Vanilla Fudge - The Return (2002 VF Comeback)

The Return is the seventh album by the rock band Vanilla Fudge, it was released in 2002. It featured new versions of songs from throughout their career. It also features new covers of songs from 'N Sync: "Tearin' Up My Heart", Backstreet Boys: "I Want It That Way", Marvin Gaye: "Ain't That Peculiar", and a Fudge version of the Rod Stewart hit "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy", which Fudger Carmine Appice co-wrote with Stewart. The album also featured the return of Vince Martell and a new member: Bill Pascali.

Line-up / Musicians

- Carmine Appice / drums, vocals
- Tim Bogert / bass, vocals
- Vince Martell / guitar, vocals
- Bill Pascali / organ, vocals

Tracklist

1. "Ain't That Peculiar"
2. "You Keep Me Hangin' On"
3. "Tearin' Up My Heart"
4. "Shotgun"
5. "People Get Ready"
6. "Take Me For A Little While"
7. "Good Good Livin'"
8. "I Want It That Way"
9. "Need Love"
10. "She's Not There"
11. "Season Of The Witch"
12. "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Fudge_2001

Vanilla Fudge - Vanilla Fudge (Great Psychedelic Rock 1967)

In a debut consisting of covers, nobody could accuse Vanilla Fudge of bad taste in their repertoire; with stoned-out, slowed-down versions of such then-recent classics as "Ticket to Ride," "Eleanor Rigby," and "People Get Ready," they were setting the bar rather high for themselves. Even the one suspect choice -- Sonny Bono's "Bang Bang" -- turns out to be rivaled only by Mott the Hoople's version of "Laugh at Me" in putting Bono's songwriting in the kindest possible light. Most of the tracks here share a common structure of a disjointed warm-up jam, a Hammond-heavy dirge of harmonized vocals at the center, and a final flat-out jam. Still, some succeed better than others: "You Keep Me Hanging On" has a wonderfully hammered-out drum part, and "She's Not There" boasts some truly groovy organ jams. While the pattern can sound repetitive today, each song still works as a time capsule of American psychedelia.

AMG Review by Paul Collins