Touch [Import]

Touch | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 1, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Eclectic Discs
• ASIN: B0001ACKNY
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,805 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. We Feel Fine

2. Friendly Birds

3. Miss Teach

4. The Spiritual Death of Howard Greer

5. Down at Circe's Place

6. Alesha and Others

7. Seventy Five

8. We Finally Met Today [#][*]

9. Alesha and Others [Live][*]

10. Blue Feeling [*]

11. The Spiritual Death of Howard Greer [Live][*]

12. The Second Coming of Suzanne [Film Music 1973][*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Birth of Prog Rock, August 2, 2004

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Robert L. Wehrle (Charleston, WV United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Touch (Audio CD)

This is it folks. If you ever wondered where Progressive Rock come from, look no further. This record is a wonder of arrangement, songwriting, playing and production. And it was made in 1968! Almost every single prog rock group of the late 60's and 70's owes all their royalties to this one record. From Yes, Genesis, Queen, Rush and everyone in between, this is where they got their ideas. If you are a fan of this genre in the least, you must purchase this record ASAP. No one is paying me to say this. I once heard that Jimi Hendrix rented studio time next these guys just to hear them record the album. Among the players/writers are Dan Galluci who I believe played keyboards on the seminal "Louie Louie" or at least produced it. This album is, as my generation says "Bad-A$$." The only people I have ever seen have this record is my Dad and his friend. We are truly lucky that it is available on CD.

The aural wonders these young men pulled out of contemporary equipment of the late 60's is astonishing. From the opening "acid" rock mega blow-out "We Feel Fine" to the "Tomorrow Never Knows" inspired "Down at Circes Place" to the closing epic "75" it will melt your mind. This album makes anything Yes did sound like the Patridge Family. It's a shame this record is not in every one's top 10 list. As far as I can tell it went largely unoticed when it debuted. Hopefully now this can be rectified. It may not be for everyone but if you are a prog rock fan, you have to, have to, have to, have to buy this...you won't be sorry. Prepare to be blown away. I promise the hype is justified.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Touched by the Music, January 19, 2005

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P. Helsel "Touched" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Touch (Audio CD)

It's about time! I've been waiting 35 years for this. With bonus cuts to boot. Throw Vanilla Fudge, Pink Floyd, & Nektar together & it's still not even close. My buddy & I each picked up a copy at a teen club headshop sound unheard because the cover looked so cool. Way, way back in the late 60's. We were still in high school & it was all about the music, not the lifestyle. Not yet anyway. I wore mine out within 6 months & I've been watching ever since. The song Seventy-five has one of the sweetest, most lyrical & expressive guitar solos I've ever heard. I'm a guitar player so I was always partial to passages that set me on fire &/or adrift. Every week I'd call the Kinetic Playground (Chicago's Fillmore where I saw Tull & Zeppelin open for Vanilla Fudge $5.00)asking if Touch was on the schedule yet. The booker said he was getting alot of calls but couldn't even find out if Touch was a touring entity. He thought maybe they were just a studio act. Oh, but the magic they put down in the studio. My historical record collection is now complete with this final jewel in my crown. Right along side Led Zeppelin I, Dark Side of the Moon, Remember the Future (Nektar), Lou Reed's Rock & Roll Animal, & the 1st Vanilla Fudge album, Touch is home where it belongs. Rock, jazz, louds, softs, real, cosmic, thinking, feeling...check it out. It's unlikely you've ever heard anything quite so settling or unsettling.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Way cool psychodelic/aural wow, September 15, 2004

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ellafan (MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Touch (Audio CD)

I first heard this album back when it came out in the late 60's.It was the album of choice for ....well... quiet introspection...and it is finally out on CD.We never tired of hearing cuts 5,6,and 7.The doctored sound on these cuts especially are well worth the price of the CD..This was big stuff back in the 60's,and these guys blew everyone out of the water when the album came out.It hasn't lost it's charm for me,even after all these years.