Lost Sides

Lost Sides Artist: Doves
Label: EMI Int'l
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 724359317724
EAN: 0724359317724
ASIN: B0000AZAYH


Release Date: 2003-10-02

Lost Sides


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Tracks:

  1. Break Me Gentle (Incidental)
  2. Darker
  3. Your Shadow Lay Across My Life
  4. Meet Me at the Pier
  5. Down to Sea
  6. Crunch
  7. Zither
  8. Valley
  9. Northenden
  10. Hit the Ground Running
  11. Willow's Song
  12. Far from Grace

Album Details

Taking a Breather from Touring and Critical Acclaim, Our Erstwhile Heroes have Opted to Fulfill Fan Demand for a Collection of Tracks that have Appeared on Singles and Not Any of their Full Length Albums Since There Indeed Are So Many. They Provide Further Insight and Quench the Thirst for Any and Everything the Band May Record...or At Least Help You on Your Way to Finding it All.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Solid collection of early takes, B-Sides from Doves.......2005-03-26

When's a collection of single tracks not just a collection of single tracks? When they're exceptionally good. The Beatles could pull this trick off, Crowded House and maybe The Stones but few bands have the creative ability to do the hat trick of releasing gems and hiding them on singles most people don't buy. The Doves pull of the hat trick neatly although there are a few tracks here that will be of interest primarily to collectors.

Much of this has been released in the US (and in Japan) before. "Zither", "Valley" both appeared on the band's first album when it was finally released in the US in 2000. "Hit the Ground Running" appeared along with three other tracks here as a bonus disc for the US release of "The Last Broadcast" so it isn't as if they haven't seen the light of day before. There's a certain amount of filler here but most of it is very, very good.

Of interest to fans will be the 7 song second disc which features remixes of singles released in Europe and the United States. These remixes virtually reinvent some of these songs so, in many respects, it's like listening to a completely different version of these well worn classics. Since Most editions available of this album from amazon.com have copy protection (it appears that the two set does not), I'd suggest trading with fans if you just want a handful of the cuts. If you want everything this marvelous band has released by all means go out and buy this to recover these "Lost" songs.

4 out of 5 stars "Sides" not lost.......2004-11-17

B-sides are usually considered songs that didn't cut the mustard, and have to be cobbled together with other B-sides. Not so with brilliant Britpop band The Doves, in their "Lost Sides" collection of rarities, remixes and B-sides. It's not phenomenal, but it's a good collection of Doves' odds and ends.

The first disc includes some good B-sides and mixes, such as the electro-psychedelic "Crunch," magnificent "Darker," piano-rocking "Hit the Ground Running" and magnificent "Valley." The second disc contains seven remixes of various "Lost Broadcast" songs; they are, thankfully, not merely adding electronic mishmashes to the existing songs. Instead, they just enhance the preexisting songs.

"Lost Sides" couldn't really be mistaken for a regular Doves album; at times you can practically hear the seams where the songs were patched together. There's no cohesion. That isn't to say it's bad, it just sounds like what it is, a B-sides/rarities album. Certainly the quality is far higher than many B-side albums, and the production is smooth and sleek.

The psychedelic edge, melancholy lyrics and sort of otherworldly sound are still firmly in place in "Lost Sides." Here and there they stray into different turf ("Crunch," for example), but always come back to their core sound. They even dabble in a some strong classical instrumentation, giving a stately spin to their alt-rock sound.

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