In the late 1960s, the Ro-d-ys -- like bands in Holland, and pretty much everywhere -- were expanding from their British Invasion-spurred origins into more adventurous, diverse sounds. Still, lead singer Harry Rijnbergen continued to resemble a less original Ray Davies, both in his songwriting and his vocals. On this, their second and final LP, the group explores a variety of directions common to the period with reasonable competence and slight eccentricity. "Love Is Almost Everywhere" has quite a European melancholy to its orchestral gloom, but the group can still rock out like the late-'60s Kinks at their most forceful on songs like "Robinetta" and "Let It Be Tomorrow," though with odder tempo changes and more obscure lyrics than the Kinks used. A few other tracks use late-period British freakbeat touches like the phasing and Who-ish drumming and harmonies in "Easy Come, Easy Go," while "Everytime a Second" gets into the music hall-ish jauntiness some British bands (not just the Kinks) were prone to lapse into at the time. Overall this is worth hearing for intense '60s rock fans who don't mind trying to shake the feeling that they're hearing Ray Davies as if he's singing and writing in English as a second language, with periodic overlays of oddly melodramatic and even slightly goofy orchestration. Non-specialists might find there's not enough arresting material to justify the effort, however. AMG.
listen here
Monday, June 13, 2011
Ro-d-ys - Earnest Vocation 1968
Popular Posts
-
Types Of Neckwear: Neckties, Ascots, Bolo Ties And More Although the traditional necktie is the preferred neck wear for most men , it is...
-
WUN has been known as one of the most significant acid folk albums of the 70s. Although his continuous effort during his entire career throu...
-
From Home to Home is quite similar to the albums this group had put out in the late '60s as the Kaleidoscope (the British Kaleidoscope...
-
Current info about twitter Ashley Tisdale and Sarah Hyland party beach is not always the easiest thing to locate. Fortunately, this report ...
-
The debut album from the Atlanta-based funk aggregate spawned three singles and a host of soul numbers. The first single from the album was...
-
Watt had many of the same ingredients as its predecessor, Cricklewood Green , but wasn't nearly as well thought out. The band had obvi...
-
Hard/Blues Rock band formed in Memphis in 1968 by Baker, who'd fronted local faves The Blazers, the initial line-up evolved to include d...
-
There's not a youth today that hasn't best for you to read kate moss picture , and if there is one such person, the Fashion of Kate ...
-
Back in 1966 when Eric Clapton delivered his heavily overdriven wailing blues licks on the “Beano” album with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, t...
-
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street 1971 A double live album originally released on April 7, 1971 by CSN&Y is an indispensa...
0 comments:
Post a Comment