SPIRIT (306)

Fresh From The Time Coast: The Best Of 1968-1977 (Double CD) (RVCD-306)

Raven presents on unique Double CD, a multi-label career overview of the legendary Los Angeles rock band SPIRIT. Spirit offered a truly innovative approach and presence with a blend of rock and jazz mixed with blues, folk and psychedelic elements. The Best Of 1968-1977: Fresh from the Time Coast boasts 43 tracks, over 150 minutes of music and is the first time the best tracks from the band’s six albums for Ode/Epic and four albums for Mercury have been combined into one stunning package. Formed in 1967 around teenage guitar prodigy Randy California, keyboardist Jay Ferguson and jazz veteran and bald-headed drummer Ed Cassidy, Spirit hit with the glorious single ‘I Got a Line on You’ (#25) one of the most recognisable guitar riffs in rock.

Also on Disc One are all the other highlights of their six albums for Ode/Epic (Spirit, The Family That Plays Together, Clear, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, Feedback, California's Kapt. Kopter): ‘Fresh-Garbage’, ‘Dream within a Dream’, ‘Nature’s Way’, ‘Darkness’ and 17 other quality songs. The band’s run of four albums for Mercury during the 1970s (Spirit of ’76, Son of Spirit, Farther Along, Future Games) is well represented on Disc Two with ‘Victim of Society’, ‘Looking into Darkness’, ‘Farther Along’ and ‘Stars are Love’. With superb quality audio, detailed liner notes, colour booklet this splendid Double CD is a must for fans of classic rock.

TRACK LISTING
DISC ONE
1. FRESH-GARBAGE
2. UNCLE JACK
3. MECHANICAL WORLD
4. TAURUS
5. GIRL IN YOUR EYE
6. TOPANGA WINDOWS
7. I GOT A LINE ON YOU
8. IT SHALL BE
9. ALL THE SAME
10. DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
11. AREN’T YOU GLAD
12. DARK EYED WOMAN
13. SO LITTLE TIME TO FLY
14. GROUND HOG
15. I’M TRUCKIN’
16. NEW DOPE IN TOWN
17. PRELUDE – NOTHING TO HIDE
18. NATURE’S WAY
19. ANIMAL ZOO
20. MR. SKIN
21. WHEN I TOUCH YOU
22. MORNING WILL COME
DISC TWO
1. 1984
2. DARKNESS
3. DEVIL (Randy California)
4. RAINBOW (Randy California)
5. VICTIM OF SOCIETY
6. LADY OF THE LAKES
7. SUNRISE
8. JOKER ON THE RUN
9. FEELING IN TIME
10. URANTIA
11. HEY JOE
12. HOLY MAN
13. LOOKING INTO DARKNESS
14. CIRCLE
15. THE OTHER SONG
16. FARTHER ALONG
17. WORLD EAT WORLD DOG
18. COLOSSUS
19. MEGA STAR
20. DON’T LOCK UP YOUR DOOR
21. STARS ARE LOVE

ALSO AVAILABLE
SPIRIT - The Family That Plays Together / Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus (2-for-1) RVCD-270

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