Time

Artist: Steeleye Span
Label: Shanachie
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 016351799920
EAN: 0016351799920
ASIN: B000000E8Q

Release Date: 1996-04-23

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Music hardly heard in the USA
The Wonderful World of Steeleye Span
A Steeleye Halloween
Some of my favorite music
My Favourite Folk Albums
Best British Folk-Rock Records

Tracks:

The Prickly Bush
The Old Maid In The Garrett/Tam Lin (Reel)
Harvest Of The Moon
Underneath Her Apron
The Cutty Wren
Go From My Window
The Elf-Knight
The Water Is Wide
You Will Burn
Corbies
The Song Will Remain

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Customer Reviews:

Their Best Since the 70s.......2007-03-06

During the 1980s, Steeleye Span drifted, producing only 3 albums in 10 years (after producing 10 albums in as many years during the 1970s). Then, after a reunion album, founding member Gay Woods returned. Her presence, combined with relatively new members Tim Harries on bass and Liam Genockey on drums, revitalized the band. The resulting album, "Time" is undeniably one of the best the band ever released, easily equal or superior to much of the their mid-70s output, which is saying a lot. For the first time since their first album, they had two female vocalists, and Harries also plays keyboard, something the band had only occasionally experiemented with. This combination unlocked a world of musical possibilities for the band, and "Time" realizes those possibilities brilliantly, with a lush sound unlike anything else they've done.
The album opens strongly, with a rocking "Prickly Bush" and an ironic "Old Maid in the Garrett" song by Maddy Prior and Woods. "Old Maid" turns into a hard-driving "Tam Lin Reel", along Peter Knight to show off his considerable fiddling talents. The albums then moves into gentler territory with the pleasant "Harvest of the Moon" and "Underneath Her Apron", and then turns dark with "The Cutty Wren", in which the band experimented with very complex vocal arrangements best appreciated with headphones. "The Elf Knight" is a wonderful ballad easily the equal of classic tracks from earlier albums like "Sir James the Rose" and "King Henry". "Go from My Window" is Woods' crowning moment with the band. The album wanders a bit at the end, with "The Water is Wide", a decent song that suffers from meandering fiddle moments, and "You Will Burn", a rather over-the-top song about witch burning. But the album revives with "Twa Corbies", a superior remake of a track off their first album, before ending with the pleasant but slight "The Song will Remain".
If you've never heard Steeleye Span before, this album is an excellent introduction to them. If you are a fan of their early-period material who laments their decline, this album will open your eyes.

My favourite "modern" Steeleye masterpiece........2006-05-26

There have always been line-up changes to the members of Steeleye. For the modern Steelye era, this has to be their strongest showing of late. I honestly can't think of a song on this album that I don't like. It has several of my all-time favorite Steelye songs.

Harvest of the Moon really moves me for some reason.
I love You Will Burn for its unabashedness. There's just something about it that's so bold and yet with a bit of a backhandedness that's delicious.
The Elf Knight sits as a modern balladic masterpiece that any Steelye collection should contain.
Corbies is a good new rendition of Twa Corbies, a bit darker than the original as I recall. Well-done either way.
Underneath her Apron and Prickly Bush are just wonderful little ballads.

Audio quality is great, and I love the insert with tons of information, and tidbits...

Recommended for any fan of Span, folk music and/or just plain good music/ballads. This is what it's all about. Rockin' good tunes.

Matches, exceeds some of the strongest earlier stuff.......2003-07-26

Solid, if you like Steeleye Span in the first place. Even the absolutely horrible tune, You Will Burn(?) does not take away from this masterpiece. You will "Re-burn" it and delete that song!

Best of the recent.......2003-05-04

Steeleye's best post-80's work. All of the songs are winners.

Time.......2002-01-15

This album contains the best recording of "The Twa Corbies" I've ever heard. Chills went down my spine.

"You Will Burn" is a touch silly and I've always hated the song "Old Maid in the Garret", but what with all of the others here, two low points hardly matter. This is Steeleye Span in their hard-edged incarnation: there's little that is gentle or New Agey about this album -- thank god.

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