Ten Years After is a four man rock and roll band that finds its beginnings in the 1960's, ten years after the birth of rock-n-roll, hence the name. The original lineup was, Alvin Lee on guitar and vocals, Ric Lee (unrelated) on drums, Leo Lyons on bass, and Chick Churchill on keyboards. Recently, Joe Gooch has replaced Alvin Lee. They have recorded a huge list of albums, most of which are listed here.
Ten Years After was one of the bands at Woodstock and at The Isle of Wight Festival. They can be seen and heard in the Woodstock DVD, as well as The Isle of Wight Festival DVD. Ten Years After perform their signature song, I'm Going Home, in the Woodstock movie and I Can't Keep From Crying in the The Isle of Wight Festival movie.
The following is a list of CD's by Ten Years After.
About Time
Chrysalis, F2 21722 DIDX 5226
1. Highway Of Love 2. Let's Shake It Up 3. I Get All Shook Up 4. Victim Of Circumstance 5. Going To Chicago 6. Saturday Night 7. Bad Blood 8. Working In A Parking Lot 9. Wild Is The River 10. Outside My Window 11. Waiting For The Judgment Day
The song I Get All Shook Up is great. The rest of the CD amounts to 1980's hard rock which fits since it was released in 1989. About Time seems sterile compared to other TYA albums. I Get All Shook Up, is also on the Pure Blues CD. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Alvin Lee and Company
Deram, 820 566-2
1. The Sounds 2. Rock Your Mama 3. Hold Me Tight 4. Standing At The Crossroads 5. Portable People 6. Boogie On 7. Spider In My Web (single version) 8. Hear Me Calling (single version) 9. I'm Going Home (single version)
On March 30, 1972 Deram released a compilation of unreleased tracks and singles called Alvin Lee And Company. Most of the tracks come from 1968 recording sessions with the CD containing a few more tracks then the LP. The Sounds, Hold Me Tight, and especially Portable People are 3 gems. The other songs hold their own, and its nice to have a single version of I'm Going Home for those days you don't have time for a marathon version. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Anthology 1967-1971
Hip-O Records
Disc: 1 1. I Want to Know 2. I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes 3. Spoonful 4. Help Me 5. Portable People 6. Sounds 7. Rock Your Mama 8. Spider in My Web 9. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always [live] 10. Going to Try 11. Woman Trouble 12. Hear Me Calling 13. Boogie On Disc: 2 1. I'm Going Home [recorded live at Woodstock] 2. I Woke up This Morning 3. If You Should Love Me 4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 5. I'm Going Home [Live] 6. Me and My Baby 7. Love Like a Man 8. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 9. I'm Coming On 10. My Baby Left Me 11. One of These Days 12. Here They Come 13. I'd Love to Change the World 14. Let the Sky Fall
This is another greatest hits CD. I have not heard it. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
At Their Peak
I have not heard this CD, but I think it is a greatest hits CD.
Best of Ten Years After
EMI
1. Rock N Roll Music To The World 2. I'd Love To Change The World 3. I'm Going Home 4. Choo Choo Mama 5. Tomorrow I'll Be Out Of Town 6. I Woke Up This Morning 7. Me & My Baby 8. Good Morning Little School Girl 9. Going Back To Birminham 10. 50,000 Miles 11. Beneath My Brain 12. Sweet Little Sixteen 13. I'm Coming On 14. Love Like A Man 15. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock N Roll You
This is a greatest hits CD that I have not heard yet. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Choo Choo Lee
Gypsey Eye, 67
1. Hear Me Calling 2. Blues In C 3. Hobbit 4. Love Like A Man 5. Johnny B Goode 6. Help Me 7. I'm Going Home 8. Choo Choo Mama 9. Sweet Little 16
This is a live CD recorded in concert July, 16, 1988 in Giessen, Germany. The CD is listed as being for promotion only and is therefor hard to find. TYA as usual put on a good show with a very rich and thick sound.
Chricklewood Green
Chrysalis, VK 41084DIDX 1429
1. Sugar The Road 2. Working On The Road 3. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 4. Year 3,000 Blues 5. Me And My Baby 6. Love Like A Man 7. Circles 8. As The Sun Still Burns Away
Chricklewood Green is a must have TYA CD. Track after track is excellent. Each song has an outstanding feel to it. I've always gotten a kick out of Year 3,000 Blues which chronicles a run for your life more than 1000 years into the future. It is the perfect song for fans of the TV show Futurama. I recommend the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab version of this CD which is mastered better and also comes with the album Ssssh. Chricklewood Green was first issued April 1970. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Cricklewood Green [UK Bonus Tracks]
EMI Int'l
1. Sugar The Road 2. Working On The Road 3. 50000 Miles Beneath My Brain 4. Year 3000 Blues 5. Me And My Baby 6. Love Like A Man 7. Circles 8. As The Sun Still Burns Away 9. Warm Sun (Bonus Track) 10. To No One (Bonus Track)
Chricklewood Green is one of the best TYA recordings and now it is available with two bonus tracks. I guess I have to purchase this CD for the third time so I can hear those bonus tracks. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
The Collection
Griffin Music, GCD-218-2
1. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 2. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N Roll 3. Choo Choo Mama 4. Convention Prevention 5. Going Back To Birmingham 6. I Say Yeah 7. I Woke Up This Morning 8. I'm Going Home (Live) 9. I've Been There Too 10. Love Me Like A Man 11. Rock N' Roll Music To The World 12. Standing At The Station 13. Sweet Little Sixteen 14. The Stomp 15. Tomorrow I'll Be Out Of Town 16. Turned Off TV Blues
This is a greatest hits CD. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Essential
Chrysalis, F2 21857
1. Rock And Roll Music To The World 2. I'd Love To Change The World 3. I'm Going Home (live) 4. Choo Choo Mama 5. Tomorrow I'll Be Out Of Town 6. I Woke Up This Morning 7. Me And My Baby 8. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (live) 9. Goin' Back To Birmingham 10. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 11. Sweet Little Sixteen 12. I'm Coming On 13. Love Like A Man 14. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock N' Roll You
This is yet another greatest hits CD. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
I'm Going Home
Disky, DC 868782
1. I'm Going Home 2. I'd Love To Change The World 3. It's Getting Harder 4. Love Like A Man 5. Woodchoppers' Ball 6. Rock 'n' Roll Music To The World 7. Me And My Baby 8. I Woke Up This Morning 9. Stoned Women 10. Cho Cho Mama 11. Slow Blues In 'C' 12. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 13. Positive Vibrations 14. Hear Me Calling
I think this is greatest hits CD too. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Live
Tang.
1. One Of These Days 2. You Give Me Loving 3. Good Morning Little School Girl 4. Hobbit 5. Help Me 6. Classical Thing 7. Scat Thing 8. I Can't Keep From Cryin Sometimes 9. Silly Thing 10. Slow Blues In 'C' 11. I'm Going Home 12. Choo Choo Mama
This looks similar to Recorded Live, but I have not heard it. Maybe I should buy it? Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Live at Reading '83
Raw Fruit Records, FRSCD003
1. Love Like A Man 2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 3. Slow Blues In 'C' 4. Suzie Q 5. Hobbit 6. I May Be Wrong But I Won't Be Wrong Always 7. I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes/ Extension On One Chord 8. Going Home
This CD was recorded live at the Reading Festival in 1983. TYA live is always good and I really like the Extension On One Chord portion of track #7.
Live 1990
Code 90, NINETY3
1. Let's Shake It Up 2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 3. Slow Blues In C 4. Hobbit 5. Love Like A Man 6. Johnny B. Goode 7. Bad Blood 8. Victim Of Circumstance 9. I Can't Keep From Crying 10. I'm Goin' Home 11. Sweet Little Sixteen
This live recording was made from a 1990 show in Nottingham. It contains 3 tracks from their 1989 release About Time. Those 3 tracks translate better on Live 1990 than they do on About Time. Ric Lee plays his drum solo song Hobbit once again, but this time with a more modern sounding drum set. He pulls it off well, and Hobbit becomes one of the highlights. Track 9 is really cool too. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Live At The Bronx
Oh Boy 1-9018
1. One Of These Days 2. Improvisation 3. Once There Was A Time 4. Here They Come 5. Hobbit 6. Slow Blues In C 7. I Can't Help from Crying 8. Baby Don't You Let Me Rock N' Roll You
This is a live CD recorded in New York in 1971. It is interesting from a historical point of view. The sound really does have a early 1970s sound to it. The sound quality is so so.
Live At The Fillmore East
Chrysalis/EMI/Capitol 72435 33297 2 3
Disc: 1 1. Love Like a Man 2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 3. Working on the Road 4. Hobbit 5. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 6. Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob/I Can't Keep from Crying Sometimes/Extension on One Chord Disc: 2 1. Help Me 2. I'm Going Home 3. Sweet Little 16 4. Roll Over Beethoven 5. I Woke Up This Morning 6. Spoonful
This is an excellent two CD live album. This is a good choice if you are looking for the live TYA sound. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Love Like a Man
Go
I was also told about this CD by a web surfer, but I have not heard it. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
More Than 20 Years Later
Reel Tapes, RTCD006
1. Love Like A Man 2. No Title 3. I'm Still Losing Time 4. Slow Blues In C 5. Ravioli 6. I Woke Up This Morning 7. I'm Going Home
More Than 20 Years Later is a live CD recorded in Rome on March 17, 1971. It is a good performance but the recording quality is really bad. The CD cover and booklet is quite entertaining. The booklet has some cool concert photos. On the back of the CD box there is photo of Alvin Lee with his cheeks all puffed out while he plays some high notes on his guitar. The cover also states incorrectly that Led Lyons is on bass, Chuck Churchill is on keyboards, and Nick Lee is on drums.
Portfolio
This is another CD that a web surfer told me about, but I have never heard or seen it.
Positive Vibrations
Chrysalis, VK 41573DIDX 5038
1. Nowhere To Run 2. Positive Vibrations 3. Stone Me 4. Without You 5. Going Back To Birmingham 6. Its Getting Harder 7. You're Driving me Crazy 8. Look Into My Life 9. Look Me Straight Into The Eyes 10. I Wanted to Boogie
This is a great CD. It starts out real smooth, grooves through the middle with occasional jams, and then ends with a tale of a nights adventures. This album first hit the stores via LP form in 1974. Unfortunately, it looks to be out of print. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Premium Gold Collection
EMI
1. Love Like A Man 2. I'm Coming On 3. My Baby Left Me 4. Think About The Times 5. I'd Love To Change The World 6. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 7. Rock & Roll Music To The World 8. You're Driving Me Crazy 9. Baby Won't Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You 10. Good Morning Little School Girl 11. If You Should Love Me 12. Hard Monkeys 13. Year 3,000 Blues 14. Me & My Baby 15. Going Back To Birmingham 16. Nowhere To Run 17. I Woke Up This Morning 18. Choo Choo Mama 19. Sweet Little Sixteen (Live)
This is another greatest hits CD. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Pure Blues
Chrysalis/EMI Records, 7243 833450 2 1
1. Don't Want You Woman 2. The Bluest Blues 3. I Woke Up This Morning 4. Real Life Blues 5. The Stomp 6. Slow Blues In 'C' 7. Wake Up Moma 8. Talk Don't Bother Me 9. Every Blues You've Ever Heard 10. I Get All Shook Up 11. Lost In Love 12. Help Me 13. Outside My Window
Pure Blues is a compilation of Alvin Lee and Ten Years After blues songs. 6 of the 13 songs are TYA songs. Some of the musicians of note on the Alvin Lee songs are Clarence Clemons, George Harrison, and Jon Lord. The one song that I like from About Time, I Get All Shook Up, is also on Pure Blues. Pure Blues was issued in 1995. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Recorded Live
Chrysalis, F2 21049 DIDX4148
1. One Of These Days 2. You Give Me Loving 3. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 4. Help Me 5. Classical Thing 6. Scat Thing 7. I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes 8. Silly Thing 9. Slow Blues In 'C' 10. I'm Going Home 11. Choo Choo Mama
Recorded Live was released in 1973 as TYA's official live CD. Unlike the bootlegs around at the time, Recorded Live was a quality recording using the Rolling Stones' mobile recording truck. It does come across as a great show. The sound is rich and thick with songs stretching to include various twists and turns not found on the studio recordings. The LP was a 2 record set, but the CD is alone in its box. In order to fit 2 records on 1 CD, the song Hobbit was omitted. Even without Hobbit, it is a great CD. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Rock & Roll Music to the World
Chrysalis, VK 41009 DIDX 5037
1. You Give Me Loving 2. Convention Prevention 3. Turned Off T.V. Blues 4. Standing At The Station 5. You Can't Win Them All 6. Religion 7. Choo Choo Moma 8. Tomorrow I'll Be Out Of Town 9. Rock & Roll Music To The World
Ten Years After hit the scene ten years after the inseption of rock & Roll music, hence the name. It is only fitting that they would created an album with traditional rock & Roll stylings. The album, which was first released in 1972, has a heavy thick sound with added blues, lots of rich guitars, and a 1950's style song to end it. It is filled with "must have" songs. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Solid Rock
Capitol
1. Rock and Roll Music to the World 2. Detroit Diesel 3. I'm Coming On 4. Jenny, Jenny 5. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 6. Play It Like It Used to Be 7. Let's Shake It Up 8. Shot in the Dark 9. You Can't Win Them All 10. Too Late to Run for Cover 11. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock'n'roll You 12. Fight for Your Rights 13. I Love You When You Rock and Roll
I have not heard this CD yet. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
A Space in Time
Chrysalis, VK 41001 DIDX1415
1. One Of These Days 2. Here They Come 3. I'd Love To Change The World 4. Over The Hill 5. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'N' Roll You 6. Once There Was A Time 7. Let The Sky Fall 8. Hard Monkeys 9. I've Been There Too 10. Uncle Jam
A Space In Time contains the FM radio standard, I'd Love To Change The World. This is the song that drew me into the world of Ten Years After. When I was in college, I walked into the CD store near campus. You know the one that smelled like incense and had all those wild posters on the wall. As I browsed, this CD cover that had 4 guys with long hair sitting in a grassy field caught my eye. I looked at the song list and noticed the song I'd Love To Change The World. I asked the clerk if this was the song I had heard on the radio. He said, "Yeah, they are the only band that did that song." I bought the CD. When I played the CD, it blew me away. Not only was that one radio hit good, but all the songs were incredible. The album is a uplifting musical ride. A Space In Time remains one of my favorite CDs. It was released in 1971 and remains a great album from start to finish. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Ssssh.
Chrysalis, VK 41083 DIDX 2939
1. Bad Scene 2. Two Time Mama 3. Stoned Woman 4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 5. If You Should Love Me 6. I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name 7. The Stomp 8. I Woke Up This Morning
Ssssh. was released in September 1969. Highlights for me include If You Should Love Me, and I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name. I recommend the Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab version of this CD which is mastered better and also comes with the album Chricklewood Green. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Ssssh. & Cricklewood Green
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, UDCD 687
1. Bad Scene 2. Two Time Mama 3. Stoned Woman 4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 5. If You Should Love Me 6. I Don't Know That You Don't Know My Name 7. The Stomp 8. I Woke Up This Morning 9. Sugar The Road 10. Working On The Road 11. 50,000 Miles Beneath My Brain 12. Year 3,000 Blues 13. Me And My Baby 14. Love Like A Man 15. Circles 16. As The Sun Still Burns Away
This limited edition CD has 2 great TYA albums on one CD. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has mastered these 2 albums from the original master tapes. This makes for a more accurate recording then the regular issues of these compact discs. The CD is manufactured using 24-karat gold instead of the standard aluminum. Gold, in theory, performs better than aluminum. Please check out my reviews of the individual albums for more information on the music. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Stonedhenge
Deram, 820 534-2
1. Going To Try 2. I Can't Live Without Lydia 3. Woman Trouble 4. Skoobly-Oobly-Doobob 5. Hear Me Calling 6. A Sad Song 7. Three Blind Mice 8. No Title 9. Faro 10. Speed Kills
This is a fun recording from their earlier years. Stonedhenge is their 3rd album and was released February 22, 1969. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Ten Years After
Deram, 820 532-2
1. I Want To Know 2. I Can't Keep From Crying, Sometimes 3. Adventures Of A Young Organ 4. Spoonful 5. Losing The Dogs 6. Feel It For Me 7. Love Until I Die 8. Don't Want You Woman 9. Help Me
This is the very first Ten Years After album being released on October 27, 1967. It is heavy in the blues and varies from toe tapping jams to smooth thick music. Don't Want You Woman is an excellent acoustic number that fits in well with the usual electric songs. This album shows that TYA was creating top rate music from the get go. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Ten Years After [IMPORT] [LIMITED EDITION] [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
Deram
1. I Want to Know 2. I Can't Keep from Crying, Sometimes 3. Adventures of a Young Organ 4. Spoonful 5. Losing the Dogs 6. Feel It for Me 7. Love Until I Die 8. Don't Want You Woman 9. Help Me 10. Portable People [Mono Single Version] 11. Sounds [Mono Single Version] 12. Rock Your Mama 13. Spider in My Web 14. Hold Me Tight 15. Woodchoppers Ball
This edition of the Ten Years After self titled recording has additional bonus tracks. I have not heard it yet. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Top Gear
The Third Eye
I have not heard this CD, but I was told it existed by a web surfer. If you know where I can get a copy, let me know.
Undead
Deram, 820 533-2
1. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't Be Wrong Always 2. At The Woodchopper's Ball 3. Spider In My Web 4. Summertime, Into Shantung Cabbage 5. I'm Going Home
Undead was released on August 16, 1968 as TYA's second album. It is a live ablum recorded in London's Klooks Kleek club. The recording captures it all, the announcer, the crowd, and of course the music. It captures the feel of a small club like no other CD I own. Track one starts out with over 9 minutes of great music, the middle keeps it going, and the album ends with the TYA classic, I'm Going Home. This is the origional version of I'm Going Home and is of course a huge jam. The album includes an energenic version of Woody Herman's At The Woodchopper's Ball. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
The Very Best Ten Years After Album Ever
EMI Int'l
1. I'm Going Home [Live] 2. Love Like a Man 3. It's Getting Harder 4. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 5. Working on the Road 6. Sweet Little Sixteen [Live] 7. Me and My Baby 8. 50000 Miles Beneath My Brain 9. Rock and Roll Music to the World 10. I'd Love to Change the World 11. I'm Coming On 12. I Woke up This Morning 13. Year 3000 Blues 14. One of These Days 15. Stoned Woman
This is another greatest hits CD, however, this CD has been remastered. I have not heard it yet. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
Universal
Chrysalis
1. Choo Choo Mama 2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 3. I'd Love To Change The World 4. Love Like A Man 5. Going Back To Birmingham 6. Me And My Baby 7. Tomorrow I'll Be Out Of Town 8. I Can't Keep From Cryin' Sometimes 9. I'm Going Home
This is a greatest hits CD. I have not heard it.
Watt
Chrysalis, VK 41085 DIDX 2940
1. I'm Coming On 2. My Baby Left Me 3. Think About The Times 4. I Say Yeah 5. The Band With No Name 6. Gonna Run 7. She Lies In The Morning 8. Sweet Little Sixteen
Watt was released on the Deram label in December 1970 and after 1975 was issued by the Chrysalis label. I purchased Watt soon after I bought my first TYA CD, A Space In Time. Watt is a smooth thick musical ride and has spent a lot of time pushing notes through my hi-fi stereo. Buy this CD and read reviews at Amazon.com!
You can find guitar tablature for some TYA songs at www.alvinlee.com.
If you have any questions, comments, corrections, or if you know of any other Ten Years After CD's please feel free to e-mail me. Please send e-mail to Torrey.
If you like good rock and roll, you will really dig Ten Years After.
Good luck on your musical adventure.
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