-- Steppenwolf - At Your Birthday Party | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 6.98 Amazon Price $ 6.98 Savings $ 0.00 | |  Release Date: 01 January, 1995, Mca Special Products
TRACK LISTING - Don`t Cry
- Chicken Wolf
- Lovely Meter
- Round And Down
- It`s Never Too Late
- Sleeping Dreaming
- Jupiter Child
- She`ll Be Better
- Cat Killer
- Rock Me
- God Fearing Man
- Mango Juice
- Happy Birthday
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | My Favorite Steppenwolf Album | It`s good. In `76 when I was at Cornell, we were doing a deal and I put this record (which was old then) on to help test the stuff. Everyone asked, "What is this GREAT album?". We had a GREAT time, in the spirit of 1969 to boot.
So, if you want to get wasted a la 1969, try it with this album. You won`t regret it. It invokes the feeling.
Favorite cuts: Don`t Cry, It`s Never Too Late; Rock Me; Happy Birthday. Kay`s voice is at its prime.
| | | | SteppenwolfRocks | I find this album very inventive and most
of all its classic steppenwolf...
which was very much apart of my commune life back
in the 60`s and early 70`s. | | | | Pure Classic | Of course you can never call this their best album, for it`s placed between `Steppenwolf The Second` and `Monster`. But in my opinion, it is the middle one of their three greatest outings, and it also shows this by blending the early, light mood and born-to-be-wild-rock with `Monster`s more somber, dark spirit, which would dominate the next recording completely. This way, it possesses some of the lightness, that `Monster` arguably needed, while appearing as more serious & more mature than their first two albums. Then why don`t I say it`s better than them... well, because I just love psychedelia, and then, how should I criticize `Magic Carpet Ride`? :)
`Don`t Cry` is quite simply THE BEST STEPPENWOLF SONG NEVER TO BE A SINGLE - or at least a hit, I mean, I don`t think it was a single anyway... but it certainly wasn`t a hit, though I think it`s even better than `Rock Me`, though that one deserved its Top Ten placing.
`Chicken Wolf` and `Lovely Meter` are standard, above-the-rest-of-the-pack Steppenwolf songs, but the band really approaches the heights of their opening track with `Round And Down`, which could be said to be their second greatest not-single, though this time, I`m not so sure...
`It`s Never Too Late` is a wonderful anthem. At first it seems a bit bombastic, but hear it a couple of times, and you`ll also start loving it.
`Sleeping Dreaming` is funny, and as chaotic as the stranger outings of Jefferson Airplane (like `A Small Package Of Value Will Come To You, Shortly`) and The Beatles (`Dig It`)! A kind of "song", that only could have been made in the 60`s...
`Jupiter Child`, the next highlight, is a great rock song with a powerful riff, while `She`ll Be Better` and `Cat Killer` arguably beats it. Then `Rock Me` arrives, their third greatest hit, and, though many other songs surpasses it, still a marvellous gem of rock`n`roll. Even if it`s an attempt to capture the spirit of `Born To Be Wild` once again, then at least it`s a great attempt!!!
`God Fearing Man` is a more serious creation, but one which completely dwarfs the otherwise finely crafted `Mango Juice`. `Happy Birthday` closes the album with a mystic & brilliant invocation, childhood, the unknown, simply magic, perhaps the only track on this record to rival the splendour of `Don`t Cry`, but doing it with completely other means than those that Steppenwolf have become known for! | | |
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