Golden Earring - Big Tree Blue Sea, Are You Receiving Me. 

👍🏻absolutely agree when it came out it blew my little mind and still does 50 years later. I felt for the time it was released they were one of thee best hard rock groups.

hippyhauler13 absolutely agree.

Switch is another F____n great LP of theirs.

Second that. This is the B side from UK/US edition of the album. Completely different track list from original European release and I like it so much better.

my sentiments exactly, Radar love was second rate compared to the rest of the album. The funny thing is Big Tree Blue Sea wasn't originally on the Moontan album, at least not on the European release, they originally had two songs that didn't fit the feel of the album at all, "Suzy Lunacy (Mental Rock), "Just Like Vince Taylor". it was a US record producer who took Big Tree Blue Sea from an earlier album that hadn't been released in the US and put it on Moontan, thus creating the cohesive masterpiece that made my top ten list of all time greatest albums

Yea

Great name

sailor7680 and play and play and play...never gets old!

Amen

What a revelation. Most guys comments go like ,wow I remember smoking a joint to this in the high school parking lot, or something like that. 40,50 years later they're still proud of frying their brains. I too, am thankful I am still here after doing a lot of stupid crap that could have harmed others and myself.

Saw Zeppelin 3 times and saw the floyd do dark Side in 73

Danny Estridge 👏🏻

Fucking amazing!!!!

I saw GE in early 1974. My second concert. I can still hear/feel Kooysman's electrifying guitar magic...

And 40 some years later you're still proud of that? Guys like you that think being wasted out of your mind was so cool sound like fools.

The album cracking makes it better. :)

The tape hiss, crackling and popping are part of the music for me

RUSH a close 2nd

and UFO

Not quite - Golden Earring (The Golden Earrings) formed in 1961 and released their debut album in 1966.

+mike hanold I have Moontan and Switch vinyl, bought both in Germany in 75. They still sound great.

thats fucking cool!

A limited to 15000 turquoise vinyl version of Moontan is about to be released in the Netherlands 2019/18/05. With the original album artwork.

Similar experience here. Golden Earring opened for Foghat. I didn't want them to stop playing. Foghat didn't stand a chance.

Donna, I don't know about that, they are both great bands that were under rated.....................

butch196018 True , many people loved Foghat but my tastes were more towards Golden Earring. I just loved the Moontan album and other songs but I there were other albums that had that I didn't care for at all. I always gravitated to the music that was not played on the radio with all bands . For instance although I liked Radar Love there were Golden Earring songs that were never played on the radio that I absolutely loved and still do like Big Tree , Blue Sea ... are you receiving me. I could imaging if they played on of their lesser albums and there was an audience that wanted to hear familiar songs they would absolutely be booed off the stage or even if they played their good stuff and people didn't recognize the music. I know a lot of people that don't like the music I like as they will say " I never heard that , I don't want to listen to that "

Even today, I can't stand Radar Love, when it came out it was the best song/tune, but the radio stations screwed it into the ground playing it over and over again. I love everything Golden Earring has done except for that song. Maybe someday I might listen, it's really such a great song, but when radio stations kept playing it over and over it kinda lost it's magic.

and that SUCKS- i hate that.....the media strikes again

Earnest Ryan just did, thnx.

make that four.

Agreed - we got lucky that great music was mainstream, but exploring deep cuts could get expensive, and finding independent releases could be challenging. Today the mainstream is less than stellar, but social media allows the exploration of interesting new artists plus virtually anything that's ever been recorded. OK that last bit is an exaggeration, but the amount of recordings readily available is staggering.

+David Couch Yep, I have them both. I bought the German release in Germany first and didn't realize for years there was a difference in song selection. The German release album cover may have been a little much for the USA back then.

my American copy on vinyl had the big ear & earring cover. Side two was Big tree Blue Sea & Are You Receiving Me...

The record execs did change the cover because of potential US controversy, but changing album tracks was a very common practice - look at Beatles, Stones, Jimi Hendrix, etc. The Beatles stopped the practice for their albums when they renegotiated their contract prior to Sgt Pepper - an artist has to sell a lot of product before they can dictate every detail of their contract.

Locomotive breath

its on you tube. its on the album Wall of dols

my Doberman puppy loved the sound of her claws as she scratched the shit out of any record I left out of it's jacket...

turn it up to 11