| Product Summary | | Label: Emd/capitol | | UPC: 00077779124626 | | Release Date: 8/23/1994 | | Buy.com Sku: 60135094 | | Item#: M3F2V6 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Brave New World ~ Steve Miller Band |  | | 2. Celebration Song ~ Steve Miller Band | | | 3. Can't You Hear Your Daddy's Heartbeat ~ Steve Miller Band | | | 4. Got Love 'Cause You Need It ~ Steve Miller Band | | | 5. Kow Kow ~ Steve Miller Band | | | 6. Seasons ~ Steve Miller Band | | | 7. Space Cowboy ~ Steve Miller Band | | | 8. LT's Midnight Dream ~ Steve Miller Band | | | 9. My Dark Hour - (with Paul McCartney) ~ Steve Miller Band | |
(P) Originally released 1969 by Capitol Records, Inc. All rights reserved.
(C) 1969 Capitol Records, Inc.
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Steve Miller Band: Steve Miller (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Lonnie Turner (bass, vocals); Ben Sidran, Nicky Hopkins (keyboards); Tim Davis (drums, vocals). | | Blasting out of stereo speakers in the summer of 1969, Brave New World was more fully realized, and rocked harder, than the Steve Miller Band's first two albums. From the opening storm of the uplifting title track to the final scorcher, "My Dark Hour," featuring Paul McCartney (credited as "Paul Ramon"), this recording was the strongest project before Miller's Fly Like an Eagle days. "Celebration Song" has a sliding bassline, while "LT's Midnight Dream" features Miller's slide guitar. "Can't You Hear Your Daddy's Heartbeat" sounds like it was lifted right off of Jimi Hendrix's Are You Experienced, and "Got Love 'Cause You Need It" also has a Hendrix-ian feel. "Kow Kow" is a wonderfully oblique song featuring Nicky Hopkins' distinctive piano style. Hopkins' piano coda on that song alone is worth the price of this album. "Space Cowboy," one of several songs co-written with Ben Sidran, defined one of Miller's many personas. "Seasons," another Sidran collaboration, is a beautifully atmospheric, slow-tempo piece. Steve Miller's guitar playing is the star of this album, blazing across the whole affair more prominently than on any other release in his lengthy career; many of the songs have a power trio feel. In addition to the fine guitar work, Miller's vocals are stronger here, and during this era in general, than they would be in his hitmaking days in the mid-'70s, when he was much more laid-back and overdubbed. Ever the borrower, adapter, and integrator, Steve Miller shapes the blues, psychedelia, sound effects, sweet multi-tracked vocal harmonies, and guitar-driven hard rock into one cohesive musical statement with this release. ~ Jim Newsom | | 1969's BRAVE NEW WORLD is the album that not only fully integrates the blues-rock stomp and hazy trippiness of CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE and SAILOR, but also adds a newfound pop gloss. Indeed, elements of this album would reappear throughout Miller's stratospherically successful mid-'70s commercial heyday: the slyly humorous centerpiece rocker "Space Cowboy" was name-checked on "The Joker," and the main riff of "My Dark Hour" (a studio collaboration between Miller and Paul McCartney) would later reappear as the intro to the huge hit "Fly Like An Eagle." BRAVE NEW WORLD also benefits heavily from the contributions of famed British keyboardist Nicky Hopkins. Acid rockers like "Can't You Hear Your Daddy's Heartbeat" and "Got Love 'Cause You Need It" are wisely kept to the 2:30 mark, saving them from getting bogged down in the monotonous jamming that ruined so many albums of the period, while forward-looking experiments like the noise-rock interludes on the title track give the album a freshness that belies its recording date. |
Producer: Glyn Johns; Steve Miller |
Musical Guests | | Paul McCartney | | Nicky Hopkins |
| | Artist Overview | | The Steve Miller Band has gone through a number of chameleonic changes over the decades. Miller started out as a blues-obsessed guitarist and led his band through a series of classic dreamy psychedelic albums in the '60s. Later in the '70s, he adopted a more accessible, slightly blues-inflected pop-rock hook bonanza and hit commercial paydirt with hits such as "The Joker" and "Fly Like an Eagle". In the early '80s he briefly took on a new wave tinge--and even topped the charts with the synthy "Abracadabra"--before returning once more to his blues-rock roots. |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | The Music of the Steve Miller Band ~ Lewis, Kenny Lee | | Greatest Hits 1974-1978 ~ Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve | | Miller, Steve |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/23/1994 | | Original Release Date : 1969 | | Catalog ID : 91246 | | Label : Capitol/EMI Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 29m : 52s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00077779124626 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (7/26/69, p.37)
- "...'Space Cowboy' and 'Brave New World' complement each other nicely....Both provide a vehicle for the Miller Band to show off its mastery of electronics...and both play Miller's guitar off against a steady rhythm section..." |
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