Del Amitri

Artist: Del Amitri
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 094632149923
EAN: 0094632149923
ASIN: B000003JAT

Release Date: 1995-11-14

Del Amitri

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Tracks:

Heard Through A Wall
Hammering Heart
Former Owner
Sticks And Stones Girl
Deceive Yourself (In Ignorant Heaven)
I Was Here
Crows In The Wheatfield
Keepers
Ceasefire
Breaking Bread

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Album Description

UK re-issue of their first album originally, released in 1985.

Customer Reviews:

pop genius.......2004-05-06

I'll admit that I came about this album by accident. I immediately fell in love with "Roll to Me" and after vaguely remembering that they had a tune a few years earlier that I also liked (Always the Last to Know) I went to the record store with the intention of buying the new CD (I am refering to Twisted which was new at the time). They only had this one in stock. I hesitated but ended up with it mostly because it was only a few bucks. Thank god. Every song kicks ass. Screw Roll to Me. These songs are incredible. One after another. My personal faves are Former Owner and Sticks and Stones, and Ceasefire. I put I Was Here and Keepers in a league with the best the eighties have to offer, period. The only tune I don't care for is the first one (Heard Through a Wall I believe is the title of it). Great stuff. Pick it up if you find it. One word of caution from a person that was subsequently disappointed. This is the only Del album that sounds like...well, like it does. They changed drastically and for the worse save a few one offs in this reviewer's op.

sorry, dude...you're out-numbered.......2003-01-10

I get a kick out the one review listed: ACK, ACK...HATED IT!!

Everyone else afterwards thinks it flippin' brilliant, and I have to fall into the latter category. The Dels have done NOTHING that comes REMOTELY close to this magnificent work, (for that matter, neither had anyone else...hmmm...maybe Prefab Sprout). The observation that everything afterward was "polished and lubed for commercial airplay" is dead on!! They are truly left to "fly" on this record. The musicianship on this disc is incredible, and contrary to what that other guy says, the lyrics are phenomenal, ("I suppose love lives in a dustbin behind the garden wall....")

I saw them doing an acoustic set at a last-minute, unpublicized show in Detroit - what a thrill.

This is one of the BEST pop albums of all time, in my not-so-humble-opinion, (and don't get me wrong; I KNOW it's just that). I am INFINITELY glad I found it here, my old cassette from the mid-80's has seen better days.

If you are able, pick it up...NOW!!

Ack, Ack, Ack.......2002-01-24

Surmise it as such: if you are a fan of Del Amitri, notably the lyrics and Justin Currie's unique, rough, voice, then you will HATE this disc.... It sounds like bad mid-80's British pop, and if I didn't know better, I'd say there was a different lead singer... ( either that or they used the old "trick" of speeding up the vocal tracks ) He sings with an accent, there is no depth to any song on the disc... No riveting lyrics, no noted emotional swelling rhytms.... This completes my Del Amitri collection, and it's the only one I truly regret having dished out money for - hey, at least I got a jewel case...

One of my all time favorite albums.......2001-09-14

This is one of my favorite albums of all time. It has a great calming atmosphere to it and I've got to say there isn't one bad song on it. A classic foray into pop.

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