Toy Matinee: Special Edition

Toy Matinee: Special Edition Artist: Toy Matinee
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording reissued
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 613702460326
EAN: 0613702460326
ASIN: B000058TDD


Release Date: 2001-02-06

Toy Matinee: Special Edition


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Tracks:

  1. Last Plane Out
  2. Turn It On Salvador
  3. Things She Said
  4. Remember My Name
  5. The Toy Matinee
  6. Queen Of Misery
  7. The Ballad Of Jenny Ledge
  8. There Was A Little Boy
  9. We Always Come Home
  10. Eenitam Yot Eht
  11. Blank Page
  12. Things She Said
  13. There Was A Little Boy
  14. Last Plane Out

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A gift for the senses.......2007-03-26

This CD transcends time. I am in my 40's, I have 2 sons in their early 20's and we all LOVE this thing. It's timeless... Kevin Gilbert was a "warp genious". When I throw a CD in, many times I skip a song or 2 to get to a song I "want" to hear. Not the case with this one... I put it in, find a comfortable chair and spend the next 5o minutes enjoying life. My eldest son is proudly serving in the US Marine Corps. (OOOORAHH) He loves this CD but has a tough time admitting to his fellow Marines that he loves a group named "Toy Matinee". Get over it, Tim. I know it's been said a million times, but Mr. Gilbert had so much more to share with us. Even though it's selfish, we all feel robbed. Buy this CD. It should come with a "satisfaction guaranteed" label. It's THAT good.

5 out of 5 stars A Good Friend.......2007-03-10

My review is more or less my feelings toward this record and I will be to the point. This cd is so part of my life since it first came out in 1991 that it would be one of the 5 cd's I would select if I only have 5 cd's to listen to the rest of my life.
Enjoy!!

5 out of 5 stars Quite simply, the best pop album ever recorded.......2006-12-05

I got turned onto this record by a friend who first turned me on to Kevin Gilbert's mindblowing rock opera "The Shaming of the True." He gave me this record only as an afterthought, and I listened to "Shaming" incessantly for a week.

I finally gave this one a spin and it completely knocked me out of my chair, upside the head and up against the wall. I remembered hearing the song lead off "Last Plane Out" years ago on KROQ here in LA, and loving it, and never being able to find out who'd done it and what album it was from. Well, now I had it, it was as good or better than I remembered, and the rest of the disc was equally stellar.

"Last Plane Out" starts off with a virtuoso demonstration of what the late, great singer/songwriter Kevin Gilbert and the accomplished keyboardist and composer Patrick Leonard can do with blenderful of amazing pop hooks, wry, insightful lyrics, and a killer band. Another favorite of mine is "Then She Said," probably, to my ears, the greatest pop SONG ever recorded. The whole record is brilliantly arrangeed and played and the production is perfection. A friend of mine that works with several very prominant recording engineers told me that this record is a "bible" for people in the field, along with Peter Gabriel's "So" and another that I can't recall.

VERY early 90s, but definitely the best of the era. DO NOT MISS THIS ALBUM.

5 out of 5 stars Greater Than the Sum of its Parts??.......2006-03-01

I find it difficult to add much to the long list of glowing reviews.... but I bought this recording around 15 years ago and it remains one of my absolute favorites.

Not to downplay the individual contribution of the artists on this recording, but the best way I find to describe this CD is `Greater than the sum of its parts". There are only a handful of albums out there that, as a whole, are as rich, insightful, and impeccably recorded as this.

There are a number of historic and contemporary influences that creep through occasionally (Floyd, Steely Dan, Yes, and even a little Toto and Tears for Fears...) But even so, it stands out as completely unique.

5 out of 5 stars Music doesn't get better II.......2005-04-13

I cannot put into words how I feel about this cd. The first thing that cought my hear was the Legatto (Holdsworthian) guitar solo at the end of Jenny Ledge. I couldn't believe I was hearing this on the radio. I had to hear the rest.

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