Thursday, November 17, 2016

Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe A Word b/w Old Flame (1976)



Thin Lizzy are a rock band formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. Two of the founding members, drummer Brian Downey and bass guitarist and lead vocalist Phil Lynott, met while still in school. Lynott led the group throughout their recording career of twelve studio albums, writing most of the material.
Thin Lizzy's most successful songs, "Whiskey in the Jar" (a traditional Irish ballad), "Jailbreak" and "The Boys Are Back in Town", were all major international hits.
The song "Don´t Believe A Word" was originally written as a ballad by Phil Lynott, before the guitarist Brian Robertson and drummer Brian Downey rocked it up.
The lyrics, which were written by Lynott, tell of a man warning his loved one not to believe his words as he cannot be relied upon. The chorus sums it up: "Don't believe a word/For Words are only spoken/Your Heart is like a promise made to be broken."


Tracklist 

A - Don't Believe A Word  (2:16)
      Written-By – Lynott

B - Old Flame  (3:09)
      Written-By – Lynott

Companies, etc. 
Published By – Pippin The Friendly Ranger Music Co. Ltd.
Marketed By – Phonogram

Credits
Producer – John Alcock
Written-By – Lynott

Notes
Released: 1976
Genre: Rock
Style: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Label: Vertigo Records

From the album "Johnny The Fox" Vertigo 6360 138 

Catalog# 6059159

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Kraftwerk - The Model b/w The Man Machine (1978)


Kraftwerk (German pronunciation: "power station") is a German electronic music band formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970 in Düsseldorf. In the 1970s, they were among the first successful pop acts to popularize electronic music and are widely considered to be innovators and pioneers of the genre. The band was fronted by both Hütter and Schneider until Schneider's departure in 2008.
"The Robots" (originally Die Roboter) is a single by the influential German electronic music pioneers, Kraftwerk, released in 1978. The single and its The Man Machine, both appeared on the band's seventh album, The Man-Machine. However, the songs as they appear on the single were scaled down into shorter versions.
The lyrics reference the revolutionary technique of robotics, and how humans can use them as they wish. The Russian lines "Я твой слуга" (Ya tvoy sluga, I'm your servant) and "Я твой работник" (Ya tvoy rabotnik, I'm your worker) (also on the rear sleeve of the album) during the intro and again during its repetition at the bridge are spoken in a pitched down voice, the main lyrics ("We're charging our batteries and now we're full of energy...") are "sung" through a vocoder. Wolfgang Flür, a member of Kraftwerk at the time of the single's release, later wrote Ich war ein Roboter (I Was a Robot in English), with his title referencing the lyrics of "The Robots". The book, published in 2003, has been described as a "controversial and uncompromising autobiography of Kraftwerk", more because the other members of the band tried to censor its publication than anything else. The lyrics were also referenced in the title of a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Kraftwerk: We Are the Robots, broadcast for the first time on Thursday November 22, 2007. The documentary focused on the band's place as "part of a new generation of young West Germans, living in the shadow of the Cold War, who identified with the need to recapture a German cultural identity distinct from that of Britain and America."

Tracklist

A - The Model  (3:38)
      Written-By – Emil Schult, Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter 

B - The Man Machine  (5:28)
      Written-By – Karl Bartos, Ralf Hütter 

Credits
Producer – Florian Schneider, Ralf Hutter
Music By – Bartos, Hutter
Performer – Florian, Karl, Ralf, Wolfgang

Notes
Release: 1978
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synth-pop
Label: Capitol Records

(from the LP "The Man Machine" SW-11728) 

Catalog# 5C 006-85673 

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart b/w Our Song (1983)


"Owner of a Lonely Heart" is a song by the English progressive rock band Yes. It is the first track and single from their eleventh studio album 90125, released in 1983. Written primarily by guitarist Trevor Rabin, contributions were made to the final version by singer Jon Anderson, bassist Chris Squire, and producer Trevor Horn.
"Owner of a Lonely Heart" was released in October 1983, as the album's first single. It was a commercial success in the United States, becoming the band's first and only single to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and its Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. In 1984, the song reached No. 8 in the year-end charts in the US. The single was reissued various times throughout the 1980s and 1990s with different remix versions and B-sides. The song has been sampled by various artists including Michael Jackson, Frank Zappa and Max Graham,

Tracklist 

A - Owner Of A Lonely Heart  (3:50)
      Written-By – Rabin, Anderson, Squire, Horn

B - Our Song  (4:16)
      Written-By – Rabin, Anderson, Squire, White

Companies, etc. 
Manufactured By – Record Service GmbH
Made By – WEA Musik GmbH
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Copyright (c) – WEA International Inc.
Published By – Warner Bros. Music
Published By – Unforgettable Songs
Mastered At – Masterdisk

Credits 
Artwork [Package Produced By] – Garry Mouat
Engineer – Gary Langan
Mastered By – RL
Producer – Trevor Horn

Notes
Release: 1983
Genre: Rock
Style: Synth-pop
Label: ATCO Records

Catalog# 79-9817-7