Please Don't Touch!

Please Don't Touch! Artist: Steve Hackett
Label: Chrysalis
Category: Music


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


UPC: 077778668022
EAN: 0077778668022
ASIN: B000025JUC


Release Date: 1992-07-24

Please Don't Touch!


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Tracks:

  1. Narnia
  2. Carry On Up The Vicarage
  3. Racing In A
  4. Kim
  5. How Can I?
  6. Hoping Love Will Last
  7. Land Of A Thousand Autumns
  8. Please Don't Touch
  9. The Voice Of Necam
  10. Icarus Ascending

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Album Details

The Former Genesis Guitarist's Second Solo Album Switched Direction from the Path Set by his Solo Debut "Voyage of the Acolyte". This Album is Collection of Songs, as Opposed to the Instrumental Nature of It's Predecessor. The Vocals Are Handled by Richie Havens, Randy Crawford and Kansas' Steve Walsh.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Some can't Hackett.......2004-07-02

This is a great album. Like many great albums it's eclectic. It's like a collection of short stories, or poems or images. This is an artist collaborating with other artists, at the height of their collective creative powers. Layered with his trademark guitar sounds Steve experiments with atmospheres. It's not typical pop or rock. This is progressive. It moves on. It challenges. Something here will grab you. For the lovelorn, you'll be lucky to find better than "hoping love will last".

4 out of 5 stars The last great stoner album of the 1970's.......2004-02-18

With Genesis going to a more R&B style of music, it seemed apparent that Steve Hackett would be the odd man out. His musical experimentations were being ignored in favor of a more pop style with a lessening of the heaviness of the lyrics. Upon leaving the group, Steve was able to expand on his ideas a bit and create a fully realized album, "Please Don't Touch". The opening track, "Narnia", with Kansas' Steve Walsh on vocals, is probably the one track closest to Genesis. Opening up with a Spectorian 12-string guitar, the song rocks with enough of a steady beat to satisfy any headbanger, while having enough syntesized strings to keep the progressive die-hards at bay. The next song, "Carry On Up The Vicarage", sounds almost like a tribute to Skip Spence with the weird vocal distortions. "Racing In A" sounds like it should have been the hit single. But it is the title track that goes beyond the pale. I don't know what type of guitar Steve was playing (synthesizer guitar or a highly distorted slide guitar) but mercy, I have never heard a sound like that before or since. (In fact the back of the record album warns people with heart problems or otherwise wrecked on acid not to listen to this song. Hype perhaps, but then again...). Using Ritchie Havens for vocals on a couple of tracks was an inspired choice. Far better than the "balls-in-a-vice" falsetto that seems to dominate progressive rock. Is this a perfect album? Well...no. The vocals on "Carry On Up The Vicarage" distracts from some great guitar playing and loses its novelty after about the third listening. "Kim" sounds like a bad Blood, Sweat, and Tears impersonation. And "The Voice Of Nicam" sounds just plain dumb. But then that's why you can program your CD, right?? Crank this up and pass me the bong.

3 out of 5 stars Uneven Hackett solo album has some standout tracks.......2003-03-21

Guitarist Steve Hackett's second solo album--his first after leaving Genesis--includes three of the best songs of Hackett's career. "Narnia" and "Carry On Up the Vicarage" are, respectively, tributes to C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and Agatha Christie's murder mysteries; the latter is hilarious. "Please Don't Touch" is an energetic instrumental that Hackett couldn't get Genesis to include on "Wind and Wuthering". While the rest of the songs aren't bad, the variety of genres--and the singers Hackett brought in to handle those different genres--don't fit that well together, and make for an uneven album. Steve Walsh of Kansas sings "Narnia" and the rocker "Racing in A". Richie Havens lends his thick, reedy voice to "How Can I?" and "Icarus Ascending", while Randy Crawford's gives an R&B feel to the ballad "Hoping Love Will Last". "Kim" is a pretty instrumental tribute to Hackett's wife, a duet between Hackett on acoustic guitar and his brother John on flute.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

3 out of 5 stars Uneven Hackett album has some standout tracks.......2003-03-21

Guitarist Steve Hackett's second solo album--his first after leaving Genesis--includes three of the best songs of Hackett's career. "Narnia" and "Carry On Up the Vicarage" are, respectively, tributes to C.S. Lewis' "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" and Agatha Christie's murder mysteries; the latter is hilarious. "Please Don't Touch" is an energetic instrumental that Hackett couldn't get Genesis to include on "Wind and Wuthering". While the rest of the songs aren't bad, the variety of genres--and the singers Hackett brought in to handle those different genres--don't fit that well together, and make for an uneven album. Steve Walsh of Kansas sings "Narnia" and the rocker "Racing in A". Richie Havens lends his thick, reedy voice to "How Can I?" and "Icarus Ascending", while Randy Crawford's gives an R&B feel to the ballad "Hoping Love Will Last". "Kim" is a pretty instrumental tribute to Hackett's wife, a duet between Hackett on acoustic guitar and his brother John on flute.

(1=poor 2=mediocre 3=pretty good 4=very good 5=phenomenal)

1 out of 5 stars TRIPE!!.......2002-09-25

This is the worst Steve hackett album i have ever heard. that is rubbish i love W&W and love steve hackett guitar playing, i have been creating blood on the rooftops lots of times. Get 'Cured' instead, that is excellent and has steves vocals on EVERY track! if you want to listen to **** music, buy this. (i mean, hope our love will last!) IT HAS A WOMAN SINGER!!

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