Label: Cherry Red UK
Category: Music
Average customer rating:
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5013929122925
ASIN: B000093CZG
Release Date: 2004-04-01
Our Brilliant Careers: Cherry Red Rarities 1981-1983
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Artist: Various Artists
Label: Cherry Red UK Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 EAN: 5013929122925 ASIN: B000093CZG Release Date: 2004-04-01 |
Our Brilliant Careers: Cherry Red Rarities 1981-1983
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| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
New Wave
| New Wave & Post-Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
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| Compilations
| Rock
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Rock
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Album Description
Full Title - Our Brilliant Careers - Cherry Red Rarities 1981-1983. This rarities collection marks 25 years of Cherry Red Records. This series includes a collection of rare & hard to find tracks that were released on Cherry Red Records in the 1980s marking Cherry Red's ability to forge a distinct style out of introspective, willowy pop. This includes rare tracks by successful Cherry Red artists such Everything But The Girl (plus solo material from both Tracey Thorn & Ben Watt), Five Or Six, The Nightingales & The Monochrome Set, plus many more. 2003.Customer Reviews:
Good comp spoiled by poor mastering.........2003-08-12
Most people probably know Five Or Six through their off-key but charming opener 'Portrait' on 'Pillows and Prayers', and here we have 6 tracks from them, most of which have never been on CD. 'Another Reason' can be found on Disc 2 of P&P but here the sound is much improved. 'Think' and 'Theme' are instrumentals that will surprise a few.
Three early songs by Ben Watt actually did not fare too badly, even if they were described modestly by himself as 'dreary and tuneless'. 'Aubade' sounds like a brief sketch made by Harold Budd.
The first instance of unlistenability comes at Track 17 'Son Of God's Mate' by The Nightingales. Either the antique tape machine had gone haywire or somebody was manually turning the tape resulting in an annoying quavering especially towards the end. The total lack of high frequency did not help either. Joe Crow 'Absent Friends' was the original B-side to 'Compulsion'. Unfortunately the muffled quality of the mastering rendered it a rather soporific affair. The Monochrome Set is a very interesting band, but unfortunately again on 'The Bridge', the ridiculous speeding up/slowing down has it totally ruined.
The Simon & Garfunkel-like near-hit 'If She Doesn't Smile' by Fantastic Something also suffered from the same mishap, dropping a couple of keys by mid-track - stick to P&P Disc 2. Thankfully, the beautiful instrumental version 'The Thousand Guitars of St.Dominiques' is free of problems and ends up as the saving grace of the CD.
Music Album:
Music
Tomorrow Yesterday Today ~ Melvin Rhyne
Light Shine ~ Jesse Colin Young