Roaring Silence [Extra tracks]

1. Blinded by the Light

2. Singing the Dolphin Through

3. Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear

4. Road to Babylon

5. This Side of Paradise

6. Starbird

7. Questions

8. Spirits in the Night [*]

9. Blinded by the Light [Single Edit][*]

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Roaring Silence [Extra tracks]

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Great Re-Mastered CD
The Roaring Silence
Roaring Silence
ONE OF THE GREATEST GUITAR SOLOS
Blinded by the light rocks

The Roaring Silence
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Manufacturer: Friday Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Best of Manfred Mann's Earth Band

ASIN: B000219904
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

Blinded by the Light
Singing the Dolphin Through
Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear
Road to Babylon
This Side of Paradise
Starbird
Questions
Spirits in the Night [*]
Blinded by the Light [Single Edit][*]

Customer Reviews:

Great Re-Mastered CD.......2007-01-24

I Highly Recommend this re-master of this album. It has great sound & a few bonus tracks to boot, so if your a fan of Manfred Mann's Earth Band, I Highly recommend getting it! What Are Ya Waiting For? Search "Judemac Forever" on msn.

The Roaring Silence.......2006-11-10

Good Manfred Man Sound,but they have even better albums.
(f.ex Angel Station, Nightingales and Bombers, Solar Fire )

Roaring Silence.......2006-11-05

I had this years ago before CDs and it was and is one of my alltime keepers. The songs are great and the bands sound is so unique. This album is for anyone who likes a new sound that doesn't compare to any other artists.

ONE OF THE GREATEST GUITAR SOLOS.......2006-04-22

I totally love this great song, Blinded by the light. It has a great guitar solo. I mean one of the greatest guitar solos ever
done. Listen to it.

Blinded by the light rocks.......2006-04-17

This song is absolutely terrific. I mean it is got a great guitar solo...listen from 0:00 to 7:04.

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earth band excellence
Worth it just for track 1
Didn't we ...
Blinded By The Light makes it worth buying alone.
The crowning success of Manfred Mann, phase two

The Roaring Silence
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000I25M
Release Date: 2000-04-25

Tracks:

Blinded By The Light
Singing The Dolphin Through
"Waiter, There's A Yawn In My Ear
The Road To Babylon
This Side Of Paradise
Starbird
Questions
Spirits In The Night
Blinded By The Light(Single Edit)

Album Description

Digitally remastered reissue of their biggest album in the U.S., breaking the top 10 when first released in 1976. Features the full length 7:06 long version of their biggest U.S. hit, the #1 remake of Bruce Springsteen's 'Blinded By The Light', plus two bonus tracks: the 7in versions of both it & another one of their hit Springsteen covers, 'Spirits In The Night'. Nine tracks total. Also includes the originalcover art. 1998 Creature Music Ltd. release.

Album Details

Remastered Edition.. Contains the Huge Springsteen -Penned 'Blinded by the Light'.

Customer Reviews:

earth band excellence.......2007-06-22

You should buy this album just for "Singing the Dolphin Through". It features female vocals in the chorus, a beautiful underwater-like atmosphere and even some high-pitched dolphin effects to show you why this band was so talented back in the day. Let's not forget the guitars and saxophone work too, which is equally as excellent.

"Blinded by the Light" is SO overrated. It's not really a good song. I have no idea why it became such a big hit, and I really can't believe people would actually buy this album just for that song, when the album offers *so* many better songs.

Worth it just for track 1.......2002-01-04

Some people reviewing this CD talk about all the other works on here and how it's a complete album. For me, without this hit song, the CD doesn't offer much (unless you're actually a fan of this group's music) But "Blinded by the Light" is a great tune, especially the longer version featured here. This song is made more so by Bruce Springstien's invovlement. It took a very long time to receive this once I ordered it from Amazon (I think it even shipped from Germany), and you generally don't find this CD in any stores.

Didn't we ..........2001-10-20

With this album, the Earth Band briefly attracted the attention of those who were into progressive rock during the second half of the seventies. The band had made enormous progress in the course of five previous albums, and had got themselves a new singer, who would turn out to be the greatest contribution to their success. Then again, The Roaring Silence is not a masterpiece. The Earth Bands best album is enjoyable, but it has its flaws. The instrumental 'Waiter, there's a yawn in my ear' may appeal to the more specialised tastes, but it drifts far away from the overall feel of the album. And then there is 'Starbird', a shameless, low key chant based on the main theme from Strawinski's Firebird Suite. I mean, how can you steal one of the greatest tunes in classical music and credit it to yourself?? It's a miracle Mann did't get sued for this offence. On the other hand, The Roaring Silence contains great things, like 'Blinded by the light', an ace example of picking up a good tune and making it better, 'The road to Babylon' and the sensitive 'Questions'. Also, it's nice to find the additional track 'Spirits in the night', although it doesn't feature Chris Thompson but the guy he replaced, Mick Rogers. So, four stars it is. The Earth Band did not succeed in keeping up this level of artistic quality after this album and faded into oblivion. The Roaring Silence is the album you should have in your collection, even though it is not the album they could have made. It is almost there, but not quite. A case of 'Didn't we almost make it this time ...'

Blinded By The Light makes it worth buying alone........2001-07-10

It's good that this CD has both the single and Lp versions of "Blinded bY the Light" which makes this worth the price of admission alone for anyone who played "air keyboard" as a young teen in the mid-70s. This is, at least, a healthy improvement over the Springsteen original and it takes skill to make nonsense lyrics sound like somethig profound. Only minor complaint is the unneccessary "chop sticks" solo in the long version of this sing.

The crowning success of Manfred Mann, phase two.......2001-02-13

Before the 'Blinded by the Light' single was released, Manfred Mann had largely been forgotten by mainstream audiences, written off in history as a mid-60s English pop success. This was wrong in two respects: first, he's South African, and second, he had built a band with progressive leanings that was attracting a small but growing following.

This is one great record, and brings back many memories of my schooldays. 'Blinded by the Light' magnified the Earth Band's audience a thousand-fold, but strangely I wouldn't say Springsteen was a big influence on the band, judging by this album. Mann had a good ear for the prevailing music of the era, and the duelling guitars in the instrumental section of 'Blinded' owe more to Thin Lizzy's JAILBREAK than to 'Born to Run'. Similarly the classical feel of 'Road to Babylon' follows the path that Alan Parson's TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION had opened up the previous year. And 'Starbird' wouldn't have seemed out of place on the Brand X album, UNORTHODOX BEHAVIOUR.

But for me, and several of my contemporaries, the stand-out track is the instrumental 'Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear'. I know this track was derided in one review here, but for me, it's the tune that makes this album an absolute must-have. For us teenagers, locked into a rural boarding school, it was one of those wonderful Saturday night foot-tappers, where you'd pound out the rhythm with your hands on a desk, on your knees or anyone else's. This track was the reincarnation of Golden Earring's MOONTAN, one of those perfect albums that the Dutch band never managed to replicate. Dave Flett's guitar solo could have been executed by George Kooymans.

I suspect that the Earth Band's greatest problemin the end was that their most distinctive asset was not Mann's keyboards-playing or his compositions, nor either of the guitarists. It was Chris Thompson's voice. Lose that, and the singles-buying public would never be able to tell the band from any of the hundreds of other wannabees. And eventually the Earth Band did lost Thompson.

Tracks:

Blinded by the Light
Singing the Dolphin Through
Questions - Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann
Road to Babylon
This Side of Paradise
Starbird
Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear - Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann
Spirit in the Night [*] - Manfred Mann
Blind by the Light [Single Edit][*] - Manfred Mann

Customer Reviews:

Fact and Opinion.......2003-03-27

Facts: This album contains the full length version of Blinded By the Light. It contains the shorter version as well. It contains a version of Spirits in the Night, also written by Springsteen. It contains originals by Manfred Mann's Earth Band in addition to these covers.

Opinion: I bought this album because it had Blinded by the Light and I wanted to see if the other stuff that this Earth Band did was any good. I found myself disappointed. Singing the Dolphin Through's lyrics meant nothing to me and I found it to be slow build-up to very little. Waiter... I consistently find a very annyoying instrumental with no structure to hold it together and it hurts my ears to even think of it. The Road to Babylon, although with more lyrics that hold no meaning for me, I found to be gentle to listen to (and over too quickly with an abrupt cut-off). This Side of Paradise was tolerable because structure had been found again and I enjoy the sound of guitars over the sound of synthesized noise. Starbird laughs in Waiter...'s face because it shows the dueling (I don't know a word that applies to a competition involving more than two instruments) of strings and keys and whatever synthesized bunches are thrown in there. Questions is a bitter sweet end to what seemed like could have been a good album. I feel like there's a theme swimming around in this album somewhere, but I don't want to bother to go swimming with the dolphin's to find it. If you have Spirits in the Night performed Live by Springsteen and the E Street Band from 1975-1985, you have a better version. And I don't know why the shorter version of Blinded by the Light is put on here. It's a waste of space. And since I still have space to write, I'll say I comprehend approximately 75% of what Thompson is saying in these songs.

A late 70's classic, long-awaited on CD.......2000-03-13

I consider this a great album, well beyond the popular cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Blinded By The Light." The music is a unusual mix of rock, synthesizers and gravely vocals. The overall effect might be called mystical, especially on tracks like "Singing The Dolphin Through" and "The Road To Babylon." Another favorite of mine is "This Side Of Paradise." All of the songs are memorable and the only one I'd skip is the frantic instrumental, "Waiter, There's A Yawn In My Ear." I was glad to see this album finally out on CD after many years.

Average customer rating:

NOT THE BEST AUDIO VERSION AVAILABLE

Roaring Silence
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Manufacturer: Vivid Sound
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000BRP78M
Release Date: 2005-10-31

Tracks:

Blinded By The Light
Singing The Dolphin Through
Waiter, There'sa Yamn In My Ear
Road To Babylon
This Side Of Paradise
Starbird
Questions

Album Details

24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the 1976 Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork. Includes the Bonus Tracks "Spirits in the Night (Single Version)" and "Blinded by the Light (Single Version)". Comes with a Sticker.

Customer Reviews:

NOT THE BEST AUDIO VERSION AVAILABLE.......2006-06-14

The MMEB catalog has been remastered for this 2005 LP-mini-sleeve series, but, unfortunately, the results are not up to par with the 1999 Cohesion remasters.

When A/B'ing both versions, the Cohesion discs have more definition and clarity, most notably in the persussion.

So, the only reason for paying this high price is for the mini-sleeve itself. As most of the original MMEB LP releases were pretty simple cover designs, there isn't much justification for spending 3-4X over the Cohesion jewel-cased versions.

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Roaring Silence
Manfred Mann
Manufacturer: Creature
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000N0JPHG
Release Date: 2004-04-19

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Roaring Silence
Manfred Mann's Earth
Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0000DEN1R
Release Date: 1999-10-21

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Roaring Silence

Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000E0RX
Release Date: 1996-11-21

Album Description

Top 10 1976 album for the Petbrook label (released on WarnerBrothers in the U.S.). Features the full length version oftheir classic cover of Bruce Springsteen's 'Blinded By TheLight', a #1 hit in the U.S. the following year. The albumalso contains 'Singin

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