Postcards from the Future...Introducing Be Bop Deluxe

Postcards from the Future...Introducing Be Bop Deluxe Artist: Be Bop Deluxe
Label: Caroline
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724359097626
EAN: 0724359097626
ASIN: B0002Y2F6Q


Release Date: 2004-12-07

Postcards from the Future...Introducing Be Bop Deluxe


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Tracks:

  1. Axe Victim
  2. Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
  3. Stage Whispers
  4. Maid in Heaven
  5. Sister Seagull
  6. Jean Cocteau
  7. Fair Exchange
  8. Ships in the Night
  9. Blazing Apostles
  10. Kiss of Light
  11. Modern Music
  12. Twilight Capers
  13. Electrical Language
  14. Possession
  15. Islands of the Dead
  16. Life in the Air Age [Live]
  17. Teenage Archangel
  18. Jets at Dawn [Smile Records Version]

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  1. Sunburst Finish
  2. Modern Music
  3. Live! In the Air Age
  4. Sound on Sound
  5. Futurama

Album Description

Subtitled - Introducing Be Bop Deluxe. UK compilation for the British rock group fronted by guitarist Bill Nelson. EMI 2004.

Album Details

Be Bop Deluxe were a British Rock Group who Began in the Early 70's. Led by Guitarist Bill Nelson, They Veered Between Glam Rock, Pop, and Heavy Metal, with Lots of Demonstrations of Nelson's Guitar Prowess. As Bill Nelson Says, "postcards from the Future Isn't Simply a Cute Title... If You Are New to Be Bop Deluxe, You have Some Catching Up to Do. If, However, You Are Familiar with the Band, Then There's Still More to Hear with Each Listen. The Music, Forever Slightly Faster Than Your Clock of Dreams, is Always Waiting for You... "

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Sublime Guitar Work with a Mediocre Backing.......2006-11-14

I'd heard the track "Sound Track" (off their album Futurama) on one of the free CDs that comes along with Mojo magazines. I rather liked the track, as it seemed like a good mix of prog and proto-punk glam. Going off on the hunch that the rest of their material would be similar, I decided to purchase the compilation.

Listening to it, I came upon two conclusions. First, the guitarist is bloody great. Effortlessly, he can shred and rock with the purest sort of rough-edge glee. Fantastic. The rest of the band, however, has a tempo problem. They're so darn slow! Here you've got a top-notch guitarist that can rip it up, and yet the rhythm section lags! Oh, how frustrating that is!

Overall, however, some tracks manage to get it right. Many others, however, are caught between the paradox of virtuosity and lethargy. Oh, and the keyboard player adds some good proggyness to the equation. If I had a time machine, I'd go back to the mid-70s, tell Be Bop Deluxe to turn up the tempo and I swear that would make them the gods to punks and proggers alike.

5 out of 5 stars GUITAR GENIUS AND AXE VICTIM.......2006-08-14

Bill Nelson fronted this band in the mid-seventies. I grabbed up Futurama on the review from Circus magazine. I was not dissapointed, soaring guitar work, witty lyrics, and complex
arrangements. Saw the band on their Sunburst Finish tour,warming up for Golden Earing-they were very good.

Axe Victim, Maid in Heaven, Sister Seagull, Life in the Air Age, Ships in the Night, Fair Exchange, Modern Music, Kiss of Light, were all great songs. Bill Nelson is a very underated rock guitarist and a decent singer. Their music compares to Bowie, Roxy Music, and the dynamics/arrangements that Queen did. Be Bop Deluxe didn't have the harmonies of Queen, however.

They were a Bill Nelson showcase. Great music for its' time, songs with intelligent lyrics, wit, shifting melodies, rapid fire guitar licks, Nelson was a Blazing Apostle on guitar. They are worth a listen.

4 out of 5 stars 70's British Rock.......2005-10-26

Classic 70's British Rock. The stop and go patterns of the songs sound a bit choppy by todays standards and seem a bit dated. But the groups enthusiasm and Bill Nelson's guitar playing make this really fun to listen to.

Just mix together Bowie, Roxy Music, Mott the Hoople, and maybe early Queen, and add a wide variety of great guitar sounds from Nelson and this is what you get!

5 out of 5 stars The BEST!!.......2005-05-19

Piano keys don't please me, their so dark and it's so easy to deceive them...I went to go see Be Bop Deluxe in LA back in the 70's. They were playing warm-up band to Blue Oyster Cult (I left B4 BOC came on LOL) . Too bad America didn't get it. The Best!

4 out of 5 stars

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