Green

Green Artist: Steve Hillage
Label: Blue Plate Caroline
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 017046167024
EAN: 0017046167024
ASIN: B000000HU4


Release Date: 1990-07-23

Green


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Tracks:

  1. Sea Nature
  2. Ether Ships
  3. Musik Of The Trees
  4. Palm Trees (Love Guitar)
  5. Unidentified (Flying Being)
  6. U.F.O. Over Paris
  7. Leylines To Glassdom
  8. Crystal City
  9. Activation Meditation
  10. The Glorious Om Riff

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  1. Motivation Radio
  2. Fish Rising
  3. L
  4. Rainbow Dome Musick
  5. Space Shanty

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Green Again.......2006-11-21

A simply magnificent album, and quite a comeback for Steve after the lackluster Motivation Radio and the new age-inspired Rainbow Dome Musick. Green's immaculate production (by the Floyd's Nick Mason)is simply perfect for Steve's crystalline guitar/synth textures. Songs like "Sea-Nature" and "The Glorious Om Riff" are some of Steve's hardest-driving space rockers, while "Palm Trees" is a terrific "ballad." Add some superlative electronic-oriented pieces ("Leylines to Glassdom" and "Aktivation Meditation")and what you have is perhaps the Octave Doctor's best album, though Fish Rising and L are also excellent.

1 out of 5 stars Just awful , a record for dope freaks and hippys only........2006-07-29

Don't get me wrong, I was once a bit of a gong freak. Steve Hillage was for a few brief years a hero of mine and live he could certainly play his guitar. However Green is terrible and marked my parting of the way with all things gongy and silly.
The lyrics are embarrassing, I'm taking utter toss. This albumb was so bad I swapped my limited addition green vinyl version for a couple of joints worth of cheap moroccan ( a much better deal)
There is nothing close to the great sound produced during Fish Rising, it just carries on like a Valium induced depression until the final side were we are insulted by the magical ohm riff. After this LP I straighten out a lot and now I cannot tolerate anything vaguely gongy with the exception of camembert electric and fish rising. Do yourself a favour and don't buy this one unless you really are a hopeless bong fiend with no life to go back to.

5 out of 5 stars Transcendent cosmic space-rock that frees the spirit!.......2005-12-13

Over 25 years later this still sounds superb. Hillage and his partner Miquette Giraudy were responsible for several excellent albums in the late seventies and for many this is the best.

The musicianship from the Hillage band is exceptional as is the production by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd. By the time of this album, Hillage had evolved away from the early (still excellent) Canterbury sound of "Fish Rising" and incorporated elements of funk and even hints of punk into his electric space-rock. Here, tracks such as "Unidentified (Flying Being)" and "Ether Ships" have moments of pure transcendent energy. Another standout is the full production of rippling synthesizers, glissando guitar and effects on "The Glorious Om Riff", a magical, high energy, re-recording of a classic guitar riff from Hillage's previous band Gong.

All the idiosyncratic trademarks that made Hillage unique are here. Some may find some of the lyrics a bit hard to swallow, but he did have a sense of humour about it all! The unique and brilliant Hillage lead guitar and guitar synthesizer is scattered across "Green", with his playing on the emotional "Palm Trees (Love Guitar)" as good as it gets.

4 out of 5 stars Steve Hillage - 'Green' (Caroline).......2005-11-03

Originally released in 1978,as 'Green' was Hillage's fourth solo effort.Good thinking man's music,it was produced by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.Tracks I dug the most were "Sea Nature","U.F.O. Over Paris","Crystal City"(check out the Bowie-like vocals)and "The Glorious OM Riff".Noticed that his collaborator and partner in System 7,keyboardist Miquette Giraudy appears on this reissue.Nice progressive/art rock title to check out when you can.Most Gong fans should get something out of it.

4 out of 5 stars

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