Greenhouse: 20th Anniversary Edition

Artist: Absolute Grey
Label: Dbk Works
Category: Music

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Format: Extra tracks
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 646315010824
EAN: 0646315010824
ASIN: B0000DBJAU

Release Date: 2003-11-18

Greenhouse: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Tracks:

More Walnuts
Saving Face
Sidewalk
Memory Of You (Live)
Remorse
Notes
Beginning To See The Light (Live)
Willow

Tracks:

Two Years A Handshake
More Walnuts
Candy Canes
Tell Me When It's Over
Cover Me
Watching Waiting
Elements
Song Of
Sidewalk
Getting Me Down
Willow
Saving Face
Don't Close That Door
Out Of The Blue
We Autumn
Umbrella
Endeavor

Album Description

In the 1980's, Absolute Grey was part of an indie rock sound that included REM, Rain Parade, Let's Active and Dream Syndicate - all of whom were fans of Absolute Grey's electric folk rock. Led by vocalist Beth Brown, the band recalled the early Jefferson Airplane & Fairport Convention mixed with the modern psychedelic guitar sounds of Echo & The Bunnymen. Never before on CD, their 1984 debut LP GREENHOUSE has now been remastered and expanded to a 2 disc set with a bonus disc of unreleased 1984 live material. Long time favorites of Forced Exposure magazine, the 24 page booklet includes liner notes by Byron Coley and Lester Bangs biographer Jim DeRogatis.

Customer Reviews:

Absolutely excellent.......2007-02-19

I think the Grey did sound somewhat like the Airplane, as well as Joy Division. Mithcell Rasor's bass playing is often reminiscent of Jack Casady and Beth Brown does often have the same vocal quality as Grace Slick, without the psychotic edginess. Dig up anything you can by this band because while you can hear their influences, they truly conjured up a totally unique sound. This cd is a reissue/remaster of their best work. A lot of the studio stuff actually sounds more like vintage Great Society and as far as them being dirgelike, remember that a lot of psychedelic music had that dark side ie. the Doors, Serpent Power and others. They are far less dirgelike than Mazzy Star for instance. Like Bev Bivens of We Five, Signe Anderson Ettlin of the Airplane and Judy Dyble of Fairport, Beth Brown is one of the great lost female vocalists of our time.

Live excitement rescues studio dirges.......2006-01-12

The product description sums up this previously nearly-impossible to find artifact of the Paisley Underground's Rochester contigent circa 1984. In the wake of REM, covering not only the Velvets but their imitators the Dream Syndicate, reminiscent of not so much the Airplane or Fairport (except all three had female singers) nor the Bunnymen so much as what I hear as Joy Division (yes) meets Let's Active, with a touch of The Teardrop Explodes!

As Jim DeRogatis notes in his notes, the studio tracks do not show off this band at its best. I found many of them leaden and plodding. Beth Brown's limitations as a vocalist unfortunately are heightened by the band's lack of range in many of the studio tracks that give off more annoyance than excitement as their primary mood. Compare "Sidewalks" in its studio to its live version, which channels the Joy Division/Factory sound in its bass and haunting vocal delivery, while the studio cut is simply dreary and one-dimensional.

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