I Hear You Rockin' the Hits Live

I Hear You Rockin' the Hits Live Artist: Dave Edmunds
Label: Sony
Category: Music


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


UPC: 074644060324
EAN: 0074644060324
ASIN: B00000269R


Release Date: 1990-10-25

I Hear You Rockin' the Hits Live


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Tracks:

  1. Girls Talk
  2. Here Comes The Weekend
  3. Queen Of Hearts
  4. Paralyzed
  5. The Wanderer
  6. Crawling From The Wreckage
  7. Slipping Away
  8. Information
  9. I Hear You Knocking
  10. I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock And Roll)
  11. Ju Ju Man

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Get Up and Dance.......2005-05-09

I received this CD today and had not heard this album for about 10 years. I saw Dave Edmunds in concert in about 1980-81 at Reading. He was amazing (never heard of him before). The at first nonplussed audience got into the music. The back to basics rock and roll got people dancing. So what that Dave Edmunds is stuck in the past, better that than stuck up. So you may ask why rave about a concert and not the CD; well this live CD has the same get up and dance, full on rock and roll feeling of a concert. Sure the tracks may have been a little doctored in the studio, but that does not detract from this brilliant CD. The other live Dave Edmunds CD I have is `A Pile of Rock Live' compared to `I hear you rockin' `a pile of rock live' could be called a pile of crock. The one track that misses is `Singing The Blues'.

5 out of 5 stars I hear him rockin'.......2004-03-27

Yet another in a series of music I got turned onto by Lynn. Well, I'd actually seen the video for Dave Edmunds' cover of Dion and the Belmonts' "The Wanderer" and liked the reduplicated 50's atmosphere, down to the poodle-skirted girl with ponytail. The rest of the album, copied for me, was quite a revelation, displaying rockabilly, country, and rock, but I learned later that Edmunds was more an interpreter of 50's and 60's rock. Call this album a live greatest hits, as it contains some of his better known interpretations, such as Elvis Costello's "Girls Talk," which opens the album.

Much was my surprise when I heard a familiar tune, and one of the-then few country songs I liked. That was "Queen Of Hearts" by Juice Newton, and its high energy makes it one of the best tracks here. That's followed by the Presley number "Paralyzed," which is a close cousin to "Don't Be Cruel," rhythmically speaking. After that is the cover of "The Wanderer," complete with a horn section that really comes together during the instrumental part of the song.

The pace picks up with the Graham Parker-penned "Crawling From The Wreckage" with a devil of a piano. Edmunds also collaborated with ELO's Jeff Lynne, who produced his Information album. "Slipping Away," a more mid-paced number with a steady rhythm with dominant keyboards is included here, as is "Information," with its engaging "Happy Days" feel.

His association with Brinsy Schwarz's bass player, Nick Lowe went beyond playing together, as they embarked on a long songwriting collaboration over the years. Edmunds covered Lowe's "I Knew The Bride When She Used To Rock N Roll," originally on his 1977 Get It album, is done in a quick-paced rockabilly style. The live version loses none of its energy. The two also co-wrote "Here Comes The Weekend," another rockabilly number.

"I Hear You Knockin'", which was one of his most favourite covers, was originally by Smiley Lewis, he who originally did "Blue Monday" before Fats Domino. There is a country-rock feel on this rendition. Love that bluesy guitar in the instrumental part. Edmunds winds things up with "Ju Ju Man," another raucous number that get a big finish.

Other than his collaboration with Paul McCartney on the movie and soundtrack for Give My Regards To Broadstreet, I haven't heard too much of Edmunds, having confined myself to this live album, but I enjoy what I've heard. Maybe some listening to his other material is in order.

4 out of 5 stars A Telecaster Telegram from Passaic, NJ!.......2002-06-11

Anyone who chooses to open a concert with a blistering rendition of an obscure Elvis Costello B-side ("Girls Talk") obviously has a love of both the ideas behind and the attitudes that comprise rock & roll! Add to this several textbook original songs ("Here Comes The Weekend," "I Knew The Bride") and more obscure covers ("Paralyzed" is a nearly-forgotten Elvis classic from 1956, "and who could imagine Juice Newton's 1981 "Queen Of Hearts" revisited as a new rockabilly classic?) and you have one of the great lost classics of the 1980's! A must for anyone who loves pure, adrenalized rock & roll!

4 out of 5 stars A Telecaster Telegram from Passaic, NJ!.......2002-06-11

Anyone who chooses to open a concert with a blistering rendition of an obscure Elvis Costello B-side ("Girls Talk") obviously has a love of both the ideas behind and the attitudes that comprise rock & roll! Add to this several textbook original songs ("Here Comes The Weekend," "I Knew The Bride") and more obscure covers ("Paralyzed" is a nearly-forgotten Elvis classic from 1956, "and who could imagine Juice Newton's 1981 "Queen Of Hearts" revisited as a new rockabilly classic?) and you have one of the great lost classics of the 1980's! A must for anyone who loves pure, adrenalized rock & roll!

5 out of 5 stars Hot stuff.......2001-04-27

Every track on this collection is terrific. Enough Said.

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