlikely that any single set of ears can truly take as much pleasure from, say, the first album by Affinity as they do the second by Black Sabbath, or who could slip from Keith Tippett to Jade Warrior without undergoing some kind of major cultural dislocation. Which means, of course, that there are a lot of unplayed LPs lying within any sizable Vertigo collection -- and a lot of tracks on this collection that will have you reaching for the fast-forward button after less than a minute. Persevere! Although the three CDs here certainly wander across the Vertigo show, the compilers have done a masterful job. Eschewing some of the more defiantly outré contributions to the catalog (mainly the seriously jazz/freeform-shaped ones), Time Machine instead portrays a label that cared dearly for what modern ears would term the "cutting edge" of the early-'70s British prog-folk-post-psych circuit: Colosseum, Juicy Lucy, Clear Blue Sky, Warhorse, and Doctor Z are all here, cut through with a few glimmers of genuine chartbusting inspiration -- Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Alex Harvey, Rod Stewart. Inasmuch as most Vertigo albums are now considered rare (reissues from the likes of Akarma and Repertoire notwithstanding), Time Machine is most readily likened to a glimpse inside the most fabulous bank vault in British rock history. But it is also a reminder of a time when the new release sheets were not put together by money-mad automatons, all hoping to make the next round of American Idol. Most of these guys wouldn't even have made the qualifiers for Hit Me One More Time, and more power to them for that.



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