Bedlam Born

Bedlam Born Artist: Steeleye Span
Label: Park Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 769934005528
EAN: 0769934005528
ASIN: B00004WZ6G


Release Date: 2000-10-24

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Listmania:

  1. The Wonderful World of Steeleye Span
  2. A Steeleye Halloween
  3. Ancient & Modern -- Traditional/Folk Music that Rocks
  4. Best British Folk-Rock Records

Tracks:

  1. Well Done Liar
  2. Who Told the Butcher
  3. John of Ditchford
  4. I See His Blood Upon the Rose
  5. Black Swan
  6. Beggar
  7. Poor Old Soldier
  8. Arbour
  9. There Was a Wealthy Merchant
  10. Beyond the Dreaming Place
  11. We Poor Labouring Men
  12. Connemara Cradle Song
  13. Stephen
  14. White Cliffs of Dover

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars A Falling Star..........2005-07-07

To be honest, I wasn't much impressed by the most recent offering(s) from Steelye Span (Bedlam Born and They Called her Babylon).

It just seemed like the spark hasn't been there lately. Maybe it's just 'cause the band members are getting old, and aren't the hard rockers, and limit-pushers they used to be.

I've been a fan of Steeleye since I was a kid, and my dad played them on vinyl. But these last two have just been bland. And the songs just seem to be long-winded ballads, and not everly well voiced. A few of the songs, were even pretty badly voiced and felt EXTREMELY forced. Y'know, where the words and the rhythm just doesn't match the music and you get that extremely forced, drawn out note or word to make the words fit the beat.

Not their best showing. I'd recommend "Time" as their best recent release. They still had verve, and pushed some boundaries.

So, yeah, I'd go for their older stuff over their newer, unles you're into long-winded ballads with no heart that all kind of run together. It used to be that each song had its own definite, different feel from the other songs on an album. Lately it's just been a mash of different words to almost the same song.

I hate to say that.

Buy "Time." Buy "Parcel of Rogues," "All Around My Hat," "Sails of Silver," but avoid Bedlam Born (Terry Gay is no Maddy Prior), and They Called her Babylon. I certainly hope their next album, if any, will inject the old spunk into their work. If not, it'll be DOA like these last two...

2 out of 5 stars Too much rock, not enough folk.......2005-01-14

The title of my review sums up my opinion of this CD. I am a folk music fan. "Bedlam Born" is Steeleye kicking out the jams. As an agressive non-rock fan, I am unqualified to assess how good or bad the rock is. The CD has none of the beauty or
humor that other Steeleye Span recordings have.

All respect to Gay Woods, but Steeleye Span without Maddie Prior, the 17th century Gracie Slick, is not Steeleye Span.

1 out of 5 stars bedlam bore.......2002-07-15

...The heavy guitar playing on tracks like Well Done Liar, John of Ditchford, We Poor Labouring Men, The Beggar is just plain boring and gratuitous, and it has the effect of dumbing down the songs and robbing them of their traditional feel. John of Ditchford sounds like a straight heavy-rock track. I don`t understand why they did this. I mean, it`s so derivative and unoriginal. As for Peter Knight`s new "octave violin" that everyone got so excited about, to me the octave violin solos have more of a synthesized guitar sound than anything else, which is not to my liking. Bedlam Born is an odd mix of different styles that just doesn`t gel. It`s as if the different band members were each motivated by their own personal agendas and, not surprisingly, this line-up went their separate ways soon afterwards. Stylistically, Bedlam Born is sheer bedlam!! It`s more like a compilation of different bands. I know that a lot of fans LOVE the heavy guitar sound and the self-indulgent pretentiousness of Gay Woods(singer), but it`s not for me. I eventually gave away my copy of the CD, without even bothering to record it first. Good riddance!

The GOOD NEWS is that Steeleye Span have just announced a reunion, minus Gay Woods and Tim Harries(the `heavy-rock` influence), and with the essential Steeleye vocalist Maddy Prior back in the band.

4 out of 5 stars most of the loaf?.......2001-03-08

First things first..Steeleye Span without Maddy Prior is a diminished group. That being said,they are still the best at what they do. The tunes on this cd are leaner than some of their cds and with a harder edge in the bass line on many of the cuts. This is a group which still has not settled into one particular rut and I hope they never do.

5 out of 5 stars always Steeleye Span.......2001-02-15

Steeleye Span is back with a worthy follow-up to the excellent Horkstow Grange, in which it returned to the acoustic sounds of its early-1970s youth. In places Bedlam Bound echoes those pleasingly spare atmospherics, but for the most part this time it's electric guitars and shimmering electronica (nowhere more so than in the loving reinvention of the English patriotic anthem "White Cliffs of Dover"). Happily, what we have here is still the recognizable Steeleye sound, only updated, with the band's usual exquisite taste and restraint everywhere apparent. As always the song selection -- of traditional songs, rewritten traditional songs, and originals all but indistinguishable from traditional songs -- is a marvel. I like them all but am especially grateful for the gorgeous "Connemara Cradle Song," the unfamiliar Irish variant of the familiar American "Down in the Valley." (I heard it last on Tommy Makem's first solo album, released in the 1950s. It may have been recorded since, but if so, rarely enough for me to miss it.) As it heads into its fourth decade, Steeleye Span has become a treasured British institution. Long may it record and prosper.

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