Steppenwolf

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艺人: Steppenwolf
语种: 英语
厂牌: MCA Nashville
发行时间: 1968年02月14日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Bruce Eder

Steppenwolf entered the studio for their recording debut in mid-1968 with a lot of confidence -- based on a heavy rehearsal schedule before they ever got signed -- and it shows on this album, a surprisingly strong debut album from a tight hard rock outfit who was obviously searching for a hook to hang their sound on. The playing is about as loud and powerful as anything being put out by a major record label in 1968, though John Kay's songwriting needed some development before their in-house repertory would catch up with their sound and musicianship. On this album, the best material came from outside the ranks of the active bandmembers: &Born to Be Wild& by ex-member Mars Bonfire, which became not only a chart-topping high-energy anthem for the counterculture (a status solidified by its use in Dennis Hopper's movie Easy Rider the following year), but coined the phrase heavy metal, thus giving a genre-specific name to the brand of music that the band played (and which was already manifesting itself in the work of bands like Vanilla Fudge and the just-emerging Led Zeppelin); the Don Covay soul cover &Sookie, Sookie,& which, as a single by the new group, actually got played on some soul stations until they found out that Steppenwolf was white; two superb homages to Chess Records, in the guise of &Berry Rides Again,& written (though &adapted& might be a better word) by Kay based on the work of Chuck Berry, and the Willie Dixon cover &Hoochie Coochie Man&; and Hoyt Axton's &The Pusher,& an anti-drug song turned into a pounding six-minute tour de force by the band. The rest, apart from the surprisingly lyrical rock ballad &A Girl I Knew,& is by-the-numbers hard rock that lacked much except a framework for their playing; only &The Ostrich& ever comes fully to life among the other originals, but the songs would catch up with the musicianship the next time out.

Steppenwolf

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