Ten Years After [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product Description
Digitally Remastered Edition of the Debut Album from 1967 that Brought Guitar Finger Master Alvin Lee to the World for the First Time.

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Ten Years After [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Average customer rating: a space in time A Space in Time - Ten Years After Still Growing On Me A Classic Once There Was A Time...a space in time

A Space in Time Ten Years After Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Cricklewood Green Live at the Fillmore East Pure Blues Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore Ssssh ASIN: B000003JA5 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. One Of These Days
2. Here They Come
3. I'd Love To Change The World
4. Over The Hill
5. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You
6. Once There Was A Time
7. Let The Sky Fall
8. Hard Monkeys
9. I've Been There Too
10. Uncle Jam

Customer Reviews:

a space in time.......2007-06-10

The best album by Ten years after. It brings back all the memories from late 60's/early 70's.

A Space in Time - Ten Years After.......2007-01-12

This is, in my opinion, one of their best albums. Timeless. After all these years still 100% enjoyable!

Still Growing On Me.......2007-01-04

I was never a huge Ten Years After fan but I did listen to them somewhat regularly "back in the day," as my kids like to say. I had this album and Cricklewood Green in vinyl plus a few cuts on the Woodstock Album.
Now my son is learning to play the guitar so I thought I'd introduce him to some "good guitar" in the form of Alvin Lee. He's not impressed with most of what I listen to but he does like this a bit.
I must say that I wasn't expecting to like this as much as I do. The more I listen to it the more it grows on me. Almost every song on this album has staying power. If you like TYA at all this is a great album overall and worth the investment.

A Classic.......2006-11-27

What I like about this album is that it covers a wide range of emotions and feelings. Lead guitarist Alvin Lee was widely proclaimed as the fastest guitarist of his era. This album was pretty much mandatory in any early 70's high school rockers collection. I highly recommend this album for anyone wanting a taste of classic early 70's rock and roll. Really good stuff from a really good band.

Once There Was A Time...a space in time.......2006-11-10

A friend and I were recently reminiscing of a space in time before there were music downloads, mp3's, i tunes,and i pods. A time when vinyl was the musical medium . Albums contained liner notes and lyric sheets that were printed large enough to read. Cover Art was captivating and meant to be enjoyed. Songs were heard as being just a smaller segment of a larger collection of work. You dropped the needle,sat down and took it in from start to finish. Like a great movie, you wouldn't dare leave before the end. Every song set up the next one. The music was the event of that moment in time, not a wallpaper back drop. 'A Space In Time' is of that time, yet after 35 years it has stood the test. Timeless.

Average customer rating: I just spent seven bucks too much for this edicion MUY, MUY recomendable!! How Alvin Lee should be heard Ten Years After - 'Live At The Fillmore East' (Capitol) 2-CD Ten Years After Live

Live at the Fillmore East Ten Years After Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pure Blues Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore A Space in Time Cricklewood Green Anthology 1967-1971 ASIN: B00005K1ZD Release Date: 2002-01-08

Tracks:

1. Love Like A Man
2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
3. Working On The Road
4. The Hobbit
5. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
6. Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob/I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes/Extension On One Chord

Tracks:

1. Help Me
2. I'm Going Home
3. Sweet Little
4. Roll Over Beethoven
5. I Woke Up This Morning
6. Spoonful

Amazon.com

With its devotion to '50s rock and blues coupled to a manic, if decidedly middlebrow performance tack, Ten Years After could seem positively Jurassic, even by late-'60s standards. This collection culls magnificently recorded performances (kudos to Hendrix/ELP engineer Eddie Kramer) from a February 1970 weekend stand at the Fillmore East, capturing the band at its post-Woodstock performing peak. The running times of most of the tracks (three-quarters of which clock in at seven-plus minutes) will tip listeners to the show's jam-heavy take on covers of Sonny Boy Williamson (an ominous, revamped "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl"), Willie Dixon (a slow, 16-minute burn through "Help Me"), and Chuck Berry (atypically economic romps of "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven"). But with the band's own primordial originals (the titles "Skooby-Oobly-Doobob" and "Extension on One Chord" speak for themselves) there's an elemental, effusive--and, dare we say it--Ramones-like stoopidity to the tracks. Even Alvin Lee's trademark fret-burner "I'm Going Home" is hard to resist. This set perfectly captures one of the era's hardest working bands in a concise, double-disc time capsule. --Jerry McCulley

Album Description

UK live compilation for the British blues-rock quartet. Featuring 12 tracks recorded during two nights at the legendary venue, September 27th & 28th 1968. Highlights include, 'Spoonful' & 'The Hobbit'. 2001.

Album Details

Double disc digitally remastered set from Alvin Lee & Co.'s heyday. These recordings from the classic Fillmore East venue showcase the band at their best from their formative years. Includes 'The Hobbitt', which appeared in an evolved form on the 'Recorded Live' album many years later as well as 'Spoonful', 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl', 'Sweet Little Sixteen', 'I'm Going Home and so many more. Essential for fans of boogie rock!

Customer Reviews:

I just spent seven bucks too much for this.......2007-05-02

which really, really bites. The sound quality is great. The band is tight. Just keep in mind that Alvin Lee has one solo that he plays in every frickin' number the band does. You'll know it when you hear it, trust me. The songs themselves are great, and of course Lee is a tremendous guitarist, but Ritchie Blackmore he ain't. Still, if you were to make a choice between this and "Recorded Live," take this. I've always thought "Recorded Live" sounded uninspired, mostly. This has got many of the same pieces, but done better. You don't get "Choo Choo Mama," but you get a much better "Hobbit" and an "I can't keep from crying" that doesn't sound like it was recorded under a bathtub full of water.

edicion MUY, MUY recomendable!!.......2007-03-02

lo mejor que alguien puede hallar en una placa en vivo es esa sensacion de "haber estado alli" y con estos 2 discos te aseguro que la sentis! gran sonido, grandes canciones, una guitarra fuera de control pidiendo pista...crudeza y sentimiento autentico...el fraseo y la garra de alvin lee son impresionantes..booklet digno con el relato de esas actuaciones...concluyendo, una edicion gratificante, que nos regala la actuacion de una banda que seguramente merecio mejor suerte que la que tuvo!!

How Alvin Lee should be heard.......2007-01-09

Alvin Lee had his own sound and if you are old enough to remember it, get this cd and remember the high--if you have never heard Alvin Lee on guitar you are missing the rocker before Mark Knofler. They even due spoonful.

Ten Years After - 'Live At The Fillmore East' (Capitol) 2-CD.......2006-12-04

Fantastic two disc archive live release from a true music legend,the British blues rockers Ten Years After. 'Live At The...' took place over a two-night stand on September 27-28,1968.My only regret is not ONLY wasn't I there myself,but I've never seen these guys play live.Twelve track concert,with a duration of a little under two hours.You can't go wrong by picking up a copy of this title. Sound quality is great.Also priced pretty nice. Most memorable cuts are "Love Like A Man", "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" (one of my personal favorites), the bluesy (also fun)"Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob", "I'm Going Home", "I Woke Up This Morning" and their two Chuck Berry covers, "Sweet Little Sixteen" and "Roll Over Beethoven". Would make a great gift for an old school fan. Highly recommended.

Ten Years After Live.......2005-12-23

This is one of the best live albums that I have. Alvin Lee is one of the must unterrated lead players in the world. His solo on HELP ME is simply the best the speed that he plays some on some of the songs is breath taking. Their verson of SPOONFUL is better then CREAM did on their live album. You can't go wrong buying this album. Also I would compare Alvin Lee's lead playing to Jimmi Hendrix and Eric Clapton any time He is one of the best in the world.

Average customer rating: PURE BLUES Ten Years After True Blue you can name all the styles, but the real style is Alvin Lee possumsmcbikeritems Satisfaction guaranteed

Pure Blues Alvin Lee & Ten Years After Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Blues | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Live at the Fillmore East A Space in Time Cricklewood Green Anthology 1967-1971 Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore ASIN: B000003JD5 Release Date: 1995-09-26

Tracks:

1. Don't Want You Woman
2. The Bluest Blues
3. I Woke Up This Morning
4. Real Life Blues
5. The Stomp
6. Slow Blues In 'C'
7. Wake Up Moma
8. Talk Don't Bother Me
9. Every Blues You've Ever Heard
10. I Get All Shook Up
11. Lost In Love
12. Help Me
13. Outside My Window

Customer Reviews:

PURE BLUES Ten Years After.......2007-04-04

Could not believe how GREAT this cd was!! Anyone who loves the blues and ten years after should have this cd!!

True Blue.......2007-03-11

True to the title this is Alvin's & (&TYA's) bluest...excellent,throughout. Tracks chosen from past works as well as newer compositions, I think were/are Great choices. My only beef is that more and more people are not aware of the magnificent musicianship of Ten Years After and,of course, Alvin Lee's genius. ...keep playin' on guys there are some of us who live for and appreciate your efforts...a true masterwork or as the French would say a chef-d'oeuvre... WOAH!!!
Peace!!

you can name all the styles, but the real style is Alvin Lee.......2007-03-11

I can see, (hear), now that Lee does indeed use blues, rock, jazz, and rockabilly in his style, after reading mentions of this, but none of this ever occurred to me when I first began listening to him, c.1967. Lee has put all of these influences into seamless personal style that is most accurately communicated by simply calling it "Alvin Lee".

possumsmcbikeritems.......2007-01-10

Mainly for the Alvin Lee or Ten Years After collector, saying that there is some good rockin' and slow blues, but has the same music on it as some others.

Satisfaction guaranteed.......2006-11-10

If you've missed Alvin Lee as I have you will not be disappointed. And having George Harrison playing on a couple of cuts is an added bonus.

Average customer rating: Great! The Best from Ten Years After Cricklewood Green...Excellent! but SHAME on Amazon :( A classic album by an obscure band Not there best

Cricklewood Green Ten Years After Manufacturer: Chrysalis Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Rock General | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Rock General | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: A Space in Time Ssssh Ssssh Pure Blues Live at the Fillmore East ASIN: B00005Y7KO Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

1. Sugar The Road
2. Working On The Road
3. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
4. Year 3,000 Blues
5. Me And My Baby
6. Love Like A Man
7. Circles
8. As The Sun Still Burns Away

Amazon.com

Ten Years After guitarist Alvin Lee's hyperactive guitar solos (fretboard attacks a speed-metal guitarist would be proud to unleash) caught the ear of British rock fans and built a bridge to the blues. The well-produced Cricklewood Green, consisting of all-original material by Lee, is the group's best studio effort. For a band that made its reputation with live performances, most conspicuously at the Woodstock festival, that's probably minor praise, but it's praise nevertheless. The extended workout of the hit single "Love Like a Man" is the centerpiece of the album, one that opens with the frantic buzz of the back-to-back road songs "Sugar the Road" and "Working on the Road." But Lee, ably assisted by keyboardist Chick Churchill, fleshes out the trademark Ten Years After blues frenzy with an assortment of atypical approaches and styles. "Me and My Baby" delivers Lee and the band in a relaxed, almost swinging, mode, while "Circles" is a rare ballad offering. The sci-fi blues of "Year 3000 Blues" and semi-psychedelia of "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" and "As the Sun Still Burns Away" further extend the album's reach without sacrificing any of Lee's guitar excursions. --Michael Point

Customer Reviews:

Great!.......2007-03-23

Great studio album. Alvin Lee is one of the best, next to Peter Green and Clapton. But don't buy used copy from Smokey Mountain Books, they're a rip-off.

The Best from Ten Years After.......2007-02-22

If you enjoy 1970's Rock and Roll, this is a must for your collection

Cricklewood Green...Excellent! but SHAME on Amazon :(.......2006-10-19

I know you probably won't publish my review. But I am returning this CD which you promote as the "Reissue-Remastered" edition by EMI, yet what I received was the old Chrysalis recording which sounds horrible. I know it was a deal at $3.99, but I don't apreciate being lied to.

I have been an Amazon customer for years and hope to keep buying from you, yet it's things like these that make me start looking elsewhere.

...I just spoke to customer service at Amazon, and they are giving me a full refund. Amazon, the product may be bad and misrepresented, but your customer service makes the difference. thanks! :)

A classic album by an obscure band.......2005-11-18

It's a shame not many people know about Ten Years After. I'm very thankful for my Father for introducing me to this band. Alvin Lee is a masterful guitarist, years ahead of his time. The songs on Cricklewood are wonderfully written, and from track to track have a great flow. Buy this album if you're a blues/rock fan, you won't be dissapointed.

Not there best.......2005-07-30

Good cd, but I'd prefer SSShhhh, Watt, rock 'n roll music to the world, or TYA ist album.

Average customer rating: Takes you back in time Got me through Nam They Finally Get The Justice They Deserve! Stuffed 2-CD anthology of British blues legends Alvin Lee Rides Again

Anthology 1967-1971 Ten Years After Manufacturer: Hip-O Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pure Blues The Savoy Brown Collection (Chronicles Series) Live at the Fillmore East A Space in Time The Best of Spooky Tooth: That Was Only Yesterday ASIN: B000063VEV Release Date: 2002-04-09

Tracks:

1. I Want To Know
2. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
3. Spoonful
4. Help Me
5. Portable People
6. The Sounds
7. Rock Your Mama
8. Spider In My Web
9. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always (live)
10. Gong To Try
11. Woman Trouble
12. Hear Me Calling
13. Boogie On

Tracks:

1. I Woke Up This Morning
2. If You Should Love Me
3. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
4. I'm Going Home (recorded live at Woodstock)
5. Me And My Baby
6. Love Like A Man
7. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
8. I'm Coming On
9. My Baby Left Me
10. One Of These Days
11. Here They Come
12. I'd Love To Change The World
13. Let The Sky Fall

Amazon.com

Say what you will, but England's Ten Years After certainly knew when to peak: their manic, 12-minute workout of "I'm Going Home" (included here) upstaged a veritable army of '60s superstars and remains one of the highlights of the film Woodstock. As blues-smitten U.K. rockers go, TYA may not have been as inventive as the Yardbirds, guitarist/frontman Alvin Lee neither as tastefully polished as Clapton nor as bombastic and exotic as Page, but their sheer dedication and steamroller determination (exemplified by nearly 30 American tours during the Woodstock era) were second to none. This double-disc, 26-track anthology spans the band's eight-albums-in-five-years prime, from its workmanlike 1967 covers of blues staples "I Want to Know" and "Spoonful" through a pair of rare 1968 singles (highlighted by Lee's quirky, country-folk "Portable People") to its 1971 pop hit, "I'd Love to Change the World." Lee's primitivist urges and legendary, lightning-fingered guitar heroics fuel everything from moody, simmering dirges like "Help Me" and upbeat Chi-town shuffles in the "Me and My Baby" mold to the Cro-Magnon riff-rock of "Love Like a Man" and the proto-psych-blues of "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain." If TYA's music is often as nimble and slick as a stegosaur--and arguably as timely--it's equally as leathery, unrelenting, and hard to ignore. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Takes you back in time.......2007-05-29

This album is a FANTASTIC collection of Ten Years After (TYA) masterpieces - the quality of the audio remastering is exceptional - plenty of signature extended jams - whether you are a long time TYA Fan or new to their music you won't be disappointed! If you don't have them in your CD collection already this is the one album to buy!!

Got me through Nam.......2005-08-31

I was a Marine Infantry Radio Operator in the Nam from 1967 to 1970 - yeah, three straight years and then some - and this is some of the music that got me through some dark nights sitting in a hole on Charlie Ridge and in the Arizona...

This is the best rock and roll there is, anywhere, anytime.

They Finally Get The Justice They Deserve!.......2004-01-19

There may not have been another band on the planet who could just flat-out ROCK like Ten Years After. Very, very few bands could rival their energy and intensity, fewer still who could have survived their grueling workload. Ten Years After didn't care about being superstars or being famous, they only cared about one thing - blowing your mind with unbelievable music.

First of all, the Woodstock version of "I'm Going Home" was always edited down to 9 minutes. But this compilation features the FULL version, all 12 minutes of it, in it's entirety. There has never, I repeat - NEVER been another song in the world that defines energetic, ballsy, sweaty rock 'n roll like this one. Describing it in words seems almost useless, and the energy that the boys display in the song is practically unearthly. Of course, Alvin Lee is the main hero of the song, unleashing crazy hurricanes of mind-blowing licks that are both fast and controlled at the same time. But the rhythm section is equally vicious, particularly at the end, where Ric Lee (drums) and Leo Lyons (bass) keep pounding their instruments so intensely that you'd think they were trying to shatter them! Definitely the most powerful rhythm section that I've ever heard. This song is just unreal, folks. Play it loud and feel yourself gasping for breath in no time. The end will give you a rush of adrenaline like you've never experienced. Nobody has ever played rock 'n roll like this before or since. Nobody.

This anthology also features four songs from their debut album, which is not available here in America (of course), so that's all the more reason to buy this! I can't discuss all of the songs on here, 'cause there's too many. Suffice it to say that they are ALL excellent and they all jam.

Stuffed 2-CD anthology of British blues legends.......2002-06-01

The tight playlists of Classic Rock radio has shortchanged the legacy of numerous bands, especially those whose reputations were minted in the emerging era of underground FM radio. Today's skyrocketing radio station values have left no time for the extended jams that were TYA's calling card. As such, an entire generation of rock fans knows the band only by their 1971 (air-time-friendly 3'44") hit "I'd Love to Change the World," and the occasional VH1 snippet of their breakout performance at Woodstock. What these fans haven't heard are the riches available on the band's albums, of which there were more than a dozen.

Hip-O's 2-CD collection gathers cuts from eight of the band's original albums (leaving out only 1972's "Rock & Roll Music to the World" and 1974's "Positive Vibrations"), plus a pair of singles and a track from Woodstock, creating a superb overview of the band's original run. This is both a splendid introduction to the band and a well-procured collection of tracks for the TYA fan.

1967's eponymous debut lays out TYA's blues base on four covers, "I Want to Know," Al Cooper's "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes," Willie Dixon's "Spoonful," and Sonny Boy Williamson's "Help Me." Even at this early stage Alvin Lee's guitar shows itself to be the incisive instrument that would be showcased in longer jams on later albums.

The 1968 single, "Portable People," is an uncharacteristically genteel A-side for TYA, with a B-side, "The Sounds," that leans heavily towards the psychedelic. Their other non-LP single from the era, "Rock Your Mama" is a straight-ahead blues affair, with a B-side, "Spider in My Web," that takes the sound low and slow. (It's a bit mysterious as to how the seven-plus minute "Spider" was fit onto a 7" 45!).

The live jam "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" from 1968's "Undead" LP gives Lee, keyboardist Chick Churchill, and even bassist Leo Lyons the opportunity to display their chops. The following year's "Stonedhenge" finds the band experimenting with their blues on the psychedelic boogie "Going to Try" and the jazz-tinged organ-and-guitar of "Woman Trouble." Though not their most artistically consistent album, as excerpted here, their experimental directions show some dividends. "Boogie On," recorded during the "Stonedhenge" sessions, was shelved until the 1972 odds 'n' sods release "Alvin Lee and Company," and is featured here in its entire 14-minute glory.

1969's "Ssssh" showed TYA's mastery of the electric twelve bar blues on "I Woke Up This Morning." Recorded shortly before their breakthrough performance at Woodstock (captured on this set by the blistering "I'm Going Home"), "Ssssh" features a seven-minute jam of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" (with new, on-the-nose lyrics), and the quieter, down-tempo "If You Should Love Me." Throughout, Lee's intricate guitar playing is a textbook of British electric blues.

The jamming continued on 1970's "Cricklewood Green" with "Love Like a Man" and "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain." The jazz-based "Me and My Baby" shows the band's improvisational abilities extended outside their signature electric blues-rock. A pair of tracks from 1970's "WATT" finds the band continuing in the same direction with the high-voltage "I'm Coming Home" and the slow-to-boil boogie, "My Baby Left Me."

1971's pop-chart breakthrough, "A Space in Time" featured the band's only major radio hit, "I'd Love to Change the World." True to the single, the album's tracks were shorter, with acoustic playing taking more to the foreground. Still, the band's electric blues roots showed through on the fine "One of These Days," and provided plenty of room for Lee's guitar pyrotechnics.

TYA's blues-soaked rock 'n' roll jams were perfectly attuned to dance halls like the Fillmore, as well as an FM radio industry that was not yet challenged for airtime. Their relentless touring (nine US tours between 1968 and 1979, and twenty-eight by 1975!) made them a popular concert draw and steady record sellers. Hip-O does an superb job of highlighting both their album and live recordings on this double disc set (clocking in at an amazing 156+ minutes!), augmented by a fine essay from Dave Thompson and tightly organized discographical info.

With the length of many of TYA's best tracks, a single-disc anthology (such as "Essential" or "Very Best Ten Years After Album Ever") simply can't cover enough ground to properly explain this band. The only routes deeper than this 2-CD collection are their individual album releases, many of which are now available as remastered imports with bonus cuts. As a starting point, however, you couldn't ask for too much more than these two discs.

Alvin Lee Rides Again.......2002-04-21

British blues rockers Ten Years After are finally given a multi-disk set which combines their Decca/Deram material with their later material on Chrysalis. The band is perhaps best known for the lightning fast guitar pyrotechnics of one Alvin Lee. Lee also served as vocalist and main songwriter. The band's appearances at such festivals as Woodstock, the Newport Jazz Festival, the Isle Of Wight, the Texas Pop Festival, and the Atlanta Pop festival cemented the band's reputation as an exciting live concert draw. The first disk concentrates on the band's Deram material prior to the stardom at Woodstock. The band at this point relied more on cover material like Willie Dixon's "Spoonful", Sonny Boy Williamson's "Help Me", and the Blues Project's "I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes". These covers provide the band with a framework for their blues/jazz/rock improvisations and provide staples for their concert set lists. Other highlights include the jazzy "I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always" and their most known cut at this point "Hear Me Calling". Cuts like the failed single "Rock Your Mama" are rewrites of blues tunes, in this case B.B. King's "Rock Me Baby". The last cut on the disk "Boogie On" spotlights the individual band members. Leo Lyons was one of the better bass players of the period. Chick Churchill's keyboards provided a great foil for Alvin's guitar, while Ric Lee's drumming could be either jazzy or fat depending upon the situation. My only quibble with the first disk is the exclusion of their jazzy cover of Woody Herman's "At The Woodchopper's Ball."

The second disk begins around the time of Ten Years After's new found popularity. Highlights of this period include a cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" the jazzy "Me And My Baby" the progressive "50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain" and the organ/guitar workout "One Of These Days". The disk also contains the band's three best known numbers the singles "Love Like A Man", the anti-war "I'd Love To Change The World" and the band's showstopper "I'm Going Home" recorded live at Woodstock. The band became less reliant on cover material by this point but continued to write blues/jazz boogie based material with the occasional ballad thrown in. I have a few issues with the second disk. First the last three years of the band which encompass three albums are not represented at all. Even if this fact is not taken into account there are a few changes in song selection on the second disk I would make. I would delete "If You Should Love Me" and "Me Baby Left Me" and replace them with "Bad Scene" and "She Lies In The Morning" which came from the same albums and were more often played in concert. I would also replace "Here They Come" with "Working On The Road" another concert favorite which is from their best album "Cricklewood Green".

I would actually rate this set 4 1/2 stars due to the exclusion of the material on the second disk. However, unless someone releases a three disk set it is not likely that a set which is more representative of the band will appear in the near future. Do not let the omissions from the second disk dissuade you from enjoying one the great bands of the late sixties and early seventies. Fans of bluesy guitar/organ interplay and improvisional jamming will be highly interested in this release. If you enjoy this set I also recommend the new vault release the 2 cd set "Live At The Fillmore East 1970" for taste of the excitement the band could generate in concert.

Average customer rating: A must for any TYA fan drugs, sex, and rock and roll Great Playing and Lots of Energy A Transitional Album for TYA Great Music

Ssssh Ten Years After Manufacturer: EMI Special Products ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Rock General | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Rock General | Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cricklewood Green A Space in Time Live at the Fillmore East Rock & Roll Music to the World Positive Vibrations ASIN: B00005Y7HD Release Date: 2001-03-13

Tracks:

1. Bad Scene
2. Two Time Mama
3. Stoned Woman
4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
5. If You Should Love Me
6. I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name
7. The Stomp
8. I Woke Up This Morning

Customer Reviews:

A must for any TYA fan.......2007-04-23

Good Ten Years After album, their fourth. It's not A Space In Time (definitely their best), but lots of energy, and Alvin Lee...well, what can you say? He was one of the best. Speed, finesse, and soul, a rare combination. (A helpfull note: Don't buy from Smokey Mountain Books; they like to play bait and switch, an illegal practice.)

drugs, sex, and rock and roll.......2006-02-28

The three primary vices of the late 1960's are on vivid display on this, Ten Years After's fourth album, released in 1969. While songs giving a sympathetic ear to underage sex ('Good Morning Little Schoolgirl') and drug usage ('Stoned Woman') are frowned upon today, it's revealing what Alvin Lee and his 'mates were committing to vinyl way back in the 1960's. You would probably draw the ire of Bill O'Reilly and perhaps the FBI for uttering lyrics like "I want to b_ _l you all night long" to an imagined "little schoolgirl" in this, the second millennium (I suppose Alvin could implicate original writer Sonny Boy Williamson for the faux pas, however). Alvin was 24 years of age when he suggested to this little schoolgirl that there was "nothing wrong" with such yearnings, nor does he sound disgruntled over his observation that "she's gonna keep him stoned out of his mind all the time" on 'Stoned Woman'. While Alvin and many of his contemporaries may have second thoughts about such judgements today, it's clear that very liberal attitudes were being quite freely propogated, and certainly followed in this era. And while it may be easy to dismiss such indulgences as typical of the times or youth in general, the problem is that it's so hard to separate Alvin's questionable sentiments with the great rock and roll music he composed to accompany it. While the B-side of the original vinyl version of 'Ssssh' is a bit uneven, the A-side is pure, unadulterated, rabid rock and roll heaven. The sound of the first four tracks stand up nicely against any comparable 16 minute sequence anywhere in rock.

The album leads off with the great up-tempo rocker, 'Bad Scene'. The lyrics deliver an angry rant about life's hassles, from "hurtin'" to "chokin'", with Alvin's vocals processed through something that makes his voice sound like a tinny 1930's radio broadcast. I'm not sure what the intent is of that processing, but it sounds extremely cool. 'Two Time Mama' follows, opening with a bouncy acoustic riff and morphing into a boogie along the lines of Canned Heat's 'Goin Up the Country'. There's a great slide guitar to be had under the cautionary lyrics. 'Stoned Woman' is up next, featuring a sweet bass beat, fine guitar hooks, and Alvin delivering up plenty of tasty 'Ugh's, 'Ooh's, and 'Aah's. 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl' winds up the quartet with 6:34 of solid-rock, and more orgiastic screams, grunts, moans, and groans.

The B-side of the original vinyl starts out with a melodious acoustic track spiced up with a bit of wah-pedal guitar in the background, but 'If You Should Love Me' slowly gains steam until you're seriously folk-rockin' with fine organ support from Chick Churchill. After a two minute acoustic guitar and piano ballad, 'I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name' (a real challenge to decipher for any TYA fan who's stoned out of his mind all the time...), serving as an intermission, TYA return to the blues-rock with a decided groove in 'The Stomp'. The disc winds up with perhaps the weakest track, a heavy and solid, but derivitive standard electric blues number, 'I Woke Up This Morning'.

If you're a fan of heavy blues-rock music with excellent hooks and riffs, this vintage TYA disc is made for you, especially if you're okay with the provocative lyrical content. Be forwarned that this particular version (and there are versions aplenty of 'Ssssh'... which really should be 'Shhhh', shouldn't it?) of 'Ssssh' is marketed as a remastered disc from EMI Special Markets, but nowhere in the package is remastering mentioned, nor does the EMI moniker appear anywhere. Entering the bar code into the ebay listing generator, however, does identify this as a remastered disc from EMI. The label on the disc is Chrysalis, but the recording date is listed as 1975, which is a total mystery. Nevertheless, it sounds good, and perhaps that is all that matters in the final analysis.

Great Playing and Lots of Energy.......2004-07-06

This album must be thrill for any fan of English heavy blues/hard rock.

I had the album on vinyl years ago, and I recently bought the album again on CD. Somehow my favourites have changed with the time. It seems that some of my old favourites go on a bit too long. It is beyond question that Lee is a terrific guitarist and that Ten Years After was a great band, but Lee's songwriting on this album is mostly very traditional blues/rock, and some songs may sound a little dated.

"I Woke Up This Morning" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" are still great tracks, but less aggressive songs like "Two Time Mama" and "If You Should Love Me" are my favourites today; especially the great build up on "If You Should Love Me" makes this song a highlight.

A Transitional Album for TYA.......2003-11-03

I will agree with everything said about this album but what they don't tell you is the persistance of a psychedelic buzz throughout this album. There is a very harmonious combination of blues-based and psychedelic 'noodling' combined with a kind of quirky songwriting style mainly characterized by 'Bad Scene' and 'Stoned Woman'. 'Bad Scene' alternates between garage/psych and changes tempo to a casual jazzy mid section then returns to the faster tempo. TYA like a lot of groups from the era were influenced by the new psychedelic sounds of the time while at the same time keeping their blues/jazz based roots and this CD is probably the best example of this. You also have the perfunctory love songs 'Two Time Mama' & 'If You Should Love Me'. 'The Stomp' is a wonderfully casual boogie number with a nicely understated guitar break. 'Good Morning Little School Girl' was perhaps the most successful song from the album and was played for years as part of their live sets.

Great Music.......2002-07-25

As the liner notes say this IS the music of Ten Years After. This cd is one of the bands greatest. It came out about the time Alvin and the boys became bonefide stars. The music is blues based with some jazz leanings, very well written and performed. All four musicians are at their peak just prior to Cricklewood Green's release. 10 stars for this cd.

Average customer rating: Good bang for the buck. Correction Sounds like guys pretending to be rock stars Not Perfect, But Definitive Mott's Essential

Essential Ten Years After Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Pure Blues A Space in Time Live at the Fillmore East The Very Best of Deep Purple Anthology 1967-1971 ASIN: B000008LH1 Release Date: 1991-08-27

Tracks:

1. Rock And Roll Music To The World
2. I'd Love To Change The World
3. I'm Going Home (Live)
4. Choo Choo Mama
5. Tomorrow I'll Be Out Of Town
6. I Woke Up This Morning
7. Me And My Baby
8. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Live)
9. Goin' Back To Birmingham
10. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
11. Sweet Little Sixteen
12. I'm Coming On
13. Love Like A Man
14. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You

Customer Reviews:

Good bang for the buck........2007-01-31

Most people know Ten Tears After from the song "I'd love to change the world" which, although a fantastic song that stands up on its own, isn't exactly typical of what the band really excelled at---Blues-Rock. The "Essential Ten years after" collection does a great job revealing the fundamental sound that made this band great. If you aren't an Alvin Lee fan, this album (cd!)will probably make you one.

Correction.......2005-03-18

One of the reasons I bought this was after reading a review on Amazon, someone wrote that the live version of "I'm Going Home" was from Woodstock. It is not. Just like Big Brother's live version of "Ball and Chain" from Monterey, it is impossible to re-capture a signature live performance. The Woodstock version of "I'm, Going Home" is not matched here.

Sounds like guys pretending to be rock stars.......2003-05-03

My credentials: I bought Cricklewood Green when it was new, and listened to it until I wore it out. I still think it is a fine example of that 60s English bluesy sound. Alvin got more pretentious and smug later; but he had grown from guitar flailer to competent composer/arranger. This was the peak, and it remains a great distance from their nearest plateau.

When the best songs are extracted from a well listened to LP, the effect is somewhat jarring. And in this case, when the best songs left out are replaced by not-as-good songs in the name of completeness, it is especially unsatisfying. I think I'll continue listening to Cricklewood Green, and put this on the shelf. If you want to explore this band, try that. If you need an "essential" collection, I ask why? This is not bad, just not as satisfying as the source.

Not Perfect, But Definitive.......2002-09-25

This is the definitive anthology of Ten Years After. Granted, there are a few not-so-great songs on this one, but its great ones overpower them. What you thus have is a terrific slice of the late 60s/early 70s English sound. This is one of the roots of both metal AND fusion.

Mott's Essential.......2002-08-23

"Essential" by "Ten Years After" is something of a rarity as I find it faultless in collecting together on one C.D what is the "Essential" recordings. In other words, a true "Bests Of" Ten Years After.

"Ten Years After" were the classic case of a band with limited talent, but they aimed all their time and effort at what they'd got, and worked their fingers to the bone. They must still hold the record for a major band touring the states completing a total of 28 coast to coast tours. The main object of their talent was fastest guitarist in the west Alvin Lee, who also handled all the vocals, wrote all the songs, and stood center stage leaving the others very much in subordinate roles.

They weren't cute; they definitely weren't trendy. (Alvin Lee used to come on stage wearing that well known Rock `n' Roll footwear, a pair of Dutch clogs.) However, England's "Ten Years After" were one of the most electrifying groups from the late 60's and early seventies. At a time when blues based bands were two a penny, "Ten Years After" towered above the opposition with a sizzling combination of tough rootsy songs both their own compositions and well chosen covers and driving power house ensemble work, highlighted by perhaps the hottest guitar licks in the universe. Just listen to Alvin's guitar breaks on their version of Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen" recorded live at the Isle of Wight Pop Festival as the groups final encore from their album "Watt", and you will never of heard anybody play faster. Mind you, drummer Ric Lee (no relation) sounds as if he is thrashing away at dustbin lids not high hats.

At the time Alvin Lee was the ultimate axe hero. He sprayed searing blues notes from his red Gibson like a crazed machine-gunner mowing down live audiences in their masses, and adding that certain hint of danger that made their studio albums stand out from the crowd.

"Ten Years After" always had the knack of being in the right place at the right time. Their appearance in the movie of the Woodstock Festival is possibly the standout contribution, and when you consider they were lined up against Santana, Hendrix, The Who, and Joe Cocker, that's quite an achievement.

The proof is all here in this action packed set of 14 tracks spanning their entire career, with a couple of live tracks to boot. Their blistering signature tune "I'm Going Home" from Woodstock, all ten glorious minutes of it; American radio station favorites like "I'd Love To Change The World"; "Me And My Baby", which reminds us Lee was a soulful singer not just a devastating Rock `n' Roll outlaw. "Ten Years After" also had one worldwide hit single "Love Like A Man". Here we get the full unedited version. And then of course there is all the no holds barred no nonsense classic foot stomping Rock `n' Roll. From a scorching version of Little Richard's "Goin' Back To Birmingham" to the supersonic boogie of "Choo Choo Mama". (Z.Z. Top took a page or two from Ten Years After book when they laid down their blueprint).

Alvin and the boys could rattle windows, and shake walls with a feverish intensity rarely witnessed since rock's first generation of stars (who were saluted by the bands very name).

Taken as a whole some of "Ten Years After" albums could be a little patchy and none of their studio releases clocked in over 38 minutes. But with "Essential" you get over an hour's worth of them at their very best, which testifies to the timeless appeal of stripped down, high-octane Rock `n' Roll. Slip the C.D in your player, crank the volume, and feel free to boogie one more time.
Mott the Dog.

Average customer rating: My Favorite Ten years after 737's Coming Out of the Sky Don't Overlook Cricklewood Green!!! Still Great 30 Years After 2 EXTRA TRACKS!

Cricklewood Green Ten Years After Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ssssh A Space in Time Rock & Roll Music to the World Live at the Fillmore East Positive Vibrations ASIN: B00005B5X6 Release Date: 2002-05-06

Tracks:

1. Sugar The Road
2. Working On The Road
3. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain
4. Year 3000 Blues
5. Me And My Baby
6. Love Like A Man
7. Circles
8. As The Sun Still Burns Away
9. Warm Sun (Bonus Track/Previously Unreleased)
10. To No One (Bonus Track/Previously Unreleased)

Album Description

UK reissue of the British blues-rock act's classic 1970 album. Digitally remastered with the help of band member Ric Lee. Ten tracks including two bonus tracks, 'Warm Sun' & 'To No One'.

Album Details

Classic 1970 Album from Guitar God Alvin Lee and Company. Digitally Remastered with the Help of the Bands Drummer Ric Lee and featuring Two Bonus Tracks, Sleevenotes by John Tobler and Enhanced Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

My Favorite Ten years after.......2007-05-14

Cricklewood green is my favorite Ten years after album it does not have the staple songs we are familiar with but nice rock songs with excellent dream like lyrics listen to the songs and what Alvin lee sings about in these tunes it is very interesting rock music all the songs are great but my favorite is As the sun still burns away and the 2 bonus tracks are just as good very well done album and a must for 1960s music collectors they just do not make music this good today no group at all try this cd I think you will enjoy it.

737's Coming Out of the Sky.......2006-02-14

'Cricklewood Green' is, for the most part, a bombastic rockfest. In fact, the three tune, fifteen minute opening salvo stack up nicely against any other trio of songs from any rock and roll disc. But any album aspiring to greatness must demonstrate diversity, and 'Cricklewood Green' does that as well, although I could have lived with the rockfest through a double-album of this electrifying material! In my mind of minds I imagine Alvin Lee felt the same, and included songs such as 'Year 3000 Blues', the lone country-rock number in the set, and 'Me and My Baby' a Steve Miller sound-alike track and the lone jazz-rock number, simply to show everyone that Ten Years After was much more than a one-genre pony. As if that wasn't enough, one other genre is also explored with the acoustic folk-rock number titled 'Circles', which adds more than just diversity. The sweet chorus, "Doesn't/does it matter what I do..." mixes with the bittersweet sentiments and smooth-as-a-smoothie melody to produce what we in the music review business call 'a beaute'.

The remainder of the disc builds on the solid rock foundation established by the band in four previous albums. The two longest tracks on the disc are epics in composition and performance. Both '50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain' and 'Love Like a Man' time out at 7:37. I would believe that was an uncanny coincidence were it not for the curious fade out-fade in-fade out conclusion to '50,000 Miles...'. I submit that Alvin and Co. had more than artistic concerns in adding this audio addendum, although I have no answer to the question, "why did they do it?". Heck, why does Radio Shack ask for your address when you buy batteries, and why did The Beatles hoax Paul's death?

'Sugar the Road' opens the disc, and it is the prototypical opening number for an album or a concert, featuring great basic and lead guitar riffs, fun lyrics, cowbells, etc. 'Working On the Road', another gritty rocker, follows, with the sweet chorus, "I've got a feeling for home...". '50,000 Miles...' opens with a restrained acoustic intro which builds in nicely structured gradients into an anthemic rocker, very reminicent of Tom Petty's best work, and ending with a fine, distorted, fuzzy guitar lead. 'Love Like a Man' returns to the melodic guitar hooks and fleshy fretwork from maestro Alvin, in addition to a great sounding bass bridge. The original vinyl finished with the lumbering rocker 'As the Sun Still Burns Away', which builds steam like a locomotive, and winds up in a fog of psychedelic sound effects.

It is well worth the extra expense to obtain the 2002 UK remaster being reviewed here, primarily for the two unreleased tracks from the 'Cricklewood' sessions. 'Warm Sun', with its simplistic and catchy guitar hook, and 'To No One', a bombastic blues-rock track featuring a sweet organ-guitar bridge, are both good fits with the balance of 'Cricklewood Green'. Although lyrics are not included, the liner notes are adequately supplied with background on the band, the recording sessions, and the individual tracks. Beyond impressive, this set of Green tracks will grow on you. Like most truly classic albums, its sound is timeless. This is essential listening, folks, no two ways about it.

Don't Overlook Cricklewood Green!!!.......2006-01-01

I first owned this on 8-track many moons ago. Although, this kind of music sounds dated...I still enjoy the songs 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain...it and Sugar The Road remind me of Steppenwolfe. Other good songs are Year 3000 Blues, The jazzy..Me And My Baby, and Circles. Don't overlook Cricklewood Green if you enjoy classic rock!!!

Still Great 30 Years After.......2004-05-16

Ten Years After with front-man Alvin Lee made a good handful of solid blues/rock albums in the late sixties and early seventies. Alvin Lee is a terrific guitarist, and he had the reputation of being the fastest in the world at the time, when Ten Years After was at the height of their populairiy.

Lee wrote almost all of their music, and he had a skill of writing catchy blues-based guitar riffs. One of their best known songs of that type "Love Like a Man" is the key track on this 1970 album. Though his songwriting is somewhat uneven, probably because of pressure to constantly to come up with material for new albums and singles, their best songs still sound great today.

On Cricklewood Green the highlights, besides "Love Like a Man", are "Working on the Road", "50.000 Miles Beneath my Brain", "As the Sun Still Burns Away" and the great acoustic ballad "Circles". The two out-take bonus-tracks are okay; best is "Warm Sun".

2 EXTRA TRACKS!.......2002-07-08

I can't tell you how many times we sat around listening to this classic.Remastered with a nice booklet and 2 extra tracks from the original LP sessions.This version sounds great.I'm elated!

Average customer rating: Excellent place to strart Simply the Best 60's real time fun w/great guitar Blues Deluxe That Never Dissapoints From A Band That Stayed Close To It's Sound Throughout

Ssssh Ten Years After Manufacturer: EMI Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cricklewood Green A Space in Time Rock & Roll Music to the World Live at the Fillmore East Cricklewood Green ASIN: B0001YFP8M Release Date: 2004-05-03

Tracks:

1. Bad Scene
2. Two Time Mama
3. Stoned Woman
4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
5. If You Should Love Me
6. I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name
7. Stomp
8. I Woke Up This Morning

Customer Reviews:

Excellent place to strart.......2007-02-19

This was my first TYA album and introduction of their music. I bought it because of the intersting cover and stayed with the music until "A Space In Time". I started as guitar player because of Alvin Lee (being the only guy in my town playing "Im Going Home" and with my friend Clayton playing bass doing "Good Morning Little School Girl" minus the vocals, a little weird for us being guys over 18 singing about snagging under age girls, and neither one of us being vocalist)
I consider this to be one of their best albums along with "Cricklewood Green". Personally, I highly recommend this one. Especially the remastered version.

Simply the Best.......2006-07-09

I grew up with this album. I wore out the grooves and the cover was worn and dog earred, but there is no album I ever owned that was as much a part of my growing up. It planted the seeds for a long evolving appreciation of the blues. I would not listen to Robert Johnson and Big Mama Thornton for 20 more years - but I know it all started here - in 8th grade. I don't think I even knew what the blues was when I was in 8th grade, but I knew I liked this. I bought it for the cover only - it looked cool. They certainly weren't getting radio play that I had heard. I had never heard anything like Good Morning Little School Girl or "I woke up this morning", but my favorite was and is, the Stomp. Rock On Alvin.

60's real time fun w/great guitar .......2006-04-19

Alvin & the boys give you a feel for the times with great melody work and quintessencial rock band 60's stuff, not to mention the wah-wah so very good at the time (Cream, Blind Faith, Hendrix etc.
Fun music/rock & roll!

Blues Deluxe That Never Dissapoints From A Band That Stayed Close To It's Sound Throughout.......2005-11-18

A hard rocking blues statement that is perhaps TYA's defining album. SSSH! was in a way their last "all" blues album relying on some great covers and originals with Alvin Lee firmly in control as leader.
This album preceeded the greatness of the Cricklewood Green album which took off commercially as a bluesy, English,Jazzy,folk and rock and roll album showcasing them into superstardom(of the day) Their psychedelic explorations of sound and texture took off with Cricklewood but shades of these studio explorations are found in all their past works but Ssssh!
is all primal blues and in a way their most true blue record.
All their remasters are very good.

Average customer rating: Ten Years After - 'Undead' (Deram) One Of The Best Live Rock Recordings Of All Time raw, pure talent, and no electronic help - the way it should be The Excitement Of London Summer 1968 This albums got Jazz!

Undead Ten Years After Manufacturer: Ume Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Ssssh Live at the Fillmore East Cricklewood Green A Space in Time Rock & Roll Music to the World ASIN: B0000636NQ Release Date: 2006-02-21

Tracks:

1. Rock Your Mama
2. Spoonful
3. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always
4. Summertime/Shantung Cabbage
5. Spider In Your Web
6. Woodchopper's Ball
7. Standing At The Crossroads
8. I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes/Extension On One Chord/I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes
9. I'm Going Home

Album Description

UK remastered reissue of the British blues-rock quartet's 1968 album includes three bonus tracks, 'Rock Your Mama', 'Spoonful' & 'I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes/Extension On One Chord'. 2002.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Second Album from the Band that features Speed Guitarist Alvin Lee. Features their First Big Hit "i'm Goin Home", which was a Staple of FM Radio in Its Time.

Customer Reviews:

Ten Years After - 'Undead' (Deram).......2007-06-29

Originally hit the streets in 1968, as this was Ten Years After's second album. It just doesn't get much better than this. Simply great, timeless as well as essential British blues rock. Tracks here that brought back some memories of days long gone were the foot-stomper "Rock Your Mama", "Spoonful", "Woodpecker's Ball", "I Can't Keep From Crying" and the tune that truly made Alvin Lee and company a household name, "I'm Going Home" (who could forget their legendary performance of this gem in the Woodstock film?). Saw that the four cuts that were initially left off the lp because there wasn't room has been now added as bonus tracks. Like I said, it DOESN'T get much better.

One Of The Best Live Rock Recordings Of All Time.......2007-01-03

I saw Ten Years After live in a small club called "The Bank" in Torrance, CA, circa 1968, at which time their live act consisted of what is captured here on Undead. I was totally blown away and immediately went out to get the LP. TYA was in a blues/jazz mode at this stage, and although they went on to be a mega superstar act in the later years of their career (I saw them live 4 times thereafter), their style changed somewhat as they began selling more records (mass popularity in the music biz usually requires a less esoteric style for the masses).
Undead captures the band at their purest apogee of intensity and finesse, when jazz and the blues more than rock 'n roll characterized their musicianship. Undead is especially noteworthy for some great bass soloing by Leo Lyons and some jazzy Hammond soloing by keyboardist Chick Churchill. Their later stuff concentrated on Alvin almost exclusively as the band's soloist, as demonstrated by TYA's recent Live At The Fillmore East CD, which although excellent, features Alvin's guitar pyrotechnics exclusively and which relegates Leo and Chick into the background.
Alvin at the time of the late sixties and early seventies was revered as one of the great guitar gods, right up there with Clapton, Page, Beck, and Hendrix. Many contemporary music critics tend to denigrate his style nowadays, characterizing him as all speed and no style. Undead (and Live At The Fillmore East) prove them all wrong, from my estimation, as only a cursory listein to "I May Be Wrong But I Won't Be Wrong Always" or "Woodchopper's Ball" off of Undead will otherwise prove. Absolute jaw-dropping work that his contemporaties in Guitar Olympus would not have been able to duplicate, dare they even have tried.
My only regret with Undead is that they brought out this version with the bonus tracks after I had already purchased the original CD, the latter of which contained only the same tracks as the LP. Is this some sort of insidious packaging conspiracy on the part of the recording industry, or what?
Bottom-line: this is one of the greatest live rock recordings of all time, bar none.

raw, pure talent, and no electronic help - the way it should be.......2006-11-06

When you want pure talent, electronically unmodified because they're that good, this is for you. Ten Years After "Undead" - live, recorded in the kind of venue our (USA's) George Thorogood would play, up close and enjoyable. Alvin Lee's soulful rapid fire guitar is loud and fast. Rick Lee (drums), Chick Churchill (keys), and Leo Lyons (bass) also get their share of solos in this collection of swing jazz, rock, and blues. I bought the vinyl version thirty some years ago, could only play that at home. Now I own this clean, digitally re-mastered work of art on CD which is one of my favorites to play while traveling.

The Excitement Of London Summer 1968 .......2006-08-16

If their 1st self titled TYA debut lacked punch in the studio..this their official 2nd release, captured TYA as they were intended to be with their highly acclaimed 1st album, one great live blues rock outfit.
Recorded at Klooks Kleek,Railway Hotel West Hampstead London,May 1968, UNDEAD is their natural habitat..this CD is the definitive version clocking in well over 70 minutes, great booklet and notes, remastered sound taking the original album and reformulating it into a total performance..
The groups blend of raw energy fusing blues,jazz,rock and scat extensive soloing behind Alvin Lee is indicative of the many bands of the day but this one recorded performance remains one of the better if not the best capturing the sweat and fury of the band coming into the scene.
The song selections include great covers of Spoonful,Crossroads,Summertime their signature I'm Going Home,and a whole host of finds making this one great CD from the exquisite cover to the music within.
A historical contribution capturing this whole genre fabulously.

This albums got Jazz!.......2004-03-15

o.k., this is probably a better statement, still holding up too, than their debut album.

first off, note the cover; deram put this out, I'll bet, so early in the psychedelic era, that it seems it is just like negatives of a photo... but maybe that basicness, merits this and what the album is about;

but certainly not psychedelia... jazz, blues, rock, Amen

They do Woody Herman's Woodchoppers BAll, and this album, is live but in a small club, sort of quaint; Woodchoppers Ball, is one of a few tracks here, that are rather long, I knew, even hearing this some time ago, and without developed tastes, this is jazzy stuff;

Summertime, again has some nice drumming sound, jazz again; Shantung Cabbage? I am not sure, but TYA sort of got put on the map, rightfully or wrongfully, and if I err, I accept it, by Woodstock, "Goin' Home" is one of the highlights of that musical oddysey; and this is an early version.

This is basic TYA; you know, before a few albums more, and then, maybe they are Rock 'N' Roll; in the whole Zep Stones kind of thing, from what I can tell.

Here, they are the boys, making their way, doing it their way, "Spoonful" famously known as performed by Cream is played here; who came first, that is what I'd like to know.

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