It's Only a Movie

It's Only a Movie Artist: Family
Label: Mystic UK
Category: Music


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


UPC: 604388621927
EAN: 0604388621927
ASIN: B0000C84LG


Release Date: 2003-10-02

It's Only a Movie


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Tracks:

  1. It's Only a Movie
  2. Leroy
  3. Buffet Tea for Two
  4. Boom Bang
  5. Boots 'N' Roots
  6. Banger
  7. Sweet Desire
  8. Suspicion
  9. Check Out
  10. Hometown [*]
  11. Holding the Compass [Live][*]
  12. Weavers Answer [Live][*]
  13. Dim [Live][*]
  14. Procession/No Mule's Fool [Live][*]

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Album Description

2003 reissue of 1973 album, that's unavailable domestically, includes five bonus tracks, 'Hometwown', 'Hold The Compass' (Live), 'Weavers Answer' (Live), 'Dim' (Live), & 'Procession/No Mules Fool' (Live). Mystic Records.

Album Details

Reissue with Bonus Tracks and Extensive Liner Notes.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Last Stop -- Family Coda Gets Looser & Funkier .......2005-01-14

Alas, the last Family album. At the end of an incredible run of creativity and intensity, they turned out their loosest, funkiest effort. Most Family devotees would not consider it their favorite, but this is nonetheless an outstanding album.
These guys were not exactly known for R&B roots, but along with a significant change in the band's personnel, several tracks displayed a surprisingly funky side ("Boots 'n' Roots," "Banger," "Sweet Desiree," & maybe even "Suspicion."). The trend continued into Chapman & Whitney's subsequent band, Streetwalkers.

The title track is a stunner, given Family's taut, intent past. The lead vocals are casual, offhand, conversational and not even by Roger Chapman. Chapman added to his rougues gallery of perverts-as-protagonists with "Boom Bang," with Chappo front & center as a flasher. As usual for his weirdo stories, the tempo is unusual, the pace is aggressive, the lyrics are amusing & Roger howls at the moon.

The album ends (fittingly?) with "Check Out," a song about a prison break. Check out they did, with a straightahead (for these guys) guitar and organ workout. I still miss them.

4 out of 5 stars Family Matinee.......2004-05-11

This is the one Family recording that strikes the listener as "light." Apparently the fellows decided to do something quite different from their mainstay musical forays and different it is. Once they knew the gig was up, I'm guessing they decided to have fun with such songs as the title track "It's Only a Movie," "Leroy," and "Sweet Desiree." There is an aching sadness to "Buffet Tea for Two," a paean to starting over (which is exactly what Chapman and Whitney were about to do with the dissolution of Family) featuring a great, typically underplayed solo by Charlie Whitney. The jaunty keyboards of the late Tony Ashton give this recording a real tilt toward the R&B fold, and Chappo's vocals, as always, prove to have the right touch. Jim Cregan's vocals, second guitar, and bass fill in the edges nicely, and Rob Townsend shows his deft touch once more on drums. The last song on the LP version of this recording, "Check Out" really rocks and as it ends, you cannot help but be both amused and sad that the greatest band of its time closed out its recording career with such an aptly named song.

This part may get a bit confusing, so bear with me. Five live bonus tracks are included on this 2004 version. None of those tracks appear on the newly released Family Live CD, so Family collectors can make a case for getting this version of "It's Only a Movie." But two fairly good studio bonus tracks from the 2000 remaster of this same title---Stop This Car and Drink to You---are absent here. So completists will have to outlay some extra cash in an effort to get the whole Family catalog.

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