- Audio CD (2 Jun 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: EMI
- ASIN: B000NDFIT2
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 777,732 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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• Recorded and released in 1974. The group changed line up, two left , two came in, including Nebraskan Scott McCarl and former Cyrus Eyrie (the pre cursor Raspberries band) member Michael McBride. Starting Over contains an all time classic 45 single, the epic aural movie Overnight Sensation, which still racks up radio plays today.
• Of the album Rolling Stone wrote: "The Raspberries have at last realised their potential. They’ve become the premier synthesizers of sixties pop influences extant. Even more importantly, the end results of their adroit collages of musical knowledge often equal or surpass their models’ original creations".
• McCarl more recently had a track from his 1996 album Play On included on a Mojo cover mount CD. His version of the Beatles ‘Yes It Is’ graced this summer 04’s Mojo Beatles Red and Blue issue. McCarl’s Lennonisms were a perfect match for the Raspberries, and his later version of the Raspberries Nobody Knows (from the Fresh LP) was included on the debut RPM vinyl 7" single, also reviewed in Mojo.
• A keenly anticipated addition to a successful continuing series and is a deluxe Digi Pak presentation with original front cover artwork.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I have to admit I bought this a long, long time ago! It is one of my few plastic LP's that has made it through the years. Like a tour through classic rock music, there are also excellent tunes to tap your feet to. It is great fun listening and working out the influences! If you enjoy music by the Beatles, Who, Faces, Beach Boys, etc. you'll find something here to make you smile. And 'Hands On You' is a hoot!
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful
One of the great lost rock 'n roll albums
27 April 2005
Format:Audio CD
Maybe sensing that their days as a band were numbered, the Raspberries dropped the white-suited goody-two-shoes bubblegum act and produced their best (and final) lp, 1974's "Starting Over". This last hurrah is a vague concept album about the hopes and realities of being in a rock 'n roll band, from Eric Carmen's determination to create an immortal hit record (the hit, "Overnight Sensation"), to Wally Bryson's jaded-but-humorous "The Party's Over". The Raspberries don't try to sound like wholesome pop idols on this one: "All Through the Night" has Carmen coldly mocking and tossing aside a groupie, and the drunken Beatles' campfire of "Hands On You" is no less sexist (but no less entertaining). The finale title track bursts with melody, but Eric Carmen deliberately torpedoes any chance of commercial air-play with the opening line "I used to be so f***ing optimistic". This wasn't the same "scratch-and-sniff" album-cover Raspberries from before.
The Raspberries also come up with three terrific tributes to their 60's pop idols: "I Don't Know What I Want" is a neat, very Who-like teen-angst rocker (great Keith Moon-style drumming, btw); "Rose Colored Glasses" is a beautiful, unusual psychedelic ballad, recalling the Beatles but not sounding derivative; and "Cruisin' Music" is a sensational Beach Boys' pastiche that surpasses the earlier and better-known "Drivin' Around". It's a great Beach-Boys takeoff, right up there with the Beatles' "Back In the USSR" and the Cowsill's "Indian Lake".
"Starting Over" is one the "great lost rock albums" of the 1970's.
The Raspberries also come up with three terrific tributes to their 60's pop idols: "I Don't Know What I Want" is a neat, very Who-like teen-angst rocker (great Keith Moon-style drumming, btw); "Rose Colored Glasses" is a beautiful, unusual psychedelic ballad, recalling the Beatles but not sounding derivative; and "Cruisin' Music" is a sensational Beach Boys' pastiche that surpasses the earlier and better-known "Drivin' Around". It's a great Beach-Boys takeoff, right up there with the Beatles' "Back In the USSR" and the Cowsill's "Indian Lake".
"Starting Over" is one the "great lost rock albums" of the 1970's.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Historic yet almost forgotten
17 Dec 2010
Format:Audio CD
RollingStone magazine raved about this album in 1974. John Lennon, a big Raspberry fan visited the studio while this album was being recorded and some say provided some minor help in the recording of "Overnight Sensation"). It has always been said Lennon's comeback song "Starting Over" was a nod to his high respect for the Raspberries.
No doubt this band was doing the right things at the wrong time. The music from this (and all of their albums) was great power pop at a time when the public was over the 60s power pop. Even Rundgren who made his name by putting out great power pop (ie (band)Nazz, (song)"Couldn't I Just Tell You") by 1973 (album Todd) moved to the progressive times of the early 70s.
Raspberry fans Bruce Springsteen and John Bon Jovi never forgot the impact of this band, and you shouldn't either.
As you listen to this album you will hear the early power pop of the 60s (ie The Who, The Beatles), the Rubber Soul sound, and the future of Power Pop/Rock Pop in the late 70s early 80s. You can see how this style of music was moving forward.
In the 70s The Knack, Cheap Trick, The Romantics, The Cars, all went forward with the ground work from the Raspberries and provided the basis for the New Wave years.
And this album was both the high point and end of that early 70s work.
How influential was this band? Well, attendees at the Raspberries reunion concerts on the 2004-05 tour were folks like Rick Springfield, Jon Bon Jovi, Little Steven Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Paul Stanley of Kiss, Gilby Clarke of Guns 'n' Roses, Kyle Vincent, with members of Blondie, Fotomaker, The Romantics, The Go-Gos, The Bangles, The Runaways, The Sex Pistols, Survivor and dozens of other acts. And Bruce Springsteen wrote the liner notes for their Live reunion album.
No doubt this band was doing the right things at the wrong time. The music from this (and all of their albums) was great power pop at a time when the public was over the 60s power pop. Even Rundgren who made his name by putting out great power pop (ie (band)Nazz, (song)"Couldn't I Just Tell You") by 1973 (album Todd) moved to the progressive times of the early 70s.
Raspberry fans Bruce Springsteen and John Bon Jovi never forgot the impact of this band, and you shouldn't either.
As you listen to this album you will hear the early power pop of the 60s (ie The Who, The Beatles), the Rubber Soul sound, and the future of Power Pop/Rock Pop in the late 70s early 80s. You can see how this style of music was moving forward.
In the 70s The Knack, Cheap Trick, The Romantics, The Cars, all went forward with the ground work from the Raspberries and provided the basis for the New Wave years.
And this album was both the high point and end of that early 70s work.
How influential was this band? Well, attendees at the Raspberries reunion concerts on the 2004-05 tour were folks like Rick Springfield, Jon Bon Jovi, Little Steven Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Paul Stanley of Kiss, Gilby Clarke of Guns 'n' Roses, Kyle Vincent, with members of Blondie, Fotomaker, The Romantics, The Go-Gos, The Bangles, The Runaways, The Sex Pistols, Survivor and dozens of other acts. And Bruce Springsteen wrote the liner notes for their Live reunion album.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Excellent
3 May 2010
Format:Audio CD
This is refreshingly straightforward: I guess in the early 1970s there were a few who decided they liked their heads just as they were, and didn't need Brain Salad Surgery. They loved their guitars so much, they kept off that silly Ziggy Stardust glamfacegreasepaint, and made some great rock and roll.
The Raspberries were one of those bands, and on this album, the plan could not be simpler--or better: write three chord songs with melodic changes, get the distortion peddle, and crank your amp to 10. That is what this album does
This album is ice water on a hundred degree city day: simple, clear as can be and as universally pleasurable. This reminds me of early Kiss, without the affectation, but the rock in perfect tact
Get it.
The Raspberries were one of those bands, and on this album, the plan could not be simpler--or better: write three chord songs with melodic changes, get the distortion peddle, and crank your amp to 10. That is what this album does
This album is ice water on a hundred degree city day: simple, clear as can be and as universally pleasurable. This reminds me of early Kiss, without the affectation, but the rock in perfect tact
Get it.
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