Fantasy Island

Fantasy Island Artist: Tages
Label: EMI
Category: Music


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


UPC: 724347514128
EAN: 0724347514128
ASIN: B00004U87T


Release Date: 2000-06-08

Fantasy Island


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Tracks:

  1. Every Raindrop Means A Lot
  2. Look What You Get
  3. My Home Town
  4. I'm Going Out
  5. Fyzzy Patterns
  6. Sister's Got A Boyfriend
  7. Hear My Lamentation
  8. One Day
  9. You're Too Incomrehensible
  10. Wanting
  11. Prisoner
  12. Why Don't You Hide It
  13. House Of Soul Hill
  14. Short Song
  15. She's Having A Baby Now
  16. Treat Her Like A Lady
  17. Have You Seen Oyur Brother Lately
  18. Its My Life
  19. Like A Woman
  20. People Without Faces
  21. I Left My Shoes At Home
  22. She Is A Man
  23. Seeing With Love
  24. Created By You
  25. What's The Time
  26. It's In A Dream
  27. Old Man Wafer
  28. In The Street
  29. Fantasy Island
  30. To Be Free
  31. I Read You Like An Open Book
  32. Halcyon Days

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Disappointing.......2004-05-26

The amazing thing about the English music scene circa 1966-68 isn't just that there was so much truly exceptional music being made there, but also that nowhere else in Europe was music of that quality being produced. The Outsiders from Amsterdam were probably the best band on the continent, and they were only a very good garage band, certainly not in the same league as the Beatles, the Kinks or the Who. Which brings us to the Tages...

I bought this cd on the strength of their write-up in allmusic.com, which says the Tages were "one of the best '60s rock acts of any sort from a non-English speaking country" and "could have passed for a genuine British band". Um, sorry, no. Most of the music on this cd isn't exactly bad, but it's not terribly good either. The songs tend to be lackluster Baroque-pop, similar to Paul McCartney's tunes on Revolver or the Zombies' Odessey & Oracle, but without the brilliance of those records. The problem seems to be that, although the arrangements are good, none of the Tages are strong songwriters, and most of the songs were written by members of the group. The best moments on this release are two excellent psychedelic numbers written by songwriters outside the group: "She Is A Man", which sounds just like the Dukes of Stratosphear (non-Swindon accents notwithstanding), and "You're Too Incomprehensible", which is what Os Mutantes would have sounded like if they weren't Brazilian.

There are other obscure cds out there that are similar to this but much better. I recommend tracking down July's only album, Billy Nicholl's Would You Believe?, Blossom Toes' We Are Ever So Clean, and especially Colin Blunstone's One Year.

5 out of 5 stars Hollycow best band in the wolrd the beatles just met their m.......2004-04-15

omg best album in the year danne is so cute!
The beatles just met their match. Iron butterfly has gone to the in a gadda da vida and they are stayin there.
If you like the beatles buy this album its like the beatles realy last album just for the fans but the tages are takin their place cuase they are dead!

4 out of 5 stars Psychedelic period of a good Swedish 60's rock group.......2002-06-21

The Tages formed in Sweden in the early 60's as a skiffle group, but soon changed their sound after hearing the Mersey sound. Though their sound was very Anglo-philic, they never really made it in England (or America, of course), despite support from Ray Davies of the Kinks, and Roger Daltrey of the Who.

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