Titus Groan

Titus Groan Artist: Titus Groan
Label: Jvc Victor
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988002395033
ASIN: B00003CK6Q

Titus Groan


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Tracks:

  1. It Wasn't For You
  2. Hall Of Bright Carvings
  3. I Can't Change
  4. It's All Up With Us
  5. Fuschia

Album Details

Japanese Version featuring a Limited Edition LP Style Slipcase for Initial Pressing.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Titus Groan's strange journey.......2003-01-06

Some thirty years have passed since I heard "The Hall of the Bright Carvings". Now, to listen to it again is like recovering lost time. This really was the British progressive rock sound of the early seventies. The music tried to avoid trivial tunes (and, accordingly, was usually unfit for dancing), and the lyrics - if any - were obscure, often as incomprehensible as life itself.
Titus Groan derived their name from the novel by Mervyn Peake, the first volume of the Gormenghast trilogy. The music evokes very well the dark atmosphere of this strange and marvelous book. In fact, it was the music that aroused my interest in the book, not the other way around. Peake's books have always remained in print, but the band Titus Groan somehow disappeared from the scene. The 1970 album (actually an extended EP) exhibits all the characteristics of a debut of a promising rock band. The concept was very ambitious (multi-part complex pieces), but the result was not yet fully developed. It resembles in a way the first albums of other English bands of the same period, such as Wishbone Ash and Gentle Giant. It makes one wonder what the next album would sound like.
But there isn't a second album. What went wrong?

4 out of 5 stars

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  3. Blue Planet ~ Alquin
  4. Return of Johnny Bravo ~ Barry Williams
  5. Your Favorite Band Live ~ The Red Elvises
  6. The Drugstore's Rockin', Vol. 4 ~ Various Artists
  7. Down Two Then Left ~ Boz Scaggs
  8. A Place Called El Shaddai's ~ Oneida
  9. Revenge Is Easy ~ Puny Human
  10. Studio 150 ~ Paul Weller

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30th Anniversary Live Special Happiness ~ Hiromi Iwasaki

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