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Eric Carmen, former lead vocalist of Raspberries and solo artist has died aged 74. Carmen rose to fame as the frontman of the 1970s pop-rock group The Raspberries, which had a series of hits including hits including “I Wanna Be with You” and “Go All the Way”. After going solo, Carmen had even bigger success with ”All By Myself”, “Make Me Lose Control” and “Hungry Eyes”. RIP
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February 18, 1972 – Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Manfred Mann's Earth Band is released.
# ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 4.5/5
# Allmusic 4.5/5
# Robert Christgau (A+)
Manfred Mann's Earth Band is the self-titled debut album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, released on February 18, 1972 in the US. It reached #138 on the Billboard 200 Top LP's chart.
Most folks know Manfred Mann from his '60s hits, but too few have ever heard the brilliant Manfred Mann's Earth Band album. Exploring arty and progressive directions, the Earth Band was a wholly different group from Mann's earlier lineup. Unlike the heavier art rock groups that would follow (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Yes), the Earth Band never became burdened by its own seriousness.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band combines hypnotic instrumentals ("Tribute"), exhilarating original songs ("Captain Bobby Stout"), and three definitive covers all laden with hooks worthy of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy." Mann mines Dylan's basement tapes again for "Please Mrs. Henry" (see "Quinn the Eskimo" and "Get Your Rocks Off" on other releases). An obscure Dr. John song, "Jump Sturdy" nearly jumps off the record. The synthesizer solo "Sloth" segues into the album's centerpiece, "Living Without You." With its thumping bassline and "So hard" chorus, this might be the best version of a Randy Newman song ever recorded. Closing the album, the Mann himself takes vocal turns on "Part Time Man" and "Up & Leaving," quiet acoustic tales that contrast with the complex instrumentals of the rest of the record. On whole, Manfred Mann's Earth Band is a completely satisfying album and one of the most underrated of the '70s.
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Mann has always embraced rock and roll's art-commerce dichotomy with uncommon passion -- he used to rave on about jazz to the fanmags in the "Doo Wah Diddy Diddy" days. This extraordinary cult record achieves the synthesis. Almost every song is defined by a hook that repeats over and over -- the phrase "down on my knees" in "Please Mrs. Henry," the galvanizing guitar riff that runs through the almost-hit "Living Without You." But the doo-wah-diddy is continually threatened by an undercurrent of jazzy disintegration -- the Cecil Taylor piano jangles that colse "Jump Sturdy" or the discords that dominate the closing instrumental. The deliberately characterless vocal ensembles and square rhythms defy today's pseudo-soul norm, and Mann's songs -- especially the brilliant "Part Time Man," about not getting a job after World War III -- are indecisive and a little down. In short, the perfect corrective to the willful brightness of boogie optimism. A+
- Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide, 1981.
*****
The latest Mann incarnation is supposed to be a return to pop music which was very kind to Manfred Mann (and vice versa) in terms of hit records and overall success in the middle and late 'sixties. The basic problem with this album is a lack of direction which makes listening to the entire record somewhat disconcerting. Not that there's anything wrong with a bit of variety, it being the spice of life and all that, but there is a lot of pretentious filler on this album that obscures good pop songs which are only four in number. Randy Newman's "Living Without You" is a good choice for this group and they do it well; Bob Dylan's "Please Mrs. Henry" is also fine and it really should have been a single hit in this country in the Mann-Dylan tradition of "Quinn The Eskimo" and "If You Gotta Go, Go Now." Two new Mann tunes, "Part Time Man" and "I'm Up And I'm Leaving You" are likewise commendable and both have a kind of simple endearing quality about them. The other material is simply not compatible with these numbers. There's some heavy instrumental work that's tedious at best.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band is an album that has its good moments but there are far too few of them. If you dug his avant gardish Chapter 3 outing, you may even like this album as a whole but, then again, you'll probably dislike the pop songs. In an attempt to make a record with something for everybody, Mann has come up with little for very few.
~ Bob Moore Merlis, Words & Music (June 1972)
TRACKS:
Side one
"California Coastline" (Walt Meskell, Tim Martin) – 2:48
"Captain Bobby Stout" (Lane Tietgen) – 6:54
"Sloth" (Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers) – 1:27
"Living Without You" (Randy Newman) – 3:36
"Tribute" (Mann) – 5:32
Side two
"Please Mrs Henry" (Bob Dylan) – 4:32
"Jump Sturdy" (Dr. John Creaux) – 4:49
"Prayer" (Mann) – 5:41
"Part Time Man" (D. Sadler, Mann) – 3:05
"I'm Up And I'm Leaving" (Mann, Sadler) – 3:11
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