https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/...SJN6WlGUBgGf10
This includes three previously unreleased tracks from the original broadcast: Jaunty Roads, Let Us Now Make Love and Lucy: An Illusion.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/...SJN6WlGUBgGf10
This includes three previously unreleased tracks from the original broadcast: Jaunty Roads, Let Us Now Make Love and Lucy: An Illusion.
Cool.
Perhaps a missed opportunity to get this album back out in its original book form, though:
https://www.discogs.com/Anthony-Phil...elease/2539464
Maybe a book like the Harvest of the Heart set instead of the spiral bound format.
But Esoteric could skip adding sonic glitches that were not present in the original pieces like they did on the Harvest release.
Last edited by Dave (in MA); 04-27-2020 at 11:04 AM.
Good news!
Good to see.
One of the more frustrating moments for me relative to Anthony Phillips is the "Sides" album from 1979. I found side 1 to be a complete wash out from my way of listening, with Pop songs that weren't even that good for the more commercial style. Then, when I finally got the nerve to play side 2 a couple of times, I was very impressed. Those 4 cuts were very good to great and it was all I played from that moment on.
In reading about the making of the album I can see that he was not confident in what direction to take, musically. Prog had faded fast and yet he didn't want to go the way of a too Pop oriented approach, so he apparently split it up the middle.
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I don't hate the pop material, but I finding myself listening primarily to Um & Aargh, Sisters of Remindum and Nightmare on this one.
Sides is an odd album. Ironically, despite the jabs at the music business, this one was heavily pushed by his label. If you read the sleeve notes on one of the re-releases (sorry, I don't now remember which), he describes this a particularly unhappy time for him as the label sent him on a tour of radio stations for interviews to promote the LP.
I tend to agree side one is relatively weak - but I still have a fondness for it. "Um and Argh" is a strong opener. "Lucy Will" is fine - very Ant. I also have a fondness for "Side Door" - mainly because it used to make my daughter laugh when she was little. But side 2 is great! I even love the Barry Manilow-esque Bleak House!!!
Fun fact re: Sides - it was originally going to be called Balls, after Ant had been told by record execs that his music had none. True story!
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Bleak House is one of my all-time favorites from Ant. The solo piano version is also fantastic. --Peter
It's s great cover and works well with the title concept - presenting the "pop" and "progressive" sides of Ant's music, split across two sides.
By the way, we call it "bar football", not foosball. I never worked out whether that's because the "players" are attached to bars or whether it's because the tables are found in bars (pubs).
My review of this new set is now up:
https://www.velvetthunder.co.uk/anth...cert-esoteric/
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Sisters of Remindum was always one of my favorite things Ant ever did. Another really good one is Souvenir, which was a later bonus track, possibly my favorite of the vocal songs from Sides, although Magdalen is close
... “there’s a million ways to learn” (which there are, by the way), but ironically, there’s a million things to eat, I’m just not sure I want to eat them all. -- Jeff Berlin
I've even rebought the PP&P and Missing Links and a bunch of others just in order to get the extras.
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