Up the Junction

Up the Junction Artist: Manfred Mann
Label: Rpm Records UK
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5022911311896
ASIN: B0000247P8


Release Date: 2004-04-01

Up the Junction


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Tracks:

  1. Up the Junction [Vocal Version] - Mike Hugg, Manfred Mann
  2. Sing Songs of Love - Mike Hugg, Manfred Mann
  3. Walking Round
  4. Up the Junction [Instrumental]
  5. Love Theme [Instrumental]
  6. Up the Junction [Vocal and Instrumental]
  7. Just for Me
  8. Love Theme [Instrumental]
  9. Shelia's Dance
  10. Belgravia
  11. Wailing Horn
  12. I Need Your Love
  13. Up the Junction [Vocal Version]
  14. Sleepy Hollow [*]

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Album Description

CD debut of soundtrack to 1968 U.K. film featuring rare songs & music written & performed by Manfred Mann. 14 tracks, including the non-album B-side 'Sleepy Hollow' addedas a bonus track. 1998 R.P.M. release.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A delight! Great 60s soundtrack music........2005-06-07

I have had this soundtrack album for over 5 years on CD, and the music on it still moves me and makes me wish I could see the film that it was written for!

"Up the Junction" is fantastic opener, with evocative lyrics. You get the feeling that the person in the song is completely detached from the dull, work-a-day life he sees around him (or maybe high on LSD?). This feeling is sustained throughout many of the other tracks. It beams you back to the 1960s, a time of social upheaval and uncertainty.

When the chorus of "Up the Junction" brightly breaks through, it changes the vibe from introspective to pop perfection- almost like Brian Wilson did on some sections of his "Smile" album. So, the music feel moves from reflective to joyous. Manfred Man does this on "Walking around" as well, probably my favorite track. "Walking around" is pure excellence, with its yearning, dreamy melancholic verses abruptly interchanged with the bright, poppy chorus. It really works! The vocalwork is muliti-layered, complex and beautiful on other songs such as "Songs of love". Wonderful!

The instrumental work is great too, songs such as "Belgravia" have a slinky piano/vibrophone Jazz groove that makes you want to bust out your cocktail glasses. Then there are sort of collage tracks of atmospheric music, such as "Wailing Horn", starting off with complex drum work, which is then abruptly cut by a long sustaining piano chord (ala "Day in the life"), fading into a hammond organ with an amazing saxophone solo which could easily fit in with some of Sun-Ra's work.

I fully recommend this album to any fan of 60s music.

5 out of 5 stars

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