The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 26-31, starting today, features a selection from The Vibrators’ 1980 album ‘Batteries Included’.
Here’s track 6 from side 2 – ‘Pushing too Hard’ – my personal favourite from this compilation.
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 26-31, starting today, features a selection from The Vibrators’ 1980 album ‘Batteries Included’.
The final track on side 1 – ‘You broke my heart’ – comes from the first album ‘Pure Mania’ (1977)
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 26-31, starting today, features a selection from The Vibrators’ 1980 album ‘Batteries Included’.
‘Judy says (she’s gonna knock you in the head tonight)’ was the Vibrators’ final single on Epic, released in July 1978.
Throughout the autumn term of that year – our first at Loughborough University – this was the second most played track on the Student Union’s cafe jukebox.
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 26-31, starting today, features a selection from The Vibrators’ 1980 album ‘Batteries Included’.
Here’s track 5 from side 1 – 24 Hour People (from the 1978 album ‘V2’)
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 26-31, starting today, features a selection from The Vibrators’ 1980 album ‘Batteries Included’.
The Vibrators were founded by Ian ‘Knox’ Carnochan, bassist Pat Collier, guitarist John Ellis, and drummer John ‘Eddie’ Edwards. They first came to public notice at the 100 Club when they backed Chris Spedding in 1976. On Spedding’s recommendation, Mickie Most signed them to his label RAK Records. Most produced their first single, “We Vibrate”.
The Vibrators recorded sessions for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 in October 1976, June 1977, and February 1978 and were one of the pioneering punk bands that played at London’s Roxy Club. They headlined in January 1977, supported by The Drones. Then, in March 1977 the band supported Iggy Pop on his British tour. Later that year they backed ex-Mott the Hoople frontman Ian Hunter.
Their first album – ‘Pure Mania’ was released on Epic in June 1977 and followed up in April 1978 with ‘V2’. ‘Batteries Included’ is a compilation of the first two albums with some alternative cuts of earlier singles. It was released in July 1980.
For this 4th chapter of ‘Leaps n Bands, Jemtunes has picked a selection of tracks from the album to give a flavour of what the band was really all about during its heyday. As a kickstarter to that, here’s track 3 from side 1 – ‘Automatic Lover’.
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 18-25, concluding today, featured Rainbow’s 1978 album ‘Long Live Rock n Roll’
The album was remastered on CD for the US market in April 1999, with the European version following later. The US version had a matte booklet/insert, which matched the original vinyl sleeve for all markets, whereas the European issue was the standard glossy type.
Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll Story, an album and a book about the making of the LP was released in June 2009 in the “Rock Landmarks” series. The inlay story was written by Jerry Bloom, author of Black Knight, a Ritchie Blackmore’s biography.
On 12 April 2012 a picture disc album version of the album was released in the US as part of Record Store Day 2012.
A deluxe edition version was released on 13 November that year in Europe, featuring rough mixes of the album tracks from July 1977, with the exception of “Gates of Babylon” which was written later.
Here’s the final track of the album – the whimsical Rainbow Eyes
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 18-25 is featuring Rainbow’s 1978 album ‘Long Live Rock n Roll’
Geoff Ginsberg of AllMusic wrote that ‘Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll’ would turn out to be the last great album Rainbow would ever make, although they did enjoy a great deal of chart success in the post-Dio era.
The album, among other Rainbow releases, is often cited as a strong influence on formation of the power metal genre, especially on its fantasy-themed lyrics and aesthetics.
Here’s Sensitive to Light
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 18-25 is featuring Rainbow’s 1978 album ‘Long Live Rock n Roll’
Here’s The Shed (Subtle), my personal favourite from the album.
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 18-25 is featuring Rainbow’s 1978 album ‘Long Live Rock n Roll’
“Kill the King” was already a staple part of the tour setlists, opening Rainbow concerts since mid-1976 and first appeared on the live album On Stage in 1977.
In the 1977–78 concerts the title track and “Kill the King” were the only songs performed, although “L.A. Connection” did get a few airings on the US tour before being dropped from the set. From 2004 to his death in 2010, Dio’s solo shows featured a live version of “Kill the King”, “Gates of Babylon”, and the title track.
To kickstart side 2 though, here’s Kill the King
The Jemtunes ‘Leaps n Bands’ series is, throughout 2020, featuring a track by track expose of the albums that have spoken loudest to me over the years. Jemtunes 18-25 is featuring Rainbow’s 1978 album ‘Long Live Rock n Roll’
Recording of the album commenced in April 1977 at a studio in Château d’Hérouville, France, featuring Ritchie Blackmore, Ronnie James Dio and Cozy Powell. Keyboards were initially played on a session basis by former Rainbow member Tony Carey, while bass parts were started by Mark Clarke. Clarke was soon dismissed, however, and the bass parts were recorded by Blackmore himself. By July 1977 seven tracks that ended on the album were in demo form. Recording was suspended while the band recruited Bob Daisley and David Stone and thereafter commenced extensive touring of Europe in the summer and autumn of 1977. A return to the Château d’Hérouville studio in December saw them finish the album and also yielded a final track, “Gates of Babylon“.
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