Positive Vibrations

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Positive Vibrations
Ten Years After Positive Vibrations.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1974
Genre Blues rock, rock and roll
Length40:28
Label Chrysalis (UK)
Columbia (USA)
Producer Ten Years After
Ten Years After chronology
Recorded Live
(1973)
Positive Vibrations
(1974)
About Time
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Positive Vibrations is the eighth studio album by the English blues rock band, Ten Years After, which was released in 1974. Shortly after the release of this album, the band broke up. [1] The album peaked at #81 in the US Billboard 200 chart. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Alvin Lee, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Nowhere to Run" – 4:02
  2. "Positive Vibrations" – 4:20
  3. "Stone Me" – 4:57
  4. "Without You" – 4:00
  5. "Going Back to Birmingham" (Little Richard) – 2:39

Side two

  1. "It's Getting Harder" – 4:24
  2. "You're Driving Me Crazy" – 2:26
  3. "Look into My Life" – 4:18
  4. "Look Me Straight into the Eyes" – 6:20
  5. "I Wanted to Boogie" – 3:36

2013 remaster additional tracks

  1. "Rock & Roll Music to the World" (Live in Frankfurt)
  2. "Once There Was a Time" (Live in Frankfurt)
  3. "Spoonful" (Live in Paris)
  4. "I'm Going Home" (Live in Paris)
  5. "Standing at the Station" (Live in Amsterdam)
  6. "Sweet Little Sixteen" (Live in Atlanta)
  7. Positive Vibrations Radio Advert (1974)

Personnel

Ten Years After

Charts

Chart (1974)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3] 84

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References

  1. 1 2 "Positive Vibrations - Ten Years After". Allmusic . Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  2. "allmusic ((( Positive Vibrations > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums )))". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 26 July 2010.
  3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 307. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.