Too Many Spaces

Too Many Spaces Artist: Stillroven
Label: Sundazed Music Inc.
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 090771604125
EAN: 0090771604125
ASIN: B000008DBG


Release Date: 2003-10-21

Too Many Spaces


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Tracks:

  1. Sun Dance
  2. The Green
  3. Girl In Blonde
  4. Happiness Is
  5. Too Many Spaces
  6. Lighten Up
  7. Country Tune
  8. Can You Dig It
  9. Tin Soldier
  10. Get Ready
  11. Living Without You
  12. Would You Believe
  13. Can You Dig It (alt. version)
  14. Girl In Blonde (alt.version)

Album Description

Minneapolis legends the Stillroven forever staked their claim in the 60's garage firmament with their pedal-to-the-metal, frenetic version of "Hey Joe"—still THE definitive version as far as we're concerned. (We've lovingly documented this period of the group on our previous set, entitled, Cast Thy Burden Upon The Stillroven). Now, we've plugged the group into even bigger `n more ghastly amplifiers and, with their help, have mightily assembled the group's never-before-issued second album. Recorded at A&M Studios in 1968, the long-lost Too Many Spaces showcases the group's heavier, more psychedelic side, all the while perfectly maintaining their homegrown garage roots and midwest-melodic sensibilities!

Album Description

Unissued second album circa 1968 from the legendary Minneapolis garage band. Includes 3 demo version bonus tracks 'Sundance', 'Girl In Blonde' & 'Can You Dig It?'. Sundazed. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars --.......2003-11-14

The homer in me wants to find some redeeming value in this release but my conscience knows better. Although there's no real documentation of it, I can easily imagine the Stillroven's story being like that of countless other bands - past and present - who find a successful niche and then become tempted by the poison apple of bohemia and their downward spiral begins on that day.

The Stillroven's successful niche was that of a pleasant garage band who recognized that their energy was their greatest strength. At some point it appears they were confronted by some beaded guru heavies who told them they could unlock the universe's secrets and they listened. Too bad. And good for the suits who didn't release it.

By the time of these recordings they'd become such a compromise to hippie conformity that you coulda knocked on the door to any psychedelic ballroom in America and mistook them for any set of noodlers operating under a seven-syllable moniker, third on the bill.

There's a respectable number here and there on this re-issue but it all fails to have an identity. Their versions of 'Tin Soldier' and 'Get Ready' are brutal.

Music Album:

  1. In & Out of Focus ~ Doug Parkinson
  2. Another Green World ~ Eno
  3. Distant Effects ~ Major Stars
  4. Still Loving You ~ Tom Robinson
  5. Revolucion 13 ~ Tribe of Gypsies
  6. Roadwork, Vol. 2: The Motor Source Massacre ~ Motorpsycho
  7. Sleeping with Ghosts ~ Placebo
  8. Here Come the Warm Jets ~ Eno
  9. Strictly Instrumental, Vol. 4 ~ Various Artists
  10. Mi Corazon, Pt. 2 ~ Fun Lovin' Criminals

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A Prayer Before Dawn ~ Pharoah Sanders

The Big Soul Band ~ Johnny Griffin Orchestra

America Swings: The Great Bob Crosby ~ Bob Crosby's Bobcats

Quietness ~ Steen Rasmussen, Benjamin Koppel

Cool Bebop: 1945-1949 ~ Stan Getz

YB Style: Southern Style Pow-Wow Songs Recorded Live ~ Young Bird

This Is Daniel O'Donnell ~ Daniel O'Donnell

Hazzy Hilo ~ Najwa Karam

Mother Africa ~ Various Artists

Fbdb ~ Fbdb