Randy Holden – Population II
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Line Records – LLP 5211 AS |
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Vinyl
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Rock |
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Psychedelic Rock |
Tracklist
| A1 | Guitar Song | 6:06 | |
| A2 | Fruit & Iceburgs | 5:59 | |
| A3 | Between Time | 1:48 | |
| A4 | Fruit & Iceburgs (Conclusion) | 1:48 | |
| B1 | Blue My Mind | 6:01 | |
| B2 | Keeper Of My Flame | 10:07 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Amigo Studios
- Manufactured For – Line Records GmbH
- Marketed By – Taxim Records
- Distributed By – Taxim Records
Credits
- Art Direction, Photography By – Michael O'Bryant
- Drums – Chris Lockheed*
- Engineer – Russ Schmidt
- Executive-Producer – Les Brown Jr.
- Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Producer, Written-By – Randy Holden
Notes
Recorded at Amigo Studios, 1969.
The cover of this German 80s pressing is taken from a photo of the first pressing, which reproduces the drill hole commonly found in the center of the jacket on original copies. You can faintly see among the stars in the center of the front cover.
The cover of this German 80s pressing is taken from a photo of the first pressing, which reproduces the drill hole commonly found in the center of the jacket on original copies. You can faintly see among the stars in the center of the front cover.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Stamped runout A side): 66.22724-01-1
- Matrix / Runout (Stamped runout B side): 66.22724-01-2
- Rights Society: GEMA
- Label Code: 6155
Other Versions (5 of 27)
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Population II (LP, Album, Stereo) | Hobbit Records | HB 5002 | US | 1970 | ||
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Population II (LP, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release) | Hobbit Records (2) | HB 5002 | 1989 | |||
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Population II (CD, Album, Reissue, Unofficial Release) | Flashback (4) | Flashback 007 | UK | 1995 | ||
| Population II (CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Unofficial Release, Stereo) | Progressive Line | PL 523 | 2001 | ||||
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Population II (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue) | Hobbit Records | HB 5002 | US | 2005 |
Recommendations
Reviews
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same quality than the lucky pigs rec non official
same sound production than new! improved blue cheer album
overall great unmissable records as ecstatic as the first 4 black sabbath -
Edited 9 months agoThis important reissue got a good review/mention in Bucketful Of Brains #5 magazine in December 1982, that probably prompted a few people to seek out copies in a big-city record retail store nearby. It wasn't that easy to find, but this appealed to my ears (at the time) much more than the usual UK heavy metal records (Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and the more recent NWOBHM bands, that had too much of the Spinal Tap about them to be taken seriously). I knew, and liked Sabbath, Priest from when I was a teenager in mid-1970s - when both bands were peaking, but that music seemed kinda old in early 1980s. I ended up selling almost all of my records from 1970s so I could buy new(er) stuff, such as this Population II reissue - as I was missing my guitar fix with those utterly insipid Brit bands of the time.
In Martin Popoff's excellent book - Who Invented Heavy Metal - he gives the nod to the first Black Sabbath album - released in UK on Friday 13th of February 1970, recorded Autumn 1969 - as being the first proper LP that was fully heavy metal - despite it containing two covers - Evil Woman (Crow - a US band, from 1969 - the brass spoils it) and Warning (Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation 7", from 1967 - a whole 2 years earlier, but still awesome, and heavy metal to my ears even at that early date - in a similar manner to The Accent's Red Sky At Night 7").
Randy Holden's record, recorded before Black Sabbath, in 1969, and (I think) maybe released before, I don't know for sure - is entirely his own songs/music, as far as I'm aware, and the guitar sounds even more powerful than on the Black Sabbath record, so to my ears, this record is the first wholly metal LP, despite it not having the requisite horror/satanic imagery, that for some reason, seems to be a pre-requisite for something to be termed Heavy Metal. Don't Steppenwolf have the bragging rights on that genre name? -
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