Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride [Bonus Track] |
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 Release Date: 08 April, 2003, Sony
TRACK LISTING - Don`t Look Around
- Taunta (Sammy`s Tune)
- Nantucket Sleighride (To Owen Coffin)
- You Can`t Get Away!
- Tired Angels (To J.M.H.)
- Animal Trainer and the Toad
- My Lady
- Travellin` in the Dark (To E.M.P.)
- Great Train Robbery
- Travellin` in the Dark (To E.M.P.) [Live][*]
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| Climb to the top |
| This is it. The only Mountain album you ever need to own if you only want one. Forget about the over played "Mississippi Queen". Take a ride on the Sleigh and you`ll never want to get off. Felix who helped produce Cream, here with master guitarist Leslie West are at their best. It`s a shame Felix was killed by his wife they may have had another masterpiece in there somewhere. Buy it........ |
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| Great Follow-up to CLIMBING! |
| NANTUCKET SLEIGHRIDE is a great follow-up to CLIMBING!, with all of the same elements present. The band would have some great songs after this album, but never another consistent album. However, these two albums and BEST OF would go on to influence numerous metal and hard rock bands for years to come. |
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| Far better than Cream |
Life isn`t fair.Cream got all the attention because of their supergroup status.Mountain were formed as a side project by Cream`s producer Felix Pappalardi and were always treated like Cream`s inferior cousin but I have to say that they were a better band in my opinion.
While Cream got bogged down in boring blues stuff, Mountain were more into proggy stuff mixed with hard rock.
The songwriting team of Pappalardi and Gail Collins (his wife and lyricist ) were at their brilliant best on this album.
The title song `Nantucket Sleighride` is a prog rock masterpiece.The guitar keyboard and vocals combine wonderfully.
I love Mountain because a lot of their songs consist of different individual parts like all decent prog rock does.
`My Lady` and `Tired Angels` are very similar songs but are both excellent at the same time.Again I think the keyboard in the songs really makes a huge difference.That`s what sets them above Cream - Cream were more content to be a three piece with no embellishments.They wouldn`t have had the balls to try and do stuff this experimental.
The only time I feel that this album suffers is on the songs composed by Leslie West.He was an inferior songwriter to the team of Pappalardi and Collins.But the Pappalardi/Collins good stuff really dominates this album and makes it an outstanding piece of work.
I also love the artwork on this album.It`s worth buying the vinyl version if you can get your hands on it for Gail Collins` magnificent psychedelic sketchings on the cover and also the pencil drawing of the giant whale on the inner gatefold sleeve.
This album really belongs to a forgotten age when music was much more exciting and there was a hands on approach to the graphic design.They don`t make them like this any more and it`s a pity.
Alas , Mountain are always going to be haunted by their tragic end.Gail Collins shot Felix Pappalardi dead in 1982 after a row so unfortunately , that`s the end of the genius.He will be sadly missed.I`m sure he would have produced some more amazing work had he lived. |
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-- zzzz 
