Track Listing

1. Hello Susie
2. Beautiful Daughter
3. Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited
4. Fields Of People
5. Don't Make My Baby Blue
6. Last Thing On My Mind
7. So You Want To Be A Rock 'n' Roll Star
8. Stephanie Knows Who
9. Something Else
10. It'll Be Me
11. Sunshine Help Me
12. Piece Of My Heart
13. Too Much In Love
14. Higher And Higher (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me)
15. Sunshine Help Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #213503 in Music
• Released on: 2000-01-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

CD Description
The Move was always a hard band to pin down. They began by bringing a hard-edged American rock & roll sensibility to '60s British psych-pop, alternating between rave-ups and trip-outs. By the time of SHAZAM, one of the group's strongest efforts, the sound was most comparable to S.F. SORROW-era Pretty Things. There are hard-rock riffs aplenty, but they're employed in the service of long, ambitious songs, occasionallyof a conceptual nature. The lengthy centrepiece, "Cherry Blossom Clinic", is indicative of SHAZAM's sound. "Clinic" tells the story of life inside a mental institution in a constantly shifting tour de force that moves from spoken-word fragments to heavy proto-progressive riffs to fanciful folk/baroque acoustic guitar tapestries.
On the other side of the coin, the band wrings some crunchingly heavy, Led Zep-like blues-rock out of some unlikely source material on the Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill composition "Don't Make My Baby Blue". Similarly, Tom Paxton's simple folk standard "The Last Thing On My Mind" is transformed into a moody, cinematic, seven-and-a-half-minute psychedelic rock epic. As if all this weren'tenough, there's also nine (!) juicy bonus tracks.

Customer Reviews

Very Moving!
"Shazam" is a glorious mess! That's a good thing.

Over-produced and muddily-mixed, this 1970 offering from The Move will possibly blow up your speakers!

The original album boasted just six tracks, the first three by Roy Wood. Wood is a pop genius. Here he can boast stadium rock ("Hello Susie"), McCartney-esque balladry ("Beautiful Daughter") and power pop ("Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited"). Coupled with fine covers of "Fields Of People" (country hard pop!), "The Last Thing On My Mind" (psychedelia) and "Don't Make My Baby Blue" (all out heavy metal) - it all makes "Shazam" a very fine rock album indeed.

Interspread between the tracks are spoken vignettes with the general public which, although making very little sense, give a seemlessness to the proceedings.

As "Shazam" was released, vocalist Carl Wayne left to be replaced by a certain Jeff Lynne. But The Move never sounded as wired as they did here again. Recommended.

A Juicy Slice of Pop History
Mix near-equal quantities of pop and pop-rock, add a cup of hard rock, some jam, stir artfully and let simmer for a touch over 30 years. The result will be a juicy pie full of the unique flavors of late-60s/early-70s eclectic music. "Shazam" from The Move may not be a "must have" addition to your vintage collection banquet, but it's a tasty item that deserves a place on the table.