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| | Psychedelic Sundae: The Best of Vanilla Fudge | | | Music Artist : | | Vanilla Fudge | | Music Style : | | Psychedelic Rock | | Record Label : | | Elektra / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1993-01-19 | | Store Price : | | $13.96 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.96 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. You Keep Me Hangin' On
2. Where Is My Mind
3. Look of Love
4. Ticket to Ride
5. Come by Day, Come by Night
6. Take Me for a Little While
7. That's What Makes a Man
8. Season of the Witch
9. Shotgun
10. Thoughts
11. Faceless People
12. Good Good Lovin'
13. Some Velvet Morning
14. I Can't Make It Alone
15. Lord in the Country
16. Need Love
17. Street Walking Woman [*]
18. All in Your Mind [*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 These Are Not The Hit Single Versions
Submitted on: 2007-09-11 |
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I have to agree with several of the other reviewers that, when it comes to 1960's groups these guys were somewhere out in far left field. Starting out as The Pigeons in the Long Island/New Jersey areas, they took the name Vanilla Fudge in 1967 and proceeded to make a lame attempt at adding semi-gospel harmonies to what was otherwise a routine pop/soul repertoire. The result was chaos, and with each album they sunk deeper and deeper into pretentiousness.
Members Tim Bogart [bass]and Carmine Appice [drums] later worked with the Jeff Beck Group after a brief, unsuccessful fling as Cactus, while pianist/organist Mark Stein also failed with Boomerang.
Why they decided to put out a volume under the title "Best of" and then only use alternate takes is beyond me. Cannot recommend it unless you're one of us inveterate collectors who have to have everything charted.
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 DA-DADA-DA-DA-DADA-DA-DA-DADA-DA-DA-DA-DAAHHH!!!
Submitted on: 2007-04-06 |
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| I remember seeing the Fudge on Ed Sullivan performing YKMHO and SHOTGUN and it blew my mind (to a teenaged guy, loud and heavy was reason enough alone). However, these guys were far better than Blue Cheer or Iron Butterfly - more in the range of early Deep Purple (who - inspired by the fudge, began to also perform "slowed down" versions of other people's songs - "Help" comes to mind). I read in the great book "Strange Brew" that when the Fudge played London, everyone, including the Beatles, Beck and Clapton were in the audience. In fact, Bogart and Appice went on to form the great power trio BBA with the Beckster himself!! Sure, Vanilla Fudge was over the top. But, can you honestly say that Sgt. Pepper wasn't? If you like your music heavy, the Fudge are great. Overdriven B3 organ, fuzzed out 335 and a monster drum kit. Tim Bogert, with his vintage precision was one of the best heavy bass players of his generation, right up there with Felix Papallardi and Jack Bruce. This collection includes pretty well everything you would want from them. Unfortunately their original albums were a bit pretentious (one disc attempting to cover the history of western music - from Beethoven to Glenn Miller and on). You can also forget the rumors that this band was somehow a creation of mafia bosses. Who cares? Shotgun really rocks and You Keep Me Hangin' On is, to my ears, as creative and cool as the original. Vanilla Fudge were obviously influenced by Long Island bands like the Rascals and particularly the Vagrants (who also did a R&B cover - Respect). I would have loved to have seen the Fudge during their prime in NYC!! Check out this CD. Musically these guys are at the top of their game. ONE MAJOR PROBLEM, however. Most of these cuts are edited versions. I prefer the longer, complete performances. But for that, you must purchase the original alboms on CD. However, for a collection, you will NEVER find a heavier dose of in your face psychedelic hard rock music. VOLUME ON TEN, PHASERS ON STUN, PREPARE FOR WARP SPEED SCOTTY!! |
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 Vanilla Fudge - 'Psychedelic Sundae: The Best Of.....' (Elektra) 4 1/2 stars
Submitted on: 2007-02-13 |
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| Vanilla Fudge is one band that for some reason(s), I just never got too much into. However, this generous helping of eighteen solid tracks (some are 7" single 45 versions) of Fudge's great numbers showed me a band that I even TECHNICALLY never knew existed. MY guess is SINCE I've only previously seen that old B&W clip of "You Keep Me Hanging On", I never felt a reason to find more of their material. Since I usually like my psych a bit more so trippy, I still found 'Psychedelic Sundae' to be a worthy compilation of this four piece band's work. This thing freaking S-M-O-K-E-S! Some of the tunes I enjoyed more than others include the Beatle's cover "Ticket To Ride" and the Donovan classic "Season Of The Witch. But Vanilla Fudge's own originals are first rate as well, like "Good Good Lovin'", "Need Love" and the inspiring "Street Walkin' Woman". Great thing is I believe they're currently involved in an off-and-on again reunion type of situation. Recommended. |
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ReMixing the Songs of the 60s::The Groovey Psychedelic Blender
Submitted on: 2006-12-24 |
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| This cd is awesome! Yet,i felt like the drugstore cowboy after his fifth Vanilla Fudge Sundae.How about a Root Beer Float for a change?What i mean is,this group had a way of just taking a rock song and putting their own groovey spin on it.When you put an early 60s doo-wop/motown classic into the "Groovey Blender",you get a magickal musical treat!When you put late 60s acid rock into the "Groovey Blender",hit 'Chop',you get Garbage ala Mode ! (Lady Madonna serves up the over-baked 'America Pie'?!?)Even the unchained Monkees started writing and doing their own song-records.The Beat didn't Go on for 'Vanilla Fudge'.Yet,this cd has the best swirls from Vanilla Fudge.This is a must for all repiners of the Classic Rock era! |
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A great compilation of a great band
Submitted on: 2006-08-07 |
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The band is most famous for its atmospheric cover of The
Supremes' You keep me hanging on and two of its members Tim Bogert and Carmine Appice (bass and drums) who would later create the blues rock band Cactus and then join Jeff Beck to creat the BBA trio, but there is more to the group than that.
What you get here are terrific covers (My favourite has to be the extended moody take on Season of the witch) as well as the heavier and bluesier Shotgun. The originals, most of them coming from the band's third album onward (which were the best) including the fabulous hard rocking riff fests and great soloing on Street walking man, Good good lovin' and Need love, those who like more psychedelic and artsy sound get songs like Where is my mind, Thoughts or That's what makes a man with their dramatic, epic feel (Especially on the last one).
Vanilla Fudge was one of the most interesting bands of the late sixties and they are very overlooked nowadays. So if you are curious what they are about this is a very good summary of their career. |
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