Atlantis

The Complete Vertigo Studio-Recordings 1972 - 1975

  • 2CD
  • Date : 13.12.2024
  • Package : 2CD Digisleeve
  • Running Time CD 1 : 70:58
  • Running Time CD 2 : 78:34

Atlantis – The Complete Vertigo Studio-Recordings 1972 – 1975

After three very successful studio albums and a live double LP, Frumpy disbanded in 1972. Singer and frontwoman Inga Rumpf, keyboardist Jean Jacques Kravetz and bassist Karl-Heinz Schott continued on as Atlantis, with Frank Diez as the new guitarist and former Emergency drummer Curt Cress replacing Carsten Bohn, who had been with the band during the successful Frumpy days.

The self-titled debut album, which Atlantis recorded at Island Studios in London, sold well in the United States, where Rumpf’s blues-oriented voice was appreciated. After recording, Diez and Cress left the band. Udo Lindenberg and Cravinkels guitarist George Meier filled in for a tour with Traffic and Procol Harum.

From then on, the Atlantis personnel carousel was in constant motion, but this did not detract from the band’s steadily growing commercial success. Albums like “It’s Getting Better” (1973), “Ooh, Baby” (1974) or “Get On Board” (1975) are among the milestones of German rock history. In January 1976 Rumpf and Schott announced the breakup of the band.

Now all four Atlantis studio albums, which were released between 1972 and 1975 on the Vertigo label, are available in a compact double CD set with extensive liner notes and many photos.

 

Tracklist:

CD 1:

Atlantis

  1. Get Up 05:26
  2. Big Brother 05:08
  3. Rock'n Roll Preacher 03:42
  4. Maybe It's Useless 03:42
  5. Let's Get On The Road Again 03:34
  6. Living At The End Of Time 09:09
  7. Words Of Love 04:54

It's Getting Better

  1. It's Getting Better 04:53
  2. Drifting Winds 05:10
  3. Days Of Giving 07:26
  4. Changed It All 06:06
  5. Fighter Of Truth 06:20
  6. Woman's Sorrow 03:26
  7. A Simple Song 02:02

Total: 70:58 min.

CD 2:

Ooh Baby

  1. Brother 03:08
  2. Son Of A Bitch's Son 03:52
  3. Waiting And Longing 03:17
  4. Bigshot 05:32
  5. The Way I Choose 03:54
  6. Ooh Baby 02:55
  7. Smiling People 03:33
  8. New York City 04:38
  9. Godfather 03:45
  10. Leave It To The Devil 03:13
  11. Good Friends 03:36

Get On Board

  1. Get On Board 03:48
  2. Change My Mind 04:31
  3. The Man 03:48
  4. Let Me Stay For A While 03:58
  5. Keep The Music Going On 02:50
  6. Chartbuster 03:16
  7. The Captain And The Ship 03:49
  8. If I Couldn't Sing 03:40
  9. Tried To Climb A Mountain 04:35
  10. Mainline Florida 02:56

Total: 78:34 min.

CD1+CD2 Total: 149:32 min.