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| | The Beat Goes On | | | Music Artist : | | Vanilla Fudge | | Music Style : | | Psychedelic Rock | | Record Label : | | Sundazed Music Inc. | | Release Date : | | 1998-12-01 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Sketch
2. Intro: the Beat Goes On
3. Eighteenth Century Variations on a Theme by Mozart: Divertimento ...
4. Beat Goes On
5. Fur Elise/Moonlight Sonata
6. Beat Goes On
7. Beat Goes On
8. Voices in Time
9. Beat Goes On
10. Merchant
11. Beat Goes On
12. You Can't Do That [#][*]
13. Come by Day, Come by Night [*]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Interesting Experiment From The Best Cover Band In The World
Submitted on: 2009-03-06 |
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I've had this album for years and years but have only listened to it maybe twice. I burned it to CD and tried again. After hearing it once more, I can say that though it's an interesting concept, this piece of music just doesn't have much appeal.
To tell the truth, I am not sure if the Fudge have ever done an original song, but when it comes to interpreting covers, there is nobody better. I just don't think this is their best example. It is a quirky experiment with a theme and though I can give it five stars for originality, I can only give it three stars for the overall effect. This certainly isn't Tommy.
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 What is this?
Submitted on: 2007-11-30 |
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Questions:
Who do they think they are?
What are they trying to say?
Why does it contain so little music?
Are these some of the same artists who made decent music with each other and in
other projects?
Do they now look back at this "creation" with embarrassment?
This old album will not see the light of day on my turntable again. |
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 It's different...so try it!!!
Submitted on: 2007-07-14 |
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| I borrowed this album along with Burdon's "The Twain Shall Meet" from a lady I wished I had stayed with in the early '70's!!! Come back Maureen (MAB), all is forgiven! Strange album but it sets the brain working and isn't that what culture is there for? So what if it isn't for everyday listening. Neither is "Smile". But where would we be without people who break the barriers now and then? When I first heard this 35 years ago I felt "threatened". Thank god for that. It made me look at music in a different way and feel able to explore different styles. Long live bands like this and may they happily go "out through the in door!!!!!" GO AND BUY THIS AND FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED SOMETHING DIFFERENT in an INDIFFERENT WORLD!!! AND THE BEAT GOES ON!!!! |
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 Beauty is in the (dilated) eye of the beholder...
Submitted on: 2007-05-28 |
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Recently I pulled out the classic psychedelic album "Vanilla Fudge" for a listen. I began to wonder if the band had ever made any other albums, and I found that they had. In my research I quickly saw that this one, "The Beat Goes On", was universally slammed by nearly everyone, even ardent Fudge fans. They called it pretentious, incoherent and in general worthless. So of course, this is the one that I ended up choosing to buy.
And I love it, with one major reservation, which I will get to in a minute. What we have here is an amalgamation of music, historical references, and other miscellaneous pop culture data. It's not for everyone's tastes. When you listen to it, hopefully with a wide open mind, you need to remember several things. The album is based on 4 cardinal principles of the 60's: experimentation, political involvement, adoration of The Beatles and "letting it all hang out", or, if you prefer, openness and honesty. It is not a rock album. It is not a pop album. Nor is it a cloned sequel to "Vanilla Fudge", which probably accounts for a lot of the negative reaction to it.
I'm impressed by the music in Phases One & Two (also the Intro that precedes them). It is music for music's own sake, not for forging a hit single or developing an image to sell. Just talented musicians appreciating music in the abstract, playing with it, seeing what they can create. A multitude of musical genres are called up at will and used, however briefly. There is classical, old American standards, swing, Elvis, and a Beatles medley. (There is one point in the Beethoven variations where a truly inspired, dramatic moment is reached.) And throughout the CD we hear Sonny & Cher's hit "The Beat Goes On" performed in many different ways. I admit that I wish some of the pieces could go on longer, but then a new one appears and my attention is carried away with the stream.
When we reach Phase Three, we are into territory that reminds me of "Revolution No. 9" from The Beatles' White Album, although this is a lot less subtle, to say the least. Here's the problem: while I don't mind hearing snippets of speeches made by world leaders and others (actually, they are pretty interesting), I don't like the fact that at this point, the music becomes intermittent - sometimes totally absent, sometimes faded WAY into the background. This was a mistake. The album is called "The Beat Goes On", and if I had been a part of its creation, I would have reminded them that the MUSIC must go on too. This does not ruin the album, but it causes a break in the artistic flow that could have been avoided. After this "talky" phase, Phase Four consists of more interesting, sometimes exotic, music, intertwined with recitations by the band members and then an interview in which they give their opinions on a variety of subjects, including the Black Panthers, sex, The Beatles (of course!) and ice cream. Once we arrive at the Bonus Phases, we are back to normal, with a rocking Beatles cover ("You Can't Do That") and an additional song written by Mark Stein, a surprisingly almost gentle (?!) ballad. At the very end, they sign off just as they did on "Vanilla Fudge", with The Beatles' lyrics "Nothing is real...nothing to get hung about..."
Whatever the band was trying to say with this album, I'm glad that they went out on a limb with it. It took me almost 40 years to discover it, but I am delighted to have unearthed this strange slab of 60's psychedelia. |
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...never to go to war with one another again... never to go to war with one another again... never to....
Submitted on: 2007-02-14 |
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THE BEAT GOES ON is proof that you do not have to own EVERY record by a favorite group.
This one is excessive artsy-fartsy "lowlight of 1967" stuff. I listened to it back then with bemused tolerance, but 40 years later I would rather get root canal than sit through this painfully embarrassing "concept" record. The concept was silly then, and with the hindsight of four decades, a huge misstep. |
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