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Quicksilver Messenger Service - Just for Love Audio CD

A fair review of the Quicksilver Messenger Service "Just for Love" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Quicksilver Messenger Service reviews here, or go back to the Quicksilver Messenger Service tabs.

Band: Quicksilver Messenger Service Title: Just for Love Rating: Release Date: 2008-07-22 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Wolf Run, Pt. 1 2: Just for Love, Pt. 1 3: Cobra 4: Hat 5: Freeway Flyer 6: Gone Again 7: Fresh Air 8: Just for Love, Pt. 2 9: Wolf Run, Pt. 2

Why
For this album to be available at $87 in Oct. Why is this album only available as an import? Fresh Air is a great song from my high school days but Quicksilver's run was on its last legs by this time. 2009 is a sham. Buy their first two records.

Just for Love-QuickSilver Messenger Service
That's is, it was made as an alblum; not just separate songs that happen to be in one place. Good example of the "concept" alblums being made at that time. Great singing; not so much of long instrumentals like on previous alblums.

Hawaiian QMS
Dino Valenti is featured in Fresh Air and Just for Love (and others). This is the first of the Hawaiian albums. It is a big change from the previous Cippolina/Duncan era. This was my first exposure to QMS and I quickly bought all of their albums after that (ca. 1970).

Lost love found again...
The sounds in this work send me back to a time of youth and naive freedom. This is an album that I've been missing for years. It's wonderful to hear again.

Best Rock Album Ever!!
When I first heard this on vinyl back in the early 70s, I was mesmerized by the amazing quality of the materials, their performance, and the recording. This is one of the few best produced CDs in the history of Rock music, and way more. I've liked the first two albums of the Quicksilver Messenger Service, but this album really cemented my love for their music. Someone mentioned in his/her review that you had to listen to them perform live to really know their music, but for me who lived in the other part of the world, this album really did it.

While Dino Valenti's materials are quite different from what the band has been playing prior to this album, the way many of his tunes are arranged and the overall tone and the feel of the entire album, are so sublime. Every member of the band sounds very well-integrated to the music as well.

Particularly the way the lead guitarist Gary Duncan plays on this album is out of this world; way above and beyond the realm of the typical Rock guitar playing. From the powerful thrilling boogie glides on "Freeway Flyer" to the intoxicatingly beautiful and sensual melodic whispers and caresses on "Gone Again," his guitar consistently and spontaneously delivers what seems to be just the right sound for the moment and the context, but never a dull moment. Because of his masterful use of the instruments and sound effects, the sounds coming out of his guitars always provide the most interesting dynamics, rich tones, and colorful textures to the music. His fantastic solo on "Fresh Air" sends anyone to that far-out heaven each time he hits that first note. Duncan's extremely evolved, uniquely compositional, and unparalleled melody sense contributes so much to the excellence of this album as does to the music of the band in its entirety.

If I had to pick only one Rock CD to listen to the rest of my life, this would be the one.
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