Taste: On The Boards (CD)

Taste’s second studio album, On The Boards, was released on New Year’s Day, 1970. The cracking opener 'What’s Going On' with its agile stop-start riff, double-tracked guitars and infectious chorus became perhaps Taste’s best-known song.

'Railway And Gun' is an emphatic slice of blues purism. The swinging jazz-tinted psychedelia of 'It’s Happened Before, It’II Happen Again' and the album’s title track with a menacing Doors-like feel and featuring Gallagher on haunting saxophone, showcases the band’s new experimentalism.

The pounding 'Morning Sun', the boogie-styled 'If I Don’t Sing I’ll Cry', the slide-drenched frenzy of 'Eat My Words' and the crunching 'I’ll Remember' represent different facets of classic late-60s British blues-rock at its finest, while the light, airy folk-pop of 'If the Day Was Any Longer' and the bittersweet 'See Here' present another side of Taste that draws more on rural Ireland than urban Chicago for its inspiration.

1. What's Going On
2. Railway And Gun 
3. It's Happened Before, It'll Happen Again
4. If The Day Was Any Longer
5. Morning Sun
6. Eat My Words
7. On The Boards
8. If I Don't Sing I'll Cry
9. See Here
10. I'll Remember