Birth Control Jungle Life/Getting There CD

German prog band Birth Control formed in the late '60's, melding a heavy rock/proto-metal sound with more subtle touches of jazz and blues-steeped playing. The band hit their stride beginning in 1971 with second album Operation, though the rest of the '70s saw them flip-flopping through changes in lineup and direction. Jungle Life/Getting There collects albums made much later in the band's history, packaging 1996's Jungle Life with 1998's Getting There, two of the stronger albums from one of the group's many reunion phases. While recorded decades after the band's acme, the sound on both albums remains firmly rooted in the driving keyboards, crunchy guitars, complex time signatures, and fantastical vocals of Birth Control's '70s prog heyday.

1. Valley of Darkness, Pt. 1 2. I Send My Mind on Vacation 3. Desert Storm 4. Chance to Learn 5. Jungle City 6. Call Me 7. Preacherman 8. Automatic World 9. Valley of Darkness, Pt. 2 10. I Send My Mind on Vacation [Live][*] 11. Valley of Darkness [Live][*] 12. Jungle City [Live][*] 13. Call Me [Live][*] 14. Preacherman [Live][*] 15. When the Night Falls 16. Garden of Gold 17. Love Strike 18. Simpler As It Seems 19. All That I Want 20. Getting There 21. Rose 22. Hard Times 23. Will Someone Know My Name 24. After 360 Degrees of the Cycle 25. Love Strike [Live][*] 26. All That I Want [Live][*] 27. Garden of Gold [Live][*] 28. When the Night Falls [Live][*] 29. Simpler As It Seems [Live][*]