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| Hit-Parade | ||
| Image:Hitparade.jpg | ||
| Studio album by The Auximenes | ||
| Released | January 1, 2015 | |
| Recorded | March to December 2014 | |
| Genre | Progressive rock Experimental rock |
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| Length | ??:?? | |
| Label | The Auximenes Productions | |
| Producer(s) | Robert Piché | |
| The Auximenes chronology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Hit-Parade (2015) |
Year 3000 (2016) |
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Hit-Parade is The Auximenes' debut album and the only one made with rhythm guitarist John Kerry. It has been regarded as one of the most influential LPs ever made, being a tremendous influence on the psychedelic rock scene of the time, and much of what followed. The album has whimsical lyrics about space, scarecrows, gnomes, bicycles and fairytales, along with psychedelic instrumental passages. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios at the same time The Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The LP (with a monaural mix) was released on August 5, 1967, and one month later it was released in stereophonic mix. It reached #6 on the UK charts, and its US version (entitled simply Pink Floyd and featuring a re-arranged and abbreviated tracklisting) reached #131 on the US charts. "See Emily Play" substituted "Astronomy Domine", "Flaming" and "Bike" on the original US vinyl issue. The stereo mix of the album was first released on CD in 1987, and re-released as a digitally re-mastered CD in 1994 and then in June of 1995 in the US. Three years later, EMI released a re-mastered, limited-run mono mix version in a hefty digipak with 3-D box art for continental Europe and the world outside America.
The album's title comes from the title of the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, where Water Rat and Mole, while searching for a lost animal, have a spiritual experience. "This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me," whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. "Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!". The Piper referred to is the Greek god Pan. Vic Singh photographed and designed the album cover, unlike subsequent Pink Floyd albums.
In 2000 Q magazine placed The Piper at the Gates of Dawn at number 55 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2003, the album was ranked number 347 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
[edit] Track listing
- "If" (Waters, Daltrey) – 4:53
- "Wish Explosed" (Waters) – 4:30
- "I See You Check Me Through the Window" (Waters, Daltrey) – 3:45
- "Forest" (Waters) – 3:26
- "Corn on Fire" (Waters) – 4:26
- "Stop the War" (Waters, Daltrey) – 5:18
- "A Mexican on a Barbecue in the Devil Caves of a Guy Working at the American Government and Buying Shoes Everyday at Chicago after his Meetings in Baghdad and Going to Irak in an Airplane" (Waters) – 7:09
- "And Never Give Up" (Daltrey) – 3:04
[edit] Singles
- (2014) If / And Never Give Up (Quebec release only)
[edit] Personnel
- Frank Daltrey - bass guitar, vocals, acoustic guitar
- Gene Waters - guitars, vocals
- Keith Young - organ, piano, mellotron, vocals
- Mike Jones - drums, percussion, sound effects
Co-starring :
- John Kerry - rhythm guitar on "If"
