Golden Earring – Switch – Vinyl LP

High Quality, Gatefold Sleeve, Coloured Vinyl, Reissue, Remastered

Switch is the tenth studio album by Dutch rock band Golden Earring, released in 1975 as the follow-up of the band’s international breakthrough album Moontan and their bona fide classic track Radar Love. Both American music magazine Billboard and UK music magazine Sounds appointed the band in 1974 as one of the most promising new bands.
But Switch marked a switch for Golden Earring, as it was more influenced by funk and prog than any of the band’s previous or subsequent releases. Lead single ‘Kill Me (Ce Soir)’ perfectly demonstrates how Golden Earring experimented with a new sound.

Golden Earring archivist Wouter Bessels catalogued and listened through all work tapes from the Switch sessions and found a previously unreleased track: Action Alice & Bow-Tie Basil. Recorded during the Switch sessions, it marks the first time that the band has approved a previously unreleased finished studio track for release.

LP2 of this expanded 50th anniversary release of Switch offers the cream of the crop from the session tapes, augmented by 7-inch single versions of ‘Kill Me (Ce Soir)’ and ‘The Switch’, as well as the B-side of ‘Kill Me (Ce Soir)’: ‘Lucky Number’. All tracks have been 24 bit/192 kHz remastered from the original master tapes.

Switch (Remastered & Expanded) is available as a limited edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on white vinyl, all packaged in a gatefold sleeve, 2 printed inner sleeves including a lyric sheet.

• Limited edition of 2000 individually numbered copies on white 180 gram audiophile vinyl
• Newy remastered from the first-generation master tapes
• Includes printed inner sleeves and lyric sheet
• Contains previously unreleased track Action Alice & Bow-Tie Basil
• 50th anniversary edition

Side A
1. Intro Plus Minus Absurdio
2. Love Is A Rodeo
3. The Switch
4. Kill Me (Ce Soir)

Side B
1. Tons Of Time
2. Daddy’s Gonna Save My Soul
3. Troubles & Hassles
4. The Lonesome D.J.

Side C
1. Lucky Number
2. Action Alice & Bow-Tie Basil (previously unreleased)
3. Kill Me (Ce Soir) (7-inch single version)
4. The Switch (7-inch single version)
5. Troubles & Hassles (rough mix)

Side D
1. Intro Plus Minus Absurdio (rough mix)
2. Love Is A Rodeo (rough mix)
3. The Switch (rough mix)
4. Tons Of Time (rough mix)
5. Love Is A Rodeo (instrumental rough mix)