The Move - Shazam (Vinyl)

This 1998 reissue contains 9 bonus tracks not on the original release.The Move: Roy Wood, Carl Wayne, Rick Price, Bev Bevan.All tracks have been digitally remastered.The Move was always a hard band to pin down. They began by bringing a hard-edged American rock & roll sensibility to '60s British psych-pop, alternating between rave-ups and trip-outs. By the time of SHAZAM, one of the group's strongest efforts, the sound was most comparable to S.F. SORROW-era Pretty Things. There are hard-rock riffs aplenty, but they're employed in the service of long, ambitious songs, occasionally of a conceptual nature. The lengthy centerpiece, "Cherry Blossom Clinic," is indicative of SHAZAM's sound. "Clinic" tells the story of life inside a mental institution in a constantly shifting tour de force that moves from spoken-word fragments to heavy proto-progressive riffs to fanciful folk/baroque acoustic guitar tapestries.On the other side of the coin, the band wrings some crunchingly heavy, Led Zep-l