Challenge!
is the debut studio album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, then
called Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, released in 1969. It features mainly cover
songs, and was a means for Yuya Uchida to explore the emerging psychedelic rock
movement outside his own career, and to introduce the work of upcoming Western
bands such as Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix
Experience, Jefferson Airplane to a Japanese audience. It was named number 34
on Bounce's 2009 list of 54 Standard Japanese Rock Albums.
Shocked
after seeing Jimi Hendrix perform in London in 1967, Yuya Uchida returned home
and wanted to introduce a similar sound to Japan. He formed "the
Flowers" as a cover band with various group sounds musicians, and two
vocalists; male singer Hiroshi Chiba and female singer Remi Aso. The album also
gained notoriety for featuring all of the band members nude on the cover.
Following
its release, Uchida dropped all the members, except drummer George Wada,
recruited guitarist Hideki Ishima, vocalist Joe Yamanaka and bassist Jun
Kobayashi, and formed the Flower Travellin' Band as a band that would appeal to
international audiences. Uchida
himself reverted exclusively to the producer/manager role. Their
first album, Anywhere, mirrored Challenge! by mainly consisting of
cover songs and nude cover art.
On
September 26, 2007, a limited edition of Challenge! was released with five
bonus tracks. They are "Last Chance", "Flower Boy" and
"Yogiri no Trumpet" which were previously released as singles in
1969, and the previously unreleased covers of "Fire" and "Five
to One".
Every day in the week I'm in a different city
If I stay too long people try to pull me down
They talk about me like a dog
Talkin' about the clothes I wear
But they don't realize they're the ones who's square
Yeah!
And that's why
You can't hold me down
I don't want to be tied down I gotta move
Hey
I said
Stone free do what I please
Stone free to ride the breeze
Stone free, baby I can't stay
I got to got to got to get away
Yeah
Listen here baby
A woman here a woman there try to keep me in a plastic
cage
But they don't realize it's so easy to break
Yeah but a sometimes I get a ha
Feel my heart kind a gettin' hot
That's when I got to move before I get caught
So dig this
And the is why, listen to me baby, you can't hold me
down
I don't want to be tied down
I gotta move on
I said
Stone free do what I please
Stone free to ride the breeze
Stone free I can't stay
Got to got to got to get away
Yeah
Tear me loose baby
Hey
Yeah!
I said
Stone free to ride on the breeze
Stone free do what I please
Stone free I can't stay
Stone free I got to I got to get away
Hey
Stone free go on down the highway
Stone free don't try to hold me back baby
Stone free stone free
Stone free got to baby
Stone free got get on.
KAMIKAZE
FLOWER TRAVELLIN' BAND
SONGWRITERS: HIDEKI ISHIMA
& YOKO NOMURO
COUNTRY: JAPAN
ALBUM: MADE IN JAPAN
LABEL: ATLANTIC
GENRE: PROGRESSIVE ROCK
YEAR:1972
Flower Travellin' Band are an esoteric psychedelic
rock / heavy metal outfit from Tokyo, Japan, first active from 1969 and early
1970s until 1973, consisting of Akira "Joe" Yamanaka (vocals), Hideki
Ishima (guitar), Joji "George" Wada (drums) and Jun Kozuki (bass). As
of January 12th, 2008 they have officially reunited. The band was initially
organized by Japanese entertainer and entrepreneur Yuya Uchida as The Flowers,
a cover band, and featured two vocalists - male vocalist Yuya Uchida, and
female vocalist Remi Aso, who was touted as the Japanese version of Janis
Joplin.
Made In
Japan is the third album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, released
in 1972.
After
meeting Lighthouse at the Expo '70 festival in Osaka, Flower Travellin' Band
were invited to visit Canada. While there, the group recorded Made in Japan with
Lighthouse keyboardist Paul Hoffert helping produce. Vocalist Joe Yamanaka later
stated that the process was very easy, with everything flowing well.
Due to
George Wada becoming ill with tuberculosis, Canadian drummer Paul Devon plays
on some tracks on this album. The lyrics were written by Yoko Nomura, the wife of the band's
manager, who translated conversations she had with the group and their ideas
into English. "Heaven and Hell" was written by Yamanaka in
Japanese and she translated it. The song "Hiroshima" is a
re-imagining of "Satori Part III" from their previous album Satori. The
introductory first track is an advertisement for a concert at Stanley Park
Stadium by Flower Travellin' Band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Bob Seger and Teegarden
& Van Winkle, with a clip of "Lucky Man" playing in the
background.
"Hiroshima",
"Heaven and Hell" and "Aw Give Me Air" were covered by Cult
of Personality, 9, and punk band Pulling Teeth respectively, for the 2000 Flower
Travellin' Band Tribute album.
Both
Mason Jones of Dusted magazine and Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic claimed that
following Satori was a difficult task and that Made in Japan was "doomed
to fall short of expectations," respectively. Both reviewers also cited
the same three songs, "Kamikaze", "Hiroshima" and
"Spasms", as the highlights and being on par with the band's best
work. Although he felt it inconsistent, Rivadavia called the album "pretty
darn good!" and gave it a 3.5 star rating out of 5.
The
princess in her flower bed
Pulled the jungle underground
Where cherry bombs stained the blackbirds red
And explosions never make a sound
Oh comet, come down
Kamikaze over me
And I come alive
My midnight melody
Oh comet, come down
My captain on a snowy horse
Is coming back to take me home
He's coming back to take me home
I'm finally fighting back a terrible force
'Cause I'm not afraid to die alone
Oh comet, come down
Kamikaze over me
And I come alive
My midnight melody
Oh comet, come down
Break down the open road
Maybe I’ll ride
And fight back the over tow
To save my life
Bring in the amber glow
Maybe I’ll fly
And go where you wanna go
With your eagle eye
Break down the open road
Maybe I’ll ride
And go where you wanna go
With your eagle eye
Break down the open road
Maybe I'll ride
And fight back the overthrow
To save my life
Bring in the amber glow
Maybe I'll fly
And go where you wanna go
With your eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye
Eagle eye, eagle eye.
HUNGRY EYES
ERIC CARMEN
SONGWRITER: JOHN DENICOLA
& DEAN PITCHFORD
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
ALBUM: DEFINITIVE COLLECTION
LABEL: ARTISTA RECORDS
GENRE: ROCK
YEAR: 1997
The
Definitive Collection is a 1997 greatest hits album of all the singles released
by Cleveland, Ohio singer-songwriter Eric Carmen. It features five hits by the Raspberries,
a power pop group which he led in the early 1970s. It also contains his
versions of two major hits which he wrote for Shaun Cassidy, two popular songs
from the movie Dirty Dancing, and his greatest hit, "All By Myself",
which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 5, 1976.
Eric
Howard Carmen(born August 11, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter,
guitarist and keyboardist. He scored numerous hit songs across the 1970s and
1980s, first as a member of the Raspberries(who had a million-selling single
with "Go All the Way"), and then with his solo career, including hits
such as "All by Myself", "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again",
"She Did It", "Hungry Eyes", and "Make Me Lose Control".
His first two solo singles were chart hits in 1976. Both
were built around themes by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The first of these singles,
"All by Myself" – based on Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 – hit
number 2 in the United States, and number 12 in the United Kingdom where it was
his only charting hit. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold
disc by the R.I.A.A. in April 1976. The follow-up single, "Never Gonna
Fall in Love Again" – based on the main theme of the slow movement of
Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 – reached number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100, and
hit number one on the US Adult Contemporary Chart, as well as number nine on
the Cash Box chart. In the UK Dana took it to number 31. Those songs featured
on his 1975 self-titled debut album, along with "That's Rock and Roll",
a number 3 hit single for singer Shaun Cassidy. The album made number 21 on the
Billboard album chart and was certified Gold in 1977 for sales of more than
500,000 copies.
Carmen's
second album, Boats Against the Current, came out in the summer of 1977 and
received mixed reviews. It featured backup players such as Burton Cummings, Andrew
Gold, Bruce Johnston and Nigel Olsson. The album spent 13 weeks in the Billboard Album chart,
peaking number 45. It also produced the Top 20 single "She
Did It," but the title track only managed to scrape the bottom of the
chart. The title track was later covered by Olivia Newton-John on her album Totally
Hot. A third single taken from the album, "Marathon Man," became his
first solo single not to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart. However, Shaun
Cassidy again made the Top 10 in 1978 with Carmen's "Hey Deanie." For
several weeks in the fall of 1977, Carmen had three compositions charting
concurrently on the Billboard Hot 100, Cassidy's two big hits and Carmen's own
"She Did It".
Carmen followed up with two more albums. Despite
declining chart fortunes, the single "Change of Heart" broke into the
Pop Top 20 and reached number 6 at AC in late 1978, with this hit also being
covered by Samantha Sang on her Emotion LP. But in 1980, after the release of the album "Tonight
You're Mine" and single "It Hurts Too Much" (number 75 Billboard
Top 100; number 3 South Africa, June 1980) he temporarily withdrew from the
music industry.
Four
years later, after Mike Reno and Ann Wilson topped the charts (Pop number 7;
Adult Contemporary number one) with the Carmen-penned ballad "Almost
Paradise" (the love them to the film Footloose), Eric resurfaced on Geffen
Records in 1985 with a second self-titled album and a sizeable comeback hit
"I Wanna Hear It from Your Lips". The single hit the Adult Contemporary Top 10 as well as
the Pop Top 40. The follow-up single, "I'm Through with
Love," also climbed the Billboard Hot 100 and reached the Top 20 of the
Adult Contemporary chart. Another track from the album, "Maybe My
Baby," later became a Country hit for Louise Mandrell. "I Wanna Hear
It from Your Lips" was also a Country hit for Louise Mandrell.
In 1987,
Carmen's contribution to the hit movie Dirty Dancing, "Hungry Eyes",
hit number 2 on the Adult Contemporary Chart and also returned him to the Pop
Top 10. "Reason To Try", a further contribution to the One Moment in
Time compilation album of songs recorded for the Seoul Summer Olympics, kept
Carmen's profile high in 1988, during which the nostalgic "Make Me Lose
Control" also returned him to the number one position on the Adult
Contemporary chart – where it stayed for three straight weeks – as well as
number 3 on Billboard's Hot 100. This became his highest charting song since "All By
Myself". Both, along with "Hungry Eyes", having in the past two
decades become classic pop radio favorites. Although Carmen did not follow his
two hit singles with a new studio album in 1988, "Make Me Lose
Control" was included on a revised 'Best Of' collection from Arista. (The
original version of the album was released a few months before the single was
released, and early pressings exclude the song.)
The year
2000 saw the stateside release of I Was Born to Love You, which had been
released in 1998 only in Japan as Winter Dreams. Carmen eschewed the use of a band
on the recording, playing most of the instruments and programming the drum
parts himself. The album did not find a large audience, but Carmen has
continued to enjoy success placing songs with other artists over the years. In
2000 he also toured for the first time in years with Ringo Starr and His All
Starr Band performing "Hungry Eyes", "Go All The Way" and
"All By Myself".
On
December 24, 2013, the first new recording in over 15 years by Carmen titled
"Brand New Year" was released. The track, written and recorded in
November/December 2013 in Ohio and Los Angeles, was issued via a gratis
download by Legacy Recordings as a special "Christmas gift", to
herald the March 2014 arrival of a 30 track career retrospective entitled The
Essential Eric Carmen.
On June
25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Eric Carmen among hundreds of
artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
I've
been meaning to tell you
I've got this feelin' that won't subside
I look at you and I fantasize
You're mine tonight
Now I've got you in my sights
[CHORUS:]
With these hungry eyes
One look at you and I can't disguise
I've got hungry eyes
I feel the magic between you and I
I wanna hold you so hear me out
I wanna show you what love's all about
Darlin' tonight
Now I've got you in my sights
[CHORUS]
Now I've got you in my sights
With these hungry eyes
Now did I take you by surprise
I need you to see
This love was meant to be
[CHORUS]
Now I've got you in my sights
With these hungry eyes
Now did i take you by surprise
I need you to see
This love was meant to be.
I got
Hungry Eyes.
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS
ForeignER
SONGWRITERES: JONES LESLY &
JONES MICHAEL LESLIE
COUNTRY: U. K. & U.S.A.
ALBUM: AGENT PROVOCATER
LABEL: ATLANTIC
GNRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1984
Foreigner
is a British–American rock band, originally formed in New York City & London
in 1976 by veteran English musician and ex–Spooky Tooth member Mick Jones, and
fellow Briton and ex–King Crimson member Ian McDonald along with American
vocalist Lou Gramm.
Jones
came up with the band's name as he, McDonald and Dennis Elliott were British,
while Gramm, Al Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi were American. Their biggest hit
single, "I Want to Know What Love Is", topped the United Kingdom and
United States charts among others. Another one of their hit singles, "Waiting
for a Girl Like You", peaked at number two on the US chart for a
record-setting 10 weeks. They are one of the world's best-selling bands of all
time with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records, including 37.5
million records in the US.
Current
band members are Kelly Hansen(lead vocals and percussion); Mick Jones (lead and
rhythm guitar, keyboard, backing and lead vocals); Thom Gimbel (rhythm guitar,
keyboard, backing vocals, saxophone, and flute); Jeff Pilson(bass and backing
vocals); Michael Bluestein (keyboard and backing vocals); Bruce Watson (lead
and rhythm guitar, backing vocals); and Chris Frazier (drums and percussion).
"I
Want to Know What Love Is" is a power ballad by the British-American rock
band Foreigner. It was released in November 1984 as the lead single from their
fifth album, Agent Provocateur. The song hit number one in both the United Kingdom and
the United States and is the group's biggest hit to date. It
remains one of the band's best-known songs and most enduring radio hits,
charting in the top 25 in 2000, 2001, and 2002 on the Billboard Hot Adult
Contemporary Recurrents chart. "I Want to Know What Love Is" has
continued to garner critical acclaim, and is listed as one of Rolling Stone Magazine's
greatest songs of all time at number 479. The song is also featured in a number
of films.
Written
and composed by Mick Jones, with an uncredited portion (somewhere between 5%
according to Jones and 40% according to Gramm) by Lou Gramm, and produced by
Jones and Alex Sadkin, "I Want to Know What Love Is" was the first single
released from Foreigner's album Agent Provocateur(1984). The song features
backing vocals from the New Jersey Mass Choir affiliated with the Gospel Music
Workshop of America, Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday, and featured keyboard
work by Thompson Twins frontman Tom Bailey. The choir also appears in the song's
music video.
"I
Want to Know What Love Is" reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on
January 15, 1985, displacing Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?",
staying there for three weeks, and knocked Madonna's long-running "Like a
Virgin" out of number one on the Billboard Hot 100on February 2, 1985. It
was Foreigner's first and only pop chart topper in either country, although the
band had four number one Mainstream Rock hits and a number one Adult
Contemporary radio hit in the US. This was the band's third of four number one singles on
the Mainstream Rock chart. The song spent five weeks at number one in Australia
and also hit the top of the charts in Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, and
Sweden, peaking at number two in Switzerland and South Africa.
We did a few takes, and it was good, but it was still a
bit tentative. So then they all got round in a circle, held hands and said The
Lord's Prayer. And it seemed to inspire them, because after that they did it in
one take. I was in tears, because my mum and dad were in the studio too, and it
was so emotional.
— Mick
Jones on recording with the choir.
The song
has received positive retrospective reviews from critics, with Bret Adams of AllMusic
writing: "It's not hard to see why it became Foreigner's first number one
single. Its dreamy, hypnotic feel is due in part to Lou Gramm's soulful lead
vocals and the New Jersey Mass Choir's background vocals."
The song was also issued as a 12-inch single with a
longer time length of 6:23. This version contains a slightly longer intro and
an extended vocal chorus/fadeout ending. The
single's B-side "Street Thunder (Marathon Theme)" is an instrumental
track originally appearing on The Official Music of the XXIII Olympiad –
Los Angeles 1984 and later on the band's 2-CD compilation Jukebox Heroes: The
Foreigner Anthology (2000).
Soon
after Foreigner's single topped the charts, the New Jersey Mass Choir released
its own similar-sounding version of the song on an album that it also
titled I Want to Know What Love Is. The choir's single peaked at number 37
on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number 12 on the Hot Dance
Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.
The
Foreigner song was ranked by Billboard as the number four Billboard Hot
100 single of 1985. It was the band's third Platinum single in the U.S. and
their first and only Gold single in the UK.
Originally
consisting of three verses, a pre-chorus and a chorus, the song was extended
with a bridge written by original songwriter Mick Jones specifically for Tina
Arena's cover in 1998.
I
gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm older
Now this mountain I must climb
Feels like a world upon my shoulders
Through the clouds I see love shine
It keeps me warm as life grows colder
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
Can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
I can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me
Let's talk about love
I wanna know what love is, the love that you feel
inside
I want you to show me, and I'm feeling so much love
I wanna feel what love is, no, you just cannot hide
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