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Watt | 
| Artist: Ten Years After
Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
Category: Music
List Price: $36.98
Buy New: $21.38
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 224343
Format: Import, Limited Edition, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 4988006824102
ASIN: B0002VL8B2
Release Date: November 8, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | I'm Coming On | | • | My Baby Left Me | | • | Think About the Times | | • | I Say Yeah | | • | Band With No Name | | • | Gonna Run | | • | She Lies in the Morning | | • | Sweet Little Sixteen [Live] |
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Album Description
Japan exclusive remastered reissue packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Details TBA. To. 2004.
Album Details
Digitally Remastered Japanese Limited Edition in an LP-STYLE Slipcase.
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| Customer Reviews:
My TYA favourite album August 11, 2007
Jiri Schwarz (Prague, Czechia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Definitely TYA's masterpiece. It's probably my most frequently played album at all, still after those 35 years I have known it. I still feel the smell of the high-school parties of the early seventies in Prague. The album has an extremely unique atmosphere that only Alvin Lee's vocal and TYA music can produce. TYA's music is based on typical, simple but genuine, electric rock & blues riffs, which usually start off the pieces (e.g. tracks 1 & 4). Typically, the compositions may then evolve into more sophisticated music with gradation, especially in tempo (My Baby Left Me), two of the songs (tracks 4 & 6) evolve into nearly jazzy improvisations. Track 3 (Think About The Times) is an outstanding slow rock balad, with Alvin Lee's voice sounding somewhat frustrated, bitter, but (even for the male heterosexual as myself) quite sexy. Wonderful for dancing with a girl (subdued lights mandatory). The totally happy tune, She Lies In the Morning, is really great (maybe adding some genuine British /Liverpool?/ inspiration to TYA's music). The closing Sweet Little Sixteen has been performed better by other bands (and TYA themselves could play R'N'R classics much better indeed), but it does not hamper the overall feeling from listening to the album. Alvin's guitar solos on Watt are at his best: even more robust, with greater than ever melodic invention. It is rightful to notice the outstanding musicianship of the other members of the quartet (who are still able to perform fantastic gigs even after Alvin's farewell to TYA).
Watt is a slightly more mature record than its antecedent, Cricklewood Green, and maybe a bit more spontaneous and more varied than the following A Space in Time record. What makes Watt so outstanding is the synthesis of the R&B music with other influences. The brief shift to a jazz-rock improvisations might in fact herald the jazz-rock fusion in the coming years. I know that some R&B purists may prefer the more early TYA records. However, in my eyes, they were somewhat plain, at least in comparison to Watt, and lacked its maturity. To R&B fans this is a must have record, and I would recommend Watt even to the newcommers to TYA.
The songs are still Great After all this time! December 14, 2007
Robert A. Mueller Sr.
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This album was a sleeper in the 1970's. The music is sophisticated rock considering the era. I'm glad to have it back in my collection after a long absence.
great classic rock band November 4, 2007
A. Acosta (Honolulu,Hawaii USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
TYA,is one of the greatest band from England.A must have if you dig them.this is a great band,trust me if you are in your late fiftes.THIS IS A CLASSIC///////////A Must HAVE//////////ALOHA
Watt Ten Years After May 12, 2007
Randy K. Jensen (Omaha Nebraska)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Good rock for just listening no hits to call lasting memories
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