"creating an overly indulgent work. Most of the album turns out to be a bit too tedious..."" He also noted that ""you cannot tell if Shatner is play-acting or painfully serious. The result is a must hear, (unintentional?) comedy classic,"" comparing this attraction to that of comedian Andy Kaufman. However, in 2006, ""Q"" magazine ranked ""The Transformed Man"" No. 45 in their list of the 50 worst albums ever. Furthermore, in 2016, the website Alternative Nation crowned the album number 1 on a ""Top 10 Musical Oddities"" list. The Transformed Man The Transformed Man is actor William Shatner's debut album."
"Transformer (album) Transformer is the second solo studio album by American recording artist Lou Reed. The album is considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre, anchored by Reed's most successful single, ""Walk on the Wild Side"", which touched on controversial topics of sexual orientation and drugs. Produced by David Bowie and arranged by Mick Ronson, the album was released in November 1972 by RCA Records. Though Reed's self-titled debut solo album had been unsuccessful, Bowie had been an early fan of Reed's former band The Velvet Underground, and used his own fame to promote Reed, who had not"
"of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It is also on ""Q"" magazine's list of ""100 Greatest Albums Ever"". Adapted from the ""Transformer"" liner notes. Additional personnel Production Transformer (album) Transformer is the second solo studio album by American recording artist Lou Reed. The album is considered an influential landmark of the glam rock genre, anchored by Reed's most successful single, ""Walk on the Wild Side"", which touched on controversial topics of sexual orientation and drugs. Produced by David Bowie and arranged by Mick Ronson, the album was released in November 1972 by RCA Records. Though Reed's self-titled debut"
"Tiger Man (album) Tiger Man is a compilation from American singer and musician Elvis Presley consisting of tracks from his second comeback concert in 1968. Personnel includes: Elvis Presley (vocals, acoustic and electric guitar); Scotty Moore (electric and acoustic guitar), D.J. Fontana (percussion with drumsticks on guitar case). Presley's friend Alan Fortas also provides percussion on a guitar case, with hands. Lance LeGault is on tambourine, just off the stage, near Presley. Compilation producers: Ernst Mikael Jorgensen, Roger Semon.Engineers: Al Pachucki, Mike Moran, Dick Baxter. Recorded at NBC Studio 4, Burbank, California on June 27, 1968. Includes liner notes by"
"title ""Spaced Out - The Very Best of Leonard Nimoy & William Shatner""<br> Released in 1997 by Universal Music International Ltd. (UMD 80455)<br> ℗ & © 1997 MCA Records, Inc. William Shatner's tracks were taken from his 1968 Decca album ""The Transformed Man"" Leonard Nimoy discography In December 1966, when it became apparent that the original """" was developing a strong following in spite of low Nielsen ratings, Dot Records approached the producers of the show. The result was the signing of Leonard Nimoy to that label. Dot Records was a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, and both Paramount and Desilu"
"1950s and 1960s. On the original 1968 album and its 1987 CD reissue the performances were edited to accommodate the recording medium. A more complete recording of what was captured from the performances was remastered and released on a 2-CD Deluxe Edition in 2001. The Famous Flames, (Bobby Byrd and Bobby Bennett), were credited on the record label and the back cover of the album,(although not on the front) But on the original album release, their group name was cut from the live intro, because in between the time of the recording of the album and its actual 1968 release,"
"Metamorphosis (Don Friedman album) Metamorphosis is the fifth album by pianist Don Friedman which was recorded in 1966 and released on the Prestige label. Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with its review by Michael G. Nastos stating, ""For Friedman's fifth recording, he is definitely exploring the progressive edges of modern mainstream post-bop... Certainly Friedman challenges listeners with this music, but he also challenges his own abilities and concepts. For the time period, it is one of the most vital, original, progressive statements, and one that, after all these years, retains a timeless freshness that bears not only a second"
"intent of an album such as this doesn't really matter when the songs are this fine."" In 2003, the album was ranked number 484 on ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums. Branded Man Branded Man is the fourth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released on Capitol Records in 1967. After a troubled youth that saw him in and out of youth reformatories, Haggard was finally sent to Bakersfield jail for a bungled robbery and, after an escape attempt, transferred to San Quentin prison on February 21, 1958. He was"
"All the Blue Changes – An Anthology 1988–2003 All The Blue Changes - An Anthology 1988–2003 is a double CD compilation by British Art Rock group No-Man, spanning their entire career – from the ""Speak"" sessions in 1988 up until the release of ""Together We're Stranger"" in 2003. Many songs are unreleased versions of No-Man songs. <nowiki>The version of ""Days In The Trees"" which appears on ""All The Blue Changes"" is a different mix of the ""Mahler"" version which made considerable impact when released as a single – it also features a longer fadeout than the other versions. The version"
"of the 16-CD box set ""Boîte à Bonbons"" by Barclay (980 817-5). L'Homme de la Mancha L'Homme de la Mancha () is Jacques Brel's eleventh studio album. Released in 1968, it is the cast recording of the French adaptation of ""The Man of la Mancha"" by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion. Brel adapted the book, translated the lyrics, directed the production, and played the role of Don Quixote. This was the only time he ever adapted songs by other writers or appeared in a stage musical. Joan Diener, who played Dulcinea in the original 1965 production, reprised the part in"
"time. 18 May 1968 Katch 22 14 June 1968 Manfred Mann 21 June 1968 The Small Faces 28 June 1968 Eclection 12 July 1968 Salena Jones with The Brian Lemon Trio 19 July 1968 Fleetwood Mac 26 July 1968 The Kinks 9 August 1968 The Peddlers 16 August 1968 The Tremeloes 23 August 1968 Barry Noble 30 August 1968 Spooky Tooth 7 September 1968 The Hollies 14 September 1968 The Moody Blues 21 September 1968 Unit 4 + 2 28 September 1968 David Ackles 5 October 1968 O'Hara's Playboys 12 October 1968 Honeybus, Clodagh Rodgers 2 November 1968 Eclection, Spooky"
"Metamorphosis (Iron Butterfly album) Metamorphosis is the fourth studio album by Iron Butterfly, released on August 13, 1970. Though not as successful as its predecessor ""Ball"" (1969), it reached number 16 on the US charts. Erik Brann, who left because of band disputes, was replaced by four session guitarists. Two of them, Mike Pinera, and Larry ""Rhino"" Reinhardt (called El Rhino on the sleeve), would become members of Iron Butterfly before the album's release. Officially, the album is credited not to Iron Butterfly, but to ""Iron Butterfly with Pinera & Rhino"", in reference to the two aforementioned guitarists. The album"
"Metamorphosis (The Rolling Stones album) Metamorphosis is the third compilation album of The Rolling Stones music released by former manager Allen Klein's ABKCO Records (who usurped control of the band's Decca/London material in 1970) after the band's departure from Decca and Klein. Released in 1975, ""Metamorphosis"" centres on outtakes and alternate versions of well-known songs recorded from 1964 to 1970. After the release of ""Hot Rocks 1964–1971"" in 1971, an album titled ""Necrophilia"" was compiled for release as the follow-up, with the aid of Andrew Loog Oldham, featuring many previously unreleased (or, more accurately, discarded) outtakes from the Rolling Stones'"
"The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! The Allan Holdsworth Album Collection The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever! The Allan Holdsworth Album Collection is a box set by the English jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth. It was released by Manifesto Records on 7 April 2017. The 12-CD collection contains remastered versions of 11 studio albums and a live album, along with a 40-page booklet by Christopher Hoard. In one of his last interviews, Holdsworth spoke to ""DownBeat"" magazine and explained that the title of the collection was not his idea, but also added that he was very pleased with the quality"
"Butterfly"". ""Easy Rider (Let the Wind Pay the Way)"" – ""Billboard"" US singles Non-US singles Metamorphosis (Iron Butterfly album) Metamorphosis is the fourth studio album by Iron Butterfly, released on August 13, 1970. Though not as successful as its predecessor ""Ball"" (1969), it reached number 16 on the US charts. Erik Brann, who left because of band disputes, was replaced by four session guitarists. Two of them, Mike Pinera, and Larry ""Rhino"" Reinhardt (called El Rhino on the sleeve), would become members of Iron Butterfly before the album's release. Officially, the album is credited not to Iron Butterfly, but to"
"removed. Writer credits are from the album liner notes. Running times (not included in the notes) are taken from the AllMusic album overview. Yardbirds '68 Yardbirds '68 is a double CD and LP record album by English rock group the Yardbirds. Recorded in 1968 in New York City when the group was a quartet with guitarist Jimmy Page, it includes live performances and demos. Page produced the album, which was released in November 2017 on his own record label. The tracks were recorded during the Yardbirds' last American tour in 1968; the live recordings are from their performance at the"
"those who played with Bowie during the ""Space Oddity"" period, when in fact the personnel were members of the Arnold Corns sessions proto-group. In 1999, the album was reissued again by Virgin/EMI (7243 521901 0 2), without the bonus tracks but with 24-bit digitally remastered sound. The Japanese mini LP (EMI TOCP-70142) replicates the cover and texture of the original Mercury LP. In 2015, the album was remastered for the Five Years (1969–1973) box set. It was released in CD, vinyl, and digital formats, both as part of this compilation and separately. Adapted from ""The Man Who Sold the World"""
"Transformation (Don Preston album) Transformation is an album by American keyboardist Don Preston which was released in March 2001 on the Cryptogramophone label. The Allmusic review by Rick Anderson awarded the album 4½ stars out of 5, stating ""as outside as he gets, he never fully departs from a jazz feel -- that's partly due to the texture of the piano trio, and partly due, one suspects, to the fact that that's where his heart truly is. This is not, for the most part, easily accessible music, but it will richly reward anyone who makes an effort to approach it""."
"2014 article for CounterPunch on-line, musician Peter Stone Brown claims from personal recollection a date of January 2, 1968. Original CD editions from the 1980s and 1990s have the copyright year of 1968. The January 20 issue of ""Billboard"" reported on the ""blockbuster response"" to the LP, saying: ""In stores less than a week, the record is reported to have sold more than 250,000 copies."" In the February 3, 1968 issue of ""Melody Maker"", the album was reviewed and announced for release in Britain on February 23. It first charted there on March 2, at number 25, before achieving a"
"Altered Beast (album) Altered Beast is the fourth album by alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. It was released on Zoo Entertainment in 1993. Some of the album's guest musicians included drumming by Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac), Jody Stephens (Big Star) and Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello's backing band, the Attractions), guitaring by Richard Lloyd (Television), Robert Quine (Voidoids) and Ivan Julian (Voidoids), keyboarding by Nicky Hopkins, and fiddle by Byron Berline on the lead single, ""The Ugly Truth"". The cover of the album, produced in five different colored versions (yellow, blue, green, orange and purple), features a dinosaur logo. Originally, Sweet"
"was released in early 1968, at a time when there was a receptive audience for “underground music” which combined musical experimentalism with radical social and/or political lyrics – other examples, in their very different ways, including the Velvet Underground (who shared a common background in the New York experimental music scene; according to Moskowitz, Nico at one point tried to join the USA), Frank Zappa (whom Byrd disliked, considering him a niche-marketer ""subsumed in a self-referential loop""), Love's ""Forever Changes"", Country Joe and the Fish, and Jefferson Airplane. The album is littered with references to Byrd's obsession with old-time American"
"Missing Man Formation (album) Missing Man Formation is an album by the rock band Missing Man Formation. Their only album, it was released by Grateful Dead Records on April 28, 1998. The band Missing Man Formation was led by keyboardist, vocalist, and songwriter Vince Welnick, who had been a member of the Grateful Dead, and before that, the Tubes, and Todd Rundgren's band. At the time that they recorded their eponymous CD, Missing Man Formation also included Steve Kimock on guitar, Bobby Vega on bass, and Prairie Prince on drums. The album was recorded at Studio E in Sebastopol, California,"
"Live May 11, 1968 Live May 11, 1968 is a live album by the American psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft and was released in 1991. The eight tracks included on the album were all recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California, on May 11, 1968, soon after the band's original bass player Jerry McGeorge had been replaced by Jeffrey Boyan. The album consists of material taken from the band's first two studio albums and features very good sound quality considering the era in which it was recorded. The original release of the album on Sundazed Records (Edsel Records"
"added emphasis to the 1968 guitars, horns, and a funk drum beat. Holkenborg is the first artist outside the Presley organization to receive authorization from the Elvis Presley estate to remix an Elvis Presley song (in the 1980s, Elvis' longtime producer Felton Jarvis had overseen remixes of a number of Elvis recordings that saw new backing added to Presley's original vocals, the first of which were released as the album ""Guitar Man"" in 1981). The electronic version of the song became a number-one hit in the UK in 2002. The song also became a top ten hit in upwards of"
"What a Man (song) ""What a Man"" is a song written by Dave Crawford, and originally recorded for Stax Records' Volt imprint by Linda Lyndell, whose recording reached No. 50 on the ""Billboard"" R&B chart in 1968. The song was sampled and reinterpreted as ""Whatta Man"" in 1993 by Salt-n-Pepa with En Vogue; the version became a commercial success. In 2011, the German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut (credited as Lena) covered the song while retaining the original title and lyrics. Linda Lyndell, a white singer who had been a support act with James Brown and Ike & Tina Turner and then"
"listening, but consideration as a creative music hallmark."". ""All compositions by Don Friedman except as indicated"" Metamorphosis (Don Friedman album) Metamorphosis is the fifth album by pianist Don Friedman which was recorded in 1966 and released on the Prestige label. Allmusic awarded the album 4½ stars with its review by Michael G. Nastos stating, ""For Friedman's fifth recording, he is definitely exploring the progressive edges of modern mainstream post-bop... Certainly Friedman challenges listeners with this music, but he also challenges his own abilities and concepts. For the time period, it is one of the most vital, original, progressive statements, and"
"L'Homme de la Mancha L'Homme de la Mancha () is Jacques Brel's eleventh studio album. Released in 1968, it is the cast recording of the French adaptation of ""The Man of la Mancha"" by Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion. Brel adapted the book, translated the lyrics, directed the production, and played the role of Don Quixote. This was the only time he ever adapted songs by other writers or appeared in a stage musical. Joan Diener, who played Dulcinea in the original 1965 production, reprised the part in this production. The album was reissued on 23 September 2003 as part"
"played it on record both before and after the special. But there is no other recorded evidence of THIS kind of playing. Moore is generous, giving his friend and bandmate room to shine, while he either gently fingerpicks or strums along with Presley, and Presley's strumming friend Charlie Hodge. Tiger Man (album) Tiger Man is a compilation from American singer and musician Elvis Presley consisting of tracks from his second comeback concert in 1968. Personnel includes: Elvis Presley (vocals, acoustic and electric guitar); Scotty Moore (electric and acoustic guitar), D.J. Fontana (percussion with drumsticks on guitar case). Presley's friend Alan"
"Branded Man Branded Man is the fourth studio album by American country singer Merle Haggard and The Strangers. It was released on Capitol Records in 1967. After a troubled youth that saw him in and out of youth reformatories, Haggard was finally sent to Bakersfield jail for a bungled robbery and, after an escape attempt, transferred to San Quentin prison on February 21, 1958. He was released in 1960. By 1967, he was on the cusp of country stardom when he hit number one on the country singles chart with the Liz Anderson composition ""I'm A Lonesome Fugitive."" Understandably, Haggard"
"length restrictions of the LP. The original album featured a stereo mix with the drums in the right channel only. Both mono and stereo versions were issued as promotional albums to US radio stations in 1971, however, the mono version has not been commercially issued. The 1988 US Polydor CD release was a stereo remix version with the drums centered, and bass and sax in the left and right channels. The 2003 CD re-issue features the original stereo mix. All compositions by Jack Bruce, unless otherwise noted. Arranged and produced by Jack Bruce.<br> Recorded at I.B.C. Studios, London, August 1968."
"Yardbirds '68 Yardbirds '68 is a double CD and LP record album by English rock group the Yardbirds. Recorded in 1968 in New York City when the group was a quartet with guitarist Jimmy Page, it includes live performances and demos. Page produced the album, which was released in November 2017 on his own record label. The tracks were recorded during the Yardbirds' last American tour in 1968; the live recordings are from their performance at the Anderson Theater on 30 March and studio recordings are demos from sessions at Columbia Recording Studio in April. Previously, the ten live tracks"
"The Times They Are a-Changin' (Burl Ives album) The Times They Are a-Changin' is a 1968 album by Burl Ives, produced by Bob Johnston. It was probably recorded at Columbia Studios in Nashville, with local session musicians. It features songs by Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, and Johnny Cash (all of whom had previously worked with Johnston), songs by Johnston's friend Charlie Daniels, plus other pop or country standards. In his Allmusic review, critic Richie Unterberger heavily criticized the attempt at having Ives ""go electric"" as other folk musicians were at the time, calling the album the ""most ludicrous"" attempt. He"
"1968, just a few days before the release of the album version. It was later included on the live album ""Sugar Mountain – Live at Canterbury House 1968"", released in 2008. David Bowie, the Pixies (B-side of single ""Velouria""), and Dinosaur Jr. (unreleased) have recorded renditions of the song. David Bowie recorded a version of the song, which features Dave Grohl on guitar, for ""Heathen"" (2002). It was released as a single in Canada and reached number 11 in the single charts. The song was performed during the Tin Machine tour, sung by Reeves Gabrels. One version appeared on the"