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The Ozzy Asylum: Ozzy Osbourne Biography His album Speak of the Devil (1982) which shows raspberries pouring out of Ozzy’s mouth, was first released with a sticker covering his mouth because the raspberries looked like clotted blood. Ozzy found out that the album was released with the sticker and he recalled every copy, then he had the album released in the way that he wanted it to look. Ozzy, however, only had one number one hit-single, ‘Shot in the Dark’, from the album The Ultimate Sin (the girl in the video was actually a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams, a football team). www.ozzyasylum.com /biography.php   (2849 words)

Power Pop Downloads - Download Power Pop Music - Download Power Pop MP3s Apart from a re-release of Runt, the first Rundgren album to appear on Bearsville was Runt's final record, The Ballad of Todd Rundgren, a record that was reminiscent of such melodic singer/songwriter peers as King and Nyro, yet it had a subtly bizarre sensibility and quirky sense of humor that gave it a distinctive character. Such power pop founders as the Raspberries and Big Star may have been woefully underappreciated during their initial run in the early '70s, but by the end of the decade, several of their offspring had taken the style to the upper reaches of the charts -- including Cheap Trick, the Knack, and the Romantics. Runt -- either Runt's first album or Rundgren's first solo album, depending on your point of view -- was released on Ampex Records in the fall of 1970. www.mp3.com /genre/421/subgenre.html   (6736 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fresh - Raspberries at Epinions.com For the second album, called "Fresh," the band members were clad in matching white suits (I'm told their "uniform" included shoes with Raspberry-colored gems embedded in them and even their underwear (if there was a debriefing, I haven't heard tell of it) had raspberries on them). The "Fresh" album hit the charts on December 9, 1972, and during its 16 weeks on the charts it peaked at # 36. I was 15 when "Fresh" came out in 1972 and when this Capricorn turned 16 in January of 1973 there was a massive display in a local record store of the "Fresh" album. www.epinions.com /content_153148690052   (2110 words)

Rolling Stone : Heaven Tonight : Review Heaven Tonight, the band's third and best album, practically synthesizes the music of the Beatles, the Who, et al., into a series of superbly crafted and cleverly arranged original songs. Not since the Move (whose "California Man" is covered here) or the Raspberries has a band hammered out power pop as irresistibly and snappily as Cheap Trick. While Cheap Trick may not be remembered as lovingly as its primarily British antecedents–the price one has to pay for musical kleptomania, I suppose–the group's intelligence, verve and charm will do just fine for now. www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/_/id/123197/rid/5942054   (357 words)

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE: UTOPIA PARKWAY But despite the instant familiarity of the music -- whether it's the sweetly Squeeze-like "Hat and Feet" or the nearly tongue-in-cheek arena rocker "Laser Show," which would not have been out of place on Wings' "Venus and Mars" album -- all the songs are smartly informed with a decidedly 90s sense of irony and self-awareness. Scanning a database of some 30 years of pop music, it creates little pop masterpieces with bits and pieces of the Raspberries, Beatles, Badfinger, the Beach Boys and other such purveyors of power pop. In fact, there are 14 throwaway tracks -- in the very best sense: three minutes of perfect-pop whimsy, filled with gorgeous melodies and choruses that you find yourself singing along to long before you've memorized the words. www.canoe.ca /JamAlbumsF/fountainofwayne_utopiapkwy.html   (357 words)

The Bryson Group » Home Wally Bryson, former lead guitarist of The Choir, The Raspberries, Tattoo, Fotomaker, and Sittin' Ducks Father and son have collaborated on a new project...a CD entitled "Dry" under the name The Bryson Group. Jesse Bryson, formerly lead guitarist of Qwasi Qwa, Rosavelt,and The Bryson Group www.thebrysongroup.com   (45 words)

MP3 music download website, eMusic An expanded version of a 1997 four-track EP, 1998's Pop Job: The Long Player is an 11-song blast of bubblegummy power pop in the Raspberries/Hudson Brothers tradition. As the anthemic statement of intent "Sugary" attests, Mark Bacino loads his songs with handclaps, tambourines, organ, "sha-la-la" backing vocals, and all the other tropes of post-Beatles power pop. www.emusic.com /album/10588/10588439.html   (45 words)

Tower Records - Fountains Of Wayne - Fountains Of Wayne Fountains Of Wayne provide the essential missing link between the Raspberries and Green Day: sunny, harmony-laced choruses and pure-pop song structures with a gritty, Buzzcocks-like edge provided by distorted guitars and strident drumming. The band, from Wayne, New Jersey, is the brainchild of vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger. Schlesinger was the composer of the Beatlesque title song of the film "That Thing You Do," and the songs on the band's self-titled debut (all Schlesinger/Collingwood cowrites) update that tune's amiable power-pop quite agreeably. www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2365346   (45 words)

Cliff Hillis press/reviews On his second album, Better Living Through Compression, the Delaware native continues to display his all-around music acumen with a batch of tasty, edgy tunes that fans of anyone from the Raspberries to Rooney will surely love. She whipped out a copy of Hillis' new solo album, "Better Living Through Compression," and handed it to Schlesinger, a prince in the pop music world. Indeed, at once accessible from first listen, "Better Living Through Compression" becomes the rare album that grows more enjoyable with each listen, the arrangements nurturing the songs, allowing melodies to take a long hold in the listener’s musical subconscience. www.cliffhillis.com /press.htm   (45 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Back To Back Hits - The Raspberries/The Babys at Epinions.com No wonder more than a million people bought the single (Keith Moon of The Who loved The Raspberries so much that he later joined them on stage, behind the drums, for a 1974 Los Angeles performance). Included are all four Top 40 hits by The Raspberries (featuring lead singer Eric "All By Myself" Carmen) and all three Top 40 hits by The Babys (featuring lead singer John "Missing You" Waite). This final recording lineup scored a seventh Hot 100 hit for the band and their album, "Starting Over," was named Album Of The Year by Rolling Stone magazine --- when that fourth and final album sold poorly, the group split. www.epinions.com /content_110347390596   (45 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Back To Back Hits - The Raspberries/The Babys at Epinions.com No wonder more than a million people bought the single (Keith Moon of The Who loved The Raspberries so much that he later joined them on stage, behind the drums, for a 1974 Los Angeles performance). Included are all four Top 40 hits by The Raspberries (featuring lead singer Eric "All By Myself" Carmen) and all three Top 40 hits by The Babys (featuring lead singer John "Missing You" Waite). This final recording lineup scored a seventh Hot 100 hit for the band and their album, "Starting Over," was named Album Of The Year by Rolling Stone magazine --- when that fourth and final album sold poorly, the group split. www.epinions.com /content_110347390596   (45 words)

Amazon.com: Eric Carmen: Music Carmen stormed the charts in 1975 with this album's two lush, forlorn ballads, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" and "All By Myself." But his history as a pop-rocker with The Raspberries was also a strong presence on this solo debut's album tracks. That said, Eric's summation of his Raspberries years, Great Expectations/Everything/No Hard Feelings, is a nicely done tip of the hat to his old band. Rhino's reissue of the original Arista album thoughtfully includes the album version of "All By Myself" (all 7-minutes, 10-seconds of it, including a lengthy instrumental passage in the middle) along with the edited 5-minute single, and a live version of "Sunrise" that can't touch the carefully manicured brilliance of the studio original. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000032XT?v=glance   (1157 words)

Amazon.com: Music: Eric Carmen Carmen stormed the charts in 1975 with this album's two lush, forlorn ballads, "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" and "All By Myself." But his history as a pop-rocker with The Raspberries was also a strong presence on this solo debut's album tracks. Rhino's reissue of the original Arista album thoughtfully includes the album version of "All By Myself" (all 7-minutes, 10-seconds of it, including a lengthy instrumental passage in the middle) along with the edited 5-minute single, and a live version of "Sunrise" that can't touch the carefully manicured brilliance of the studio original. The closing cover of "On Broadway" is out of place among Carmen's originals, not least of which for the slick wind-chimes and synthesizers. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000032XT?v=glance   (1157 words)

Eric Carmen News The album it was from, Eric's first and only (to date; a Raspberries' live album will follow the reunion tour in 2000) live album, "Dirty Dancing Live" (RCA) also did not chart. Eric then spent considerable time trying to put together a solo album for Arista in the early 1990s, only to see it rejected by the label. Eric Carmen's last US release was "Eric Carmen" on Geffen Records, released in the US on January 7, 1985. members.aol.com /dkrider214/ericcarmen.html   (1267 words)

Eric Carmen Carmen achieved far greater success with his debut solo album than he ever had with his old group, the Raspberries. His first solo album backs up that contention, though not exactly in the way its proponents might have expected. Where the Raspberries played rock & roll that revolved around Carmen's rhythm guitar, this is production pop geared to piano. www.superseventies.com /carmeneric.html   (579 words)

printme.php?&eid=26973 The second album, Head Trip in Every Key, bombed, and a few critics pounded the group. Preparing for their third album, Superdrag showed the label dozens of songs; label execs pushed the band to go back to the writing room. The album ended up on the Top 10 lists of some of the same critics who had dissed Head Trip. www.ocweekly.com /printme.php?&eid=26973   (579 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Refreshed [EP] - The Raspberries at Epinions.com The resulting album, "Refreshed" (a reference to their 1972 classic "Fresh" album), was released in October 2000 on Legendstar Records. Married with children (son Jesse is guitarist for Qwasi Qwa, a Cleveland recording group whose debut album was produced by Wally last year; Qwasi Qwa won the 1997 Mountain Dew High School Rock-offs competition and was named "Best Americana/Pop Band" in a Cleveland Free Times' readers poll in 2001)). Wally is part-Cherokee Indian giving him an exotic facial appearance, wearing his hair waist length, often braided in the Cherokee-style. www.epinions.com /content_20892847748   (2337 words)

Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) - The Raspberries - CDs, clips Amazon.com has an audio clip of "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" by The Raspberries on the CD album listed below. To listen to this clip, click on the album name and you will be taken to a CD product web page with a list of album tracks linked to song clips. Overnight Sensation (Hit Record) - The Raspberries - 1974 www.allbutforgottenoldies.net /listen-to/clips.php?song_id=62055   (88 words)

LyricsVault: Hall of fame: Oliver Oliver began his UA career in early 1971 with a song that epitomized his desire for global change, "Light the Way." It was written by future Raspberries leader Eric Carmen, who also played piano and organ on it and wrote the string arrangement. The album failed to hit, while Swofford was left with no band and no deal. William Oliver Swofford died three years after these notes were written died of cancer at the age of 54, on Saturday, February 13th, 2000. www.lyricsvault.net /halloffame/Oliver.html   (1155 words)

The Official Raspberries Website Eric returned to concentrating on the songwriting craft during 1979 in preparation to record what would become the "Tonight You're Mine" album. The band then was signed to record an album for Cleveland International produced by Eric in 1979. Eric's third album, "Change Of Heart," featuring a title track that had already been covered by Samantha Sang, was released in 1978. www.raspberries.net /ericbio2.htm   (634 words)

Amazon.com: Nazz: Music Too bad: Nazz was like a "How To" instruction manual for power pop later followed by groups such as the Raspberries. The Beatles influence shows on the album cover, which rather obviously spoofs the With The Beatles album cover. Nazz is neither "classic" nor "revolutionary," but it is a captivating venture from an Anglo mod band who faded into the rock ocean with hardly a splash. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000032B6?v=glance   (1882 words)

Welcome to EricCarmen.com! Simon Cowell's discovery skyrocketed to the top of the charts with their album ANCORA, which features a dramatic COVER of "All By Myself." Eric, who recently viewed the group's performance live on their DVD titled ENCORE, proclaimed, "They close their show with 'All By Myself' and it's spectacular! Win an iPod Nano preloaded with every Raspberries and Eric Carmen solo album plus bonus tracks! There simply is no escape from "All by Myself," 30 years after it first went to the top of the charts. www.ericcarmen.com   (661 words)

Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Desolation Boulevard - Sweet at Epinions.com I consider "Desolation Boulevard" to be a classic album of the 1970's --- something of a bridge between the power pop movement (The Raspberries, Badfinger, Big Star, Stories) and the the glam-rock/progressive rock years (T. Rex, David Bowie, Slade, Queen). Fans of 1970's Top 40 radio will love this classic rock album, featuring the Top 5 U. hits "Ballroom Blitz" and "Fox On The Run." Though two members of the band have sadly passed from our ranks, the music lives on in the cuts on "Desolation Boulevard." The 10 tracks featured various producers, including Chinn and Chapman, with Phil Wainman (co-writer of The Yardbird's "Little Games" and later producer of The Bay City Rollers, Mud and Generation X) and The Sweet also producing various tracks. www.epinions.com /content_132562325124   (1837 words)

MusicMoz - Bands and Artists: G: Glass Harp: Timeline Members of the Outsiders, the Poni-Tails, the Michael Stanley Band, the Raspberries, the Dead Boys, Pere Ubu and the O'Jays were also featured. They perform at Carnegie Hall and the concert is recorded to be released as their forth album. Glass Harp's third and final Decca album is released as Phil Keaggy desides to leave the band to pursue a solo career in the Christian music field. musicmoz.org /Bands_and_Artists/G/Glass_Harp/Timeline   (1022 words)

TrouserPress.com :: Exploding Hearts Bankston left and Fitzgerald replaced Evans before the Hearts released Guitar Romantic, ten loud pop blasts about love and rejection (seven of them co-written by Bankston) that might have sounded just as good recorded by the Shirelles, the Raspberries or Generation X. The nearly flawless album is hampered only by inconsistent, unfittingly lo-fi production. Each song on the band's one and only album sounds immediately familiar, yet these echoes of Motown, Cheap Trick, British punk, bubblegum pop and early Who exude so much charm and infectiousness that it's hard to criticize the Hearts for being such adroit copycats. Those who blinked in early 2003 missed the rapid ascent of the Exploding Hearts, a Portland, Oregon punk quartet that earned heaps of well-deserved accolades in merely a few months for crafting a sound cribbed from dozens of rock 'n' roll's two-minute masterpieces. www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=exploding_hearts   (275 words)

Post Reflect Larry Kennedy I personally continue to draw excitement from the Raspberries' albums because of their democratic approach to lead vocals, their varied songwriting contributions, their wonderful "White Album"-width palette approach to style and production, and their tireless dedication to reminding us all what it is that we love about this music called Rock'n'Roll. My band identifies with all of these unique qualities about the Raspberries, and so they remain a mythical source of self-assurance for our musical values and goals. When I heard "I Wanna Be With You" for the first time, I seriously ached to have been in the band that recorded it. www.raspberries.net /PostReflectLarryKennedy.htm   (402 words)

Pop Culture Press: Blue Ash The band before Raspberries that I wrote about in Eric Carmen's book was called Cyrus Erie [note: Eric Carmen was in Cyrus Erie, the other three in the Choir, although they'd all played together variously before Raspberries]. The sound quality on this CD is better than that of the original NMNL vinyl album. Blue Ash are the great lost band of the '70s -- one of, if not the, best power pop band of all times, playing a passionate '65-'66 inspired version of pop music that predated but exactly foreshadowed a lot of the great punk records in '76-'79. www.popculturepress.com /blueash.htm   (3893 words)

Amazon.com: Starting Over: Music Starting Over was a great way to kick off the new Raspberries, but the fun ended almost as soon as it started. To this day, listening to Starting Over makes me think that four albums were far too few for the band to get the message across, and I've always wished for more. Perhaps sensing that their days as a band were numbered, the Raspberries dropped the white-suited goody-two-shoes bubblegum act and produced their best (and final) lp, 1974's "Starting Over". www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0007736Y8?v=glance   (911 words)

Overnight Sensation by The Raspberries: Reviews Although it isn't as comprehensive as Capitol Collectors Series, Greatest Hits is a terrific overview of the Raspberries' best songs, containing all of their hits -- "Go All the Way," "I Wanna Be With You," "Let's Pretend," "Tonight," "Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)" -- plus selected album tracks and lesser-known singles. The Raspberries : Albums : Greatest Hits : Overnight Sensation : Reviews If you can see this, your browser does not support flash. www.mp3.com /tracks/1266249/reviews.html   (139 words)

Eric Carmen The rest of the album and Carmen's subsequent, less commercially successful albums were a pastiche of classic pop styles. (This bio provided by allMusicGuide) Eric Carmen was the lead vocalist and songwriter of the Raspberries, an early-'70s band heavily influenced by mid-'60s pop, especially the Beatles. For his 1975 self-titled debut album, Carmen looked even farther into the past, to the early 20th century. www.80smusiclyrics.com /artists/ericcarmen.htm   (120 words)

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