Backdoor Possibilities

by Birth Control

Backdoor Possibilities cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1976
  • Label: Brain
  • Country: Germany
  • Length: 1:14:05
  • Community rating: 3.48/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Venturing deep into ambitious conceptual territory, the German hard rock veterans crafted this intricate progressive rock suite centered around corporate dystopia and existential themes. The addition of keyboardist Zeus B. Held brought a heavier emphasis on synthesizers and jazz-rock interplay, shifting the band's dynamic away from pure heavy blues. It remains one of their most structurally complex and conceptually daring records.

Genres

Descriptors: progressive, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Prologue (0:57)
  2. Physical and Mental Short Circuit (5:28)
  3. Subterranean Escape (1:10)
  4. Film of Life (5:37)
  5. Childhood Flash-Back (0:52)
  6. Legal Labrynth (2:09)
  7. Futile Prayer (5:52)
  8. The Farrockaway Ropedancer (4:52)
  9. Le moineau de paris (1:56)
  10. Cha cha d'amour (1:28)
  11. Behind Grey Walls (6:50)
  12. No Time to Die (6:07)
  13. Meta Ventilator (Live) (15:29)
  14. Gamma Ray (Live) (10:14)
  15. Long Tall Sally (Live) (4:58)

Credits

  • Birth Control - primary artist
  • Bruno Frenzel - arranged by, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, vocals, written-by
  • Bernd Noske - arranged by, lead vocals, drums, marimba, timpani, finger cymbals, guiro, percussion [sand blocks], vibraslap [vibro slap], percussion, cabasa, idiophone [flexitone], congas, claves, written-by
  • Zeus B. Held - arranged by, organ [hammond, yamaha], electric piano [fender, hohner], synthesizer [moog, arp], grand piano, alto saxophone, tubular bells, vocals, artwork [cover art], written-by
  • Albin Meskes - artwork [cover art]
  • Peter F枚ller - electric bass [fender, rickenbaker], vocals

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