Fresh

Artist: The Raspberries
Label: Rpm Records UK
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5013929551329
ASIN: B00067FP02

Release Date: 2004-12-02

Fresh

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Tracks:

I Wanna Be With You
Goin' Nowhere Tonight
Let's Pretend
Every Way I Can
I Reach for the Light
Nobody Knows
It Seemed So Easy
Might as Well
If You Change Your Mind
Drivin' Around

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Album Description

UK reissue of 1972 album from the quintessential power pop group whose music , from the pen of founding member Eric Carmen, blended Beatles-esque pop with the fiery power of The Who & Small Faces. Ten tracks including the hit single 'I Wanna Be With You'. Packaged in a digipak with original front cover artwork. RPM. 2004.

Album Details

Raspberries were the Quintessential 70's Power Pop Group. Their Music, from the Pen of Founder Member Eric Carmen, Blended Beatlesque Pop with the Fiery Power of the who and Small Faces. They Believed in the Power and Spirit of a Supremely Crafted Three-minute Pop Song Packing the Excitement of their Musical Idols. Much Has Been Written About the Group Down the Years, and About Carmen, Whose Subsequent Solo Career Has Spawned a Few International Hit Songs of his Own Such as "All by Myself", with Many Later Bands Imitating and Citing the Raspberries as a Major Influence. Old Fans Remain, but Many New Ones have Come Along Since for Whom Only Compilations have Been Served Up. The Disc Comes in a Digi-pak Using the Original Front Cover Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

Remastered sound is superb!!!!!!!.......2005-03-31

Just wanted to let the Raspberries fans out there know that the sound on these new imports is fantastic! I have the first two and i'm anxiously awaiting the final two to be released. They come in beautiful digipaks. I gave these first 2 albums 4 stars, saving the 5 stars for the awesome 'Side 3' and 'Starting Over'.

It Still Lives Up To Its Title.......2005-03-27

When the Raspberries called it a career, and their first best-of album arrived (1976's "Raspberries Best Featuring Eric Carmen," the billing only too obviously aiming at the audience then digging deep into Carmen's first solo album and first two solo hits), one of the inside liner notes concluded thus, again leaning upon the angle of the Beatles' influence on them, "We'll never know if they had an album like 'Sgt. Pepper' in their future, but they sure have a lot of albums as enjoyable as 'Rubber Soul' in their past."

That isn't exactly off the mark, considering that about half their first album and just about all of albums two through four are exactly as enjoyable as "Rubber Soul," even if the Raspberries weren't as overtly ambitious as the Beatles showed themselves on that set. With "Fresh," the Ohio quartet saw their own debut and raised it about tenfold, eliminating the critical excesses that marred the debut and getting down to just about the most exquisite example they could offer of how to create rocking pop music with a little extra oomph, a lot of melodic and harmonic care, and an unapologetic empathy toward the line between teen innocence and teen angst without either crossing it or crushing it beneath their platform suit shoes.

The kickoff track (and their second Top 20 hit), "I Wanna Be With You," shows they haven't lost their ability to hang hook after hook, harmony after harmony--and shamelessly chiming guitars--on a hard rock bed, and they continue the guitar chimes cleverly enough on the next track, "Goin' Nowhere Tonight." Then comes "Let's Pretend," about which it is fair to say that if Paul McCartney once wanted to write a song as good as "Wouldn't It Be Nice," Eric Carmen did. (Ironically, Carmen has since admitted "Wouldn't It Be Nice" was his inspiration for this jewel.) It deserved to be a bigger hit single than it was, but in 1973 the smugger-than-thou world of glitter, glam, prog pretensions, and singer-songwriter solipsism still wasn't ready to admit that what we used to call pure rocking pop still had validity. (They probably weren't really ready to admit that "Let's Pretend" was bridged by a little night sex, either.) And nothing---not the first three tracks of "Fresh," not subsequent treats as the Raspberries beating the Beach Boys at their own game ("Drivin' Around") or Carmen and bassist Dave Smalley dreaming up something that damn near beat "Let's Pretend" at its own game (the breathless heartbreak middle-rocker, "Nobody Knows," George Harrison-esque guitar break and all), and not Wally Bryson's deceptively lightweight but charming "Might As Well"---could sway them.

And to think it was only going to get better from there. And, that more than half the world of the 1970s couldn't pull its own head out from up its own musical rump long enough to pay the attention this music and this band deserved...

Loaded with power pop goodness! Won't cause cavities!.......2005-03-07

Word of the Raspberries reunion concert was one of the bright spots of the music year 2004, and now the reissue of their four album catalog is far and away the most welcome news of 2005. Fresh was a step up from the classic debut, with only three songs the competent "Every Way I Can" and "Goin' Nowhere Tonight" and the trite "Might As Well" failing to pull off power pop perfection. Outright classics on this album are "I Wanna Be With You", "Let's Pretend", "I Reach for the Light", "Nobody Knows", "If You Change Your Mind" and "Drivin' Around." Now what I'd like to see after a release of the concert on cd and dvd is a full scale reunion with a new album. I'm not holding my breath, mind you. It's just what I'd like to see.

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