Vinyl Album - Focus - Focus 3 - Polydor

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Focus
Title:	Focus 3
Label:	Polydor
Country:	UK
Catalogue:	2659 016
Date:	Nov 1972
Format:	Double LP
Genre:	Instrumental, Rock
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	28 Own, 1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Focus	Round Goes The Gossip...	Thijs Van Leer	8.8 Rate
A2	Focus	Love Remembered	Jan Akkerman	8.8 Rate
A3	Focus	Sylvia	Thijs Van Leer	10.0 Rate
A4	Focus	Carnival Fugue	Thijs Van Leer	8.3 Rate
B1	Focus	Focus III	Thijs Van Leer	9.3 Rate
B2	Focus	Answers? Questions! Questions? Answers!	Jan Akkerman, Bert Ruiter	8.5 Rate
C1	Focus	Anonymus II (Part 1)	Thijs Van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Pierre Van Der Linden, Bert Ruiter	9.0 Rate
D1	Focus	Anonymus II (Conclusion)	Thijs Van Leer, Jan Akkerman, Pierre Van Der Linden, Bert Ruiter	8.5 Rate
D2	Focus	Elspeth Of Nottingham	Jan Akkerman	7.5 Rate
D3	Focus	House Of The King	Jan Akkerman	9.0 Rate

Notes

UK Chart Entry: 2 Dec 1972
Highest Position: 6
Total Weeks on Chart: 15
Gatefold Sleeve.

Disc 1 cat#: 2344-038
Disc 2 cat#: 2344-039

Produced by Mike Vernon.

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Comments and Reviews


Monolith 5th Jun 2015		Every yodeling lesson comes with a health warning.



Magic Marmalade 5th Jun 2015		Well, here I sit in the corner of the cell, nursing a swollen eye and 15 broken ribs... The guard was kind enough to lend me his phone so I could post this. The moral is, Yodelling may not be appreciated by your neighbours (Especially at 3 in the morning (Man that got nasty!)) I shall be citing Both Focus and Frank Iflield as aggravating factors in the ensuing carnage to the judge tomorrow.



Magic Marmalade 4th Jun 2015		That's Excellent! What album is that on? (Had I known, I wouldn't passed by so many Frank Ifield albums in the record bins... I think I was given one of his album now I think of it!)



Monolith 4th Jun 2015		Just for you Magic:



Magic Marmalade 4th Jun 2015		I might try yodelling today.... I'm inspired. Monolith: "Words are very, Unnecessary... They can only do harm" Enjoy the instrumentation



nboldock 4th Jun 2015		Thijs doesn't quite yodel live anymore. Probably a bit of a stretch these days!



Monolith 4th Jun 2015		Sorry guys but this young pup needs words. I don't mind the odd instrumental but I couldn't sit through a whole album. Lyrics I suppose give me a reference point and without them instrumental music tends to run into itself and becomes just background noise.



Magic Marmalade 4th Jun 2015		Well I'm a fan now.



Quad5point1 4th Jun 2015		They like to Yodel a lot. Focus III was the last time I heard them on vinyl and gave up on them shortly after that.



Magic Marmalade 4th Jun 2015		Well my experience is Limited to this album, and to my recollection, only Round Goes The Gossip has an actual vocal (Have to give the whole thing another listen) but mainly instrumental. There are very strong sounds of Floyd and Genesis on the longer instrumental tracks (the throbbing organ sound of Dark Side, and the Hackett-esque guitar over the top... but (apologies for my attempt at music terminology) the musical phrases are very Genesis at times too...like they could sit happily on Selling England By The Pound or earlier!



nboldock 4th Jun 2015		They do have some lyrics but primarily do instrumental stuff. I saw them live last year - they were excellent. (Edited)



Monolith 4th Jun 2015		This may sound like a stupid question, but are Focus an instrumental group or is there songs with lyrics? BTW I do recognise Sylvia now that I played that vid. So that's 2 Focus toons in my repertoire.



Magic Marmalade 4th Jun 2015		- Also - seems House Of the King was omitted from the CD version! -



Magic Marmalade 4th Jun 2015		Still here!!! ...and planning to be at least a little undead. When I spring out me box, I shall do so to William Tell Overture, as I make a dash for the open air. Regarde:



Monolith 4th Jun 2015		That's perfect, Magic will be pleased after he's......... er.............. gone. :erk:



ppint. 4th Jun 2015		magic marmalade: and the last trump^W track on this!



Monolith 4th Jun 2015		No, not scat, cat. Although scat would be unnerving I admit.



ppint. 4th Jun 2015		"monolith unnerved by scat" - shock, horror! - ??



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jun 2015		That's brilliant! Well now I know what's going to be playing at my funeral along with 1812 overture (With real cannon fire).



Monolith 3rd Jun 2015		My experience of Focus:



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jun 2015		Aha!... Just wikipedia-d it, and it is used as the theme to Saxondale! (But I do remember an older TV prgramme using it... which I suppose must have been Don't Ask Me)



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jun 2015		Not sure if I remember that programme (Ihave a vague recollection the song playing with an opening sequence of some presenter in a car driving to a studio or something... was that it?) But I'm a fan of this album now, and I'm going to be looking out for other Focus albums from now on!



TheJudge 3rd Jun 2015		House Of The King (although not, perhaps, the Focus recording of it) was the theme tune of Yorkshire TV's popular science programme Don't Ask Me! in the mid-70s, the show which first brought the arm-whirling enthusiasm of Dr Magnus Pyke to a wide audience. House Of The King actually appeared on the first Focus LP, and the version on this set is almost certainly the same one, despite the fact that the line-up had changed a couple of times in the interim, and so Martijn Dresden (bs) and Hans Cleuver (drums) are not credited here.



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jun 2015		Hat-off-ings to your good self-ness sir.



Monolith 3rd Jun 2015		Thank you, O wise and wonderful one.



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jun 2015		Try out Sylvia and House of The King on yo tub, for an easy re-introduction.



Monolith 3rd Jun 2015		I don't really know anything about these dudes. But I was watching Whistle Test one time and I think they were playing Hocus Pocus (I stand to be corrected on that) and everything was going along nicely, thinking to myself this is what it's all about when suddenly he opened his mouth and I thought someone was doing something unwarranted to a cat. That's it, my first and last experience of Focus. The song was great till the screeching started, I couldn't listen to it. :huh:



Magic Marmalade 3rd Jun 2015		And to think.... I hesitated! I came across this in a charity shop bin a couple of weeks back, but it was priced at the princely sum of £2.97 (Why the 7p... lord only knows!), and I still had a few shops to go to, so passed it by... But it kept nagging at me, as I'd heard the name (Ususally in conjunction with prog discussions, and quite often Genesis), and my Spidey vinyl sense was going nuts. So when I got to the last shop, and having bought nothing, I went back, debating all the way if I should spend that enormous sum (Cheapskate that I am... it's strange how bootfairs and charity shops skew your sense of perspective regarding expensive and cheap). Obviously I bought it, and today, recorded it. Absolutely brilliant!!!! I was very surprised to hear two songs I already knew, and I cannot remember where from: Sylvia, and House of the King (Which, over and above being one I'd always thought was by Jethro Tull for some reason, I'm fairly sure I must have heard on a TV programme or film or something). File between Genesis and Pink Floyd: Those already familiar with it will have know this all along, so apologies for my newbie enthusiasm over my new discovery, but very strong sounds of early-mid (Dark Side Of the Moon) Pink Floyd and early Genesis (Very Hackett like guitars there), and jazz and folk etc. Bloomin' awesome album! (£2.97 seems very cheap now).



TheJudge 25th Mar 2014		Round Goes The Gossip...:



deepinder cheema 27th Dec 2013		Focus III the tune has nicked a piece from Tony Hatch in order to get around a Thijs van Leer stumbling block.

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Linked Releases

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