Steppenwolf/Steppenwolf the Second [Import] [Original recording remastered]

Track Listings
Disc: 1

1. Sookie Sookie

2. Everybody's Next One

3. Berry Rides Again

4. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man

5. Born to Be Wild

6. Your Wall's Too High

7. Desperation

8. Pusher

9. Girl I Knew

10. Take What You Need

See all 11 tracks on this disc
Disc: 2

1. Faster Than the Speed of Life

2. Tighten Up Your Wig

3. None of Your Doing

4. Spiritual Fantasy

5. Don't Step on the Grass, Sam

6. 28

7. Magic Carpet Ride

8. Disappointment Number (Unknown)

9. Lost and Found by Trial and Error

10. Hodge, Podge, Strained Through a Leslie

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
The legendary American rockers' first two LPs digitally remastered, 'Steppenwolf' & 'Steppenwolf The Second'. Contains all of the cuts from when MCA first released both records in 1968, including the hits 'Born To Be Wild', 'The Pusher' and 'Magic Carpet Ride'. A combined total of 23 tracks. Also features the original cover art of each record and additional sleeve notes. Double slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

Tracks:

Faster Than The Speed Of Life
Tighten Up Your Wig
None Of Your Doing
Spiritual Fantasy
Don't Step On The Grass, Sam
28
Magic Carpet Ride
Disappointment Number (Unknown)
Lost And Found By Trial And Error
Hodge, Podge, Strained Through A Leslie
Resurrection
Reflections

Customer Reviews:

Great Memories.......2007-06-08

Well folks, whenever I hear this album, I remember the first time I heard it while in the US Army Signal Brigade out in Thailand during late 1968. Everyone out there loved this album, and I will bet that anyone out there now who was out there then would embrace this album without any doubt now. All the songs are well crafted in both the music and lyrics. The guitar work is purely hard rock -and these guys knew just how to play it right. Overall, there isn't one song on this album that I did not like - in fact, I still play the CD version in my car - my wife likes it too!

So get out there and check it out. Really good stuff by a band that should all get together again in the line-up that made this album.

Steppenwolf the Second.......2007-02-01

I purchased this album in the early sixties and loved it then, but I love this CD even more. Thanks.

Faster Than Speed.......2006-01-08

Superior to the first Steppenwolf album in many ways, and including a song that tops even 'Born To Be Wild' itself, 'Magic Carpet Ride', is as essential as the group's first album, even to the casual rock fan.

It opens with 'Faster Than The Speed Of Life', a perfect blend of Steppenwolfish hard rock & Airplanesque psychedelic rock (like 'She Has Funny Cars').
'Tighten Up Your Wing' is an upbeat, bluesy track, that bounces well along, before being replaced with 'None Of Your Doing', a Steppenwolf-classic, that shifts gear between verse & chorus.
'Spiritual Fantasy' is one of the strangest creations on the album, strangely touching, though appaling at first. But given a second chance, it comes across as one of the best tracks on the album.
The marihuana-anthem 'Don't Step On The Grass, Sam' is pure heavy Steppenwolf, a timeless classic, that crunches slowly, but steadily along.
'28' is a great rock song with just a hint of psychedelia in the melody. A neat little rocker that is followed by the ultimate psychedelic dance track.
'Magic Carpet Ride' is simply Steppenwolf's best song ever, a fantastic blend of rhytm, melody & vision, that is worth the price of all Steppenwolf's classic albums on its own. It was also the only of their singles to almost replicate 'Born To Be Wild's US #2 placing, when it shot to #3 on the US chart.
'Disappointment Number' is almost that, but then not again. It is an odd ode to/parody of old blues, complete with bird sounds in the background, as if it's an old blues singer sitting out in the open.
'Lost And Found By Trial And Error' has a great tune, and rocks away well, as does 'Hodge, Podge, Strained Through A Leslie' and 'Resurrection'. Both employ the classic Steppenwolf sound in a great rocking way, to become, if not classics, then at least Steppenwolf-standards.
The album closes with 'Reflections' a weird song, that seems like somebody trying to be visionary, before you realize that that is just what he is. Just in a very peculiar way.

The album has some, if not weak, then not too powerful spots, but generally it is a more than worthy follow-up to the first Steppenwolf album, with a great blend of the band's traditional hard rock and a form of psychedelia that suits them perfectly. Even the least interesting tracks rock nicely, & no-one should have anything to complain about here...

Work in progress!.......2005-10-06

Seen under the most objective perspective, this was a transient album. With this premise in the analysis, this second album finds a band that still has not developed a personal style. Faster than the speed of life, the opening track is a prelude, a thundering theme that works out as stimulating vehicle to put us in mood. Don' ts step on the grass, Sam is a Country song with visible influence of the blues. Obviously the resonant voice of John Kay was an additional instrument in the band.

Ironically, Magic carpet ride has been the most commercial piece for the great audiences: it possesses originality and highly expressive character; the organ is the basic support instrument and that was by itself a very remarkable idea. I must insist in an aspect many times forgotten: in those ages you had to engage the exigent auduiences through the rhthym: The Video Clip was an inexistent term, and to get the total acknowldedge of so many people with such golden bands in action for that moment, was a
task nothing easy to reach.

Somehow the excessive popularity gotten by the band with this single, obligated them to rethink their original target and purpose: Magic Carpet ride was in the opposite side of the street respect to Born to be wild their everlasting hymn.

If you are a hard fan of Steppenwolf or simply a minutely searcher or collector of the greatest bands of the bands, this album is fundamental for you, because it's an important piece in the wide gamut of musical forms that came derivating from pioneer bands such as Vanilla Fudge, Deep Purple or the Doors for instance, both bands were supported by the organ too, so it is easy to foolow the traces of the first experiences with the Moog Synthetizer, that would reach a sum peak with Yes and Emerson Lake and Palmer.

Go for this record because even Steppenwolf has not acquired their definitive musical personality, you can realize some changes are going on, and so make the link with Monster (their most solid and mature album), just before to initiate their gradual decay with later albums.

This is an album that delineates his raising profile, I mean the epic journey.

Forget Born To Be Wild.......2005-05-09

Forget Born To Be Wild and Magig Carpet Ride. Que this up at #8 and you will find 20 minutes of the best blues/rock ever performed. Steve Miller's Children of the Future a close second.

There is little better than this.

j

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Steppenwolf - 'Steppenwolf/The Second' (Beat Goes On)
The first two Steppenwolf albums on a single CD
Great CD! Needs to be in stores, though.

Steppenwolf/Steppenwolf the Second
Steppenwolf
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ASIN: B00000IO68
Release Date: 1999-03-29

Tracks:

Sookie Sookie
Everybody's Next One
Berry Rides Again
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
Born to Be Wild
Your Wall's Too High
Desperation
Pusher
Girl I Knew
Take What You Need
Ostrich

Tracks:

Faster Than the Speed of Life
Tighten Up Your Wig
None of Your Doing
Spiritual Fantasy
Don't Step on the Grass, Sam
28
Magic Carpet Ride
Disappointment Number (Unknown)
Lost and Found by Trial and Error
Hodge, Podge, Strained Through a Leslie
Resurrection
Reflections

Album Description

The legendary American rockers' first two LPs digitally remastered, 'Steppenwolf' & 'Steppenwolf The Second'. Contains all of the cuts from when MCA first released both records in 1968, including the hits 'Born To Be Wild', 'The Pusher' and 'Magic Carpet Ride'. A combined total of 23 tracks. Also features the original cover art of each record and additional sleeve notes. Double slimline jewel case. 1999 release.

Album Details

Remastered Twofer of their Monumental First and Second Albums Both Released in 1968. Includes 'Born to Be Wild', 'Magic Carpet Ride'& Many More.

Customer Reviews:

Steppenwolf - 'Steppenwolf/The Second' (Beat Goes On).......2006-04-08

Band's first two lp's on a 2-CD reissue,both from 1968.Right from the original master tapes,with great sound quality.Timeless album rock.Many great Steppenwolf tracks are included here,like "Sookie Sookie","Berry Rides Again",the FM staple "Born To Be Wild",the unforgetable "The Pusher"(my personal Steppenwolf favorite),"Don't Step On The Grass,Sam","Magic Carpet Ride" and "Hodge,Podge,Strained Through A Leslie".Ever notice how previously mentioned "Born To Be Wild" and "Magic Carpet Ride" often get played on classic rock,metal AND oldie stations?There aren't many bands that get that treatment.A should-have.

The first two Steppenwolf albums on a single CD.......2004-03-26

All you have to do is listen to these first two albums from Steppenwolf to realize there were more than a one-hit wonder. Steppenwolf's 1968 self-title debut album made it to #6 on the Billboard Charts mainly on the strength of one song, "Born to Be Wild," which only made it to #2 on the singles chart, but which achieved immortality as the song identified with the film "Easy Rider." Given that was the other way to get "Born to Be Wild" back then, having this album get to #6 was pretty good. But then since the title of the song was placed conspicuously on the cover of this album and because the group's name was taken by a classy novel by Hermann Hesse, it was proably easier for kids to bring this album home that the soundtrack for the first notorious film about the drug culture.

Actually "Born to Be Wild" was the third single from this album, following "The Girl I Knew" and "Sookie Sookie," but neither of those made a dent in the charts and "Born to Be Wild" exploded on the national consciousness. You can make the argument that the phrase "heavy metal" comes from this song, which was written by Dennis Edmonton, brother of drummer Jerry Edmonton and former band member, under the pseudonym Mars Bonfire. Originally the song was slower and more of a ballad, but then somebody came up with that thundering opening guitar riff and the rest was music history. We are thirty-five years down the road and this is still THE biker anthem of all-time.

Fortunately "Born to Be Wild" comes in the middle of the album (penultimate track on side one) so that listeners had the opportunity to notice Steppenwolf did other songs. However, on this debut effort the best ones are not written by bad members, with the cover of Don Covay's "Sookie, Sookie," Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man," and the riveting take on Hoyt Axton's "The Pusher." These last two tracks are over five minutes long, unusual for the time, and along with the emphasize on blues on this album suggests more in common with the early days of Led Zeppelin than you would have thought at first glimpse. "Everybody's Next One" is probably the best of the original tunes by John Kay, usually working in collaboration with someone else (producer Gabriel Mekler in this case), the song sounding like a British Invasion tune but with a harder edge. But there is enough sub-par efforts here to keep this from being a really great debut album. Instead "Steppenwolf" provides a solid basis for the group to build on as their first big hit disappears into the rearview mirror.

If "Born to Wild" is the ultimate biker anthem then Steppenwolf's next hit, "Magic Carpet Ride," tries to achieve the same prominence as a psychedelic dance number. The song made it to #3 on the Billboard charts and got the "Steppenwolf the Second" album to the same position on the album chart. This 1969 album follows closely in the footsteps of its predecessor, although there is clearly a bit less of the blues this time around thrown into the hard rock mix. There is even an acoustic track, "Spiritual Fantasy," which does seem a bit out of place, especially compared to the funky guitar-organ groove of "Magic Carpet Ride."

At this point the focal points of the group are clearly John Kay on vocals and guitar and the underappreciated Goldy McJohn wrecking serious havoc with his keyboard playing. The biggest difference between the first pair of Steppenwolf albums is that this time Kay is writing the best songs on the album, with "Tighten Up Your Wig" and "Don't Step on the Grass Sam" (complete with the drug bust at the end of the song), being the best of the rest after "Magic Carpet Ride," which also has some of the most interesting lyrics penned by Kay. Overall, the top is not as high but the bottom is not as low for this second album, so they grade out about the same, which is why this double-CD set makes a lot of sense. .

Great CD! Needs to be in stores, though........2001-05-28

Steppenwolf is a great and talented band. This CD has all 8 of my favorite songs on it: Sookie Sookie, Berry Rides Again, Faster than the Speed of Life, Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, Don't Step on the Grass, Sam, Tighten Up Your Wig, and Hoochie Koochie Man. I mean, I've got all these songs on audio cassette (Magic Carpet Ride is the title of this album--why doesn't it ever go on CD?), but they're never all on one CD... Until now. Thank you, whoever produced this CD!!!

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Steppenwolf-Steppenwolf the Second
Steppenwolf
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000254DUG
Release Date: 2004-01-20

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1. Sookie Sookie
2. Everybody's Next One
3. Berry Rides Again
4. (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
5. Born to Be Wild
6. Your Wall's Too High
7. Desperation
8. Pusher
9. Girl I Knew
10. Take What You Need

1. Faster Than the Speed of Life
2. Tighten Up Your Wig
3. None of Your Doing
4. Spiritual Fantasy
5. Don't Step on the Grass, Sam
6. 28
7. Magic Carpet Ride
8. Disappointment Number (Unknown)
9. Lost and Found by Trial and Error
10. Hodge, Podge, Strained Through a Leslie