Epitaph

Epitaph | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 22, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Revisited Records
• ASIN: B000O78S94
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #393,811 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Moving To The Country

2. Visions

3. Hopelessly

4. Little Maggie

5. Early Morning

6. London Town Girl (bonus track)

7. Autumn (bonus track)

8. Are You Ready

9. I'm Trying (bonus track)

10. Changing World (bonus track)

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Starts on top..., August 27, 2008

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znodog "lenny calderon (proven itch fighter)" (nyc, usa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epitaph (Audio CD)

Most German bands and most late 60's, early 70's bands usually come out of the gate playing bluesy spacey hard rock and developing into a progressive machine for musicians to grow. Like Eloy, Lucifer's Friend, Birth Control or Grobschnitt humble rock tunes turned into big time arrangements and soundscapes.Epitaph did things the other way, by starting out on their debut playing complicated sensitive music with mellotron adding a majestic touch of class.With very heartfelt vocals and busy lenghty songs,this is a progressive classic.Also the bonus tracks add up to another EP'S worth of music showing some prog and some of the hard rock guitar music that came later.Then after this great showing they started to just simplify. To the point of just another rock'n roll band with ruff and ready twin guitars and lead vocals. A backwards progression but they rock well and developed a good style of rock tunes with bite. In fact they just released a 2008 album and Cliff Jackson's great voice is still there. From a Prog Planet and back to Earth again. A very unique band that went against the grain and just kicked back and made simple music. A must have for Krautrock fans...

4.0 out of 5 stars Epitaph - self-titled (Repertoire), August 10, 2011

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Mike Reed (USA) - See all my reviews
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First saw the light of day in 1971, as this was the German heavy rock collective's first effort. Almost as good as it's 1974 follow-up 'Outside The Law' (see my review). Tracks that lured me into keeping this (good to have) CD reissue around were "Little Maggie", "London Town Girl", both edits of "Vision", the total ass-kicking (almost Deep Purple-like) "I'm Trying" and "Changing World". Line-up: Cliff Jackson - guitar & vocals, Klaus Walz (appeared in a later-day Jane effort) - guitar, Bernd Kolbe - bass and Jim McGillveray (Veruca Salt, Monster Magnet) - drums. As i looked up more info - I had no idea that Epitaph had as many lp's out after this one.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not that great unfortunately, June 4, 2010

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B. E Jackson (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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Maybe Epitaph has better albums than this one, but I'm not very impressed with the songwriting here.

It seems Epitaph really wanted to be like King Crimson, even using mellotron passages and drum patters in a nearly identical way to the legendary classic In the Court of the Crimson King album.

Now I don't think the material on here is particularly *bad* or anything. It's inoffensive at worst, and pleasant at best.

"Visions" has a really bland vocal melody, something King Crimson never would have created in their early years. "Early Morning" has a vocal I consider an improvement, but still misses the mark in comparison to you-know-who. This track -along with a few others- features lots of progressive rock tendencies by the secondrate bands, such as numerous guitar riffs running in succession.

Of course King Crimson never really fell into a predictable hard rock formula with ordinary guitar riffs and ordinary songwriting. Don't tell me Red qualifies as ordinary hard rock either.

The music on this Epitaph album is still decent hard rock, but not exceptionally noteworthy by any means. It reminds me of early Camel, however, Camel definitely has better songwriting (and a better guitar tone) than the majority of this album.

At least this is better than the Flower Kings. If you aren't familiar with the Flower Kings, let's just say they're a really overrated and forgettable King Crimson wannabe band. At least this Epitaph album has its moments.