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Moby Grape 1969 | 
 enlarge | Artist: Moby Grape
Label: Sundazed
Category: Music
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 74746
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 11193
UPC: 090771119322
EAN: 0090771119322
ASIN: B000UVPJSC
Release Date: November 9, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Ooh Mama Ooh | | • | Ain't That A Shame | | • | I Am Not Willing | | • | It's A Beautiful Day Today | | • | Hoochie | | • | Trucking Man | | • | If You Can't Learn From My Mistakes | | • | Captain Nemo | | • | What's To Choose | | • | Going Nowhere | | • | Seeing | | • | Soul Stew | | • | If You Can't Learn From My Mistakes | | • | You Can Do Anything | | • | It's A Beautiful Day Today | | • | What's To Choose | | • | Big | | • | Hoochie |
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| Customer Reviews:
The best Moby Grape album of all October 16, 2007
John Vasco (England)
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
Moby Grape 69 was definitely the best album that they delivered. Without a major contribution from Skip Spence (his only presence on this album is 'Seeing') the songs work very well. Quite frankly, the other four were better off without him, given the demolition job he did at the end of the superb 'Bitter Wind', and the totally ludicrous 'Just Like Gene Autrey, a Foxtrot (what the hell was he thinking!?). Set in a true context, Spence was a disruptive, rather than creative, force within the band. The creative writing of the others comes to the fore on '69' and songs like 'It's a Beautiful Day Today', and 'If You Can't Learn From My Mistakes' are masterclasses in how to use guitars to enhance a song to its maximum. Lewis and Miller work together superbly whether on electric or acoustic guitars. The vocal harmonies were superb and showed what they were capable of, exceeding anything that bands like Poco and The Eagles were to deliver in later years.
Their first album showed what they were capable of, 'Wow', with Spence to the fore, was a mish-mash of songs, occasionally appalling (and it hurts me to say this, as I love a lot of their music), '69' was their pinnacle of achievement. They would never scale such heights again.
A bunch of individuals produces something special October 8, 2007
Dr. H. Beentje (Kew, England)
8 out of 11 found this review helpful
I believe that by the time this album came out the band had more or less fallen apart - so what you get is a series of numbers by each of the band members, with the others playing backing. And one song by Skip Spence, too - Yay! All this is in enormous contrast to their first album, where they were really a tight band, and the energy was exploding out of the speakers. This album is much more laid back, with Peter Lewis ballady songs coming to the fore (he's the one sitting in front on the cover, too). I miss Jerry Lewis' energetic guitar - it's there, but not as much as on former albums. But there are absolutely stunning tracks on this album: I'm not willing, What's to choose, Seeing. But the rock is mostly gone, except for Mosley's great 'Trucking man' and the rather weird 'Hoochie'.
As per usual, there are songs here that were not on the original album: tracks 12 through 18. Some of these are on the Vintage compilation; not the best ones, either. On the other hand, all of the original tracks from 69 are on Vintage - you have been warned!
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