Golden Earring - Switch (Remastered & Expanded) (1975/2025)

Posted By: delpotro
Date: Aug. 22, 2025

Golden Earring - Switch (Remastered & Expanded) (1975/2025)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 486 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 180 Mb | 01:17:33
Progressive Rock, Classic Rock, Hard Rock | Label: Red Bullet

Expanded edition of the 1975 album; the follow-up to the band's international breakthrough album Moontan. Remastered from the first-generation IBC Studios master tapes, featuring unreleased track from the Switch sessions, single edits, B-sides and various previously unreleased outtakes and early versions & mixes. Includes a 16-page booklet with essay, memorabilia & photos. Founded in 1961 by George Kooymans and Rinus Gerritsen, Dutch rock band Golden Earring (or Golden Earring's, until 1969) started off as a beat band, experimented as a psychedelic quartet and finally became a heavy rock group. Their ninth album Moontan (1973) hit the international album charts and is the band's most successful album in the United States, being the only Golden Earring album to be certified Gold by the RIAA. Switch is the tenth studio album by Golden Earring, released in 1975 as the follow-up of the band's international breakthrough album Moontan. Switch actually marked a switch for Golden Earring, as it was more influenced by funk and prog than any of the band's previous or subsequent releases. Lead single Kill Me (Ce Soir) perfectly demonstrates how Golden Earring experimented with a new sound. Apart from a variety of previously unreleased outtakes and rough mixes, this 50th anniversary reissue of Switch features an unreleased track "Action Alice & Bow-Tie Basil". Recorded during the Switch sessions, this is the first time the band has approved a previously unreleased finished studio track for release. All tracks have been 24 bit/192 kHz remastered from the original master tapes. This expanded CD edition of Switch is the sixth instalment in a special series of remastered & expanded albums by Golden Earring, overseen by Red Bullet catalogue and band archivist Wouter Bessels.
Tracklist:
1. Intro Plus Minus Absurdio
2. Love Is a Rodeo
3. The Switch
4. Kill Me (Ce Soir)
5. Tons of Time
6. Daddy's Gonna Save My Soul
7. Troubles ; Hassles
8. The Lonesome D.J
9. Lucky Number
10. Action Alice ; Bow-Tie Basil
11. Kill Me (Ce Soir) (7-Inch Single Version)
12. The Switch (7-Inch Single Version)
13. Intro Plus Minus Absurdio (Rough Mix)
14. Love Is a Rodeo (Rough Mix)
15. The Switch (Rough Mix)
16. Tons of Time (Rough Mix)
17. Troubles ; Hassles (Rough Mix)
18. Love Is a Rodeo (Instrumental Rough Mix)

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