Activity - Spirit In The Room - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

CD reissue. Spirit was an American rock band founded in 1967 and based in Los Angeles, California. They are best known for their albums Spirit, The Family That Plays Together, Clear, and Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus. Time Circle (1968-1972), released in 1991, was a compilation that draws heavily from these four albums. The album also includes some outtakes and versions of songs from then unreleased soundtrack work. At the time that this album was released, Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus was the only studio album by the original band still available. Several of the outtakes were later included on the 1996 reissues of the first four albums. Album Tracks 1. Fresh Garbage 2. Uncle Jack 3. Mechanical World 4. Taurus 5. Girl in Your Eye 6. Straight Arrow 7. Topanga Windows 8. Grammophone Man 9. The Great Canyon Fire in Genera 10. I Got a Line on You 11. It Shall Be 12. Poor Richard 13. Silky Sam 14. Sherozode 15. All the Same 16. Dream Within a Dream 17. Aren't You Glad 18. Eventide 19. Model Shoppe Theme (The Moving Van) 20. Green Gorilla, Rehearsal Theme 1. Fog 2. Now or Anywhere 3. Dark Eyed Woman 4. So Little Time to Fly 5. Ground Hog 6. Ice 7. I'm Truckin 8. New Dope in Town 9. 1984 10. Sweet Stella Baby 11. Prelude 12. Nothin' to Hide 13. Nature's Way 14. Animal Zoo 15. Love Has Found a Way 16. Why Can't I Be Free 17. Mr. Skin 18. When I Touch You 19. Street Worm 20. Morning Will Come 21. Turn to the Right

Activity are an avant four-piece featuring Travis Johnson, and drummer Steve Levine, both from the band Grooms, bassist Zoë Browne from Field Mouse, and guitarist Jess Rees from Russian Baths. Produced by engineer Jeff Berner of Psychic TV, their debut forms a casually menacing framework for lyrical themes of paranoia, exposed character flaws, and the broader human capacity for growth when an ugly truth is laid bare. Lead single InchCalls Your Name,Inch establishes the record's spectral aura with nauseated electronic bells, and a relentless Geoff Barrow-esque drum beat beneath a half-sung, half-spoken lyrics inspired by C.S. Lewis's 1945 novel The Great Divorce. In the novel, characters stuck in a grey, joyless conception of hell repeatedly deny opportunities to be taken into heaven, instead making excuses as to why they should remain in their embittered purgatory states. Allegorically, this speaks to the kind of opportunity for metamorphosis and positive change that's possible when the depths of disillusionment are reached, an idea which permeates much of the album. Despite recurrent aches of discontentment, each track glows with radiant waves of catharsis while elegantly evoking jubilation and anguish within the same breadth, showing that the two are always around the corner from one another. Album Tracks 1. In Motion 2. Calls Your Name 3. Spring Low Life 4. Nude Prince 5. Looming 6. Earth Angel 7. The Heartbeats 8. I Like the Boys 9. Violent and Vivisect 10. Auto Sad

Digitally remastered edition of the original double album that appeared on the Mercury Recordsl in 1975, their debut for the tag after many years on Epic. These tracks are arguably the most fluid and satisfying statement by the Randy California/Ed Cassidy fronted lineup of the band. Includes sleeve notes by Alan Robinson. Album Tracks 1. America the Beautiful 2. Times They Are a Changing 3. Vicitm of Society 4. Lady of the Lakes 5. Tampa Jam (Pt.1) 6. Maunaloa 7. What Do I Have? 8. Sunrise 9. Walking the Dog 10. Tampa Jam (Pt.2) 11. Joker on the Run 12. When? 13. Like a Rolling Stone 14. Once Again 15. Feeling in Time 16. Happy 17. Jack Bond 18. My Road 19. Tampa Jam (Pt.3) 20. Thank You Lord 21. Uranita 22. Guide Me 23. Veruska 24. Hey Joe 25. Jack Bond (Pt.2) 26. Star Spangled Banner