As I mentioned in the last post from The End, after their 'Introspection' album was finally released 18 months after it was finished, the band did make a start on recording a follow-up, but despite laying down a number of tracks, the band members realised that they were headed in different musical directions, and so they abandoned the recordings and split up, with three members going on to form Tucky Buzzard, who performed in a harder rock style than The End. Luckily the songs that they had recorded up to that point weren't scrapped, and have now surfaced on the extensive retrospective from the band, and so we can hear what a proposed second album from the band would have sounded like. It's definitely a heavier sound than the psyche/pop of 'Introspection', or even my 'Today Tomorrow' collection, and so it's debatable whether fans of the band would have appreciated this new direction, but we can now decide for ourselves if one more album would have saved the group.
Track listing
01 Son Of Lightning
02 Second Glance
03 Mistress Bean
04 For Eleanor
05 So Free
06 North Thames Gas Board
07 Do Right Woman Do Right Man
08 Turn On Waterstone
09 Smartypants
10 My Friend
01 Son Of Lightning
02 Second Glance
03 Mistress Bean
04 For Eleanor
05 So Free
06 North Thames Gas Board
07 Do Right Woman Do Right Man
08 Turn On Waterstone
09 Smartypants
10 My Friend
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I really like The End. I hope you don't mind if I post some of their stuff on my blog eventually that'll be pretty similar to your posts. Really all I can find is what's on that box set.
ReplyDeleteI agree that they were a great band, and so under-rated, so feel free to post whatever you like. We're just lucky that there was so much stuff hidden away in the vaults.
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