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Released
  
15 June 1973

Messin' (1973)
  
Solar Fire (1973)

Release date
  
15 June 1973

Label
  
Vertigo Records

Length
  
41:16

Artist
  
Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Producer
  
Manfred Mann

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Recorded
  
Maximum Sound Studios, London, 1973

Genres
  
Rock music, Progressive rock, Hard rock, Progressive metal

Similar
  
Manfred Mann's Earth Band albums, Progressive rock albums

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Messin' is a rock album released in 1973 by Manfred Mann's Earth Band.

Contents

Messin' followed Glorified Magnified and preceded Solar Fire, and like all Earth Band albums contains a mixture of originals and covers (see track listing below).

"Buddah" also appeared on the Vertigo budget sampler double album Suck It And See, along with tracks by then-labelmates Kraftwerk, Jade Warrior and the Sensational Alex Harvey Band, amongst others.

The album was produced by Manfred Mann and engineered by John Edwardes at Maximum Sound Studios, London in 1973.

For the United States release, the album was re-titled Get Your Rocks Off and the track "Pretty Good" was included in place of "Black And Blue", seemingly because the latter was about slavery and deemed unsuitable for the US market. Both tracks were included on the 1998 re-mastered re-issue.

Manfred mann s messin 1973


Messin'

Side one
  1. "Messin'" (Mike Hugg) – 9:54
  2. "Buddah" (Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers) – 7:01
  3. "Cloudy Eyes" (Mann) – 5:32
Side two
  1. "Get Your Rocks Off" (Bob Dylan) – 2:51
  2. "Sadjoy" (Mann) – 5:20
  3. "Black and Blue" (Chain: Barry Sullivan, Matt Taylor, Phil Manning, Barry Harvey) – 7:21 (6:44 on the 1998 re-issue)
  4. "Mardi Gras Day" (Dr John Creaux) – 3:02
Bonus Tracks (1998 re-issue)
  1. "Pretty Good" (John Prine) – 4:11
  2. "Cloudy Eyes" (single edit) (Mann) – 3:31

Get Your Rocks Off

Side one
  1. "Messin'" (Mike Hugg) – 10:00
  2. "Pretty Good" (John Prine) – 4:00
  3. "Sadjoy" (Mann) – 4:30
Side two
  1. "Get Your Rocks Off" (Bob Dylan) – 3:00
  2. "Buddah" (Manfred Mann, Mick Rogers) – 7:00
  3. "Cloudy Eyes" (Mann) – 5:30
  4. "Mardi Gras Day" (Dr John Creaux) – 3:00

Personnel

  • Manfred Mann - synthesiser, organ
  • Mick Rogers - guitar, vocals
  • Colin Pattenden - bass guitar
  • Chris Slade - drums

    • with

  • Laurie Baker - Machines and Zoo on "Messin' "
  • Liza Strike - backing vocals
  • Vicki Brown - backing vocals
  • Judith Powell - backing vocals
  • Ruby James - backing vocals
  • John Edwards, Laurence Latham - engineer
  • Peter Hignett - sleeve concept
  • Peter Goodfellow - illustration

    • Songs

    1Messin'9:57
    2Buddah7:04
    3Cloudy Eyes5:37

    References

    Messin' Wikipedia
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