Productor: David A. Paramor.
Ingeniero: Peter R. Vinc.
Grabacion: 1968.
Discográfica: : EMI / Columbia Records (U.K).
N° de catalogo: SCX 6286.
Discográfica: Repertoire Records (1994 re-edición en C.D).
Diseño de portada: Hipgnosis.
Reproducción de Mythological Gods.
Cortesía: Themes & Hudson Ltd.
Notas: Marcar Brennan.
Tracklist:
Lado 1.
01 Towards The Skies.
(Konas) 3:25
02 Candles Getting Shorter.
(Konas, Hensley) 4:28
03 You're My Life.
(Konas, Kerslake) 3:20
04 Looking Glass.
(Konas, Hensley) 4:14
05 Misleading Colours.
(Kerslake, Konas) 3:40
Lado 2.
06 Radio Show.
(Robertson, Sugarman) 3:11
07 Plastic Horizon.
(Robertson, Sugarman) 3:26
08 Farthing Man.
(Konas) 3:30
09 I Never Know.
(Konas, Hensley) 5:41
10 Time And Eternity.
(Konas, Kerslake) 2:43
Duración total 43:06 minutos.
1994 Bonus tracks Compact disc:
11 Baby's Rich.
(Konas, Hensley) 2:48
12 Somewhere In The Street.
(Hensley) 2:50
13 Hey Bulldog.
(Lennon–McCartney) 3:03
14 Real Love Guaranteed.
(Konas, Hensley) 2:29
Vinyl Long Play - Edición estéreo U.K:
Discográfica: EMI - Columbia.
N° de catalogo: SCX 6286.
Portada.
Contraportada.
Etiqueta lado 1.
Compact Disc - Edición 1994, Alemania:
Discográfica: Repertoire Records.
N° de catalogo: REP 4418-WY.
Portada.
Contraportada.
Disco.
Booklet.
Booklet.
Detalle.
Detalle.
The Gods:
Joe Konas - Guitarra, voz.
John Glascock - Bajo, voz.
Ken Hensley - Guitarra, percusión, teclados, voces.
Lee Kerslake - Batería.
Liner Notes - re-edición 1994:
After leaving Stevenage based R&B outfit The Jimmy Brown Sound in early 1965, keyboardist/guitarist/vocalist Ken Hensley formed The Gods with Mick Taylor (guitar), John Glasscock (bass/vocals) and Brian Glasscock (drums). However, this lineup only lasted until June 1967 when Taylor quit to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and then the Rolling Stones. Hensley then moved to Hampshire where, whilst living in a van(!), he met up with bassist Paul Newton and put together a new version of The Gods which featured Hensley, Newton, drummer Lee Kerslake and guitarist John Konas. However, despite building up a good following on the South Coast college circuit, Newton left (he later became a founding member of Uriah Heep) and was replaced by Greg Lake. With a residency at London's Marquee and a contract with EMI's Columbia label it looked like The Gods would at last release something but, as Hensley recalls, "Just as we were about to start recording we had a falling out with Greg. The main problem was that he was far too talented to be kept in the background."
The Gods: Joe Konas, Lee Kerslake, John Glascock, Ken HensleyWith Lake leaving in the summer of 1968 to form King Crimson (and later Emerson, Lake & Palmer), John Glasscock returned to the lineup and the band released the album Genesis (SCX 6286), now an £85 collectors item, and the single "Baby's Rich" / "Somewhere In The Street" (DB 8486), all recorded on a four-track studio. This was followed by the singles "Hey Bulldog" / "Real Love Guaranteed" (DB 8544) and "Maria" (from "West Side Story") / "Long Time Sad Time Bad Time" (DB 8572), both released in 1969, though by the time the band's second LP To Samuel A Son (SCX 6372) was released at the end of the year The Gods had long since ceased to exist. In fact they had become the band Toe Fat backing ex-Rebel Rouser Cliff Bennett and appeared on one self-titled LP released on Parlophone.
Following this, Ken Hensley became a founding member of Uriah Heep where he again teamed up with Paul Newton. He also released three solo LPs ("Proud Words On A Dusty Shelf", "Eager To Please" and "Free Spirit") as well as working with the likes of Blackfoot and Ozzy Osbourne. Kerslake, after a short spell with the National Head Band, also joined Uriah Heep whilst John Glasscock later worked with Chicken Shack, Carmen and Jethro Tull whilst Konos quit the playing side to run a music shop in Ontario, Canada.
Mark Brennan.
Letras:
Towards The Skies.
(Konas)
Ah ... Towards the skies
Ah ... Towards the skies
Turn your face to the wall
That's where I'll be
In the crack of the paint
My eyes you'll see
Locked away in my mind
I must be free
Reason with myself I find
Life is treating me unkind
Run the fields of green
And touch the ground
Zipping on my ears
To hear a sound
Picking things to see
Up from the ground
Candles Getting Shorter.
(Hensley/Konas)
And the candle's getting shorter
And the flame has nearly gone
You didn't love me like you
Ought to have done
Why do I, why do I keep on crying
Why do I, why do I keep on crying
How long will the sadness last
Will it be too long before it's past
How I've been so
Hopelessly out class
Since our love died
I've cried and cried and I cried
Since our love died
I've cried and cried and I cried
It doesn't really matter
If I wake one day and find
You didn't want to stay
My heart will just go on pretending
That I didn't love or
Want you anyway, no
You're My Life.
(Konas/Kerslake)
You're my life, you're my heart
In my dreams you play a part
When I wake everyday
I think of words that you say
I'll never find a girl
Sweeter in this world
I've gotta find a way
The thing to you I say
You're my blood in my veins
You're my life, you'll never change
You're my life, you're my heart
In my dreams you play a part
You're my life, you're my heart
I'll never find a girl
You're my life, you're my heart
Sweeter in this world
You're my life, you're my heart
Gotta find a way
You're my life, you're my heart
The thing to you I say
Looking Glass.
(Konas/Hensley)
When she looks in
The looking glass on the wall
She can see she's
The fairest of them all
Makes me do anything
Has me on a string
And there isn't anything I can do
La la la la la la ...
She's there in a place
No-one else
There's no chance of a
Loving little way
What in the world is left to do
She's crying out for someone new
And there isn't anything I can do
La la la la la la ...
Misleading Colours.
(Konas/Hensley)
Misleading colours
Misleading colours
Misleading colours
For the eye to see
Raving colours going
'Round my mind
Filling my eyes till I go blind
Colours are followed by the score
My eyes can't focus anymore
Wishing a wish that won't come true
Doing things that you want to do
Seeing prisons yet to come
Knowing that it's just begun
Misleading colours ...
Radio Show.
(Sugarman/Robertson)
I got a car and I drive it
All night in the rain
A little blue hall and
I'll blow it again and again
I go so quickly, quickerly, quickly
I saw a fire in the night
As I drove down the lane
A little red house was ablaze
As I tore down the lane
I go so quickly, quickerly, quickly
Would you believe me if I said
I'm losing my mind
Would you believe me if I said
I'm losing my mind
You can win a candy of a bandits here in nickel bar
If your alligator shoes mashed potatoes
loose your yes you are
You can buy a cross milk banana under sun
here in nickel bar
I can hear the Peter Pan of the rain
I can hear the Peter Pan of the rain again and again
I can hear of the rain
Plastic Horizon.
(Sugarman/Robertson)
Trying to see
Trying to see tomorrow
Listening to laughter
Children who do not know why
It was on my mind
It's on my mind
Hey, we are not shadows
That cling to each other
Whose eyes are prisoned of sleep
Whose lips are heavy with dreams
Farthing Man.
(Konas)
Give a man a penny
Give a man a penny
Penny for the farthing man
Treat him to a penny
Treat him to a penny
Hear out what he can
Hear out what he can
Little man, farthing man
Will do just what he can
Jump little man, jump high little man
Try for a long lost penny
Laugh little man
Laugh loud little man
Or you won't have any
Or you won't have any little man
Farthing man is good
For your last penny
Man in the pouring rain
Has got a wet head
Something inside of him shows
He's never dead
Though it may rain or snow
He's always out there
Picking up pennies from people
Who don't really care
I Never Know.
(Konas/Hensley)
Never knew what time it was
Till I saw you hanging around
Never knew the time because
My head was stuck deep
In the ground
Times were bad, had to be sad
Times were cruel till I met you
Had to have a life and then
You turn the light into my eyes
Now I no longer need a friend
You are my true paradise
Pink champagne drown my brain
When once mine has no time
Time And Eternity.
(Konas/Kerslake)
When you're tired and blue
Think of what to do
You can't explain your heart
La la la la la la la la la
Life has just begun
I aim to touch the sun
For mighty I am poor
La la ...
My mind is travellin'
I know where it will be
The tides are turnin'
Through time and eternity
The day has broken through
My mind is clear to you
My life is just a ball
La la ...
Video:
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/Gods-Genesis/master/171207
Wikipedia en ingles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(The_Gods_album)
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