Kites

RELEASE
December 16, 1994
LABEL
See For Miles Records
GENRES
Pop/Rock, Soul, Psychedelic

Album Review

Twenty songs recorded by the group between mid-1966 and 1969, including three early singles and seven songs off of the Without Reservations album. "Kites" is by far the best known number, and some of the later psychedelic efforts, including the Derek, Phil, and Ray Shulman-composed "She Gave Me the Sun" and the Shulman-Shulman "Thinking About My Life," are entertaining period pieces. But the real meat here is the group's R&B material from 1966 and earlier in 1967 -- Derek Shulman was a convincing shouter, and when the group slipped into the right groove, even on the edge of their leap into psychedelia ("Reservations"), they could rise to the occasion with good results. The group comes off as very similar to the Spencer Davis Group. It offers a glimpse of the sound that made the group very successful on the club circuit, some enjoyable druggy trifles, and vague hints of things to come from its members.
Bruce Eder, Rovi

Track Listing

  1. Kites
  2. Like the Sun Like the Fire
  3. Sleep
  4. For Whom the Bell Tolls
  5. Broken Hearted Pirates
  6. 60 Minutes of Your Love/A Lot of Money
  7. Love
  8. Get off My Bach
  9. There's a Little Picture Playhouse
  10. Day Time, Night Time
  11. I See the Light
  12. What Is Soul
  13. Amen
  14. Who Cares
  15. She Gave Me the Sun
  16. Thinking About My Life
  17. It Is Finished
  18. I've Seen It All Before
  19. You Need a Man
  20. Reservations