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The Beatles - Love

 

Rather dissappointing. Just another excuse to re-release the same old tosh (brilliant tosh though, obviously). I was hoping for drastic re-workings, but almost every song is basically the same as a previous incarnation (either the album or anthology version) but with an atmospheric intro or some found sounds layered on top, they might have altered the mix for 5.1 so that the bass on Lucy in the Sky is given centre stage rather than the keyboards, but is that really worth the bother? Occassionally they do mash something up, but it's basically a stars-on-45 style run of hits rather than an imaginative melding of the vocal from one track and the backing of another.

 

What moments of surprise there are (there are a few, like slowing down Ringo's vocal for Octopus's Gareden and layering it over Good Night) are short-lived and quickly thrown away in preference of sticking to the original.

 

It'll get a lot of listening time from me, because they're great songs and I couldn't say they've been devalued, just that if you want a beatles mash-up this can't really touch The Grey Album.

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Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Any cop? Have been hovering over the "Add to cart" button the last couple of times I've been to Amazon.

 

I'm not a huge fan of Tom Waits tbh.

 

Every so often I fancy hearing someone with a grizzled voice, but I can never usually last a full album of his. No change with this one. Canny tunes but I got bored and turned it off after 4 or so. Sounded exactly the same as what I've heard from him before.

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Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Any cop? Have been hovering over the "Add to cart" button the last couple of times I've been to Amazon.

 

I'm not a huge fan of Tom Waits tbh.

 

Every so often I fancy hearing someone with a grizzled voice, but I can never usually last a full album of his. No change with this one. Canny tunes but I got bored and turned it off after 4 or so. Sounded exactly the same as what I've heard from him before.

Fair enough. Sounds like I'll love it then. ;)

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Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Any cop? Have been hovering over the "Add to cart" button the last couple of times I've been to Amazon.

 

I'm not a huge fan of Tom Waits tbh.

 

Every so often I fancy hearing someone with a grizzled voice, but I can never usually last a full album of his. No change with this one. Canny tunes but I got bored and turned it off after 4 or so. Sounded exactly the same as what I've heard from him before.

Fair enough. Sounds like I'll love it then. ;)

:razz:

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toshack highway - 7" yellow vinyl of syd's eye

toshack highway - everday rock'n'roll is saving my life vol. 2

 

edit: I see Adam is touring with Sophia in December around DE/NL/BE/CH if anyone is interested.

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Strange Fruit - Jeff Buckley

 

Southern trees bear a strange fruit

Blood on the leaves and blood at the root

Black bodies swingin' in the Southern breeze

Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees

 

Pastoral scene of the gallant South

The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth

Scent of magnolia, sweet and fresh

Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

 

Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck

For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck

For the sun to rot, for the tree to drop

Here is a strange and bitter crop

 

Wikipedia - Strange Fruit Worth 5 minutes of anyone's time...

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