Amazing Adventures Of/Bread of the Night

Artist: Liverpool Scene
Label: Beat Goes On
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

EAN: 5017261205384
ASIN: B00005RFGM

Release Date: 2001-12-03

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Tracks:

Tramcar To Frankenstein
Amazing Adventures Of Che Guevara
Gliders And Parks
Burdock River Run
Amazing Adventures Of Che Guevara - Part Two
Universes
Bat Poem
Amazing Adventure Of Che Guevara - Part Three
Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm
Happy Burial Blues
Palms
Amazing Adventures Of Che Guevara- Part Four
Love Story
Day We Danced At The Dole
Raven
G.B.S. Blues
Entry Of Christ Into Liverpool
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Come Into The Perfumed Garden Maude
See The Conkering Heroine Comes
Winter Poem
I've Got Those Fleetwood Mac Chicken Shack John Mayall Can't Fail Blues

Customer Reviews:

When Liverpool was filled with Beat Poets and magical moments.......2006-03-29

I became a fan of the Merseybeat poets in the late sixties.
Adrian Henri(R.I.P.), Roger McGough (The Scaffold) and Brian Patten were three of the best selling poets in England, pop poets in the spirit of Dylan Thomas reading their works aloud, combining it with lovely acoustic music and humour. I first saw
The Liverpool Scene perform in London in the summer of 1969 at the Marquee Club. I had one of the best times I can ever remember. They were funny, talented and totally unique. They stood alone in time and space unlike anything or anyone else.
Creative people writing wonderful poetry that echoed off the walls of the Cavern and the Liverpool arts community. Perhaps you had to be there to appreciate it. Perhaps you had to understand how much they loved the American beat poets to see their worth. But if a poet like Adrian Henri who had many, many
wonderful poems published that are NOT represented in this collection ("Love From Arthur Rainbow" a special favorite) could reach more people by courageously going out on a rock stage and reading his work and singing than more power to him. The first time The Liverpool Scene played New York was at Ungano's at a party for a famous groupie. Led Zeppelin were there dancing, Keith Moon and Legs Larry Smith (Bonzo Dog Band) were also there, it was a great night. Maybe it's these memories that make the doubled collection of these two albums so special. But it is also the quality of the minds that collaborated to record them.
Mike Hart's "Glider's and Parks" is a magical song. He also has material from his two solo albums released on obscure cd's worth searching for here and buying. I believe someone was selling the set for 25 cents.
So, if you remember these discs fondly, sure they may have aged a little, like a fine cheddar cheese. But don't write them off.

Swinging with the Liverpool Scene.......2004-05-23

I bought this album secondhand on vinyl when I was a teenager and cherished it. Yes some of the poetry is self-consciously "hip" and politically conscious, but so what -- if you like albums recorded by beatniks like The Fugs or Allen Ginsberg then you will love this album. And the first reviewer neglected to mention one more beautiful song, Gliders and Parks (Spiders and Larks) which is one of the most haunting songs of lost love I think I've ever heard. The songs that are good are very very good. No aficionado of hippie/beat culture can afford not to hear Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm or Burdock River Run. I always saw the Liverpool Scene as a poetry collective where some people were stronger than others, anyway.

Absolutely unique.......2003-05-13

This material is not especially good, but you have never heard anything very much like it, ever. The material is all self-satirical, something the previous reviewer clearly missed. If you don't take yourself, the era, or the material too seriously you will have great fun with these songs. It is rather stupid stuff, but it is much more intelligent and musically interesting work than, for example, Beatles songs from the same time period.

Outdated Quazi-Cool Garbage.......2002-12-24

Believe it or not, I actually own the vinyl version of this album. The only redeemable tracks are "Percy Parslow's Hamster Farm" and the River Run song. This is hippie poetry to bongos and acoustic guitars. Really bad hippie poetry. Now, I can only speak for the "Amazing Adventures Of The Liverpool Scene" and maybe they got better on the other album. What is amazing to me is that there even was a second album.

As you listen to the poet in the Love Poems for Ray Bradbury talk about holding your "eight hands" and wax philosophically regarding the canals of Mars, you are about ready to retch.
"Tramcar to Frankenstein" plods slowly along while the thick accented voice doused in reverb spits forth another meaningless poem.

"Batpoem" is precious:

"Take me back to Gothem City...Batman
Take me where the girls are pretty...Batman"

goes to..

"Help us out in Vietnam...Batman
Help us show them that they're wrong...Batman"

to the lovely couplet pleading us for democracy to:

"get them high on LSD
Make them just like you and me...Batman."

If you want a good laugh, get this album. You'll be rolling on the floor within minutes. The preciousness...the earnestness... the total lack of lyrical and musical ability baffles and amazes. Yikes!

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