Manfred Mann's Earth Band (Album)

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Studio album by Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Publication
(s)

Jan 24, 1972 (USA)
Feb 18, 1972 (UK & Europe)

admission

1971

Label (s) Polydor (USA)
Philips (UK & Europe)

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Rock , progressive rock

Title (number)

10

running time

42:33

occupation

production

Manfred Mann, Dave Hadfield, David Mackay

Studio (s)

Maximum Studios, London and IBC Studios, London

chronology
Stepping Sideways (unpublished)
(1971) 		Manfred Mann's Earth Band Glorified Magnified
(1972)
Single releases
June 25, 1971 (UK & Europe)
January 28, 1972 (USA) 		Living Without You
Sep 10, 1971 (US, UK, Europe) (Please) Mrs. Henry
June 14, 1972 (USA) I'm Up & I'm Leaving

Manfred Mann's Earth Band is the first published music album by the British rock band Manfred Mann's Earth Band . It was recorded at Maximum Studios and IBC Studios in London in 1971 and was released in 1972.

The album

Manfred Mann's Earth Band contains a mixture of cover versions and their own titles, which is typical for the Earth Band. The cover versions of this album are u. a. to find songs by Bob Dylan , Dr. John , Randy Newman and the American guitarist Lane Tietgen .

reception

Robert Christgau gave the album the best rating A + and describes the title Part Time Man as brilliant.

JP Ollio from allmusic describes the album as brilliant too. It was one of the most underrated albums of the 1970s and completely satisfied the listener. The album received four and a half stars out of five.

In Volume 1 of its Rock book series , the magazine eclipsed describes the album as "still having strong blues and jazz bonds [...] as varied and at the same time fascinatingly different." ( Walter Sehrer, Matthias Bergert, Marcus Wicker, Wolfram Porr : Rock - Das Gesamtwerk of the biggest rock acts in the check: all albums, all songs (part 1)) and awards the work in the middle category quality purchase . The album lands in 11th place among all Manfred Mann's Earth Band albums.

Chart placements
Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
United States (Billboard) United States (Billboard) 138 (6 weeks) 6th

The single Living Without You stayed in the spring of 1972 for seven weeks on the US Billboard charts and reached 69th place as the highest position.

Track list

page 1

  1. California Coastline (Timothy Martin, Walt Meskell) - 3:48
  2. Captain Bobby Stout (Lane Tietgen) - 6:57
  3. Sloth (Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers) - 1:27
  4. Living Without You (Randy Newman) - 3:36
  5. Tribute (Manfred Mann) - 5:32


Page 2

  2. Please Mrs. Henry (Bob Dylan) - 4:33
  3. Jump Sturdy (Dr. John Creaux) - 4:49
  4. Prayer (Manfred Mann) - 5:40
  5. Part Time Man (David Sadler, Manfred Mann) - 3:04
  6. I'm Up and I'm Leaving (David Sadler, Manfred Mann) - 3:04

Further use

Massive Attack used a sample from the track Tribute in the track Black Milk of their album Mezzanine .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 200 .
  2. ↑ a b Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 112-121 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 196 .
  4. ↑ a b Greg Russo: Mannerisms - The five phases of Manfred Mann . 2nd Edition. Crossfire Publications, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-9791845-2-9 , pp. 197 .
  5. ↑ Robert Christgau on albums of the Earthband. In: robertchristgau.com. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Manfred Mann's Earth Band at Allmusic (English).
  7. ↑ Walter Sehrer, Matthias Bergert, Marcus Wicker, Wolfram Porr: Manfred Mann's Earth Band . In: eclipsed-Redaktion (ed.): Rock –The complete works of the greatest rock acts in check: all albums, all songs . Part 1. Sysyphus Verlag GmbH, Aschaffenburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86852-646-2 , p. 148-159 .
  8. ↑ Chart History Manfred Mann. billboard.com, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Single 'Living Without You' in the US charts. Billboard, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  10. ↑ http://massiveattack.ie/wiki/black-milk/

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