...SIŁA I PIĘKNO MUZYKI TKWIĄ W JEJ RÓŻNORODNOŚCI...


..::OPIS::..

To wspaniałe wydawnictwo przygotowano dla uczczenia 40. rocznicy powstania zespołu. Pięknie wydany zestaw zawiera 21 CD (zremasterowanych i opakowanych jak LP), 36-stronicową książeczkę z historią zespołu i szczegółowymi opisami każdego albumu oraz 32-stronicową książkę ze wspomnieniami Manfreda, anegdotami i plakatem przedstawiającym aktualny skład zespołu.

Atrakcją jest bez wątpienia album 'Live In Ersingen' zarejestrowany 22 lipca 2011r. z nowym wokalistą Robertem Hartem oraz kompilacja 'Leftovers' zawierająca przebojowe single, nie publikowane wcześniej nagrania oraz rarytasy.
Nakład zestawu jest limitowany!



The Mann and his Earth Band were not very active any longer. Almost ten years between their latest studio release ("Masque") and this one. What else can seriously bring the Mann?
One is impressed with the opening number: "Pleasure And Pain": the melody is beautiful, vocals very performing and there is a superb guitar work, like during their hey days. It took a while to the Mann to release a song from this caliber. I'm glad that it finally came out.

The second good piece is the poignant instrumental "Adults Only". Fine keys work, aerial mood and pleasant melody. There won't be many tracks like this one unfortunately. The energetic "Miss You" can be integrated into the few good songs from "Soft Vengeance"as well as the pop "Nature Of The Beast" and its Springsteen-oriented vocals. This closes the package of decent songs available.

I am not at all as laudatory with their cover of the Stones number "Play With Fire". The original rock feeling has smelt into a messy pop/reggae-ish oriented tune. Press nextT. As the album flows from one song to another, one has to recognize that the fire of the opening track has been extinguished quite abruptly.

It is a long and poor procession of cheesy tracks ("Nothing Ever Happens", "The Price I Pay"), mellowish ones ("Shelter From The Storm", "Tumbling Ball") and the funky/disco "The Complete History Of Sexual Jealousy" and "99 Lbs" are not my cup of tea to say the least.

I am also quite perplex when I listen to "Wherever Love Drops" (part 1 which lasts for less than a minute and part 2 which is double this length.). As you can see, this album has not very much to offer (except the brilliant opener and a couple of good songs).

If I do the math, it makes four good songs out of fourteen (23 points out of seventy on my scale). I'll upgrade it to two stars but be warned, we are not facing a good album.

ZowieZiggy


A gap of almost 10 years betwen this one Soft vengeance released in summer of 1996 and Masque from 1987, diffrent decades, diffrent aproach , musicaly. This album sounds mature, mid tempo almost all the time, fine arrangements, very skilfull musicians, but not in the way of show of all the time how strong and good I am, subltle arrangements define this album. I realy like this album, ok is quite diffrent then the predecesor Masque, this is more on rockier side, the progressive elements are all over the place but melted in other way then before, almost a calm album , toying in places with AOR sound, but not very proeminent like other bands. After so many years some of the fans and not only could not expect very much from the master MM, but here it is a solid album, ok far from being a masterpiece, but very enjoyble for sure from capo al fine.Some intristing keybords here, that from the first note anyone will recognize the master. Again cover versions, A Rolling Sones one , Playing with fire here sounds quite ok to me, The Complete History Of Sexual Jealousy is very refreshing to my ears, I don't understand why is so bad view this piece, Tumbling Ball. Noel McCalla voice fits ok in this kind of sound, he appear few years earlier on Plain music from 1991 also a Manfred Mann album but not under Earh Band this time. The rest of the musicians are in ok form, Roger , Thompson the veteran on drums from Jethro Tull early years Clive Bunker did a good job. So , a pleasent album all the way, not so well trieted here, the ratings and overall note is quite low, but the album sounds ok, even great in places, so why complaining from my side, I like it , I'm a big fan of the band and have almost all they released, minus a copule of live albums, so this one stands ok in my collection, is not a completionists item for sure. 3 stars easy, good album but not realy something of an intrest if you don't know MMEB before works.

b olariu



..::TRACK-LIST::..

CD 16 - Soft Vengeance (1996):
1. Pleasure And Pain 5:39
2. Play With Fire 3:58
3. Nothing Ever Happens 4:10
4. Shelter From The Storm 6:06
5. Tumbling Ball 5:36
6. The Price I Pay 4:06
7. Lose The Touch 3:32
8. Adults Only 3:36
9. Wherever Love Drops 1:06
10. The Complete History Of Sexual Jealousy 3:30
11. 99 Lbs 2:37
12. Miss You 3:34
13. Nature Of The Beast 4:35
14. Wherever Love Drops (Part 2) 2:00



..::OBSADA::..

Noel McCalla - lead vocals
Chris Thompson - lead vocals
Mick Rogers - guitar
Manfred Mann - keyboards, programming, co-producer
Steve Kinch - bass
Clive Bunker - drums
David Farmer - drums

With:
Clem Clempson - guitar
Gary Farmer - guitar
Mitch Dalton - guitar
Gary Sanctuary - Wurlitzer (11)
Russell Hoban - speech (9,14)
Andy Pask - bass
Tony Patler - bass, guitar
Gavin Harrison - drums
Richard James Burgess - drums
Richard Marcangelo - drums
Carole Kenyon - backing vocals
Diane Byrch - backing vocals
Janice Hoyte - backing vocals
Linda Taylor - backing vocals
Maggie Ryder - backing vocals
Stevie Lange - backing vocals



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nvjAMKyHo4


SEED 15:00-22:00.
POLECAM!!!