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The Golden Ear-rings (name change to the singular Golden Earring in 1969) were pioneers - Holland's first home-grown beat-era stars: before The Motions, before Q65, before The Outsiders. Their first single hit the charts in April 1965 and began a career which still thrives today. Before the international smash Radar Love in 1974 the band had scored an unbroken run of Dutch hit singles during the 60's. Unlike most bands of the era, The Golden Ear-rings wrote their own material - they only ever recorded a single cover version.
The reissue of their first three albums - 1965's Just Earrings, 1967's Winter Harvest and 1968's Miracle Mirror - reveals that The Golden Ear-rings were amazingly assured, years before the international recognition. Bonus tracks from singles complete these reissues, making The Golden Ear-rings' entire recorded works available for the first time They were Holland's secret - but not anymore.
Their music combined the toughness of The Small Faces and the minor-key brooding melodies of The Zombies. They sounded like no one else, always melodic, always focused, always immediate. 1968's Miracle Mirror took on a psychedelic influence to create an album that stands alongside song-based classics like Odyssey And Oracle, Ogden's Nutgone Flake and The Hollies' Butterfly.
* Golden Earring are on tour throughout Jan-June 2009
* Original Front Covers restored
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1967 CD 12 PLUS 5 BONUS TRACKS-5013929598546
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For fans of psych rock worth getting even if you don't particularly like Golden Earring
10 Feb 2012
By Michael
Format:Audio CD
This is a great psych album that is enjoyable in it's own right regardless of the fact that it was recorded by a band which achieved later world fame. If this were a newly-discovered album it would probably be hailed as a 'lost psych classic'. But it's been overlooked a bit because Golden Earring are not known for this style of music. But they do a good job of it, and almost every track has something to offer, with good vocals and instrumentation, and well-written songs. Typical for the era, several tracks have echo effects on the vocals, there's a little backwards guitar and phased drums, and the new stereo technology was put to good use. This will probably appeal to many people who don't particularly like the later more famous Golden Earring era, but like late 60s rock with a psych pop flavour of the likes of Kaleidoscope or Tages. The sound quality is extremely good, better than most albums I have from 1968. I got this on the off-chance that it might be interesting, but was half expecting to get burnt with some pop throwaway from earlier unsuccessful days. However, after a couple of songs I realized I'd discovered a fantastic album into which a lot of effort must have been put. Amazingly, it was only released in Holland, and I think in the US too, where it flopped. Since then it seems to have been forgotten, but this rerelease will hopefully put it in it's deserved place as an album worthy of consideration.
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By J. W. Fluke
Format:Audio CD
This record is making its very first appearance in Britain, although it came out in Holland in the mid 1960's. The bonus tracks are appropriate mono singles. Nice package and marvelous remastered sound. This third album is the first record to introduce Barry Hay. This same four piece of GE is still together today. Highly recommended.
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For fans of psych rock worth getting even if you don't particularly like Golden Earring
10 Feb 2012
By Michael
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Format:Audio CD
This is a great psych album that is enjoyable in it's own right regardless of the fact that it was recorded by a band which achieved later world fame. If this were a newly-discovered album it would probably be hailed as a 'lost psych classic'. But it's been overlooked a bit because Golden Earring are not known for this style of music. But they do a good job of it, and almost every track has something to offer, with good vocals and instrumentation, and well-written songs. Typical for the era, several tracks have echo effects on the vocals, there's a little backwards guitar and phased drums, and the new stereo technology was put to good use. This will probably appeal to many people who don't particularly like the later more famous Golden Earring era, but like late 60s rock with a psych pop flavour of the likes of Kaleidoscope or Tages. The sound quality is extremely good, better than most albums I have from 1968. I got this on the off-chance that it might be interesting, but was half expecting to get burnt with some pop throwaway from earlier unsuccessful days. However, after a couple of songs I realized I'd discovered a fantastic album into which a lot of effort must have been put. Amazingly, it was only released in Holland, and I think in the US too, where it flopped. Since then it seems to have been forgotten, but this rerelease will hopefully put it in it's deserved place as an album worthy of consideration.
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