The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Impossible Dream (1974) {2014, Japanese Reissue} Repost
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Impossible Dream (1974) {2014, Japanese Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 300 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 103 Mb
Full Scans ~ 248 Mb | 00:42:52 | RAR 5% Recovery
Glam Rock | Vertigo / Mercury / Universal Music #UICY-76070
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 300 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 103 Mb
Full Scans ~ 248 Mb | 00:42:52 | RAR 5% Recovery
Glam Rock | Vertigo / Mercury / Universal Music #UICY-76070
The Impossible Dream was the third album by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, released October 4, 1974. The album was released separately on CD but can be hard to find; however, the CD is widely available on a 2-in-1 album, the other album being Tomorrow Belongs to Me. It was the band's first release to chart, peaking at No. 16 on the UK Album Chart. "Anthem" was the last single released by SAHB in the U.S. Between March 26–4 April 1974 at Advision Studios, London, the SAHB had recorded an album with producer Shel Talmy. It remained unreleased until 2009 when it was released as Hot City. Many of the songs were re-recorded for The Impossible Dream.
Whoever thought that the surface obsession of glam rock never met the loopy idealism of the hippie movement – at least in the musical realm – has obviously never heard the appropriately titled The Impossible Dream. Recorded, again, appropriately, as the Age of Aquarius was in full transition to the age of the Spiders From Mars and, later, the me decade, The Impossible Dream manages to capture that cultural DMZ in an operatic blast of pub rock-based pomp without circumstance. Harvey is the bacchanalian ringleader, marshalling the Sensational Alex Harvey Band's considerable, flexible resources to the task at hand and providing a damn good listen in the process. Multi-part song cycles, three-minute rockers. and tomes such as "Long Hair Music" keep you, the unexpecting listener, on edge. This is one of those overlooked records, and Harvey was one of those artists, that could easily have reached less than an arm's length and touched T. Rex, Queen, the New York Dolls, AC/DC, or Sweet, and, by extension, Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Guns 'n' Roses. The Impossible Dream is a key album in the discography of one of rock's little-known grand schemers. It rocks out, is pretentious, bombastic, rollicking and grand, but it's never boring.~ Chris Handyside, All Music
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Track List:
01. The Hot City Symphony Part 1 - Vambo [5:04]
02. The Hot City Symphony Part 2 - Man In The Jar [8:18]
03. River Of Love [3:17]
04. Long Hair Music [4:39]
05. Hey [0:43]
06. Sergeant Fury [3:35]
07. Weights Made Of Lead [2:46]
08. Money Honey / Impossible Dream [2:15]
09. Tomahawk Kid [4:37]
10. Anthem [7:44]
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Sensational Alex Harvey Band / The Impossible Dream
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