Focus - Focus con Proby (77)

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1 Wingless
2 Orion
3 Night Flight
4 Eddy
5 Sneezing Bull
6 Brother
7 Tokyo Rose
8 Maximum
9 How Long

O Focus é uma banda de rock progressivo dos Países Baixos fundada em 1969 pelo organista e flautista Thijs van Leer.
Foi para muitos a melhor banda dos Países Baixos nos anos 70.
Mas as qualidades da banda foram muito mais significantes.
Suas extensas e quase exclusivas composições instrumentais e improvisações continham várias referências à música erudita.
Um exemplo é a referência a ópera de Monteverdi na canção Eruption, do álbum Moving Waves.
Outra demonstração está na referência à Johann Sebastian Bach em Carnival Fugue, do álbum Focus 3, ou ainda das referências ao Renascimento de Anonymus II, do mesmo álbum.

Ainda em 1977 a banda retornou com o vocalista P. J. Proby se integrando à banda, que nessa época contava com Thijs Van Leer, Bert Ruiter, o guitarrista Eef Albers, o também guitarrista Phillip Catherine e o baterista Steve Smith.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Crosby, Stills and Nash

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Banda pioneira surgida nos anos 60, com músicos provenientes de importantes bandas, como The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield e The Hollies.

A principal característica está nas harmonizações vocais, sempre com tres vozes.

A banda se apresentou em Woodstock em 1969, e gravou a música composta por Joni Mitchell com o nome do evento, tendo então sua imagem fortemente associada a ele.

Em diversas oportunidades gravaram com a presença de Neil Young.

São também conhecidos pelas iniciais, CSN, ou CSN&Y.

Cat Stevens - Morning has Broken

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Yusuf Islam, anteriormente conhecido pelo nome artístico de Cat Stevens (Londres, 21 de Julho de 1948) é um ex-cantor e compositor britânico.

Seu nome completo é Stephen Demetre Georgiou.

Seu pai é de origem grego-cipriota e sua mãe, de origem sueca.

Vendeu 40 milhões de álbuns, principalmente entre as décadas 1960 e 1970.

Em 1971, escreveu a trilha sonora do filme Harold and Maude (no Brasil: "Ensina-me a Viver").

Entre suas canções mais populares estão "Morning Has Broken", "Peace Train", "Moonshadow", "Wild World", "Matthew and Son" e "Oh Very Young".

Novalis - Novalis (75)

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1 Sonnengeflecht
2 Wer Schmetterlinge Lachen Hört
3 Dronsz
4 Impressionen
5 Es Färbte Sich Die Wiese Grün
6 Impressionen [live/*]

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited (65)

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01 Like a Rolling Stone
02 Tombstone Blues
03 It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
04 From a Buick 6
05 Ballad of a Thin Man
07 Highway 61 Revisited
08 Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
09 Desolation Row
10-Bob Dylan-Tangled up blue
11-Bob Dylan-Changing of the guards
12-Bob Dylan-The groom's still waiting at the altar

Strawbs - Hero And Heroine (74)

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01 – Autumn
02 - Sad Young Man
03 - Just Love
04 - Shine On Silver Sun
05 - Hero And Heroine
06 - Midnight Sun
07 - Out In The Cold
08 - Round And Round
09 - Lay A Little Light On Me
10 - Hero's Theme

The group's ballsiest album to date, a surging, hard-rocking follow-up to Bursting at the Seams, which debuted a new lineup, Richard Hudson, John Ford, and Blue Weaver having left to form their own group.

In their places, ex-Nashville Teens keyboardman John Hawken and the more muscular rhythm section of Rod Coombes and Chas Cronk make their debut, on what is the Strawbs' first fully electric album.

Dave Cousins' songwriting (augmented by Dave Lambert, who also contributes some slashing electric lead guitar) is still as romantic as ever in various spots ("Shine On Silver Sun," "Deep Summer's Sleep"), but also boasts dark visions ("Round and Round") which, coupled with new band's muscular playing, made the Strawbs one of the hardest-rocking progressive bands in the world.

Strawbs - Heartbreak Hill (96)

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01 - Something For Nothing
02 - Another Day Without You
03 - We Can Make It Together
04 - Heartbreak Hill
05 - Starting Over
06 - Two Separate People
07 - Desert Song
08 - Let It Rain


This is a rather peculiar and disjointed collection of tracks culled from 1988's reunion album Don't Say Goodbye along with other late period recordings.

Only fleeting moments of the Strawbs' patented progressive folk and rock gets uncovered, which is no surprise since their final albums leading up to their late '70s demise were also bereft of those key ingredients.

With only eight tracks, continuity is definitely lacking here, other than the familiar and unique voice of Dave Cousins.

The Strawbs are neither pop hitmakers nor schmaltzy romantics so why was this compilation necessary?

Strawbs - Burning For You (77)

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01 - Burning For Me
02 - Cut Like A Diamond
03 - I Feel Your Loving Coming On
04 - Barcarole (For The Death OF Venice)
05 - Alexander The Great
06 - Keep On Trying
07 - Back In The Old Routine
08 – Heartbreaker
09 - Carry Me Home
10 - Goodbye (Is Not An Easy Word To Say)


The Strawbs' second and final album for their new label starts off promisingly with the moody and expansive "Burning for Me"; Dave Cousins sings with restraint over a somber repeating theme on piano and strings, and it ends with a hint of a Moog solo.

Alas, later numbers like "Keep on Trying" turn out to be a limply insincere sort of "positive pop," which is all the more grating given the sincere moodiness of the band's earlier work.

"Back in the Old Routine" is a patronizing mimicry of the working bloke, a sort of folky watering down of their old hit "Part of the Union."

Cousins at least gets back a bit of his old bile in "Alexander the Great," where he gives a sour kiss-off to music critics — who, at this point, probably weren't listening anyway.