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Shazam (Import) (CD)

By: The Move (Artist)

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The Move Artist Snapshot:

One of the quintessential British psych-pop bands of the 1960s, the Move was fronted by pop visionary Roy Wood, and racked up numerous UK chart hits. Unlike many of their contemporaries, they were stylistically adventurous, and occasionally dipped into both heavy rock and amped-up rockabilly, and even turned a song by folkie Tom Paxton into a hard-rock behemoth. After the Move's breakup, Wood, drummer Bev Bevan, and late arrival Jeff Lynne started the Electric Light Orchestra. While Lynne steered that band to pop stardom, Wood formed the rock-oriented Wizzard.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for Shazam (Import) (CD) Album By The Move (Artist)
1   Hello Susie  
2   Beautiful Daughter  
3   Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited  
4   Fields Of People  
5   Don't Make My Baby Blue  
6   Last Thing On My Mind, The  
7   So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star  
8   Stephanie Knows Who  
9   Something Else  
10   It'll Be Me  
11   Sunshine Help Me  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (5/14/70, p.52) - "...SHAZAM is a brutally energetic rock and roll album....The Move must be kept going to give us more albums like this one."

Title Note

This 1998 reissue contains 9 bonus tracks not on the original release.

The Move: Roy Wood, Carl Wayne, Rick Price, Bev Bevan.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

Swedish version of 1993 reissue contains five bonus cuts--"So You Want To Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star," "Stephanie Knows Who," "Something Else," "It'll Be Me," and "Sunshine Help Me."

The Move was always a hard band to pin down. They began by bringing a hard-edged American rock & roll sensibility to '60s British psych-pop, alternating between rave-ups and trip-outs. By the time of SHAZAM, one of the group's strongest efforts, the sound was most comparable to S.F. SORROW-era Pretty Things. There are hard-rock riffs aplenty, but they're employed in the service of long, ambitious songs, occasionally of a conceptual nature. The lengthy centerpiece, "Cherry Blossom Clinic," is indicative of SHAZAM's sound. "Clinic" tells the story of life inside a mental institution in a constantly shifting tour de force that moves from spoken-word fragments to heavy proto-progressive riffs to fanciful folk/baroque acoustic guitar tapestries.

On the other side of the coin, the band wrings some crunchingly heavy, Led Zep-like blues-rock out of some unlikely source material on the Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill composition "Don't Make My Baby Blue". Similarly, Tom Paxton's simple folk standard "The Last Thing On My Mind" is transformed into a moody, cinematic, seven-and-a-half-minute psychedelic rock epic. As if all this weren't enough, there's also nine (!) juicy bonus tracks.

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