Rock

 

En 1970 "Llena tu cabeza de rock" este L.P. cuádruple de CBS Records abría la puerta a la década con música y músicos poco conocidos, nos fascinaba y de paso enriquecía las discotecas de los aficionados de entonces (servidor incluido). 

Incluía estas canciones, muchas de  ellas deslumbrantes, entonces y ahora:

A1      Chicago (2)– Listen 3:22

A2       Santana–       Savour           2:46

A3       Spirit (8)–     Give A Life, Take A Life     3:47

A4       Steamhammer–      Passing Through     5:17

A5       Blood, Sweat And Tears–   Smiling Phases        5:10

B1       The Flock–    Tired Of Waiting     4:35

B2       Black Widow (5)–    Come To The Sabbath        4:55

B3       Argent–         Dance In The Smoke          6:10

B4       The Byrds–   Gunga Din    3:02

B5       Skin Alley–   Living In Sin 4:35

C1        Laura Nyro– Gibsom Street         4:30

C2       Leonard Cohen–     You Know Who I Am          3:22

C3       Moondog (2)–          Stomping Ground   2:36

C4       Amory Kane–           The Inbetween Man           2:40

C5       Trees (3)–     The Garden Of Jane Delawney     4:05

C6       Al Stewart–   A Small Fruit Song 2:00

C7       Tom Rush–   Driving Wheel         5:22

D1       Janis Joplin–            Try (Just A Little Bit Harder)       4:13

D2       Al Kooper–    One Room Country Shack 3:35

D3       Taj Mahal–   Six Days On The Road        2:55

D4       Mike Bloomfield–   Don't Think About It Baby 3:34

D5       Pacific Gas & Electric–       Bluesbuster  2:56

D6       Johnny Winter–      I Love Everybody    3:50

Siempre pensé que fue algo único pero resulta que hoy me entero que en 1969 Island Records había publicado un album sampler titulado  Nice Enough to Eat con las siguientes canciones de grupos básicamente ingleses. 

Side one 

1. "Cajun Woman" (Thompson) – Fairport Convention – (from Unhalfbricking (ILPS 9102)) - 2:41
2. "At the Crossroads" (Sahm) – Mott the Hoople – (from Mott the Hoople (ILPS 9108)) - 5:28
3. "Better By You, Better Than Me" (Wright) – Spooky Tooth – (from Spooky Two (ILPS 9098)) - 3:29
4. "We Used to Know" (Anderson) - Jethro Tull – (from Stand Up (ILPS 9103)) - 3:58
5. "Woman" (Fraser/Rodgers) – Free – (from Free (ILPS 9104)) - 3:45
6. "I Keep Singing That Same Old Song" (Gibson) – Heavy Jelly – Island 7" (b/w "Blue") (WIP 6049) - 8:19 

Side two 

1. "Sing Me a Song That I Know" (Abrahams) – Blodwyn Pig – (from Ahead Rings Out (ILPS 9101))- 3:04
2. "(Roamin' Thro' the Gloamin' With) Forty Thousand Headmen" (Winwood/Capaldi) – Traffic – (from Best of Traffic) (ILPS 9112)) - 3:12
3. "Time Has Told Me" (Drake) – Nick Drake – (from Five Leaves Left (ILPS 9105)) - 4:23
4. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp/McDonald/Lake/Giles/Sinfield)– King Crimson – (from In the Court of the Crimson King^[5] (ILPS 9111)) - 7:20
5. "Gungamai" (Rothfield/Shankar/Bhava) – Quintessence – (from In Blissful Company (ILPS 9110Q)) - 4:17
6. "Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal" (Pawle) – Dr. Strangely Strange – (from Kip of the Serenes (ILPS 9106)) - 4:26

No se vayan que aun hay más. Como ya habían aprendido, en 1970 Island Records sacó su cuádruple L.P. "Bumpers" (no publicado en Spain vaya usted a saber porqué) que agrupaba estas delicias:

 Side One

"Every Mother's Son" (Steve Winwood) - Traffic (from John Barleycorn Must Die (ILPS 9116)) (7:06)

"Love" (Jess Roden) - Bronco (from Bronco (ILPS 9134))[3] (4:42)

"I Am the Walrus" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - Spooky Tooth (from The Last Puff (ILPS 9117)) (6:20)

"Jesus, Buddha, Moses, Gauranga" (Quintessence) - Quintessence (Live version of track, not released elsewhere at the time, but available as 'bonus' track on CD version of album Quintessence (REPUK 1016) (5:15)

 

Side Two

"Thunderbuck Ram" (Mick Ralphs) - Mott the Hoople (from Mad Shadows (ILPS 9119)[4]) (4:50)

"Nothing To Say" (Ian Anderson) - Jethro Tull (from Benefit (ILPS 9123)) (5:10)

"Going Back West" (Jimmy Cliff) - Jimmy Cliff (from Jimmy Cliff (ILPS 9133))[5] (5:32)

"Send Your Son To Die" (Mick Abrahams) - Blodwyn Pig (from Getting To This (ILPS 9122)) (4:35)

"Little Woman" (Dave Mason) - Dave Mason (no source listed)[6] (2:30)

 

Side Three

"Go Out And Get It" (John Martyn) - John & Beverley Martyn (from Stormbringer! (ILPS 9113)) (3:15)

"Cadence & Cascade"[7] (Robert Fripp, Pete Sinfield) - King Crimson (from In the Wake of Poseidon (ILPS 9127)) (4:30)

"Reaching Out On All Sides" (Quincy, Fishman) - If (from If (ILPS 9129)) (5:35)

"Oh I Wept" (Paul Rodgers, Paul Kossoff) - Free (from Fire and Water (ILSP 9120)) (4:25)

"Hazey Jane" (Nick Drake) - Nick Drake (from his album to be released Autumn '70)[8] (4:28)

 

Side Four

"Walk Awhile" (Richard Thompson, Dave Swarbrick) - Fairport Convention (from Full House (ILPS 9130)) (4:00)

"Maybe You're Right" (Cat Stevens) - Cat Stevens (from Mona Bone Jakon (ILPS 9118)) (3:00)

"Island" (Keith Relf, Jim McCarty) - Renaissance (from Renaissance (ILPS 9114)) (5:57)

"The Sea" (Sandy Denny) - Fotheringay (from Fotheringay (ILPS 9125)) (5:25)

"Take Me To Your Leader" (Ellis, Ritchie, Hughes) -Clouds (intended to be on their Chrysalis album to be released Autumn '70)[9] (2:55)

  

Con el mismo título y en el mismo año este "Bumpers" se editó en Australia con canciones diferentes.

Y así podemos estar hablando de recopilaciones musicales toda la tarde pero ahora Spotify ha roto la magia y los coleccionistas de discos somos una especie en desaparición a muy corto plazo. En fin.