(2021) VA – Riding the Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock





Review:

Riding the Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock is a fine overview of the various types of guitar-heavy, window-rattling sounds emanating from the U.K. during that wild decade where seemingly anything went. The three-disc collection is equal parts proto-metal, glossy radio pop, strutting stadium rock, wailing blues, glittering glam, brooding jam rock, and twiddling prog, and it even makes space for those artsy bands like Roxy Music, whose “Street Life” provides a stunning highlight. Any collection that contains the extremes of ELO’s “Showdown” and Hawkwind’s “Quark, Strangeness and Charm” is really stretching the boundaries of the usual ’70s rock collection. The ratio of never-weres to classic rockers is high: anyone looking for obscurities will be glad to spot Tucky Buzzard, National Flag, Agnes Strange, and Rococo (the latter band delivers a knockout punch with their Mott-like romp “Hooligan Fun” nestled deeply in the running order). Mostly, though, it’s the big names and big songs that hit the hardest. It’s a fact that these kinds of collections show that the bands that made it big did so for a reason. B-list cuts like the Faces’ “Cindy Incidentally” and the Who’s “Success Story” shine the most when compared to songs by Fat Mattress or Trapeze. That’s not to say that there’s no pleasure to be derived from listening to Sad Cafe warble their woozy way through “My Oh My,” for example. It’s just that the stack-heeled kick of Hello’s “New York Groove” is more exciting. The same goes for Bullfrog’s “Ice Cold Dick” — a fairly fun, super dumb rocker that’s totally eclipsed by Foghat’s deathless “Slow Ride.” Which is fine — there’s room for both — and the compilers deserve praise for piling the earnest clunkers right next to the classics. Good to see too are acts led by women: Curved Air’s romping “U.H.F.” is a blast, Yvonne Elliman’s cover of “I Can’t Explain” is always good to hear, and Babe Ruth show that they are more than just “The Mexican” with the paint-stripping rocker “Jack O’Lantern.” Overall, this rock machine is definitely worth riding. Spinning through the discs is like going back in time for a couple of hours of one really weird, constantly entertaining radio show.











Track Listing:

CD 1

01. Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll

02. Uriah Heep - Easy Livin'

03. The Moody Blues - I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)

04. The Alan Parsons Project - I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You

05. Foghat - Slow Ride [Single Version]

06. The Spencer Davis Group - Catch You On The Rebop

07. Yvonne Elliman - I Can't Explain

08. Faces - Cindy Incidentally

09. Procol Harum - Robert's Box

10. Blackfoot Sue - Standing In The Road

11. Medicine Head - Back To The Wall

12. The Who - Success Story

13. Trapeze - Black Cloud

14. Chris Squire - Hold Out Your Hand

15. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits In The Night

16. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Boston Tea Party

17. Jethro Tull - Bungle In The Jungle

18. Anges Strange - Clever Fool

19. Fancy - She's Ridin' The Rock Machine

20. Sweet - Action



CD 2

01. Foreigner - Feels Like The First Time

02. Nazareth - This Flight Tonight

03. Free - Wishing Well

04. Man - Out Of Your Head

05. Strawbs - My Friend Peter

06. Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness And Charm

07. Silverhead - Ace Supreme

08. Status Quo - Mystery Song

09. Curved Air - U.H.F.

10. Magnum - Baby I Need

11. Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown

12. City Boy - Momma's Boy

13. Duffy - The 1959 Rock 'n' Roll Bop

14. Rococo - Hoodlum Fun

15. Mick Ronson - Only After Dark

16. Strider - Straddle

17. Stray - Move It

18. Bullfrog - Ice Cold Dick

19. Maggot - Shoelace

20. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Lucky Man



CD 3

01. Roxy Music - Street Life

02. Be-Bop Deluxe - Maid In Heaven

03. Atomic Rooster - Devil's Answer

04. Family - In My Own Time

05. Dana Gillespie - Get My Rocks Off

06. Hello - New York Groove

07. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak

08. Tucky Buzzard - Can't Live Without It

09. National Flag - Blowing A Million

10. Hard Stuff - Monster In Paradise

11. Fat Mattress - Black Sheep Of The Family

12. 10cc - Life Is A Minestrone

13. Sutherland Brothers - Dream Kid

14. Smokestack Crumble - Got A Bad Leg

15. The Winkies - Fever

16. Mott the Hoople - Ready For Love

17. Sad Cafe - My Oh My

18. Babe Ruth - Jack O'Lantern

19. Argent - God Gave Rock N' Roll To You





Media Report:

Genre: rock

Format: FLAC

Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM

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