Still

Artist: Pete Sinfield
Label: Wea
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4988002396856
ASIN: B00004S8M2

Release Date: 2000-02-23

Still

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Tracks:

The Song Of The Sea Goat
Under The Sky
Will It Be You
Wholefood Boogie
Still
Envelopes Of Yesterday
The Piper
A House Of Hopes And Dreams
The Night People

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Album Description

Japanese reissue of the former King Crimson member's solo debut, originally released on the Manticore label in 1973. DigDigitally remastered using K2 technology. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Still - Nostalgia? Vanity?.......2004-02-16

Pete Sinfield wrote the lyrics to the first four King Crimson albums until his relationship with Bob Fripp came on the outs and the Frippster tried to drop a Mellotron on Pete's head. Retreating to his former band cohort, Greg Lake's circle, Sinfield cooperated in writing the lyrics for Brain Salad Surgery. While doing that, Manticore, the record label set up by ELP, gave Sinfield the chance to show why he worked the lights when King Crimson played live and didn't sing.

There are some good moments here, despite Sinfield's less than captivating voice. "The Song of the Seagoat" is good, but one can't go wrong nicking melodies from Vivaldi. "Under the Sky" has a wistful feeling, a sort of melancholy reminiscent of the first King Crimson album. The other songs range from attempts at personal singer-songwriter forms to full-out rockers.

Pete's lyrics were often used as a stick with which to beat prog rock, but they often suited the music surrounding them, and after all, the first KC album is regarded as a classic by nearly everyone, so Sinfield is both less bad and more good than people give him credit for.

The song "Still" concluded the orginal album, and it's one of the better cuts. Pete ponders his dreams and idendities with over a mid-paced song. In the middle of this wistfulness, Greg Lake chimes in and ruins everything because(despite what you might think of him otherwise) he has a great voice and Pete's earlier singing looks wan and shabby next to Lake's.

If you're a King Crimson or ELP completist, this album is worth buying and listening to.

Still, it's Not Bad.......2002-10-27

After reading the other reviews, and listening to this album for the first time, I can't add much to the other reviews, except to say that Sinfield is not that bad a singer. I think his voice lends itself more to folk music or even folk rock. I will say the vocals are better than those of Crimson's third lp, Lizard.
I was prepared for a vocal performance worse than Lizard and was surprised to find that Sinfield's vocals are actually better! He does best on quiet songs with a soft, dreamy feel. I remember seeing this album when it first came out in the early 70's and was going to buy for the cover art. Although that was the reason I brought the first Crimson album without having any idea of what they sounded like, I will still say that this is not a bad album -- not as good as Court of the Crimson King -- but equal to Lizard or even Islands. I brought the vinyl lp and not the cd.

Still.......2002-06-22

During the early days of King Crimson, the group was essentially a partnership. Robert Fripp "out front" and Pete Sinfield "in the back" aided and abetted by a host of famous (and not-so-famous) guest musicians. Sinfield's responsibilities included writing the lyrics of the songs, and everyone else performed them. For many of us, this posed the question "is this how Sinfield sees his songs?", or "what would they be like if Sinfield performed them himself?". Evidently there would be much material which he wrote that would be unsuitable for Crimson, or rejected for other reasons, so we imagined the back office starting to fill up with papers and needing a good spring clean. So, here it is. The Spring Cleaning. The record everyone was waiting to hear.
Fair enough, Sinfield isn't a front-line performer, and his performance here reflects it. Vocals are weak, insecure, nervous, and of a narrow range (Greg Lake helps out in several places to reach the high notes). But we all expected this. If he were any good, he'd have done it day in, day out for Crimson. So no surprise here, and considering some of the [music] that's churned out these days as an excuse for singing, some people might even call it good. But the songs are good if a little introspective, every one a classic in its own right, and the music (as one would expect considering the talent of the people who played) is absolutely excellent.
For anyone who just wants an album to listen to, then give this one a miss. No Instant hits, no catchy tunes. Just deep introspective lyrics set to excellent music
Any Crimson fan who doesn't own this album can't call himself a Crimson fan at all, and anyone who wants to add to his record collection an album that can rightly be called a "curio", or any fan of "quality rock music" will seize the opportunity to purchase this record. You won't be disappointed

A few shining moments . . ........2001-10-23

... and some mediocrity as well. The title track is the best, with Sinfield wisely SPEAKING the verses while Lake belts out some of his best vocals ever on the choruses. A lovely song and poem in one. Most of the rest of the album is better appreciated as poetry set to music than as "proper" songs. As such, the lyrics are often brilliant, the music occasionally soars, and the vocals are, yes, weak.

"Wholefood Boogie" is fun, sort of a sequel to King Crimson's "Cat Food," also written by Sinfield. I don't quite agree with his fanatical health-food obsession, but it makes for some great lines. "The Piper" is beautiful, as is the delicate piano in "Song of the Sea Goat." Some will find "Sea Goat" far too earnest and too long, but it definitely sets a mood, with a strong theme borrowed from one of Vivaldi's guitar concerti. At least Sinfield gives the composer credit, something a lot of prog-rock's borderline plagiarists (Keith Emerson, whom I love, is one of the worst offenders) have neglected to do.

This is definitely recommended for serious King Crimson/ELP/PFM collectors or for poetry lovers, but I'd caution the casual fan from spending the money.

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