Envy of Angels

Envy of Angels Artist: The Mutton Birds
Label: Virgin
Category: Music


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


UPC: 724384262228
EAN: 0724384262228
ASIN: B000024IA6


Release Date: 1997-03-11

Envy of Angels


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Tracks:

  1. Straight To Your Head
  2. She's Been Talking
  3. Trouble With You
  4. April
  5. Like This Train
  6. Another Morning
  7. Ten Feet Tall
  8. Come Around
  9. Crooked Mile
  10. While You Sleep
  11. Inside My Skin
  12. Envy Of Angels

Album Description

The New Zealand indie-pop act's 1996 album. Recommended for fans of the Flying Nun label. 12 tracks. Virgin.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars One of the best.......2006-11-17

It's hard to believe that this album that almost no one heard is the best album released in 1996. A masterpiece. The Mutton Birds were clicking on all cylinders when they made "Envy of Angels." It's as good a piece of melodic guitar pop as you'll find. Great melodies, great harmonies, great lyrics, and arrangements that are unusual enough to sound fresh, but still comfortable. GREAT, GREAT RECORD. "While You Sleep" is possibly my favoritest song of all time.

4 out of 5 stars Criminally Under-appreciated.......2006-01-10

..is the watchword of the Mutton Birds, I followed them around the UK for years watching them play flawlessly crafted pop to an audience of 10 and a dog, shared the flustration of Stephen Hedges, their manager at the unfairness of it, these guys should have been stars. Yes, they are compared to Crowded House, not unfairly, in fact I might humbly suggest that the MB`s are stronger song for song than even the mighty House! What do you get for you 10 bucks? A collections of wonderfully crafted songs, redolent of homesickness, love and longing, small town grudges, and big city loves. Its an album that commands you to really listen to it, from start to finish. For me, the title track is a masterpiece, listen to it driving in the rain late at night.

5 out of 5 stars

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  1. Rocker ~ Roy Orbison
  2. Fair Weather Fan ~ Clairmel
  3. Brave Like Me ~ Deborah Falconer
  4. Lucky Man and Other Hits ~ Lake & Palmer Emerson
  5. Highway 9 ~ Highway 9
  6. In Love and Death ~ The Used
  7. Essential Sun Records
  8. Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack ~ The Nice
  9. Cruisin' the Drive In ~ Eddie Cochran
  10. Original Mixed Up Kids: The BBC Recordings ~ Mott The Hoople

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Kid Howard's New Orleans Band ~ Kid Howard

Rhythm & Jews ~ The Klezmatics

Love Is All ~ Johnny Logan

No Smoking ~ Sergio Caputo

Golden Best ~ Toshimi Tagawa

Malocage ~ Escurinho

Yumetabibito/Yuwaku ~ Chikara Kitani