Indian Summer

Artist: Poco
Label: Universal/Mca
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988067017765
ASIN: B00005GSO6

Release Date: 1994-11-23

Indian Summer

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Tracks:

Indian Summer
Twenty Years
Me and You
Downfall
Win or Lose
Living in the Band
Stay (Night Until Noon)
Find Out in Time
Dance: When the Dance Is Over/Go on and Dance/Never Gonna ...
Go on and Dance
Never Gonna Stop/When the Dance Is over (Reprise)

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Customer Reviews:

the sound of a desperate band.......2005-06-11

Much has been made by Poco fans of how the Eagles 'stole Poco's sound' and proceeded to dominate the charts while Poco unjustly floundered commercially, but let's be realistic. The Eagles had released "Hotel California" by the time "Indian Summer" came out, the latter of which utterly pales in comparison to the former. "Hotel California" isn't a perfect album, but it IS pretty damn good anyway, and there's no denying that the Eagles had things to say. On "Indian Summer", Poco sound desperate, churning out routine songs with painfully unimaginative lyrics. At least 1975's "Head Over Heels" makes for thoroughly respectable background music--unfortunately, that's not the case here. Rusty Young goes way overboard with a strained, lame-brained attempt at SOMETHING with the 10-minute, 3-part 'suite' "The Dance"--I guess it's supposed to be uplifting, but it's pretty pathetic and lyrically weak. The first part is "When The Dance Is Over" which is at least respectably tuneful, but it really falls apart on the second part, the air-headed "Go On And Dance" which reuses the main riff from "Makin' Love" (from "Head Over Heels"); and then there's the mercilessly repetitive, sax-laden "Never Gonna Stop" part which is downright grating and obnoxious. "Stay (Night Until Noon)" is credited to Timothy B. Schmit and Noreen Schmit, and it's also very weak with its tossed off melodicism and piss-poor, annoyingly self-righteous 'tough guy' lyrics. The one other track Schmit co-wrote, the acoustic ballad "Find Out In Time", is much better with nice twelve-string guitar work, but it's flawed with some weak turns of phrase and sickly-sweet harmonies. Paul Cotton's got 4 solo compositions here, and they're mostly weak--the vamping funk-rocker "Win Or Lose" is another one of his tunes with an absolutely toothless verse melody; the uptempo riff-rocker "Living In The Band" has overwrought Cotton vocals and pathetic, senseless 'celebratory' lyrics; and "Twenty Years" is a tired shuffle. Cotton's best track is the title track which has a somewhat nice dreamy feel and a chorus that does catch the ear, but it's not particularly well-written, and like usual, the lyrics leave a lot to be desired. Young's "Downfall" has nice crunchy guitar work, but the song is half-baked with annoying repetition of the title, and the lyrics are so unimaginative and dull, it's eyeroll-inducing. Schmit's ballad "Me And You" is pretty good with a catchy chorus, though the opening verse is sadly rote. Ultimately, it's hard to feel sorry for the guys' lack of commercial success with an album as weak as this. There are solid ideas floating around, but the inability to focus them into quality, fully developed songs is incredibly frustrating and disappointing.

A very good album!.......2005-06-06

Indian Summer was originaly released in 1977. The present version is a remastered one from 1994, in japanese import. The sound is very good and probably from the master tapes. A part of the booklet is in japanese, but all the important informations are in english (also the lyrics of all the songs).

The fans of Poco and country rock will find what they waited for in this album. Like the previous 4 albums (Seven, Cantamos, Head Over Heels and Rose Of Cimarron), you will hear the same band members: Rusty Young, George Grantham, Timothy B. Schmit & Paul Cotton. Their songs are just fine. Me and You, Stay and Find Out In Time, from and sung by Schmit, are in the same excellent standards he always offer. Indian Summer and Twenty Years are great Cotton songs. The Dance from Young is a special one, a kind of exploration that will have an influence on the next albums.

Sadly, it will be the last album with Schmit and Grantham. At this point Schmit will quit to join Eagles. In my opinion, it will be the last true country rock album from Poco. Than they will evolve to a more rockier & commercial sound and with it reach better success in the charts.

Buying this album (and especially this 1994 japanese version) is therefore a excellent choice, you will never regret it!

The Best Poco album I've heard.......2004-10-15

This album was one of the best albums from the seventies.

Its Poco at their best in my opinion.

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