Shock Treatment

Artist: Edgar Winter
Label: Sony
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 074643246125
EAN: 0074643246125
ASIN: B00000251A

Release Date: 1990-10-05

Shock Treatment

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Tracks:

Some Kinda Animal
Easy Street
Sundown
Miracle Of Love
Do Like Me
Rock & Roll Woman
Someone Take My Heart Away
Queen Of My Dreams
Maybe Someday You'll Call My Name
River's Risin'
Animal

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Customer Reviews:

Shock Treatment being reissued.......2007-02-12

Shock Treatment is being reissued as a two-for along with They Only Come Out At Night on February 20, 2007 in England. I hope Amazon will offer it for sale or pre-order by then. Hold on a few days and save yourself $50.00 or more. I love Edgar but those prices are just nuts.

The Miracle Of Music.......2006-10-27

The Edgar Winter Group features three musicians who I love-Winter himself,Rick Derringer and the imcomparable Dan Hartman.But to be honest I find 'Shock Treatment' to be the more interesting between it and the last one 'They Only Come Out At Night'.One reason is probably my own taste in music-'Shock Treatment' has plenty of hard rock moments (although "Rock N' Roll Animal" is not one of my favorites) but the music is far more informed by heavy funk and retro jazz stylings.One of the best songs here is Edgar's own "Easy Street",it has a great retro 40's R&B shuffle and some great lyrics about Edgar sitting in a cafe surroundedby some,shall we say colorful characters.And it's a story song too-he describes the characters in great detail too.Of the other Winter contributions 'Miracle Of Love" is another great song-it's a faced paced synthesizer prog rock/fusion kind of tune and (because its EDGAR WINTER) his brilliant,flamboyant singing keeps the music from being pompous at all and it has such a great hook."Do Like Me" BLASTS right out at you-it is the one stab of bona fide funk on the album,complete with Edgar's clavinet and the Funkadelic guitars this is a howling,yowling good groove!Dan Hartman provides three wonderful pop ballads in "Sundown",with it's beautiful 'Magical Mystery Tour'-styled backwards mellatron and a finely crafed tune."Someone To Take My Heart Away" and "Maybe Someday You'll Call My Name" are very much in the same vein-great mainstream rock ballads with a lot of John Lennon/Beatles references.Hartman and Winter also contribute the catchy fast paced funky rocker "River Risin'" and again it has some beautiful Lennon-like harmony vocals spiced throughout.I like Rick Derringer's guitar playing but it does seem that his high volume,theatrical hard/glam rock sound on his cuts don't seem to mesh well with the overall sound.He is much more effective when he is playing on the efforementioned songs.Overall 'Shock Treatment' is not Winter's greatest album-those would be his records with White Trash and any of his (largely) hard to locate solo albums but it is certainly a wonderful,eclectic pop album and one of the finest things The Edgar Winter Group ever recorded.

Underrated and lost classic.......2006-01-22

Forget the terrible photos on front and back covers- it must have seemed like a good idea at the time. A really catchy album. Edgar's Someone Take my heart away and Miracle of love along with Dans Sundown, Maybe Someday you'll call my name, and River's Rising all are wonderful. Dan's Rock and Roll Woman is pretty awful but all in all ,a fun album that should not be allowed to go out of print.

DEFINITELY AN EXCELLENT ALBUM BY THE EDGAR WINTER GROUP.......2005-01-17

Although this album lacks the hard driven guitar sound of RONNIE MONTROSE, who formed his own group called MONTROSE with then unknown SAMMY HAGER, this is still an album that should not be forgotten. The first song SOME KINDA ANIMAL with DAN'S lead vocal and RICK DERRINGER'S guitar riffs is a outstanding rock beginner that gets the listeners off their chairs or beds and on the feet. On the other hand, the next song EASY STREET written by DAN for EDGAR to sing has a excellent 30s or 40s resemblence, especially with the sax solo and the piano style. SUNDOWN is a outstanding ballad written and sung by DAN whose rhythm guitar playing, EDGAR'S clavinet and mellotron, and RICK'S lead guitar playing give the song a relaxed and laid-back feeling. The next song MIRACLE OF LOVE is a outstanding fast-paced keyboard rockin' tune that gets the listeners back on their feet with EDGAR'S stronge lead vocal and keyboard playing. DO LIKE ME, that only with the organ, is really not my favorite on this album. Plus I do not understand why DAN did not play bass guitar on this song, but some of RICK's guitar solos sound like a saxophone for some peculiar reason, which is somewhat cool. DAN'S ROCK AND ROLL WOMAN is another outstanding rock tune that keeps the album in motion with his lead vocals, the harmony vocals, and RICK'S guitar riffs. Then comes EDGAR'S keyboard ballad SOMEONE TAKE MY HEART AWAY with the rewarding sound of the mellotron and clavinet. DAN'S lead guitar playing on his QUEEN OF MY DREAMS really shines along with his lead vocal. Why EDGAR did not play on is song is a mystery to me. DAN'S MAYBE SOMEDAY YOU'LL CALL MY NAME that features his lead vocals, EDGAR'S piano playing, and RICK guitar playing has a relaxing feeling. Plus, DAN'S RIVER'S RISEN with the mellotron and guitar solos is and great song to listen to, and the harmony vocals remind me of what I hear on ELTON JOHN'S GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD. Unfortunately, ANIMAL is also not my favorite song either. Overall, I was glad I found this cd in the used cd store, and I do not understand why it is not availalbe anymore.

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