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America
American/British folk rock
Studio
Albums
America
(1972)
Homecoming
(1972)
Hat-Trick
(1973
Holiday
(1974)
Hearts
(1975)
Hideaway
(1976)
Harbour
(1977)
Silent
Letter (1980)
View
from the Ground (1982)
Your
Move (1983)
Perspective
(1984)
Hour
Glass (1994)
Human
Nature (1998)
Holiday
Marmony (2002)
Here
and Now (2007)
Live
Albums
Live
(1977)
In
Concert (1985)
In
Concert (1995)
The
Grand Cayman Concert (2002)
Selected
Compilations
History
- Greatest Hits (1975)
Encore
- More Greatest Hits (1991)
Highway
- 30 Years of America (2000)
Complete
Greatest Hits (2001)
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AMERICA
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America - 9
Some albums just sound good, however many times they are played. Some are
just part of the growing up experience. Here is one of those albums - part
of my musical heritage. The album oozes class and warmth. It's full of
period pieces with attitude, close harmonies and instantly hummable
choruses and hooks.
In the folk rock canon this album has undeniable beauty and as a first
album compares with and betters most in its genre. Songs of love, songs of
desire. America could at times be obtuse with their lyrics, never more so
than on the hit single Horse with No Name. This track was excluded from
the vinyl album I first bought but has subsequently been restored and the
album is more representative of the group with it included. It's just one
of those albums that sits well with the world from which it comes.
Individually I Need You is one of the most romantic songs. This album made
me sit up to close harmony groups like The Eagles, Crosby, Stills, Nash
and Young etc. It also made America enter into my consciousness as one of
my favourite bands
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Holiday
- 5
Despite my love of the band I find this one of their least
satisfying albums. The sweet, distinctive harmonies are there but some of
the lyrics are trite.Having said that the album has a quirky feel to it which somehow evokes
the American countryside and feelings of peace and calm.Tin Man, Lonely People, Glad to See You and Mad Dog are the best
tracks.
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| Silent
Letter - 8
Only Game in Town/ All Around/ Tall
Treasures/ 1960/ And Forever/ Foolin/ All Night/ No Fortune/ All My
Life/ One Morning/ High in the City
This is one of my favourite America
albums. Returning to it after many years I suddenly realised how
these songs fit like old friends. Dan Peek may have left the band
but this is undeniably an America album. There are some beautiful
tracks here - no more so than All My Life - a thoroughly tender
ballad. Then there are singalongs like All Around. And I just love
1960 and the reminiscences of a maybe gentler era. This is a lovely
album - the last one to be produced for the band by George Martin.
This is a kind of cosy, pipe and slippers album. If you want to know
what I mean just listen to the lyrics of Tall Treasures which has a
unique pastoral feel to it. The harmonies are a s good as ever and
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