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| | Number 5 | | | Music Artist : | | Steve Miller Band | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Capitol | | Release Date : | | 1994-08-23 | | Store Price : | | $8.94 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.94 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Good Morning
2. I Love You
3. Going to the Country
4. Hot Chili
5. Tokin's
6. Going to Mexico
7. Steve Miller's Midnight Tango
8. Industrial Military Complex Hex
9. Jackson-Kent Blues
10. Never Kill Another Man
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 Last of the best.
Submitted on: 2009-06-27 |
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Number 5 is the last of the first 5 solid albums from the Steve Miller Band. It's a little weaker than it's predecessors, but offers some fine music before Steve decided to hit the more mainstream pop rock sound.
You can't go wrong with any of these finde albums which come from the most creative time in Rock, the late sixties to early seventies.
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 Back to Toronto
Submitted on: 2009-05-27 |
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I bought the original album in 1971 in Toronto in a discount store. I knew the earlier Miller albums which were -although hard to get in Holland and in Europe in general- a hype with me and my friends. I still remember the open jealousy: an American cut Steve Miller nr 5! Unbelievable! Impossible!
And so was and still is the album I have to admit. I've bought a lot of 'the sins of my youth' on cd and ever so often it turns out to be a disappointment after 30 or 40 odd years. Not this album: the beautiful open, spacy sound, the remarkable musicianship (Ben Sidran, Charlie McCoy) and the production by Glyn Johns have all passed the test of time. My favorites: "Going to Mexico" (Miller/Scaggs),
"Steve Miller's Midnight Tango" (Sidran)
"Industrial Military Complex Hex" which form a spacey trio, are still as impressive as the were 36 years ago. Space cowboys. "Silence you guys, daddy's flying (back to Toronto)". |
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one of the best
Submitted on: 2009-01-10 |
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| Steve Miller at his best, also one of the best of it's time, nothing more to say |
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An album that lasts a lifetime
Submitted on: 2008-12-05 |
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I remember freaking-out to Jackson Kent State Blues when WMMR (Philly) played it late-night when it first came-out. Funny that I never caught the name of the song, the album or the group, and it blew me away to love that song so much and I could never catch the song's ID. When I FINALLY found out, I RAN to the record store. To my extreme delight, the whole album ROCKED! Each song delivers its own flavor, its own sense of being, its own response in the way the listener feels during and after listening to it. I just wish they could have ended on a lighter, less melancholy note than "Never Kill Another Man", but I love that song too, so much! I remember tripping to this album on weekend jaunts to Ocean City, listening to "Midnight Tango", while sitting on a jetty at night, with the waves crashing, and the warm seawater coming up to wet the sand under my bare feet, and the electric boardwalk lights, behind, illuminating the waves, and the peace sign hung on leather around my neck, all with such intricate subtle patterns of colors.
(In case you're getting the idea that I'm just an old hippie, well, I was anyway, but let me just tell you that this old hippie was and still is a percussionist. I've played in several groups, concert bands, orchestras, even marching bands. My group even played for a McGovern presidntial campaign rally in '72 at Lafeyette college. I've known music. A lot. I've just changed who I play for - I play for my church now. For free. I just can't charge God for my services. Look where He brought me from!)
Steve played my absolute favorite Jackson Kent State Blues (yes, that's the REAL name) for an encore at a college concert somewhere in New York. Steve came out and said "We're going to sing one final song for you tonight, and it's going to be..." my buddy hollered it out, "Jackson Kent State Blues!!!" as loud as he could (we were only about 50 feet away from Steve), and Steve turned and looked right at us when he agreeably announced "...Jackson Kent State Blues", and he quickly started into the song. That was by far the best concert experience ever! Let's see, that was about 36 years ago in '72. See what I mean by "lasts a lifetime"? Do you think that I will ever forget these things?? I wore out a couple albums of this, and an 8-track... This is a classic, to me, more than any other. |
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Super Album
Submitted on: 2008-09-16 |
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| It reminds me of a weekend I'll never forget in Summer 1972 when a friend and I stayed at his parent's big old cottage on an island on a NH lake. This seems to be the only record we had there, and we loved it. |
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