Quad LP/Tape Poll Michaels, Lee: Nice Day For Something [SQ/Q8]

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Columbia PCQ 32275, from 1974.

Side 1:

1. Your Breath is Bleeding
2. Same Old Song
3. So Hard
4. High Wind
5. Olson Arrives at Two Fifty-Five

Side 2:

1. The Other Day (The Other Way)
2. Rock & Roll Community
3. Bell
4. Went Saw Mama
5. Nothing Matters (But It Doesn't Matter)




ED

 

[Quad Linda]

9. Good performance and mix. No big hits, so this sank like a stone. I have a Q8. SQ, & 2 ch LP. Sadly, this has never been released on CD.

 

[EMB]

Although it wasn't unusual for Quad 8's to have reshuffled sequencing compared to the vinyl version, this one seems a bit more radical than normal, even for Columbia.

This album did make the charts, but Lee only connected with the public once, with "Do You Know What I Mean" from 1971, and that took time to build radio play. Given that it was on A&M, suppose it's just as well they never did a quad on him, who knows how that woulda turned out...

ED

 

[Quad Linda]

5th and Do You Know What I Mean were Lee's moment in the sun. Most of his A&M albums got a good amount of airplay on FM stations. His third album "Lee Michaels" was written up in Hi-Fi mags as synthesizing well. It does.



About 15 years ago, all his A&M albums were released on CD by One-Way. Neither Nice Day nor Tailface were reissued. Both were on Columbia. Absolute Lee, an independent project was promised on CD, but never materialized.