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Sea Shanties [Original recording remastered]

~ High Tide
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Audio CD (3 July 2006)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Original recording remastered
  • Label: Eclectic Discs
  • ASIN: B000FBH2PA
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 244,544 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Futilist's Lament
2. Death Warmed Up
3. Pushed But Not Forgotten
4. Walking Down Their Outlook
5. Missing Out
6. Nowhere
7. Great Universal Protection Racket
8. Dilemma
9. Death Warmed Up
10. Pushed But Not Forgotten
11. Time Gauges

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On this lost would-be-classic debut by English proto-prog-metal outfit High Tide, Tony Hill's vocals are a fulcrum between Ozzy Osbourne and Jim Morrison. Accordingly, the songs on SEA SHANTIES fold together Deep Purple-worthy blues-doom and more lightweight psychedelia, and even include hefty helpings of violin. But there are also Hill's virtuoso guitar solos, which fly majestically alongside the Peter Pavli's deep, Zeppelin-worthy bass. SHANTIES is a bit indulgent, but also helps complete the timeline of late-'60s heavy music.

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4.7 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Lost Classic, 15 Aug 2006
By Lord KitchenKnife (Castle Dracula) - See all my reviews
Once upon a time, records like the above were only ever available after months (years in some respect) of fruitless
searching at record fairs & second-hand records shops...but
nowadays, you can find them all on the internet. Sad, huh?
Does the availability reduce the kudos of said records?

Not really; High Tide's debut is a superior blend of
psyche-rock & degenrate violin sawing; the kind of riffs
found only in late 60's squats & 9 minute freakouts that
are best experienced through the fog of psycho-tropics;
throw in some quasi-Morrison vocals and you're onto a winner, right?
Wrong- studiously ignored by the public, the band managed
to record one more album (1970's patchy but worthy 'High Tide')
before imploding into shards (strings co-opted
by Hawkwind, percussion detained in a mental institution).

'Sea Shanties' is as heavy as anything by US freaks Blue
Cheer, & as melancholic as The Doors. Buy it to annoy your
McFly-obssessed little sister, or remind your parents
exactly why they saddled you with the name 'Moon Unit'...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Magnificent Musical Noise, 27 Mar 2007
By M. R. N. Shackelford "mark shackelford" (Worthing, UK) - See all my reviews
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Frighteningly HUGE riffs overlaid with screaming guitars and violin. High Tide's first album "Sea Shanties" must have disconcerted a number of innocent purchasers (perhaps like the legendary King Crimson concert in front of a crowd expecting some gentle Soul music...)

No let up in these tracks - which power along in a timeless fashion - could be something from a 90's Smashing Pumpkins clone, or else fall-out from a Pearl Jam session.

Just the sort of thing if you have a headache - you will certainly not notice it whilst playing this. Loud. Very loud. VERY VERY LOUD. Ouch!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Maelstrom milestone in hard rock , 10 Dec 2006
Appearances can be deceiving. It's cover and title suggest 'Sea Shanties' to be a folk rock effort: the musical equivalent of jolly jack tars enjoying a break from swabbing down decks on a sunny day. Yet the closest maritime analogy to this extraordinary music would be the sight of the mid-Atlantic in a winter storm: a slate-grey heaving mass of brutal and unyielding force, awesome and threatening yet mesmerising. Ex-Misunderstood guitar virtuoso Tony Hill came up with the formidable concept of High Tide in 1969. The band's song-writer, he aggregated his skills to Simon (Hawkwind) House's violin and then ramped these up to the sky with Peter Pavli's solid basslines and the explosive drumming of Roger Hadden. Opening track, 'Futilist's Lament', sets out the stall with density and relentlessness, fusing hard rock, psych and snatches of folk into an unstoppable industrial might topped by Hill's theatrically gloomy vocals (a hybrid of Arthur Brown and Jim Morrison). The rest ('Death Warmed Up', 'Pushed, But Not Forgotten' et al) deliver a further four work-outs topped off on this latest reissue by three equally formidable previously-unreleased recordings from the sessions, plus two album demos. Complex, individually intricate playing shapes this maelstrom milestone and a 'must-have' for any hard rock fan.
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