チェンバロ、ハープシコードを前面に出したクラシカルなソフトロックという噂を聞いて購入。
66年の作品でソフトロックの流行る随分前なんだな、ドアーズと同時期で変わった編成のバンドという意味では似てる、品の良いクラシカルなビートバンドで「愛しのルネ」が大ヒット、このルネは実在の女性でバンドメンバーはみんな好きになりかなりドロドロした事になっていたろうなあ。この「愛しのルネ」を日本語訳したのがコレクターズの加藤ひさし氏、伊藤銀次からの以来だそう。
解説の加藤氏はその仕事からの起用かもしれないがかなり詳しい事まで書いていて参考になる。エンジェルの前身バンドがレフトバンクをカバーしてたとか。
最後の曲だけファズギターが鳴る異色曲でこれはGSファンにも人気ありそう。
Walk Away Renee/Pretty..
仕様 | 価格 | 新品 | 中古品 |
CD, リミックス含む, インポート, 2015/8/28
"もう一度試してください。" | インポート, リミックス含む |
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| ¥9,941 | — |
CD, 1998/12/9
"もう一度試してください。" | 1枚組 |
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| — | ¥680 |
CD, CD, リミックス含む, 2011/6/28
"もう一度試してください。" | CD, インポート |
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| — | — |
曲目リスト
1 | Pretty Ballerina |
2 | She May Call You Up Tonight |
3 | Barterers And Their Wives |
4 | I've Got Something On My Mind |
5 | Let Go Of You Girl |
6 | Evening Gown |
7 | Walk Away Renee |
8 | What Do You Know |
9 | Shadows Breaking Over My Head |
10 | I Haven't Got the Nerve |
11 | Lazy Day |
商品の説明
Pop connoisseurs have long held up this 1967 LP as one of the greatest debuts of the '60s-but few have had the chance to actually hold a copy, as this classic has been out of print for decades. Haunting harmonies soar over dreamy, classical-esque pop as you hear their smash Walk Away Renee and hit Pretty Ballerina plus Evening Gown; Lazy Day; What Do You Know essential!
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- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 製品サイズ : 14.3 x 12.8 x 0.51 cm; 49.9 g
- メーカー : Sundazed Music Inc.
- EAN : 0090771627629, 0521258908813
- 商品モデル番号 : 17571597
- オリジナル盤発売日 : 2011
- レーベル : Sundazed Music Inc.
- ASIN : B004Y03LHQ
- ディスク枚数 : 1
- Amazon 売れ筋ランキング: - 467,836位ミュージック (ミュージックの売れ筋ランキングを見る)
- - 99,676位ロック (ミュージック)
- - 141,573位輸入盤
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上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2016年5月27日に日本でレビュー済み
Amazonで購入
Common Folk盤のリイシューの内容はThere's Gonna Be A Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966-1969(1992年リリース)のコピー品と思われます。マスターも全く同じです。ジャケットも解像度の低いもので正規のモノじゃないことがすぐにわかります。
リマスターを期待するなら買わない方がいいでしょう。ただ、Sundazed盤のリイシューは1stアルバムのマスター状態や良くなくこもり気味であることやイントロがブツ切れだったりするため、1stに関しては”There's Gonna~”と同様の旧盤に分があると思います。
リマスターを期待するなら買わない方がいいでしょう。ただ、Sundazed盤のリイシューは1stアルバムのマスター状態や良くなくこもり気味であることやイントロがブツ切れだったりするため、1stに関しては”There's Gonna~”と同様の旧盤に分があると思います。
2011年11月11日に日本でレビュー済み
Amazonで購入
アウトレットに家族で行き、買い物しているときに流れていて、誰の曲だったか、なかなか思い出せず、困っておりました。1960年代のオムニバスアルバムに収録されているのを見つけて、曲名がいとしのルネだとわかりました。さっそくネットで検索して収録されているこのアルバムを購入しましたが、ルネ以外にも聞きやすい曲が収録されており、ゾンビーズなどがお好きな人にもおすすめです。
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Mark
5つ星のうち5.0
More than "Walk Away Renee" - a LOT more
2023年12月21日にカナダでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
There was a lot of great music made in the Sixties, on pop radio and on full length albums. There was so much wonderful music, in fact, that a lot of bands that could have been bigger and had more hits were washed under by the tidal wave of Beatles, Stones, Supremes, and Monkees. This album by baroque pop band The Left Banke has the group's signature hits, "Pretty Ballerina" and "Walk Away Renee" and many others that should have been Top Ten smashes. Every song here is first-rate and fantastic. If their two hits have piqued your curiousity, I implore you to dig deeper, with this massively ear-pleasing LP!
johnf
5つ星のうち5.0
Turbulent group from the peak of Baroque Pop
2023年7月3日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Considering that the Left Banke had such a brief, almost ephemeral heyday between autumn 1966 and spring 1967, I am heartened by the fact that there is enough continuing interest in the group to keep their Cds in print even now. There are two main ways to collect their music on disc, the Universal/Mercury 26-song anthology, “There’s Gonna Be a Storm” (1992) or Sundazed’s reissue of their two catalog albums with original covers. There was a Rhino collection and various releases in Japan and Germany, but these are the two easily available U.S. discs. Both use the original masters and both have excellent sound and booklets, but there are significant differences. The Mercury anthology kept the songs from their albums together, but totally scrambled the song order. The logic to the “Storm” album puts the more classical music influenced songs together but why leave out “Shadows Breaking Over My Head” from this grouping. I don’t know if the original song sequences were made by band members or the label’s producers, but this was an important thing back then and should have been retained. One example is that it was perfect for their first album to end with the uptempo rocker “Lazy Day”.
Secondly, the sound remastering is totally different for each label. Mercury made new stereo mixes for the songs and they sound really great. Sundazed opted to remaster everything in the original mixes, thus making the albums sound exactly as they did originally and these sound great as well. I’ve had the Mercury disc for years but had to get the Sundazed as well and I’m glad to have both. I prefer the Sundazed because it does sound like the album I bought in early 1967. Though sourced from the stereo masters, it’s a less elaborate stereo mix that’s a bit more like mono. But both are great and just a personal taste issue.
The Left Banke happened almost by accident when several teenagers met at various places and ended up at World United Recording studio on 48th St. and Broadway, where a couple of them had recorded with prior bands. The studio was owned by Harry Lookofsky, a classical violinist who also played jazz violin and whose presence hovered over the band in both positive and negative ways. His midteen son, Michael Brown, was trained in classical piano and was really interested in what these guys were doing. He had the keys to the studio which meant lots of time rehearsing and hanging out together beginning in late 1965. Eventually Lookofsky heard them and thought they had great potential. He became their manager, producer and publisher, which gave him a lot of control, which despite good intentions was not always beneficial.
The band members were quite turbulent together with many issues involving their musical direction as well as interpersonal conflicts. The greatest of these was when 16 year old Michael fell totally in love with bass player Tom Finn’s girlfriend. Her name was Renee. Here’s a clear case of the adage that some of the worst times can produce the highest inspiration. She was Tom’s girlfriend and uninterested in Michael in a romantic way and when in your teens, this can seem like a world-ending event. It produced the songs “Walk Away Renee”, “Pretty Ballerina”, “She May Call You Up Tonight” and likely “Shadows Breaking Over My Head”, all written by Michael with enough help from other members to share some composer credits.
Membership in the band changed several times. Michael and drummer Warren David Schierhorst tried to run away to California but were brought back by Michael’s father, who fired the drummer, who was replaced by George Cameron. Guitarist Jeff Winfield left and was replaced by Rick Brand who got his picture on the cover even though he was only on “Let Go of You Girl”. Except for Michael the band members were just learning their instruments so the album was mostly recorded by Michael and studio musicians with the three vocalists (Steve Martin-Caro, Tom Finn and George Cameron) overdubbing later on.
With Michael writing all but one of the songs on the album and working mostly with studio musicians, it’s not surprising that he began to think he essentially was the Left Banke, causing more friction. By the time “Walk Away Renee” was released he had quit the band, which had all but split up. The hit brought them back together but there was a long stream of problems which at one point included two versions of the band at odds with lawsuits following. Even when back together again management did not give them good equipment, making them sound bad on tours from which they saw virtually no money. Then Michael decided he just wanted to write the music and not tour at all. It goes on like that. The second and last album is good despite it being pieced together from recordings by the three vocalists, Cameron, Finn and Martin with or without Michael and with several different producers.
This album is the result of their most creative time together and seems more of a piece than the second. It’s one of those rare first albums where every track is good. The Left Banke are generally called Baroque Rock or Pop, a catch-all term for a trend when popular music was picking up influences from classical music from instrumentation to compositional style. It was a time when the oboe briefly became an important element in pop. Virtually none of it was actually Baroque. The only purely Baroque style and arrangements were the Cyrkle’s “Please Don’t Ever Leave Me”and the Bee Gees “Turn of the Century”. But after a string quartet accompanied the Beatles juggernaut hit “Yesterday,” classical instrumentation and styles appeared in songs by the Rolling Stones, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Donovan, Judy Collins, the Bee Gees, the Lovin’ Spoonful and others. But the Left Banke made it more of their overall style and were more identified with the movement than anyone. Given that none of the boys were arrangers, I have to assume that Michael’s father was the primary arranger.
“Walk Away Renee” has a beautiful string accompaniment and a haunting flute solo that enhances its romantic melancholy. “Pretty Ballerina” was wistful and ethereal with another beautiful instrumental part this time in a minor key with strings and oboe. The classical songs include “Barterers and Their Wives”, a kind of Renaissance Fair fantasy with open harmonies, acoustic guitars and Michael’s harpsichord creating a lively scene. “I’ve Got Something On My Mind” continues with a harpsichord and another surprising string bridge with a Rococo flourish. “She May Call You Up Tonight” is pure sunshine pop with especially fine vocal work. “Shadows Breaking Over My Head” opens with a strangely dissonant flourish (perhaps inspired by Mozart’s String Quartet no.19, with which Michael and his father would have been familiar) and sustains an eerie and mournful feeling. The band could also rock out. “Evening Gown” jumps and could be one of the lighter numbers by a garage band, especially with the “Alright”. “I Haven’t Got the Nerve” jumps around in rhythms and keys and uses the harpsichord as a rhythm instrument. “Lazy Day” goes all the way, even using a fuzz guitar and except for its jazzy rhythms could easily go on a “Nuggets” collection. These tracks may be a surprise to people who only know their reputation as a Baroque Pop group but are as good as anything on the album except their two hits.
Secondly, the sound remastering is totally different for each label. Mercury made new stereo mixes for the songs and they sound really great. Sundazed opted to remaster everything in the original mixes, thus making the albums sound exactly as they did originally and these sound great as well. I’ve had the Mercury disc for years but had to get the Sundazed as well and I’m glad to have both. I prefer the Sundazed because it does sound like the album I bought in early 1967. Though sourced from the stereo masters, it’s a less elaborate stereo mix that’s a bit more like mono. But both are great and just a personal taste issue.
The Left Banke happened almost by accident when several teenagers met at various places and ended up at World United Recording studio on 48th St. and Broadway, where a couple of them had recorded with prior bands. The studio was owned by Harry Lookofsky, a classical violinist who also played jazz violin and whose presence hovered over the band in both positive and negative ways. His midteen son, Michael Brown, was trained in classical piano and was really interested in what these guys were doing. He had the keys to the studio which meant lots of time rehearsing and hanging out together beginning in late 1965. Eventually Lookofsky heard them and thought they had great potential. He became their manager, producer and publisher, which gave him a lot of control, which despite good intentions was not always beneficial.
The band members were quite turbulent together with many issues involving their musical direction as well as interpersonal conflicts. The greatest of these was when 16 year old Michael fell totally in love with bass player Tom Finn’s girlfriend. Her name was Renee. Here’s a clear case of the adage that some of the worst times can produce the highest inspiration. She was Tom’s girlfriend and uninterested in Michael in a romantic way and when in your teens, this can seem like a world-ending event. It produced the songs “Walk Away Renee”, “Pretty Ballerina”, “She May Call You Up Tonight” and likely “Shadows Breaking Over My Head”, all written by Michael with enough help from other members to share some composer credits.
Membership in the band changed several times. Michael and drummer Warren David Schierhorst tried to run away to California but were brought back by Michael’s father, who fired the drummer, who was replaced by George Cameron. Guitarist Jeff Winfield left and was replaced by Rick Brand who got his picture on the cover even though he was only on “Let Go of You Girl”. Except for Michael the band members were just learning their instruments so the album was mostly recorded by Michael and studio musicians with the three vocalists (Steve Martin-Caro, Tom Finn and George Cameron) overdubbing later on.
With Michael writing all but one of the songs on the album and working mostly with studio musicians, it’s not surprising that he began to think he essentially was the Left Banke, causing more friction. By the time “Walk Away Renee” was released he had quit the band, which had all but split up. The hit brought them back together but there was a long stream of problems which at one point included two versions of the band at odds with lawsuits following. Even when back together again management did not give them good equipment, making them sound bad on tours from which they saw virtually no money. Then Michael decided he just wanted to write the music and not tour at all. It goes on like that. The second and last album is good despite it being pieced together from recordings by the three vocalists, Cameron, Finn and Martin with or without Michael and with several different producers.
This album is the result of their most creative time together and seems more of a piece than the second. It’s one of those rare first albums where every track is good. The Left Banke are generally called Baroque Rock or Pop, a catch-all term for a trend when popular music was picking up influences from classical music from instrumentation to compositional style. It was a time when the oboe briefly became an important element in pop. Virtually none of it was actually Baroque. The only purely Baroque style and arrangements were the Cyrkle’s “Please Don’t Ever Leave Me”and the Bee Gees “Turn of the Century”. But after a string quartet accompanied the Beatles juggernaut hit “Yesterday,” classical instrumentation and styles appeared in songs by the Rolling Stones, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Donovan, Judy Collins, the Bee Gees, the Lovin’ Spoonful and others. But the Left Banke made it more of their overall style and were more identified with the movement than anyone. Given that none of the boys were arrangers, I have to assume that Michael’s father was the primary arranger.
“Walk Away Renee” has a beautiful string accompaniment and a haunting flute solo that enhances its romantic melancholy. “Pretty Ballerina” was wistful and ethereal with another beautiful instrumental part this time in a minor key with strings and oboe. The classical songs include “Barterers and Their Wives”, a kind of Renaissance Fair fantasy with open harmonies, acoustic guitars and Michael’s harpsichord creating a lively scene. “I’ve Got Something On My Mind” continues with a harpsichord and another surprising string bridge with a Rococo flourish. “She May Call You Up Tonight” is pure sunshine pop with especially fine vocal work. “Shadows Breaking Over My Head” opens with a strangely dissonant flourish (perhaps inspired by Mozart’s String Quartet no.19, with which Michael and his father would have been familiar) and sustains an eerie and mournful feeling. The band could also rock out. “Evening Gown” jumps and could be one of the lighter numbers by a garage band, especially with the “Alright”. “I Haven’t Got the Nerve” jumps around in rhythms and keys and uses the harpsichord as a rhythm instrument. “Lazy Day” goes all the way, even using a fuzz guitar and except for its jazzy rhythms could easily go on a “Nuggets” collection. These tracks may be a surprise to people who only know their reputation as a Baroque Pop group but are as good as anything on the album except their two hits.
rogerio eustaquio de oliveira
5つ星のうち5.0
Clássicos
2022年1月17日にブラジルでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Album clássico.
R.S. aus Bernburg / Saale
5つ星のうち5.0
Goldstücke nach Jahrzehnten wieder gefunden
2020年8月16日にドイツでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina gehörten seit den 60er Jahren zu meinen Lieblingssongs, Nur wußte ich bis vor kurzem nicht, von wem sie sind. Walk Away Renée schrieb ich lange den Four Tops zu. Pretty Ballerina konnte ich überhaupt keiner Gruppe zuordnen, war aber ständig mein Ohrwurm, weil mich dieser Titel an eine Jugendliebe erinnert. Soeben kaufte ich The lenft Banke 2, das vorläufig letzte vorhandene Exemplar. Das sagt doch eigentlich alles, oder?! Jeder hat so seinen Geschmack, die Jugendliebe ist lange her, aber diese Musik verfogt mich ständig heute noch. Man gut, dass es das Internet und Amazon gibt, danke.
jordi martinez latorre
5つ星のうち5.0
Muy bueno
2019年2月27日にスペインでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Perfecto