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Ten Years After - Ssssh Audio CD

A fair review of the Ten Years After "Ssssh" 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 Ten Years After reviews here, or go back to the Ten Years After tabs.

Ten Years After Band: Ten Years After
Title: Ssssh
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Release Date: 2004-05-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Bad Scene 2: Two Time Mama 3: Stoned Woman 4: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 5: If You Should Love Me 6: I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name 7: Stomp 8: I Woke Up This Morning

Not Quite What I Expected
My only reference is the original vinyl version on Deram which was great. This recording is not quite what I expected. Here, the background is weak and the dynamics have all been sucked out through a straw. Should be renamed "Sterilized". This mere shadow of the original recording is disappointing.
This is the 2004 import issued by EMI. I have not heard the other CD versions.


make sure you get the remaster
The original issue CD sounds like it was made from a 25th generation cassette tape. Pay close attention to the review's title folks. I couldn't even listen to it. Luckily they dug up the masters and cleaned up the packaging for WAY better sound. As for the music, TYA fans and any bluesy rock fans in general should enjoy this.


British Blues
This album is truely a remarkable piece coming right after their first album "Ten Years After and "Undead" their second. Ten Years After along with Savoy Brown, Yardbirds, Spencer Davis, Fleetwood Mac and John Mayall were all big in the late 60's but none bigger than Ten Tears After and Alvin Lee on guitars and vocals. It gives a great overall "feel" of their blues, jazz and rock and roll sound. I love the energy level and youthfulness of this work. This is a must have record in any British Blues, Ten Years After or Roots Rock collection.
And Stoned Woman, the third cut is actually an "anti drug" song. Outstanding guitar work, great song writing and they do a couple covers too! Great, great, great!
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A Total Classic from 1969!
My older brother was a big, big TYA fan. I first heard this album when I was 10 years old. He let me borrow this album--and he never got it back!

The opening song, "Bad Scene" starts out with Alvin making high pitched sounds on his guitar ( a sound my dog always perked up and barked to) and then rocks out with a ferocious energy. . "Two Time Mama" has a slide guitar to a nice melody (a la George Harrison). "Stoned Woman" has a great riff and now dated lyrics, but I still love it! This segues into "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl",a blues cover which really rocks out and also has a great bass solo from Leo Lyons. The old vinyl side 2 opened with "If Yoou Should Love Me", a a great mid tempo rocker, then the short ballad follows, "I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name". This segues into "The Stomp", an awesome blues rocker, which is very reminiscent of how the Doors did blues. . . . The album ends with the powerful blues rocker "I Woke Up This Morning", featuring Alvin's searing solos. . . This is the year (1969)TYA made music history at Woodstock, which made them legends. .

If you're new to TYA, start with this album! You will love it!.


Some of the best blues-rock you'll ever hear.
It has everything you need:Roaring vocals, searing guitarwork, thundering grooves, and an overall a**-kicking vibe. If you're gonna start with Ten Years After, I'd say just go for the best and get this album. The album lets loose right from the getgo with Bad Scene, a song that predates punk rock by about 7 years. The sudden changes and different riffs on the song would normally faulter in another band, but on here, its just really groovy and psychdelic in a good way. Stoned Woman and Good Morning Little Schoolgirl are both firey rockers, the latter having one of the most intense guitar and bass solos I've ever heard. These guys make Cream sound like sissypants.

Also, you got a few nice sounding ballads such as I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name, the soul of If You Should Love Me, and the country-tinged Two Time Mama. On top of that, you have some good old fashioned blues rock such as the John Lee Hooker-based Stomp, and the basic, but still memorable I Woke Up This Morning.

This is Ten Years After at their finest. For those of you who couldn't get enough of them on the Woodstock movie, get this album. You can't go wrong.


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