Product Description
Hard To Find Actual 1976 Japanese First Pressing! Includes Insert With Lyrics In English, Notes in Japanese. The Definitive Steve Miller Album, Featuring “Fly Like An Eagle”, “Take The Money And Run” & “Rock ‘N Me”.
Condition – Vinyl: VERY GOOD PLUS! Some light surface marks, which do not affect play. Looks VG+ / Plays EX!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS! Shelf wear, a few creases.
Japanese vinyl pressings are highly sought after by audiophiles and collectors, due to their premium sound quality and beautifully presented packaging. The sonic quality of Japanese records is regarded as the best in the world. No wonder all the original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab records were pressed in Japan! The covers are printed on better quality heavy stock paper too. Near Mint original Japanese pressings are becoming scarcer ~ and therefore more collectable and valuable every year.
Side 1:
Space Intro
Fly Like An Eagle
Wild Mountain Honey
Serenade
Dance, Dance, Dance
Mercury Blues
Side 2:
Take The Money And Run
Rock ‘N Me
You Send Me
Blue Odyssey
Sweet Maree
The Window
AMG –
Miller's strongest set of songs, plus a detailed atmospheric production where everything fits... an album rock landmark! 4 ½ Stars Steve Miller had started to essay his classic sound with The Joker, but 1976's Fly Like an Eagle is where he took flight, creating his definitive slice of space blues. The key is focus, even on an album as stylishly, self-consciously trippy as this, since the focus brings about his strongest set of songs (both originals and covers), plus a detailed atmospheric production where everything fits. It still can sound fairly dated -- those whooshing keyboards and cavernous echoes are certainly of their time -- but its essence hasn't aged, as "Fly Like an Eagle" drifts like a cool breeze, while "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock 'n Me" are fiendishly hooky, friendly rockers. The rest of the album may not be quite up to those standards, but there aren't any duds, either, as "Wild Mountain Honey" and "Mercury Blues" give this a comfortable backdrop, thanks to Miller's offhand, lazy charm. An album rock landmark of the mid-'70s and its best moments (namely, the aforementioned singles) are classics of the idiom. 4 ½ Stars