Castles [Import]

Joy of Cooking | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B00097HDS6
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,289 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Don't the Moon Look Fat and Lonesome

2. Waiting for the Last Plane

3. Lady Called Love

4. Three-Day Loser

5. Castles

6. Beginning Tomorrow

7. Let Love Carry You Along

8. Home Town Man

9. All Around the Sun & The Moon

10. Bad Luck Blues

Editorial Reviews

The third album by Joy Of Cooking and the last before Toni Brown and Terry Garthwaite set forth on to peruse solo and duo recordings. Based in the political hotbed of Berkeley California and part of the San Francisco explosion of the late sixties the Joy Of Cooking were the best know Berkeley band apart from the legendary Country Joe & The Fish. Acadia. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent adult rock from the early '70s, March 8, 2006

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Andrew R. Weiss "Raleigh Observer" (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Castles (Audio CD)

Joy of Cooking was the first rock band to have at its heart two great women as lead singers, songwriters, and instrumentalists. The subject matter is still mostly love and loss, but the emotions are adult, and not caught in the hysterics of melodrama (compare, for example, Derek & the Dominos' "Layla"). This is a fine album all around, from the rocking "Don't the Moon Look Fat and Lonesome" through the deeply heartfelt blues at the end. "Let Love Carry You Along" is a great anthem from that era, just as positive and uplifting now as it was then. But these are not "message" songs that are long on intellectual substance and short on musicality and rock. They are balanced, with catchy tunes, excellent arrangements, and a subtle, folk/jazz/rock ensemble executing everything very nicely. If you want songs that speak to our lives with clarity and maturity, and that you can still hum along with and stamp your feet to, and get carried away in the emotion, this is your kind of album. Joy of Cooking put out only 3 albums and didn't last long (Brown and Garthwaite split and pursued solo careers), but the legacy they left us is a fine one.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Few CDs better than this, September 21, 2005

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N. Hampton (St. Cloud, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Castles (Audio CD)

This is one of the best CDs ever made. The songs are so wonderfully written, excellently performed, and superbly produced. Joy of Cooking is an icon from the 70's but the quality of their music is not limited to that decade. Lovers of Marcia Ball, or anyone who appreciates female vocals and piano, will appreciate Joy of Cooking. Off Marcia Ball's last studio work, So Many Rivers, one would swear or bet that "Foreclose on the House of Love" was a Joy of Cooking song. That is how good Joy of Cooking is.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars if only, May 12, 2007

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Linden Ellenbaum "Lindy" (Minneapolis Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Castles (Audio CD)

wish this group were still playing, they were light years ahead of there time, a best of on one CD is not possible because it would have to include all of there music, only wish they were still playing.