Vertigo Mixed [Import]

Andy Votel | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 31, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal UK
• ASIN: B0007ULJMG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #402,501 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Linda Hoyle – Morning for One

2. Lighthouse – Love of A Woman

3. Cracious – Introduction

4. Nirvana – Modus Operandi

5. Aphrodite’s Child – Battle of The Locusts

6. Colosseum – The Kettle

7. Manfredd Mann – One Way Glass

8. Black Sabbath – Behind The Wall of Sleep

9. Assagai – Telephone Girl

10. Marsha Hunt’s 22 – (Oh No Not) The Beast Day

11. Affinity – Three Sisters

12. Juicy Lucy – Willie The Pimp

13. Gravy Train – Think of Life

14. Freedom – Toe Grabber

15. Flied Egg – Leave Me Woman

16. Frumpy – I’m Afraid Big Moon

17. Warhorse – Vulture Blood

18. Thin Lizzy – Johnny The Fox Meets Jimmy The Weed

19. Uriah Heep – Walking In Your Shadow

20. Tea – Through Scarlet

See all 52 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Andy Votel (owner of Twisted Nerve Records & Badly Drawn Boy’s producer) has had an infatuation with the Vertigo rock catalogue for 20 years or so, and he's not alone.

Many have been seduced by the otherworldly and perverse sleeve imagery that makes up their catalogue of prog rock acts with the arguably the best names ever (Gentle Giant, Flied Egg, Juicy Lucy & Daddy Longlegs etc). Take a twisted journey into the world of Vertigo.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What A Textbook, May 18, 2006

By 

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

This remix album was a revelation for me for several reasons. Andy Votel has created a CD for record collectors that works on many levels:

First, Votel captures the eclectic spirit that hypercharged Vertigo Records, and for that matter, rock and roll, in the late 60s and early 70s. In the first few minutes of the hour plus CD, you get the horn rock of Lighthouse, Nirvana's--no, not them-- keyborad jam, and the steriod blues of Collumeum's "The Kettle." All of this happens in an eye blink, and is only a trailer for the movie to come.

Second, this is a gift to the record collector. Not only does Votel-in the booklet- talk about Vertigo being an important label to collect, but his CD presents just one of millions of possibilites. Students of blues and jazz and folk and prog and 70s slop rock and worldwide retro soundtracks will love this album. Votel lines up the music with no bounderies, and winks at you, as if to say "there are thousands of albums I could have made, but here is a little taste." Amazing.

Third-He also inserts neat little soundbytes where you least expect them, talking about Vertigo being brought into the modern age. I think that these are not comments about the Vertigo Label, but comments about the Hitchcock Film that Votel superimposed onto the mix. But it is applicable, and works like a charm

Fourth- He uses many soundbytes here by many bands-from big dudes like Black Sabbath to bands I can't find, like Brave New World.

BE WARNED-IF YOU LIKE SOMETHING YOU HEAR AND WANT TO BUY IT, CHECK THE SONG TITLES ON THIS ALBUM ON AMAZON FIRST. Not everything Votel used is listed on the back of the booklet. Amazon does have a more comprephensive track list.

That said, get it, get it now. It will open hundreds of doors, to both novice and expert.

Thank you, Andy.

From the Kettle,

Bill

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars dense bombastic soundbites that flow au naturale, July 30, 2008

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Scott McWade "dubs" (NJ USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Vertigo Mixed (Audio CD)

Whether it's chunks of proto metal, glam, heavy jazz, funk (but really lots o' proto metal) or whatever other odd detours this mix presents, they all have an element of swaggering bombast. Moreover, it all flows like a wild party, and there's something in the punch. It can get a little weird, at times, but never monotonous as there's something fresh around each corner and they come fast and furious. Welcome to the funhouse. Shaggy, baby. This could easily make any mother, and I mean this in the best possible way, quite nervous. Cheers, Birmingham !