Rhythm! [Import]

Makin' Time | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 27, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Big Beat UK
• ASIN: B000088NUA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #389,682 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Pump It Up

2. Feels Like Its Love

3. Here Is My Number

4. Eating Up The Cold

5. Every Single Day

6. Only Time Will Tell

7. Honey

8. Nothing Else

9. The Girl That Touched My Soul

10. Where The Rhythm Takes You

11. I Know What Youre Thinking

12. Did I Tell You

13. I Get A Love From You

14. Stop This Cryin Inside

15. Once Again

16. I Take What I Want

17. I Gotta Move

18. Boom Boom

19. Take What You Can Get

20. Walk A Thin Line

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Full title - Rhythm! The Complete Countdown Recordings. Incendiary rhythm & soul from Makin' Time. The first ever CD release of The Charlatans' Martin Blunt's debut recordings. 23 tracks & a full color 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes, many photos & other memorabilia. Big Beat. 2003.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the Biggest Beat, June 8, 2008

By 

Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rhythm! (Audio CD)

I love music with a big sound; I like to hear crystal clear vocals, steely refreshing guitars, loud resonant keyboard playing, and madman Moon drumming. Not much to ask is it?

Thing is, it's usually a struggle. You can usually find a music with one or maybe two of the above, but all four? Enter Makin' Time.

Ignorantly and unfairly consigned to the comatose 'mod' cult, (along with another of my faves Secret Affair) and despite being completely brilliant, Makin' Time released two poorly-received albums, a handful of singles, and disappeared.

That their ultimate failure sales-wise might have something to do with them being signed to the chronic and immobile Stiff Records is a hurtful truth not lost on me. Possibly the label with the worst roster of groups EVER, Makin' Time were always going to be up against it in that plant-pot company.
But in talent terms, they were red-hot. When firing on all cylinders as on their debut album 'Rhythm and Soul' (pretty much all of which is included on this compilation) they could whip it up with the best of 'em.
Words like 'raging', 'soaring' and 'breathless' spring to mind. A joyful singing- ringing tree of youthful roar and commitment.
That fantastic Auger-esque keyboard sound raises already superb numbers like 'That's Where the Rhythm Takes You' and 'Did I tell You' to hymnal, psychedelic heights, and the frantic, flashing, slashing guitar, moves songs like 'the Girl that Touched My Soul' and 'Stop This Cryin' Inside' well away from the stifling boundaries of 'mod' and into wide, spacious, unclogged areas of soul and free-base prestdigitation.

'Mod' is a misleading distraction. Makin' Time are more Love and Traffic than zoot-suits and targets. They WERE very young when they recorded these songs, and that's probably why they race by without a care in the world, but be warned; should you play `Rhythm' in your car, you'll be over the speed limit in seconds, drumming the steering wheel, using the dash as a Farfisa and the clutch as a bass pedal as you hurtle along, wondering which fabulous harmony you're gonna join in with.

It's a bit like Katrina and the Waves, 'Walking on Sunshine', but better played, better sung and with better lyrics. You can only fantasize as to how good a singer Fay Hallom is. (and she's responsible for the ENORMOUS organ sound)
Proper dusky and husky, Fay's not afraid to let rip and hang the consequences. This is no mumbling diva - this is a truly great white-soul voice, bursting with energy and transfixing clarity.
She's so enthusiastic - she's still at it, enthralling modern (sorry) audiences with her chiming solo r'n'b vision.
Don't know if she's still got the bob-cut though.

I was trying to think what type of music fan 'Rhythm' might appeal to but the truth is, I can't think of a type that it wouldn't. It's all here, a glorious, hotter-than-hell, many facetted, BIG music.
Move to this rhythm...

5.0 out of 5 stars Rhythm & Soul, June 25, 2006

By 

Bazza (Middlesbrough, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rhythm! (Audio CD)

I only got to see Makin' Time live once but they were one of the best live acts I have ever seen. This release is long over due and gathers together their debut album "Rhythm & Soul" (which was only ever released on CD in Japan) and their 3 singles which came out on the Countdown Mod label.

It still surprises me that Makin' Time never made an impact on the charts as they were one of the best bands around at the time. This CD is full of great tunes like "Where The Rhythm Takes You", "Here Is My Number", "The Girl That Touched My Soul", "Honey" and a cracking cover of Elvis Costello's "Pump It Up".

I would like to see Big Beat reissue Makin' Time's second album "No Lumps Of Fat Or Gristle Guaranteed" as it is even better than "Rhythm & Soul".