Label: P-Vine
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4995879232231
ASIN: B00005ULEG
Release Date: 2002-12-23
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Artist: Plush
Label: P-Vine Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 4995879232231 ASIN: B00005ULEG Release Date: 2002-12-23 |
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Album Description
Fed is destined to be one of rock's great lost albums. Chiefly because Hayes spent so much money realizing his vision, no European or American label would foot the bill (available only as a Japanese import!). Fed is an ornamental folly whose budget is artistically necessary but financially unsustainable. It is doomed to be a legend spoken of more than actually heard. It's like a collection of Burt Bacharach or Jim Webb songs bent out of shape - intricate melodies wander off at tangents when you least expect them too. After Hours label. 2002.Customer Reviews:
Hayes Delivers Masterwork.......2003-06-18
The question is can the guy who rocked with such authority on 'Three-Quarters Blind Eyes, with the range and sweetness of a younger, less sober Alex Chilton deliver this time? Is the man who came on like a mutant Nilsson on 'Found a Little Baby', an astounding singer/arranger out of the gate, capable of living up to the promise of nearly a decade ago?
The answer music lovers is yes! 'Fed' is everything this particular music nerd hoped for in '94 and then some. From the opening pageant of 'Whose Blues' with its languid intro and salvo of horns to the sublime resignation of 'No Education', this record was not only worth the wait, but worth whatever you have to pay for it. Mr. Hayes spared no expense in bringing us his masterwork and so it goes that only an unknown patron, presumably Japanese, has had the interest or pockets deep enough to issue 'Fed'.
Initial listens might lead you to think you are listening to a Liam Hayes bliss-out (the fist few tracks) only to be shaken from your reverie by the soul-stab of'So Blind' and the single 'Greyhound Bus Staion' with its' giddy aimlessness. It has immediate appeal and with repeated listens becomes almost seamless. You also get some deeply odd cover and insert photography. Liam holding a goat amid a sea of canned goods, standing besides a manic, leaping clerk. The clerk is sporting a button which reads:ONLY LOVE BEATS MUTTON. And what of the woman's picture on the button on the man's lapel, on the cover?
Buy and be blown away!
DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!.......2003-01-23
This album may not be immediate, but it surely grows on you.
"Fed" is an eclectic mix of Brian Wilson, Melody Nelson-era-Serge Gainsbourg, Bright Eyes,alternative country, Stax soul etc, yet it remains a highly personal and original record.
Even if "Fed" is heavily orchestrated at times, it has a warmth and an intimacy that shines through.
I can't stop playing this, and it's certainly a shame that it
remains unreleased in both the US and in Europe.However, "Fed" is worth the high price that this Japanese import has.
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