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The soulful sound has been traded in for more hard guitars
This is undoubtably the heaviest of all albums cranked out by this group. It's acutually good for a swan song album for a group. It kicks off with a tough number called "Need Love" which makes me think of ZZ-Top listening to this to get the melody for "Tush". "Lord In The Country" is a good timey song, but it's got some edge to it, "I Can't Make It Alone" is as soulful as it gets, and also "If You Got To Make A Fool Of Somebody". The covers are still therewith "The Windmills Of Your Mind" a show tune from where I don't know, and they have the unissued "Break Song" as it's done in the studio, and have shaved 3 and half minutes off the live version on "Near The Beginning". This unfortunately spelled the end for the Fudge as Carmine Appice would be the most visible of the four, and play with Black Sabbath, and Blue Murder, and Jeff Beck. They would reform in 1984 for the "Mystery" album and tour.

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Classic Metal record
This is Vanilla Fudge's best album, and their last. Fudge was a very important band in heavy rock in the late sixties. They had a sound similer to Grand Funk Railroad with more Hammond organ worked in. Influenced Deep Purple and every heavy group who followed.

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Rented it. Loved it.
This album was my first experience with Vanilla Fudge. When I was younger (in the late 80s) I would check this record out from the public library all the time when visiting my Grandmother. I was attracted not only to the drumming of Appice but also to the soulful/"heavy" sound of the band. This is their final album but it sounds great and definitely does not sound like they "wore out" at the end. In fact, it sounds fresh and hard to me. It's funny how older music sounds more vibrant and original than the new things we are subjected to. I recommend listening to this album if for no other reason than to hear a band who made a mark on music. Rock and Roll will never die but it is fading away. It's hard to believe that at one time you could turn on MTV and see videos of groups like Black Sabbath and Fudge on Closet Classics and the sorely missed Headbangers Ball. The same channel, now mostly directed toward teenage girls, has turned into a repetitive, sloppy mess of so called pop music that suffers from such a lack of variety and originality that it sounds like every artist went to the same producer for their beats. Any way get Vanilla Fudge or something with some stature and introduce it to someone with a brain that hasn't been washed yet by MTV.