Alan Merrill - Merrill 1 (1971)

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Title: Merrill 1
Year Of Release: 1971 (2006)
Label: MEC Records / Alan Merrill
Genre: Pop, Rock, Power Pop, Glam Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks) | Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 46:31
Total Size: 285 MB | 106 MB
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Tracklist
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01. Everyday All Night Stand
02. Starstruck
03. Knot Tier
04. First Love
05. Movies
06. Crazy Lady
07. Policy
08. Please Let Me Love You
09. Know Yourself
10. Ferris Wheel
11. Tranquility
12. Jacqueline
13. Daydream Believer
14. Hey Jude
15. The Drifter
16. Long Hard Road

Before his time of Anglo teen dream stardom with Arrows, or the Vodka Collins phenomenon that helped blueprint glam rock, Alan Merrill was a teenage idol in Japan -- the first foreigner ever to merit that status; the first, in fact, to even claim success in a ferociously parochial domestic market. And this welcome reissue is where it all began, a solid blaze of distinctly Anglo-beat influenced pop songs that, above and beyond the expected Beatles/Badfinger/Move flavored stylisms, paint Merrill as an extraordinarily gifted songwriter. His melodies grab you first, but the lyrics quickly follow. "Movies" foreshadows Ray Davies' later "Celluloid Heroes" so deftly that it almost makes the Kinks' song redundant; and, if you can sometimes hear a bit too much Beatles in the eclecticism of the arrangements, still you can only applaud the fact that he pulls it off so successfully. Indeed, one wonders what he might have wrought had he only remained on this particular course. But a second solo album was abandoned after just a handful of demos (two appear among this set's bonus tracks), and Merrill strode off instead to form Vodka Collins, a new direction for a new decade.~© Dave Thompson /TiVo


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