Chuck Berry / Berry Is On Top - St. Louis To Liverpool
MFSL UDCD 776; Mastered by Shawn R. Britton
EAC rip with CUE + Log | FLAC (single file) | full HQ Scans | Rock&Roll
~410 mb incl. recovery | Released by MoFi 2008 (orig. 1959 + 1964)
MFSL UDCD 776; Mastered by Shawn R. Britton
EAC rip with CUE + Log | FLAC (single file) | full HQ Scans | Rock&Roll
~410 mb incl. recovery | Released by MoFi 2008 (orig. 1959 + 1964)
Great sounding Twofer of 2, 5 Stars rated by Allmusic.com, Chuck Berry classics...
Berry Is On Top (1959)
If you had to sweat all of Chuck Berry's early albums on Chess (and some, but not all, of his subsequent greatest-hits packages), this would be the one to own. The song lineup is exemplary, cobbling together classics like "Maybellene," "Carol," "Sweet Little Rock & Roller," "Little Queenie," "Roll Over Beethoven," "Around and Around," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Almost Grown." With the addition of the Latin-flavored "Hey Pedro," the steel guitar workout "Blues for Hawaiians," "Anthony Boy," and "Jo Jo Gunne," this serves as almost a mini-greatest-hits package in and of itself. While this may be merely a collection of singles and album ballast (as were most rock & roll LPs of the 1950s and early '60s), it ends up being the most perfectly realized of Chuck Berry's career.
St. Louis To Liverpool (1964)
This album puts the lie to the popular myth that Chuck Berry's music started to fade away around the same time that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, et al. emerged covering his stuff. His songwriting is as strong here as ever -- side one is packed with now-familiar fare like "Little Marie" (a sequel to "Memphis, Tennessee"), "No Particular Place to Go," "Promised Land," and "You Never Can Tell," but even filler tracks like "Our Little Rendezvous" and "You Two" are among Berry's better album numbers, the latter showing off the slightly softer pop/R&B side to his music that many listeners forget about. Side two includes a bunch of tracks, including the hard-rocking "Go Bobby Soxer" and the even better "Brenda Lee," the slow blues "Things I Used to Do" (with a killer guitar break), and the instrumentals "Liverpool Drive" and "Night Beat," one fast and the other slow, that never get reissued or compiled anywhere.
Track listing:
- 01 - Chuck Berry - Almost Grown 02 - Chuck Berry - Carol 03 - Chuck Berry - Maybellene 04 - Chuck Berry - Sweet Little Rock & Roller 05 - Chuck Berry - Anthony Boy 06 - Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode 07 - Chuck Berry - Little Queenie 08 - Chuck Berry - Jo Jo Gunne 09 - Chuck Berry - Roll Over Beethoven 10 - Chuck Berry - Around And Around 11 - Chuck Berry - Hey Pedro 12 - Chuck Berry - Blues For Hawaiians 13 - Chuck Berry - Little Marie 14 - Chuck Berry - Our Little Renezvous 15 - Chuck Berry - No Particular Place To Go 16 - Chuck Berry - You Two 17 - Chuck Berry - Promised Land 18 - Chuck Berry - You Never Can Tell 19 - Chuck Berry - Go Bobby Soxer 20 - Chuck Berry - The Things I Used To Do 21 - Chuck Berry - Liverpool Drive 22 - Chuck Berry - Night Beat 23 - Chuck Berry - Merry Christmas Baby 24 - Chuck Berry - Brenda Lee 25 - Chuck Berry - Fraulein 26 - Chuck Berry - O'Rangutang 27 - Chuck Berry - The Little Girl From Central
Tracks 1 - 12 "Berry Is On Top"; Tracks 13 - 27 "St. Louis To Liverpool"
Specials: Ultradisc 2; 2 on 1 Series; Running Time 71:38
Links: (Enterupload) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Cover
Links: (RS.com) Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Cover
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