Toad - Toad (1971, switzerland hard/heavy blues rock, 2008 japan Cardboard Sleeve (mini LP) edition - FLAC)

Saudações; quem de vocês que aprecia o rock feito no final dos anos sessenta e durante os anos setenta, que ao fazer uma "top ten list" de álbuns preferidos que fazem parte dessa época, e ao final dessa lista não ficou lamentando por ter deixado de fora essa ou aquela banda?

Bem, eu tenho uma grande dificuldade para fazer uma lista dessas, mas sem dúvida nenhuma esse álbum que estou a postar aquí agora, tranquilamente faria parte de minha "top five list"! Soberbo auto-intitulado primeiro álbum dessa fantástica banda Suíça, que em minha opinião, após o segundo álbum lamentavelmente perdeu o rumo, porém isso não desmerece em nada a qualidade dessa banda; soberba sob todos os aspectos!

Ouçam e tirem suas conclusões; e meu camarada Micose, se você ainda não conhece o Toad, esse é o álbum!




Why does anyone bother with the current crop of "stoner rock" when there's so much better stuff made back in the original stoner age (the '70s) now being reissued??

If you're into the Man's Ruin roster, and prone to buying albums by the latest Swedish Kyuss clone, yet don't have, say, Lucifer's Friend, Flower Travellin' Band, Leafhound, Captain Beyond, or Buffalo reissues in your collection, it's time to get with the program! Not that that's easy, since much of the good old shit is definitely obscure and unheralded.

For instance, we hadn't ever heard of this Swiss band Toad until a kindly customer sold back a bootleg cd with an intriguing cover a couple years ago. Now, here's a legit reissue of the same album thanks to the freaks at Second Battle.

This self-titled disc is the first and best of Toad's three LPs, serving up hard-rockin' stoner psych in the best blues-based tradition of early Blue Cheer and Led Zep.

The first track "Cotton Wood Hill" will offer a clue about the lineage of this band, as Toad's rhythm section played on the classic LP of that same title by acid-fried Krautrockers Brainticket!

Toad boasts an excellent vocalist put to good use on the more melodic parts of their sometimes quite long songs, but a large part of the LP is occupied by heavy (HEAVY) jamming instrumental excursions featuring the killer guitar of one Vic Vergeat. This is genuine heaviness, circa 1971.



Track list:
01. Cotton Wood Hill (8:29)
02. A Life That Ain't Worth Living (3:26)
03. Tank (3:22)
04. They Say I'm Mad (6:40)
05. Life Goes On (11:48)
06. Pig's Walk (7:19)
07. The One I Mean (2:28)
Bonus tracks:
08. Stay (3:31)
09. Animals World (3:09)


Toad:
*Vittorio "Vic" Vergeat (guitar, vocals, piano)
*Cosimo Lampis (drums, percussion, vocals)
*Werner Fröhlich (bass, vocals)
*Benjamin "Beni" Jaeger (vocals)





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