If Only For A Moment

Blossom Toes, Blossom Toes | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD
• ASIN: B00097FKY0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #670,334 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now this is classic rock...Excellent obsure gem from 1969!, July 24, 2007

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Thomas Muckinhaupt (Erie, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: If Only for a Moment (Audio CD)

Blossom Toes was a band I discovered by accident in a used record store. I bought what turned out to be a bootleg copy of an album that has become a favorite of my since I heard the explosive opening cut, Peace Loving Man. Even the noisy pressing couldn't hide the fact that this is as good a psychedelic hard rock album as anything a major band could have accomplished, especially when compared to Led Zeppelin, Cream or any of the other heavyweights of that era. Progressive song structures, excellent twin guitar interplay, and unpredictability make this album a true classic. "Love Bomb" is possibly my favorite tune, a 7 minute tale of how greed and war affect us all- the lyrics truly are timeless. This album, reissued for the first time since an early 90's Japanese pressing, sounds wonderful due to the excellent remastering and has bonus tracks as well. A very worthwhile purchase for any rock fan looking for a classic rock album that truly delivers on all levels.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Second masterpiece of this british gem in two years!!!!, September 16, 2005

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PortugueseMusicFan (Porto, Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: If Only For A Moment (Audio CD)

After the delightful debut "We Are Ever So Clean", the Blossom Toes changed their naive-side and became a remarkable underground act with tighter arrangements...The avant-garde experimentalism is still intact and the lyrics reflecting the social buried-dream of the sixties coda are so perfectly ecclectic like little else in psychedelic-rock, yet not inaccessible...The magnificient spooky intro of "Peace Loving Man" and the linked "Kiss of Confusion" is so enduring in my memory as the first time I heard this, always discovering new things (new sounds) in these well-crafted songs; the fine "Listen To The Silence", an answer to Paul Simon's "Sound of Silence" delicacy (?) and the stunning couple of extended tracks, "Love Bomb" and "billy Boo The Gunman" or the sitar-driven joy of "Just Above My Hobby Horse's Head"... A CLASSIC!!! To everyone with an appetite for psychedelic music, this is a MUST (a nice pair!!!With "We Are Ever So Clean"!!!).

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars excellent, December 19, 2009

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: If Only for a Moment (Audio CD)

Jesus. What were these guys taking between albums? Their first, We Are Ever So Clean was quintesessential psychadelic whimsey brit pop, with all the post-Pepper trimmings.

If Only For A Moment is a COMPLETELY different story. This has some of the hardest rock of the era. "Peace Loving Man" rocks as hard and the riffs slam as heavy as anything of Led Zeppilin II. "Billy Blue" has knotty clusters that pre-date Physical Grafetti by six years.

Blossom Toes have some more subtle, jazzier material here, and also work with art rock time changes that were moving through the underground of the late 1960s English rock scene.

Both this band's albums are great, but for entirely differant reasons. Get both. It is like getting two bands for the price of one.