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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Sentinel
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Format:Audio CD
This is another strong Thompson collection, with the usual clutch of 'standout songs'. 'Turning of the tide' is a beautifully bitter analysis of how physical beauty fades (sic transit gloria mundi perhaps?). 'Reckless kind' is another of his masterful songs of abandonment, while 'Gypsy love songs' and 'Jerusalem on the jukebox' are two slightly surreal Thompson rocky pieces. For me though the highlights of this disc (in which I include 'Turning of the tide'), are the wonderfully yearning 'I still dream', which has heartfelt lyrics and plaintive melody to match, and 'Waltzing's for dreamers', which captures the innocence of hope long past redemption, with a gorgeously hesitant waltz melody, which writes itself on your heart. 'Can't win' is a similar sentiment expressed more explicitly, over a driving and insistent lyric line. An essential purchase for all Thompson fans.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Jimi jac
Format:Audio CD
First in a long line of excellent records Thompson recorded for Capitol in the late eighties & nineties.
Full of great cut to the bone lyrics & Thompson's excellent guitar. Good production as well, considering in was recorded in eighties, which was not the best decade for any sort of rock-based music.
Also includes the heartfelt-ballad "Waltzing's For Dreamers", which is almost the prequel to "Beeswing" & equally as strong.
Although I do think it about time that Thompson's back-catalogue was dignity re-mastered with extra tracks.
Full of great cut to the bone lyrics & Thompson's excellent guitar. Good production as well, considering in was recorded in eighties, which was not the best decade for any sort of rock-based music.
Also includes the heartfelt-ballad "Waltzing's For Dreamers", which is almost the prequel to "Beeswing" & equally as strong.
Although I do think it about time that Thompson's back-catalogue was dignity re-mastered with extra tracks.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Danny Boy
Format:Audio CD
I have to say I think the 3 stars given above is a little unfair,maybe 4 stars would be more like it hence my 5 to bring it up on average.
I have owned this on vinyl since its release and am a big fan of R T and would rate it above Daring Adventures and a smidgin below Rumor and Sigh ,if you like those albums you will like this.
I have owned this on vinyl since its release and am a big fan of R T and would rate it above Daring Adventures and a smidgin below Rumor and Sigh ,if you like those albums you will like this.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By D. Parker
Format:Audio CD
This was the only one of Richard Thompsons Capitol albums that I had. I have recently acquired "Action Packed" The best of the Capital years and I think I will be getting more of the capitol albums upon hearing that. There is only one track on "Amnesia" that I cannot listen to and with my good luck that is the last track Pharoah. But all the other tracks I find to be Richards usual high standard. "Yankee go Home" must be one of my Favourite tracks with the old World War 2 Cliche:-
"Over paid, over sexed and over here
Get smart Gringo disappear
The Huns at the gates of Rome
Yankee go home"
The beautifully, melancholic, "Waltzin's for Dreamers" is also another classic RT song.
Side one begins with a song about a lady of the night "Turning of the Tide" is a fast poppy type of song but the guitar is quite breath takingly fast. This leads into "Gypsy Love Songs" a very moody love song and very downbeat. Then a classic RT humorous take on American Television Bible Punchers and about Face Lifts etc in "Jerusalem on the Jukebox" a real rocker. The usual Richard Thompson diversity is amply demonstrated on all tracks, jazz, folk, and as I said before I like all the tracks except for some reason that last one which depresses me more than Richard Thompson is usually supposed to. That last bit is a joke as I have never found Richard depressing just realistic.
"Over paid, over sexed and over here
Get smart Gringo disappear
The Huns at the gates of Rome
Yankee go home"
The beautifully, melancholic, "Waltzin's for Dreamers" is also another classic RT song.
Side one begins with a song about a lady of the night "Turning of the Tide" is a fast poppy type of song but the guitar is quite breath takingly fast. This leads into "Gypsy Love Songs" a very moody love song and very downbeat. Then a classic RT humorous take on American Television Bible Punchers and about Face Lifts etc in "Jerusalem on the Jukebox" a real rocker. The usual Richard Thompson diversity is amply demonstrated on all tracks, jazz, folk, and as I said before I like all the tracks except for some reason that last one which depresses me more than Richard Thompson is usually supposed to. That last bit is a joke as I have never found Richard depressing just realistic.
0 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By A. Willard
Format:Audio CD
I've got most of the songs on this album on various iTune playlists, and yet, and yet, it doesn't really work as an album. Taken as a whole the songs get a little bit samey while in isolation they're fine (except for `Can't Win' which is dull).
It was the start of Thompson's collaboration with Mitchell Froom which produced some good stuff - especially `Rumour and Sigh' - perhaps here they just hadn't got into their groove.
Best song is `Waltzing for Dreamers' but there are no `great' Thompson songs on here, just some good ones.
It was the start of Thompson's collaboration with Mitchell Froom which produced some good stuff - especially `Rumour and Sigh' - perhaps here they just hadn't got into their groove.
Best song is `Waltzing for Dreamers' but there are no `great' Thompson songs on here, just some good ones.
5 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Although it has its moments, this is not Thompson’s best work by far. That’s because it’s musically uneven, with uninspiring arrangements as on Gypsy Love Songs, Can’t Win and some really bottom-of-barrel numbers like the cliched Yankee, Go Home. (Yawn). Turning Of The Tide is fast with an appealing melody and a theme that mirrors Tom Waits’ Saving All My Love For You, whilst Reckless Kind and I Still Dream are slow ballads about lost love, and Jerusalem On The Jukebox kicks butt at a driving pace while delivering social comment. The major saving grace is of course Waltzing’s For Dreamers, a sparkling piece of poetry set to a sad, lilting melody that evokes the same feel as another of his classics, How Will I Ever Be Simple Again, with its melancholy lyrics:
“Oh play me a blue song and fade down the light
I’m sad as a proud man can be sad tonight
Just let me dream on, oh just let me sway
While the sweet violins and the saxophones play
And Miss, you don’t know me, but can’t we pretend
That we care for each other, till the band reach the end.�
So Amnesia is worth getting, if only for this one song. But his album Rumor and Sigh is more varied and a much more rewarding listening experience.
“Oh play me a blue song and fade down the light
I’m sad as a proud man can be sad tonight
Just let me dream on, oh just let me sway
While the sweet violins and the saxophones play
And Miss, you don’t know me, but can’t we pretend
That we care for each other, till the band reach the end.�
So Amnesia is worth getting, if only for this one song. But his album Rumor and Sigh is more varied and a much more rewarding listening experience.
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