TIME MACHINE A Vertigo Retrospective 1969-1973 with JPEG booklet 3CD FLAC

TIME MACHINE A Vertigo Retrospective 1969-1973 with JPEG booklet 3CD FLAC
(includes JPEG scans of boxset materials including 48 page booklet)

Time Machine is a fascinating look at a equally fascinating time in music,
containing 41 tracks from the first golden age of the Vertigo label
including rare and classic tracks from the likes of Aphrodite's Child,
Black Sabbath, Colosseum, Gentle Giant, Jade Warrior and The Sensational
Alex Harvey Band. Also contains a 48-Page Booklet containing biogs, rare
photographs and exclusive interviews. Whether you are a fan of Psychedelia
or Prog Rock, there's something here to excite your senses.

TIME MACHINE A Vertigo Retrospective (1969-1973):
Disc One = 78 minutes
01 - The Kettle (Colosseum)
02 - Who Do You Love? (Juicy Lucy)
03 - My Heaven (Clear Blue Sky)
04 - Traveling Lady (Manfred Mann's Chapter 3)
05 - Behind The Wall Of Sleep (Black Sabbath)
06 - To Play Your Little Games (Cressida)
07 - Introduction (Gracious)
08 - Three Sisters (Affinity)
09 - Walking On (Bob Downes)
10 - I Don't Know (May Blitz)
11 - Torrid Zone (Nucleus)
12 - Handbags And Gladrags (Rod Stewart)
13 - Nothing At All (Gentle Giant)
14 - The Influence (Ben)

Disc Two = 77 minutes
01 - Evil Woman's Manly Child (Dr. Z)
02 - Borne On The Solar Wind (Jade Warrior)
03 - The Man (Patto)
04 - Thinking Of My Life (Juicy Lucy)
05 - Half Baked (Jimmy Campbell)
06 - For Madmen Only (May Blitz)
07 - The Lady's Changing Home (Tudor Lodge)
08 - Time Machine (Beggars Opera)
09 - Bring Out Your Dead (Colosseum)
10 - Mouthpiece (Warhorse)
11 - Lady In Black (Uriah Heep)
12 - Through The Years (Freedom)
13 - Midnight Moses (Sensational Alex Harvey Band)
14 - Lord Of The Ages (Magna Carta)

Disc Three = 79 minutes
01 - Living At The End Of Time (Atlantis)
02 - Life Child (Ramases)
03 - McArthur Park (Beggars Opera)
04 - Song For The Bearded Lady (Nucleus)
05 - Pantagruel's Nativity (Gentle Giant)
06 - Ballad Of A Peaceful Man (Gravy Train)
07 - Powers Of Darkness (Ronno)
08 - Paper Plane (Status Quo)
09 - Little Known (Ian Matthews)
10 - Let It Happen (Vangelis Papathanassiou)
11 - Mwenga Sketch (Jade Warrior)
12 - The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child)
13 - Spiral Architect (Black Sabbath)

The sheer collectibility of anything on the Vertigo label is one of
those peculiar quirks that few people, collectors included, can truly
quantify. True, Vertigo was blessed with one of the most compulsive
label designs ever devised: a black-and-white swirl that can, indeed,
induce vertigo in anyone who looks at it for too long. True, too, the
label prided itself in giving voice to talents who might otherwise
never have been heard, and wrapped almost every Vertigo album in the
kind of ambitious packaging normally reserved for supergroup concept
conceits. And one can also be impressed by the label's insistence on
defying even the most remote limits of the period's (the early '70s)
commercialism, with a clutch of albums that seriously could not have
been expected to sell more than a handful of copies apiece. But it is
astonishingly unlikely that any single set of ears can truly take as
much pleasure from, say, the first album by Affinity as they do the
second by Black Sabbath, or who could slip from Keith Tippett to Jade
Warrior without undergoing some kind of major cultural dislocation.
Which means, of course, that there are a lot of unplayed LPs lying
within any sizable Vertigo collection -- and a lot of tracks on this
collection that will have you reaching for the fast-forward button
after less than a minute. Persevere! Although the three CDs here
certainly wander across the Vertigo show, the compilers have done a
masterful job. Eschewing some of the more defiantly outré contributions
to the catalog (mainly the seriously jazz/freeform-shaped ones), Time
Machine instead portrays a label that cared dearly for what modern ears
would term the "cutting edge" of the early-'70s British prog-folk-post-
psych circuit: Colosseum, Juicy Lucy, Clear Blue Sky, Warhorse, and
Doctor Z are all here, cut through with a few glimmers of genuine c
hartbusting inspiration -- Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Alex Harvey, Rod Stewart.
Inasmuch as most Vertigo albums are now considered rare (reissues from
the likes of Akarma and Repertoire notwithstanding), Time Machine is most
readily likened to a glimpse inside the most fabulous bank vault in
British rock history. But it is also a reminder of a time when the new
release sheets were not put together by money-mad automatons, all hoping
to make the next round of American Idol. Most of these guys wouldn't even
have made the qualifiers for Hit Me One More Time, and more power to them
for that.

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