Restless [Import]

Randy California | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 9, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B0000W3YYW
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,120 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Run To Your Lover

2. Restless Nights

3. Second Child

4. Jack Rabbit

5. Shane

6. One Mans Heaven

7. Murphys Law

8. Camelot

9. Battlemarch Of The Overlords

10. Childhoods End

11. Boundary Soldier (Bonus Track)

12. Restless Nights (Instrumental) (Bonus Track)

13. Jack Rabbit (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Ytrack)

14. Chess King (Previously Unreleased) (Bonus Track)

15. Run To Your Lover (Alternate Mix) (Bonus Track)

16. Super Child (Previously Unreleased) (Bonus Track)

17. Camelot (Demo Mix) (Bonus Track)

Editorial Reviews

2003 reissue of the Spirit main man's 1985 Vertigo label album on CD for the first time, features 17 tracks including 7 bonus tracks, 'Boundary Soldier', 'Restless Nights' (Instrumental), 'Jack Rabbit' (Alt. Mix), 'Chess King' (Previously Unreleased), 'Run To Lover' (Alt. Mix), 'Super Child' (Previously Unreleased), & 'Camelot' (Demo Mix). Acadia.

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Randy's best output by far., February 1, 2007

By 

Paul Watson (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Restless (Audio CD)

Restless should have been the album that catapulted Randy into the Major league. Maybe it was the timing though. Smack in the middle of the New Romantics revolution, and the album even features two members of that throwaway band "The Thompson Twins. You can hear that 80s Roland Keyboard in frequent intervals,but it doesn't dominate and actually compliments the songs for its atmospherics. The guitar playing throughout represents Randy at his ultimate best - Period! It is his heaviest output since Captain Kopter and the Twirly Birds. Very powerful and basic (No frills) and that's how it should be. Neil Murray (Whitesnake/Black Sabbath and countless others) provides some meaty bass as well. I have read reviews in Magazines criticising Randy's nasal vocal tones. I can't figure that one out at all. His voice on this record is absolute beauty. Standout tracks are Second Child, Jack Rabbit and my favourite "Camelot". Camelot, in my opinion, is up there with one of Spirit's immortal Classics i.e. Natures Way. The original release of Restless (Without Bonus Tracks) would have 5 Stars in my book, but I have deducted 1 Star due to the very ordinary unreleased cuts featured as Bonus tracks (Chess King and Super Child). They were obviously written and performed around the same time, but they are just so ordinary and not in the same league as the tracks from the original release. I would have left the unreleased stuff to one of the many CDs that the Randy California Estate has left over the past few years that featured various unreleased demos and live songs etc over his long and industrious career. The Alternate mixes and demo's however are very welcome in my book. Finally, one important issue you should be aware of. The CD Sleeve has the track listings all over the place, which can be quite infuriating. At least Amazon has listed the track list order correctly. Randy deserved so much better.