The Boys

The Boys Artist: The Necks
Label: Rer
Category: Music


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


UPC: 752725019323
EAN: 0752725019323
ASIN: B0002AZHYM


Release Date: 2004-08-03

The Boys


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Tracks:

  1. The Boys I
  2. He Led Them Into The World
  3. Headlights
  4. The Boys II
  5. The Sleep Of Champions
  6. Fife And Drum
  7. The Boys III

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars PRACTICAL APPLICATION.......2007-02-09

The Boys might provide a very good point of entry for those seeking access to The Necks catalog. In many ways, their stubbornly focused and conceptually exotic music would seem difficult to adapt to a soundtrack role. And while I have not seen this film and cannot comment on how the music does or does not serve its visual master, the ideas that The Necks usually allow to stretch and bend over twenty or thirty or sixty plus minutes do remarkably well in these shorter forms. Which makes those ideas simultaneously lower in impact and more accessible to the uninitiated.

Still tough to categorise, there seems some genetic link to middle-period Soft Machine, but The Necks, like Soft Machine, are among those precious few who pretty well own their own category. There is a consistently and seemingly simple surface to these peices that, for the right kind of listener, lures the attention again and again to an abundance of inner detail and the opportunity to shift your attention left, right, up, down, front or back in any sequence or combination. In some sense, The Necks' music is almost subversive. Seemingly bent on repetition, your perception of that repetition continues to shift in emphasis, shift in timing. It's a seductive outcome that belies any first, second or third impression you take away. Alluring enough to make each listening yet another experience that eventually gives up trying to settle on a single choice within a disarmingly diverse set of ideas.

5 out of 5 stars

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  2. Steel Guitar Tribute to Zz Top ~ Various Artists
  3. The Very Best of the Farm ~ The Farm
  4. Timewellspent ~ Timewellspent
  5. Open All Night: In the City ~ Various Artists
  6. Mayday ~ Hugh Cornwell
  7. Alice @ 97.3 ~ Various Artists
  8. King Drapes Stomp ~ King Drapes
  9. Rainbow: The Decca Years ~ Marmalade
  10. New Features ~ Him

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Wheels of the Sun ~ Kazu Matsui

Just Friends ~ Phil Woods Trio

The Final Concert Recordings ~ Stan Getz

Modern Man ~ Convergence

In Our Drum We Trust ~ Northern Cree Singers

Aventura de Amor ~ Juan Manuel

La Période Odéon ~ L%C3%A9o Ferr%C3%A9

Another Piece ~ Lena Park

45 Songs for the Holiday ~ Various Artists