Released 1969 Producer Guy Morris Artist The Human Instinct Label Marble Arch Records | Length 36:50 Burning Up Years
(1969) Stoned Guitar
(1970) Release date 1969 | |
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Recorded Astor Studios, Auckland Genres Psychedelic rock, Blues rock, Acid rock Similar Stoned Guitar, Pins in It, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere | ||
Burning Up Years is the debut album by New Zealand blues-rock band The Human Instinct. It was released in 1969 and reissued on CD by Ascension Records in 2001.
Contents
The album's title track is a cover of a 1969 song by Birmingham progressive rock trio Hard Meat, whose original version was the B-side of their cover of The Beatles' "Rain".
"Blues News", "Fall Down", and "Ashes and Matches" were covers of unreleased demos recorded by New Zealand guitarist Doug Jerebine under his stage name, Jesse Harper. (Jerebine's original versions were belatedly released in the 1990s.)
Other cover versions on the album were The Kinks' "You Really Got Me", Neil Young's "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere" (listed as "I Think I'll Go Back Home" and miscredited in the liner notes to Jesse Harper), and Ashton, Gardner & Dyke's "Maiden Voyage", misattributed to Maurice Greer.
"I Think I'll Go Back Home" b/w "You Really Got Me" was released as a single.
Human instinct blues news nz 1969
Track listing
- "Blues News" (Jesse Harper) – 3:35
- "Maiden Voyage" (Maurice Greer) – 5:21
- "Fall Down" (Harper) – 2:52
- "I Think I'll Go Back Home" (Harper) – 3:21
- "Ashes and Matches" (Harper) – 4:04
- "You Really Got Me" (Ray Davies) – 3:24
- "Burning Up Years" (Mike Dolan/Mick Carless/Steve Dolan) – 14:10
Personnel
Recorded at Peach-Weymess Astor Recording Studios, Nugent St Auckland 1969 Engineered by Gary Potts and Wahanui Wynyard.
Album artwork and photography by Peter Lumb.
Songs
1Blues News3:36
2Maiden Voyage5:21
3Fall Down2:52