Label: Comeuppance UK
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 604388464623
EAN: 0604388464623
ASIN: B00004TF1Y
Release Date: 2000-07-11
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Artist: Steve Harley
Label: Comeuppance UK Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 604388464623 EAN: 0604388464623 ASIN: B00004TF1Y Release Date: 2000-07-11 |
Hobo With a Grin
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Album Description
Reissue of the debut solo album, first released in 1978. Includes two bonus tracks specially selected by the British rocker's fans, 'Spaced Out' and 'That's My Life In Your Hands' (Live). Features the guitar of Marc Bolan on one track, 'Amerika The Brave'. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.Customer Reviews:
Steve Harley goes Hollywood -- sort of.......2000-12-12
That said, prospective purchasers should understand that "Hobo" probably does not represent Steve Harley's greatest work. Coming at a time when Harley discovered Amerika and purchased a home in L.A., the album always gave off the faintest effluvium of intent to sell out. Many of the tracks smack of a certain insincerity. "Someone's Coming" is an especially disappointing example -- far too glossy and slick to be heartfelt, and lacking the witty Harley histrionics his fans know and love.
The problem with "Hobo" as a cutthroat commercial enterprise is that, even surrounded by expensive Bel-Air producers and session musicians, Steve Harley is too much of an intrinsic bohemian personality to sell out fully and convincingly. At his core, Harley remains an actor and a poet, and these qualities shine through in songs like the enraptured "Riding the Waves," and the mysterious synth-driven "Faith, Hope, and Charity."
Then there's the tour-de-force 7-minute opus "(I Don't Believe) God is an Anarchist," which by itself makes this CD worth owning. The song addresses itself powerfully and memorably to questions of spiritual belief and the surrealism of modern life. You can argue whether the lyrics amount to mere facile wordplay or constitute a statement of true socio-political import, but there is no argument about the superb musicianship and compelling performance.
Harley's is a unique voice and a unique sensibility in an industry that seems to reduce anything distinctive to bland homogeneity. "Hobo with a Grin" is pop music that somehow resists becoming pap music, perhaps despite itself.
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