On the Double

by Golden Earring, Golden Earrings

Overview

Golden Earring's 1969 double LP (since reissued on a 66-minute single disc) is a competent rendering of a wide variety of period rock styles. It's far from being a counterpart to The White Album, though. It's just ordinary, late-'60s rock, certainly more accomplished than most bands working in non-English speaking countries at the time, but not of high distinction, either. There's riff-driven material hinting at the direction they'd pursue more extensively in the 1970s (especially on "Songs on a Devil's Servant"), Continental-flavored acoustic folk balladry, singer/songwriter-flavored folk-rock, good-time hard-rocking pop/rock ("Goodbye Mama"), classical-tinged pomp rock, rather nice soul-pop ("I Sing My Song"), and self-conscious music hall parody. They could have fit into the opening slots of big-name rock bills without many suspecting they were of non-Anglo origin, but nor were they going to be upstaging many headliners. It's merely adequate, without standout songs or an individual flavor. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	11/20/2001
Label:	Red Bullet
UPC:	8712944662016

Tracks

1. Songs on a Devil's Servant
2. Angelina
3. Pam Pam Poope Poope Loux
4. Hurry Hurry Hurry
5. My Baby Rubu
6. Judy
7. Goodbye Mama
8. Murdock
9. Just a Little Bit of Peace in My Heart
10. Sad Story of Sam Stone
11. High in the Sky
12. Remember My Friend
13. Time Is a Book
14. Backbiting Baby
15. I'm a Running'
16. I Sing My Song
17. Mitch the Mover
18. God Bless the Day
19. Grand Piano

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Golden Earrings   Primary Artist
Golden Earring   Primary Artist
Cesar Zuiderwijk   Drums
Rinus Gerritsen   Keyboards,Bass
Jaap Eggermont   Drums
George Kooymans   Vocals,Guitar
Barry Hay   Flute,Vocals