Manfred Manns Earth Band- Don't Kill It Carol REACTION & REVIEW

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[@christianguerin9460]

thanks for listening my request. And glad you liked it. 👍

[@genecase9464]

Close enough to normal to make you listen. Far enough away to make you wonder. Just what I like. Thank you Manfred Man!

[@onsesejoo2605]

You can somehow hear the movement towards the 80's on this. It has the element of 70's prog but also the then modern sound coming in.

[@maraboo72]

Manfred Mann was already great in the 60s with some success in the charts but after founding the Earth Band he said that finally he could leave the stage with his head held high. It was a huge jump in the quality of his music. He is very underrated as a keyboarder and though not everybody would mention him beside Emerson, Wakeman or Banks I am sure he is close to them in terms of playing the right thing (notes and sounds) at the right time. Being one of the first keyboarders to use the Minimoog he was hired by Uriah Heep for playing the solo at the end of their wonderful July Morning. Beside great original stuff he is one of the masters of covers. Especially some Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen songs got a quality you could not assume before he worked them out. Though I like all of his albums I think he reached the pinnacle with "The Roaring Silence" - one of the few no-filler-albums and in my opinion a candidate for a long saturday reaction. There was never a real star in his band but every single musician over the decades far more than just solid. This specific song is not one of my favorite Manfred Mann songs but not because I don't like it but because I think that there is a lot of stuff that I like even more. Just to name a few : Father of Day Father of Night, Davy's on the road again, Martha's Madman.

[@sonnyhenriksen9398]

A master of covers, is spot on!

[@mightyV444]

@@sonnyhenriksen9398 - I agree! And my favourite is the one of Ben E King's 'I Who Have Nothing' 🙂

[@filetknife59]

Manfred Mann's album Solar Fire is great!

[@tarkushead]

“Angels At My Gate” was a minor hit from the album (at least locally) . Love the atmosphere of that song..

[@sonnyhenriksen9398]

This album has some of my favourite keyboard parts. "Angels at my gate", and "You are, I am", are the best examples of that.

[@denismansfield8876]

Wow. Thanks for the request and for playing it, JP. It's been many decades since I last heard it.

[@user-tr9de6gm8k]

I was into these guys from mid 70s into the early 80s. I don't care if no one else is.

[@lemming9984]

I'm not really a "best Of" album fan , but with some bands I like a few songs, but not enough to buy a "proper" album. With MMEB, I am very happy with just a compilation - every track a winner!

[@RayRay-ot5xd]

Bought this when it came out. My first Manfred Mann album. Listening to it now, this has an Alan Parsons vibe

[@markferrett700]

Your not alone.....they are fantastic 👏 👌

[@-davidolivares]

Some Zappa influence there maybe. Certainly energetic, almost breaks out of the corral.

[@mightyV444]

Oh man, there's a clip of this song being performed on the German 'RockPop' TV music show, with the band being surrounded by a very stiff audience - except for 1 single woman who's dancing along to the song, and she really gets into it, too! 😄 It wouldn't surprise me if her name was Carol! 😀 Other great MMEB songs: 'Lies (Through The Eighties)', and their cover of Ben E King's 60's song 'I Who Have Nothing' 😀👍

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

I've seen that performance too. Some nifty base*. 😉

[@mightyV444]

@@Owlstretchingtime78 - Lots of great base lines across MMEB's repertoire! 😄👍

[@Owlstretchingtime78]

@@mightyV444 🤩

[@galier2]

Funny. I just watched the clip and the keyboard solo was cut out. Never noticed before.

[@mightyV444]

@@galier2 - Yes, Justin must've listened to the longer _album_ version, which I had not heard before either. That synth solo is one of the best parts! 😀👍

[@jornspirit]

...MMEB were a band to check out all of their 70s albums - so interesting, innovative, often on the edge of Progrock, and FUN! At that time (1979) they were already more pop-rock oriented, but I did love it too! Their strongest phase was IMHO between 1973 and 1975... 'Messin', 'Solar Fire' and 'Nightingales and Bombers'... they were very popular in my home country Germany, and would still tour for decades after their most successful albums, to play to very devoted audiences... you just knew if you go to their concerts it would be a party!! 😎

[@tedsanchez1703]

Hey JP, I know you like drumming so I'd like to suggest a "deep" cut from Carlos Santana. It was cut during his solo era and the song is Jharna Kala from the album Swing of Delight. The drummer is Graham Lear, he was the original drummer for Gino Vannelli before he was recruited to play for Santana, he drummed for him for 12 years! Graham plays in the pocket incredibly on this song with a few surprises. I'm sure you'll dig it. I hope I sold this one well.

[@Musiquesaecouter]

Every sound I liked that mades me imagine were together. Talk box, greatest keyboard solo from long in a kind of a psychedelic pop song Manfred Mann of course, raw thick MiniMoog solo (I suspect he used an Oberheim SEM expander for the Album to morph the tone even bigger) it could be seen live a bit later, it was something then and now. Unfortunately they were several Single shortened versions were the MiniMoog were cut out, particularly in the video. Enjoy!

[@spawn4582]

This is one of my father's favorite bands and one of his favorite songs from this group, a timeless piece from Manfred Mann's Earth Band which is already 45 years old!

[@markferrett700]

Manfred Manns Earth band were phenomenal. This is probably one of their more radio friendly songs and really isnt showing them at their best.....anything off their mighty "Good Earth", or " Nightingales and Bombers" album is amazing....and then theres " "The Roaring Silence "..... "Singing the Dolphin through" is a classic!.....more MMEB Please Justin. Dont get me wrong this is good.....but there is SO much more.

[@martinduner1844]

Love Manfred!

[@dillanma]

Only heard Blinded by the Light before this.What a great track

[@TONE11111]

find 'nightingales and bombers 1975' album

[@markferrett700]

Agree 100%​@@TONE11111

[@DocRock71]

I love the main hits by MMEB, but this album Angel Station is by far my favorite album from them start to finish.

[@pilesovinyl]

Just for perspective Manfred Mann was the guy who in 1964 gave us Do Wah Diddy Diddy. South African born keyboardist who formed his original group in England and has been active since.

[@johnniekight1879]

Written by Mike Heron of The Incredible String Band. MMEB still tour Europe & Scandinavia. Check out the band Manfred had between his pop band & this band. Manfred Mann Chapter Three. Especially "Traveling Lady". Manfred is my favorite arranger. Genius.

[@DavidImiri]

No kidding, Mike Heron?!

[@brucer2152]

Ok now you gotta do "Singin' the Dolphin Through"

[@ImperialMJG]

Its a symbolism of a story of a delicate yet resilent wild rose. The rose symbolizes a fragile idea or dream. The song emhasizes the importance of nurturing and protecting the idea or dream which is fragile and a "cruel lie" has the potential to ruin it. So there you have it😅

[@schmiddyfi]

There are moments in this song where I would swear I hear Frank Zappa singing.

[@galier2]

I discovered that song when I was in middle school. I listened to it more than normal as I also was in love (but much too shy to do something) with a girl from the other class named Carol.

[@jhamptonjr]

I thought about this song a few days ago but thought that I was crazy for thinking that was the name of it. Now I know it's true! I think this is only the second or third time in my life I ever heard this song but it was deeply embedded somewhere in my brain. Thanks JP!

[@maruad7577]

I enjoyed it. It's been a long time since I listened to it but I remember enjoying Mannfred Mann's Earth Band "Somewhere in Afrika" album at the time. edited to add that Manfred Mann had a very long career with changes in the style of music are the years went by.

[@jameswarner5809]

My favourite MMEB track is Starbird - a 5/4 tune with a middle section call and response duel between guitar and synth which, to quote a line from The West Wing, will make your socks roll up and down.

[@MisterWondrous]

When Quinn the eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy. Just sayin'. Check this: They did a cover of Holst's "Jupiter: Bringer of Jollity" and called it "Joybringer", and it will lift your spirits quite as did the Holst. Thanks for checking out da Mann!

[@mightyV444]

Which also would be apt as Justin had already listened to Holst's original piece a while ago! 😀👍 My first proper band had covered 'The Mighty Quinn' during its early days, when I was 16 (in '86) 😊

[@DavidImiri]

Really fun, nice touches all around. But I have to agree with @maraboo72, they've slipped into the 80's here, and "The Roaring Silence" is where they shine brightest. Go ahead and do that album.

[@murdockreviews]

I actually enjoy stuff like this, even though it is hated by some as cheesy 70s/early 80s AOR. Especially those synth sounds.

[@gaiaeternal5131]

Hi JP. DP from UK. Another excellent reaction - You're The Voice! As you say, a really strong opener, and it really comes to life with the Chris Thompson sung chorus. One of the great rock vocalists, imho. Unlike you, I'm not a fan of the Talkbox, used here in the verse and the instrumental break. And it's definitely Manfred playing the synth solo - he's always interesting and exciting, especially live. I last saw them in 1977 on the Roaring Silence tour. P.S. my song ref You're The Voice is sung by John Farnham, but co-written by Chris Thompson.

[@lucasnavajas4166]

My favorite prog rock band, everybody knows blinded by the light but I don’t think you reviewed it, check out spirits in the night, mighty Quinn ( earth band version), time is right just to name a few. Make sure to do album versions and not crappy cut single versions

[@kenl2091]

Don't know for a fact but the 'sounds like a synth' is probably a MiniMoog. Very distinctive sound. This is a bit poppy for my taste but the better kind of pop. I too prefer Manfred Mann's Chapter 3 which is far more proggy/jazzy.

[@bobholtzmann]

I like that cello - It sounds like Roy Wood's cello from the early ELO days. The Electric Light Orchestra's first album, called No Answer in the U.S., has some nice rocking cello in it

[@sonnyhenriksen9398]

listen to "Waiting for the rain" amazing transition from electric violin, to keyboard..

[@bobholtzmann]

@@sonnyhenriksen9398 The jazz violin is nice toward the end - reminds me of Papa John Creach. but it's played by Graham Preskett.

[@user-bm3wr7kl5v]

Please try another one from the same album titled Angels at my door. Goosebumps

[@jamespaivapaiva4460]

Good Wednesday morning to all. Loose ferret running down my hall. It's not vermin at all to the woman who shared my bed when the sunlight grew small. It is not a mouse, rat, or sparrow. It's my pet, please "Don't Kill It, Carol". They are one of God's better creations, don't kill it and send it to Angel Station! Peace & Love.

[@stephendennis5911]

Chris Thompson the singer i think is an new Zealander

[@mightyV444]

He is! 😀 That's where I live, too 😊 He co-wrote John Farnham's hit song 'You're The Voice', among others 🙂

[@stephendennis5911]

I'm originally from New Zealand

[@mightyV444]

@@stephendennis5911 - Oh nice! 😀👍 Kiwi singer Shona Laing had been in this band for a while in the early 80's too, by the way 🙂

[@yannuku123]

The other Manfred Mann album "Nightingales and Bombers" has a comparable concept. "Spirits in the Night" perhaps the best track of that one. For Angel station however, "Angels at my gate" is the best track. Thanks for paying time and attention to the music of my prime days.

[@mightyV444]

Ah yes, I remember 'Spirits In The Night'. Great song! 😀👍 A cover, isn't it?! 🙂

[@krapulax605]

a springsteen cover, yes. great one.

[@mightyV444]

@@krapulax605 - Right! I remember the original now, too (and thank you)! 😊 Just like also 'Blinded By The Light' had been a cover of a Springsteen song 🙂 I used to believe MMEB's version of 'Going Underground' was their original - until I finally heard The Jam's original, quite a few years later! 😅

[@krapulax605]

i saw them live in bucharest romania almost 20 years ago, with noel mccalla vocalist. they sang another springsteen tune: dancing in the dark. also, on an 80s album they did a great cover of 'for you', still by springsteen

[@galier2]

MMEB averything from the 70s and the 80s is good. The 60s stuff is a little to lightweigtht (do wa di). The later stuff I didn't really listen to.

[@jfergs.3302]

Oh dear! ropey, dated, cheesy, but worst of all those choruses..... Reminded me of the sort of generic 70's tv drama, cop show themes., And obviously, and most definitely NOT in a good way.

[@user-tr9de6gm8k]

Here's a tissue.

[@thomashoffmann3656]

Cry baby cry make your mother sigh she's old enough to know better so cry baby cry 😭

[@shyshift]

I have been listening to this since day one in 1979 and I always thought it was about Cannabis. Carol is code for the establishment who lied about the plant growing naturally by mother nature. The whole song is code.