Emotional Creatures: Part One

Artist: Steve Thorne
Label: Giant Electric Pea
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5026297010350
ASIN: B0007S67Y8

Release Date: 2005-04-28

Emotional Creatures: Part One

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Tracks:

Here They Come!
God Bless America
Well Outta That
Ten Years
Last Line
Julia
Therapy
Every Second Counts
Tumbleweeds
Gone
Goodbye

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Album Description

Steve's richly melodic style should find favor with progressive rock listeners familiar with Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Recent Marillion. 2005.

Album Details

Album from the Highly Respected Singer/Songwriter with a Star Studded Array of Guest Such as Tony Levin (King Crimson), Geoff Downs, Nick D'virgilio and John Jowitt from Iq.

Customer Reviews:

The World needs more of this!.......2006-06-12

Serge sums up this album well! Sometimes it takes an objective observer to write the most honest criticisms. Besides what you think of America do not let one song keep you from a great album otherwise. Prog rock has always been about keeping an open mind so rock on. By the way, the 2 star opinion below is by one that pans everything!
A real patriot would question the government and want the best for his fellow countrymen even if it means admitting that your rulers and their actions are wrong, unjust, and most importantly stifling our freedoms. Keep writing Steve so that all may enjoy!

For Distinguished Lovers of British Prog Rock..........2006-04-17

Steve Thorne on this album is not only the author-songwriter, but also multiinstrumentalist: he plays acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards, percussion. The sound, melancholic manner of singing, lyrics are the very English. Album could remind you of such songs as "Easter" by Marillion, early songs by Fish with Marillion, early Peter Gabriel. Sound effects of electronic keyboards are naive and could impress somebody back in the first half of the 70s, so in the 21 century it sounds as surprise from 1970-1980s and because of it sounds quite original and fresh. By the way, if Fish today could write such songs...
Sound of album is based on Steve`s voice, acoustic guitar and keyboards and participation of Tony Levin (who worked with King Crimson, Yes, Peter Gabriel and even John Lennon) and Geoff Downes (Asia) in this album is not very noticeable. By the way, the album more close to "author-songwriter" genre than to prog rock, though drums are used in the majority of songs.
So if you like early Marillion, Fish and Peter Gabriel and you are quite open minded to listen to such banal critics of American lifestyle (it could remind you of early Bob Dylan) as:
"Viva America,
Las Vegas was built on sand.
At was price, America?
The Indian sacred land" - this album was recorded for you.

By the way, I think that it is much more interesting record than heavily popular "On An Island" by David Guilmour.

Emotionally Mature Debut.......2005-12-22

The following paragraphs have been a work-in-progress for far too many months as I grappled to draft an unbiased, impartial review. In the past, similar assignments usually took five or ten minutes to generate and submit to my editors; a good thing, since my livelihood depended on it. "Emotional Creatures: Part One," constantly eluded my standard approach. That said, keeping silent is an injustice to Steve Thorne, the album, and the listening public. All conventional rules of journalism have been banished on a temporary basis.

My initial comment after listening to this album last spring was that it was the first in almost ten years to figuratively hit me between the eyes and knock me out of casual mode. After listening almost daily - including times in which my goal was to identify shortcomings - Thorne's first official album continues to induce that initial reaction.

The well-known artists in the progressive rock genre (see credits) who contribute their talents throughout the album doubtless serve as a magnet for a ready-made potential listening audience. Their performances are indeed praiseworthy. Whether by foresight, serendipity, or a combination of both, they appear on tracks that highlight their individual strengths and in turn provide an added impetus to the cut. Thorne's own vocal and instrumental performances are both moving and flawless.

The real strength of the album, however, is in its underlying structure. The smallest detail, no matter how subtle, brief, or far in the background, contributes to the total listening experience. That craftsmanship is Thorne's unique signature.

Lyrically, the album is superior. There is irony, photographic clarity, and in some cases such subtle imagery that the listener - or reader, since Thorne's words can easily stand alone - doesn't necessarily realize he has been drawn into a smoky mirror image of the world.

On a personal note, these few paragraphs were finally written immediately after an epiphany. Over the past months "Emotional Creatures: Part One" has, on a subconscious level, led me to focus time and energy on many areas of life's proverbial "unfinished business." I purchased the album at the recommendation of a friend whose taste in music I respect. Certainly I didn't anticipate such an all-encompassing end result. No other album, including long-awaited releases by artists in the "known and loved" category, has ever had a similar effect. Listening may not always be psychologically comfortable, but the reward is immeasurable.

Lovin it.......2005-10-31

Even without the brilliant guest musicians here... Tony Levin... Geoff Downes and Nick D'Virgilio.... as well as others, this album is a great debut. His lyrics are stark and sometimes synical.... but not offensive. His voice remids me of Fish early Marillion, or Peter Gabriel at times. The cover is perhaps not truly represntational of the music within but I love it all the same. Some of the tracks have a folky edge, others are way more rocky prog. This is definately one of my favourites.

Another sensitive singer/songwriter holds forth........2005-08-22

Other than the presence of some neo-prog heavy-hitters on this disc, there's nothing particularly new or original about it. The themes are old and familiar folk-song territory, beginning with anti-America naivete and downhill it goes from there. As a long-time progressive music devotee, I used to look to this kind of music for deeper & more universal lyrical content, but that's too much to ask from today's crop: bandwagon sentiment and unfocused sentimentality are all you get here.
"God Bless America" is your basic polemical hyperbole about how we're going to blow everyone up, etc., etc., and ignores facts in favor of a typical socialist-pacifist sneer. As a prog-loving American, I make no apologies for keeping the war in the aggressors' back yard instead of my own. And as an act of patriotism, I'm going to return my copy of this CD for a full refund.

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