Time Machine: A Vertigo Retrospective [Import]

Product Description
Time Machine is a 3CD Box Set containing 41 tracks from the first golden age of the Vertigo label featuring 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. Vertigo/Universal.

Time Machine: A Vertigo Retrospective,Various Artists,Universal Int'l,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop Collections,V/a Compilations

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Time Machine: A Vertigo Retrospective [Import]

Average customer rating: The black and white swirl.. Pudo ser mejor A Real Audio Trip Thru Time

Time Machine: A Vertigo Retrospective Various Artists Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal: An Island Anthology 1967-1972 Legend of a Mind: The Underground Anthology All Good Clean Fun: a Journey Through the Underground of Liberty The Best Prog Rock Album in the World...Ever Ars Longa Vita Brevis: A Compendium of Progressive Rock 1967-1974 ASIN: B0007Q6QWI Release Date: 2005-04-11

Tracks:

1. Kettle - Colosseum
2. Who Do You Love? - Juicy Lucy
3. My Heaven - Clear Blue Sky
4. Travelling Lady - Manfred Mann Chapter Three,
5. Behind the Wall of Sleep - Black Sabbath
6. To Play Your Little Games - Cressida
7. Introduction - Gracious,
8. Three Sisters - Affinity
9. Walking On - Bob Downes
10. I Don't Know - May Blitz
11. Torrid Zone - Nucleus
12. Handbags and Gladrags [Album Version] - Rod Stewart
13. Nothing at All - Gentle Giant
14. Influence - Ben

Tracks:

1. Evil Woman's Manly Child - Doctor Z,
2. Borne on the Solar Wind - Jade Warrior
3. Man - Patto
4. Thinking of My Life - Juicy Lucy
5. Half Baked
6. For Madmen Only - May Blitz
7. Lady's Changing Home - Tudor Lodge
8. Time Machine - Beggars Opera
9. Bring Out Your Dead - Colosseum
10. Mouthpiece - Warhorse
11. Lady in Black - Uriah Heep
12. Through the Years - Freedom & Whiskey
13. Midnight Moses - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band,
14. Lord of the Ages [Album Version] - Magna Carta

Tracks:

1. Living at the End of Times - Atlantis
2. Life Child - Ramases
3. MacArthur Park - Beggars Opera
4. Song for the Bearded Lady - Nucleus
5. Pantagruel's Nativity - Gentle Giant
6. (A Ballad Of) A Peaceful Man - Gravy Train
7. Powers of Darkness - Ronno
8. Paper Plane - Status Quo
9. Little Known - Ian Matthews
10. Let It Happen - Vangelis Papathanassiou,
11. Mwenga Sketch - Jade Warrior
12. Four Horsemen - Aphrodite's Child
13. Spiral Architect - Black Sabbath

Album Description

Time Machine is a 3CD Box Set containing 41 tracks from the first golden age of the Vertigo label featuring 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. Vertigo/Universal.

Customer Reviews:

The black and white swirl.........2007-05-18

Ah, the decidedly British Vertigo label, with the distinct black and white swirl on one label of the LP, and the track listings on the other side's label. Something we've lost in the one-sided CD age. And was also lost when their acts wound up recording for other labels here in the US.
Their paper label wasn't their only distinction; as the "experimental" subsidiary of Philips records, they also intentionally brought us delicious non-commercial music. Unintentionally failing to sell zillions of records in the process. They were hugely responsible for the promotion of progressive jazz a la Ian Carr's Nucleus, Ben, Jade Warrior and (yes) Manfred Mann. The MM boys weigh in with a dark Coltrane-esque "Travelling Lady" (see review of Manfred Mann Chaper III). They brought us marvellous adventurous rock a la Gracious, Doctor Z, Juicy Lucy, May Blitz and Clear Blue Sky. And a stand-up version of "MacArthur Park" by Beggar's Opera, turning this pop classic into something the progressive age could absorb. And, as you see, they brought Rod Stewart to us as a solo act with the splendid "Handbags and Gladrags," written by a young Mike D'Abo with a maturity that made the song an instant standard.
As with all comps, there are a few things on here I can't quite see, for example, I think a better tune by Patto (successor band to the great great Timebox) could have been chosen. But all in all this is very nice, even if you might have to listen a couple of times to really get into it. A deserved celebration of a seminal label of the period.

Pudo ser mejor.......2006-02-28

Esta recopilación, tan esperada por lo cierto, mereció algún mejor trabajo. ¿En qué?, pues estos son algunos de mis puntos:

-Soy partidario de la recopilaciones de 4 cds. Además hay que saber que Vertigo tiene suficiente material para hacerlo.
-La presentación es muy tacaña, creo que bien pudiero hacer una caja más grande con fotografías de un tamaño adecuado. La verdad es que resulta una burla leer en el texto en letras tan pequeñas, en un librillo igual de chico y con fotografías de los álbumes que no superan los 2cm cuadrados. ¿Qué pasó?, ¿falta papel? Es una desconsideración teniendo en cuenta los hermosos trabajos en las carátulas de los grupos del sello, así como las fotografías que las bandas tienen, incluso los pósters (compare esta presentación con Harvest Festival, es otra cosa).
-La selección de los grupos estuvo bien, aunque a mi parecer debieron aparecer otras bandas como Daddy Longless, Fairfield Parlour, John Dummer, Odin, Assagai, Krafwerk, Mike Absalon y un largo etc. que bien merecía un cd extra.

Sin embargo, la recopilación se deja escuchar muy bien y la grabación es muy buena. Esperaba encontrar algunas rarezas, piezas en vivo, o incluso más temas folk (por ejemplo a Jim McCarthy). A pesar de estos apuntes, recomiendo esta recopilación para todos aquellos que aún escuchan música hard, progresiva o de alta calidad.

A Real Audio Trip Thru Time.......2005-10-07

The Vertigo Records label emerged at a time when rock was shaking off the "Sgt. Pepper" mindtrip of psychedelia to concentrate on heavy metal, progressive rock and fusion jazz. From 1969 to 1974, Vertigo's varied and truly experimental roster included Black Sabbath, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Vangelis (and Aphrodite's Child, the group Vangelis was in prior to going it as a solo artist), Gentle Giant and Status Quo. Those were the big names. But the label was also home to genuinely obscure acts who only ever recorded 1 or 2 albums for the label: Freedom, Tudor Lodge, Affinity, Atlantis, Cressida, Ramases. Each Vertigo album of the era boasted the distinctive "swirl" logo that occupied the A-side of every album label (the B-side contained song listings and timings). Also, every album boasted impressive artwork that sometimes spilled over into elaborate die cut designs or as two-panel gatefold artwork. TIME MACHINE is a veritable capsule of the era. A three CD set which boasts crisp, clear and clean remastered sound, a lovingly crafted and highly detailed 48 page booklet and a veritable bounty of music from a wide variety of instant appeal to seventies rock fans (ie. those who can tell the difference between Gentle Giant and Status Quo). The tracks that inspire the most awe are "Spiral Architect" from Sabbath (you can hear strummed acoustic guitars and passionate string sections at work while Ozzy turns in a lucid and heartfelt vocal!), "The Kettle" from Colosseum (a surprisingly heavy mix of hard rock and fusion progressive jazz), "Lord Of The Ages" by Magna Carta (which is recommended to each and every Moody Blues fan in existence) and "Midnight Moses" by SAHB (are you an AC/DC fan? Check out Alex Harvey's early Sensational Band sides, you won't be disappointed). Some of the songs are, admittedly, a little challenging (ie. selections from Gracious!, Manfred Mann's Chapter Three and Bob Downes). Yet at the end of it all, you'll feel a certain sense of awe at the music of an era that too often, has been denigrated or ridiculed as being "heavy hippie horsesh*t"). A vital collection that rightfully takes its place next to other classic compilations like "Nuggets", "Atlantic Gold" or "Freakbeat Scene".

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