What does it sound like?:
A three cd plus dvd compilation from the collected works of the Bard of Salford.
The three cds combine studio performances with live material and Peel sessions, while the dvd has an excellent selection of performances from his appearances on the Old Grey Whistle Test and culminates with some live material from his 2014 shows.
All the old favourites are here – to name but a few, Evidently Chickentown, Beasley Street, Kung Fu International, Readers Wives, I Married A Monster From Outer Space – and there are many more just as good of course.
Listening to these pieces for the first time in years brings back hazy forgotten memories of long nights in the Student Union in days of yore – and they mostly sound just as good now as they did back in those halcyon days of the late seventies/early eighties.
What does it all *mean*?
Some stuff just stands the test of time with no apparent effort, and age has certainly not wearied most of the verses on offer here.
Goes well with…
To be taken with a few beers and some good mates. Wait for the recollections to come flooding back
Release Date:
Might suit people who like…
If you need an introduction to the good Doctor, all you need is neatly bundled here in this one package.
If, like me, you’re already familiar with the majority of his work but haven’t listened for too long a time, then this is the perfect way to renew your acquaintance with his work.
I only found out last week that I Married a Monster from Outer Space was a 1958 sci-fi movie.
http://youtu.be/5zn7tWkfnZQ
Nothing seems to post on here anymore so can someone put up the amazing Valley of The Long Lost Women from Disguise In Love ? Pullleeeeeze?
With pleasure.
thanks a bundle
I was briefly in Resident Records in Brighton on Thursday morning (a very rare and very wonderful thing for me), saw this and was extremely tempted.
Thanks for the review, Bargepole.
I like my poets in bog sodden brogues, reeking of the Sidhe.
I was amazed that this progtastic OGWT version of ‘Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezley Street’ wasn’t on the box set. Unless I’m mistaken?
On the DVD ?
Is it? Maybe I read a duff tracklist somewhere…
I’ve looked at the track listing and note that the first thing I ever heard by him, Suspended Sentence, is absent. As are indeed all the other tracks from the Innocents E.P. – Innocents and Psycle Sluts (parts one and two). A glaring omission to my mind.
I see that on the DVD the version of Beasley Street is a recent one recorded live at the Palace Theatre Manchester in 2014. Missing that OGWT version seems a bit of a clanger, especially as there is oterh stuff from OGWT.
Agree that Pscyle Sluts is a strange ommission!
There seems to be some confusion regarding the track listing on the DVD – I’ve seen a number of incorrect versions on various websites, but the OGWT 1980 recording of Beasley Street is on there as is the 1978 OGWT take of Kung Fu International – neither of these seem to appear in some listings.