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This 2CD set twins Steppenwolf's 3rd studio album At Your Birthday Party (1969) with their 5th studio album Seven (1970).
It is fortunate that Seven is a real tour-de-force, because Birthday Party is not the band's most consistent or strongest album...
Yep, At Your Birthday Party comes as a bit of a disappointment in the wake of their truly sensational debut album and follow-up The Second. By now, the band were in a frenzy of touring, and lacked the time and opportunity to work up new numbers before hitting the studio.... and unfortunately it shows. Some cracking songs hold the album together - It's Never Too Late, Rock Me, Happy Birthday and Jupiter Child - but a lot of the album falls short of what you'd expect on a Steppenwolf album.
Seven, on the other hand, is a cracking album, with not a baggy filler of a song in sight. The whole album is simply superb, classic Steppenwolf. A lot of the album is driving hard-rock - Ball Crusher, Hippo Stomp, Who Needs Ya, etc, but there are quieter almost delicate moments like Hoyt Axton's Snow Blind Friend (Axton penned the group's earlier hit - The Pusher). There are also moments of fun in Fat Jack, a song about the hotdog seller next to the studio. Renegade also deserves a mention, this being a song about John Kay's (aka Joachim Krauledat) escape from Communist East Germany as a boy. And as for Earschplittenloudenboomer... well I'll leave you to work that one out for yourself.
Seven would have been a five star album on it's own, and Birthday Party a three. So I'm inclined to give four stars overall... But hold on. For value alone I think this 2CD pack is worth an extra star. So ***** from me.
It is fortunate that Seven is a real tour-de-force, because Birthday Party is not the band's most consistent or strongest album...
Yep, At Your Birthday Party comes as a bit of a disappointment in the wake of their truly sensational debut album and follow-up The Second. By now, the band were in a frenzy of touring, and lacked the time and opportunity to work up new numbers before hitting the studio.... and unfortunately it shows. Some cracking songs hold the album together - It's Never Too Late, Rock Me, Happy Birthday and Jupiter Child - but a lot of the album falls short of what you'd expect on a Steppenwolf album.
Seven, on the other hand, is a cracking album, with not a baggy filler of a song in sight. The whole album is simply superb, classic Steppenwolf. A lot of the album is driving hard-rock - Ball Crusher, Hippo Stomp, Who Needs Ya, etc, but there are quieter almost delicate moments like Hoyt Axton's Snow Blind Friend (Axton penned the group's earlier hit - The Pusher). There are also moments of fun in Fat Jack, a song about the hotdog seller next to the studio. Renegade also deserves a mention, this being a song about John Kay's (aka Joachim Krauledat) escape from Communist East Germany as a boy. And as for Earschplittenloudenboomer... well I'll leave you to work that one out for yourself.
Seven would have been a five star album on it's own, and Birthday Party a three. So I'm inclined to give four stars overall... But hold on. For value alone I think this 2CD pack is worth an extra star. So ***** from me.
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28 Oct 2006
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Not a bad combination disc, but buyers should beware that the version of "It's Never Too Late" on Birthday is the edited version commonly found on greatest hits compilations (the second stanza is missing), not the original album version. How BGO managed to make this error is a mystery.
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