Caroline
2007
Down The Road Apiece: Their Emi Recordings 1963-1968
About This Album
It's hard to call a band with one of the biggest songs in oldies radio underappreciated, but it's hard to dispute that Manfred Mann are a band ignored. Alone among all major (and not so major) British Invasion bands, they have never experienced a revival, perhaps because their influence was not lasting. Few bands covered them and although the members went onto many very good things, they weren't often cited as an influence the way that the Kinks, the Animals, the Small Faces, and even the Move often were. Influence is not the same as accomplishment, and Manfred Mann, in their earliest incarnation, were certainly accomplished, as musically adept as any of their peers, perhaps even a touch more versatile than most. This much is evident from EMI U.K.'s exhaustive yet not exhausting four-disc set Down the Road Apiece: Their EMI Recordings 1963-1966. The very size of this set -- it's four discs, just three cuts shy of 100 tracks -- means it's for serious listeners only, but that doesn't mean that it's for the already converted, as this, more than hits compilations, really illustrates how different Manfred Mann were from their peers: jazzier and stylish, not as gritty or hard.
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