Begin (The Millennium album)
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| Studio album by The Millennium | ||||
| Released | 1968 | |||
| Recorded | 1968 | |||
| Genre | Sunshine pop | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Curt Boettcher, Keith Olsen | |||
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Begin is the only album ever released by the collective known as the Millennium during its lifetime (though there have been several compilations since the group's demise).
Begin has gained notoriety throughout the years as being the most expensive album that Columbia Records had released by that time, though critics generally agree that the money was well spent. It is now generally considered to be a classic of sunshine pop.
Begin has been reissued numerous times throughout the years, despite the extremely poor sales of the original release, and has been reissued in three different configurations on CD. The 1990 reissue featured truncated cover art, but included brief interviews with several band members in the liner notes and both sides of a rare promotional single, "Just About The Same" b/w "Blight". A later reissue featured the single versions of several tracks from the album. In 2001 the album reissued as the third CD in the three-disc set Magic Time, released by Sundazed Records in 2001. It features all of the bonus tracks from the two previous versions, but "Just About The Same" and "Blight" are presented in mono, whereas they were presented in their original stereo mixes on the 1990 release. In 2012, a Japan-exclusive box set was released with 8 discs, including Begin, using the latest DSD remastering. This release was overseen by an original Millennium member and is a limited edition.
To date the Music on Vinyl and Sundazed labels have also reissued the album again on vinyl.
The track listing below is for the original album.
Track listing
- "Prelude" (Ron Edgar, Doug Rhodes) – 1:18
- "To Claudia on Thursday" (Michael Fennelly, Joey Stec) – 3:26
- "I Just Want to Be Your Friend" (Curt Boettcher) – 2:34
- "5 A.M." (Sandy Salisbury) – 2:48
- "I'm with You" (Lee Mallory) – 2:35
- "The Island" (Boettcher) – 3:18
- "Sing to Me" (Mallory) – 2:15
- "It's You" (Fennelly, Stec) – 3:21
- "Some Sunny Day" (Mallory) – 3:22
- "It Won't Always Be the Same" (Fennelly, Stec) – 2:57
- "The Know It All" (Boettcher) – 2:40
- "Karmic Dream Sequence #1" (Boettcher, Mallory) – 5:58
- "There Is Nothing More to Say" (Boettcher, Fennelly, Mallory) – 2:23
- "Anthem (Begin)" (Boettcher, Mallory) – 2:39
Personnel
- Curt Boettcher – vocals, guitar
- Ron Edgar – drums, vocals
- Michael Fennelly – guitar, vocals
- Lee Mallory – vocals
- Doug Rhodes – horn, keyboards, vocals
- Sandy Salisbury – guitar, vocals
- Patrick Shanahan – drums
- Joey Stec – guitar
- Red Rhodes - pedal steel guitar
- Doug Dillard – banjo
Production notes
- Gary Usher – executive producer
- Doug Wygal – reissue producer
- Jerry Hochman – engineer
- Don Meehan – remastering