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| | Children of the Future | | | Music Artist : | | Steve Miller Band | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Capitol | | Release Date : | | 1994-08-23 | | Store Price : | | $9.93 | | Artistopia's Price: $9.93 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Children of the Future
2. Pushed Me to It
3. You've Got the Power
4. In My First Mind
5. Beauty of the Time Is That It's Snowing (Psychedelic B.B.)
6. Baby's Callin' Me Home
7. Steppin' Stone
8. Roll with It
9. Junior Saw It Happen
10. Fanny Mae
11. Key to the Highway
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 One of the Best!
Submitted on: 2009-01-22 |
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This one is good out of the box grows on you for some time. I discovered around 3 years ago and now it's like an old friend. The more you listen the better it gets. I love it when a record does that!
Its sound foretells the spacy pop and blues formula he went huge with in the mid 70's, but there is not one song on this record I had heard until I discovered on Rhapsody in 2005.
It's a satisfying trip, almost a metaphor for a life's journey or a vacation to an exotic location with friends. It starts off full of dreaminess and hope with Children of the Future and builds with themes of relationships and self esteem with Pushed Me To It and You've Got The Power. Then it gets reflective and exploratory with In My First Mind and The Beauty of Time Is That It's Snowing.
They start to gently snap out of the trippy trance with Baby's Callin' Me Home, a beautiful song.
Continuing, the band arrives back on earth and works through some nice more straightforward bluesy songs, taking flight once in while, but at least staying in the atmosphere. Steppin' Stone is a funny quirky rant, while Roll With It is a really cool poppier sounding song.
Junior Saw It Happen is next, a more up tempo bluesy rocker, then into Fanny Mae which strips things down to more basic, rough sounding blues.
Lastly is Key to the Highway, a wistful, soft traditional sounding blues song. It's the perfect ending for this musical journey from earth to outerspace and back with Steve and the boys in the band.
It took me a while to feel like I really "got" this record, but the more I listen the more I like it. Give it a shot, it's worth your time to travel with these guys!
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It's Christmas Every Day !!!
Submitted on: 2008-09-22 |
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When I first heard this record in 1969, I was tucked into a cabin in the Sierra Nevada moutians. In the middle of side one, I gazed out the big picture windows from the front room, I became transfixed by a spring snow fall that was dancing in time to the LP being played. No drugs were involved in this process, but lot's of magic was taking place right before my eyes & ears.
I am young enough to remember the sixties!
That said, this first release by The Steve Miller Blues Band, will always remain my favorite recording by this bunch of guys from all parts of The USA who by 1968 were taking San Francisco, by storm. This is one of the best produced pieces of music to come out during one of the greatest times for music. This is one of my Top-Ten picks as best of the Sixties.
Side One of this LP, is a suite entitled: "Children Of The Future". I do hate the: "P" word {created by some Madison Avenue jerk to sell magazines in 67}, but this progressive {better than that other "P" word} work {along with Chad & Jeremy's: "Progress Suite" that appeared on their 1967 LP: "Of Cabbages and Kings"} remain the two best examples of this musicial form. "Children Of The Future" is a broad and sweeping work that has classical and rock tones mixed together in a more mature matter than any other works of it's day. This is an amazing thing to appear on a band's, very first album. It's a fantastic piece of music, that will never age or sound 'dated' ...This is about as perfect as rock music can get....Classic, Classic, Classic.
Side Two, is a more akin to 'Normal' music. But, it is as good as side one, only different. With: "Baby's Callin' Me Home" to start things up, we have my favorite Boz Scaggs tune in all it's splendor, harpsichords & acoustic guitar majesty. "Steppin' Stone" is solid 60's rock music, {this must have been a fantastic live number when played at the Avalon Ballroom in 1968.} "Roll With It" is another rocker all about life on the road with crunchy guitars, swweping organ and Steve singing way high up there.
"Junior Saw It Happen" drops us into urban Chicago {Steve's, hometown} for some blooze, this is ramblin' and shamblin' music, that features some stinging lead guitar breaks, nice real nice. "Fanny Mae" features Steve on harp getting outta the city, and takin' his blues into the country, {Hey, they were called the Steve Miller 'Blues' Band, weren't they?} At the end is: "Key To The Highway" with slides and dorbos, and some low-moanin' this is our send-off from this amazing record. This record entitled: "Children Of The Future" is a marvelous piece of American Music, and one of the best records of the 1960's. Great then, and great now.
FIVE STARS !!!
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Drop, Lay on Your Back and Watch Your Ego Leave
Submitted on: 2008-09-15 |
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The title says it all. One of my all time favorite tripping records. The organ work creates a massive endless floating upwards never reaching the ceiling gothic cathedral.
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 Children of the Future
Submitted on: 2008-05-26 |
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This is Steve Miller's first album (except for a single with Barry Goldberg). He was at a psychedelic stage in his career which over the next two albums (Sailor and Space Cowboy) moved in the direction of a more commercial music. Its good but I would not consider it a "must buy", but demonstrates his musical skills and creativity for fans of his later albums.
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time to hear the old Steve Miller
Submitted on: 2008-03-13 |
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| I've heard a lot of rock albums from the 60's and 70's, but none of them have ever caught my attention the way this Steve Miller Band album has. The way it blends lush Moody Blues-like orchestration with slow-stomping bluesy songs (such as "Key to the Highway") just FLOORS me. Children of the Future is also the album for people who think Steve Miller is just a pop/rock musician who was meant to pump out hit songs all the time. This is truly a special album. Most people will be caught my total surprise when they hear how it sounds that it's actually something by the Steve Miller Band. It's almost impossible to believe, but true. What a great listen! |
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