- Audio CD (31 Dec 1993)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: BGO
- ASIN: B0000085J9
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 453,708 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Edgar Broughton were a great band, with a big following. That they are forgotten today is a tragedy, and is a reflection of the way that their musical style and political values have gone out of fashion rather than having to do with any intrinsic weaknesses in what they did.
The two LPs which are combined on this reissue CD are amongst EBB's most classic releases - the 'meathook' album which begins with the atmospheric hippy trip of 'evening over rooftops' and follows up with a number of songs combining cryptic riddles, sexual explicitness and great tunes.
In Side Out is one of the most explicitly political albums released by any English rock group. Subjects covered by the songs include support for the Afro-American activist Angela Davis ; conditions in prison ; and the Conservative government of the 1970s. The musical styles on the disc range from folk rock to heavy rock. People who play the 'before they were famous' game will enjoy listening to the contributions of Mike Oldfield on some of the early tracks, recorded years before 'Tubular Bells'.
People who, like this reviewer, caught EBB a few times in the seventies, will love this CD. But it also deserves thousands of new listeners.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
2 albums in one.
The first one (1971} is the more musical but they have not managed to reach the heights of the previous wonderful Sing Brother Sing album.
The opening Evening Over Rooftops is a belter but may be slightly over-produced. (strings and The Ladybirds on backing vocals) It was often the starkness of their previous album that made it work so well.
Lots of good stuff though. The Birth, House Of Turnabout, Madhatter, its nearly all good.
The second album Inside Out (1972) I am not yet familiar with. It is very political but on initial listenings it is not near as musically interesting as their previous work.
The Broughton Boys have there own little corner of my heart.
The first one (1971} is the more musical but they have not managed to reach the heights of the previous wonderful Sing Brother Sing album.
The opening Evening Over Rooftops is a belter but may be slightly over-produced. (strings and The Ladybirds on backing vocals) It was often the starkness of their previous album that made it work so well.
Lots of good stuff though. The Birth, House Of Turnabout, Madhatter, its nearly all good.
The second album Inside Out (1972) I am not yet familiar with. It is very political but on initial listenings it is not near as musically interesting as their previous work.
The Broughton Boys have there own little corner of my heart.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Still fresh after all these years
18 Nov 1999
Format:Audio CD
Review on "In Side Out"
I am a record collector and waited over 3 years to get hold of this album - worth the wait. This is a cult band. Fresh and timeless in every sense of these words. Every song is an individual masterpiece. The first 3 songs are rolled into one, with mood swings and interesting lyrics, going from acoustic to electric. Two songs give a feeling of alienation and loneliness - "Homes fit for heroes" and "Chilly morning mamma". To show the van Vliet influence there is "The rake", but as a hole the band has gone soft. (Their heavy album being "wasa wasa", which could have been a thread for the heavies of those days.) "Double agent" - written by brother Steve - makes me think of a Roy Harper song. (Maybe an influence since he drummed a few albums for Harper.) "It's not you" - a voice in the wilderness - strong vocals. This is a long one, but with lots of twists it keeps ones attention. Aggression mixed with the feeling of a strange trip, not pretentious though which I find a band like "the doors" sometimes can be. "Swinging and swimming clinging to visions of ups down I go" - I think this can be DEADLY under the influence! This is the overlooked band of the 70's, definitely among my top 5. Maybe I'm their youngest fan at only 23, but I will never Judas them. If you find the 90's bands monotonous, try this one out, you would not be sorry!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
What if babies went on strike?
13 Feb 2004
Format:Audio CD
After a heavy experimental first lp (wasa, wasa) and an even more original..lp (sing brother sing) these are the third and fourth lp of a cult band. They never hit the charts, were more ugly than the Pretty Things, made music that my mom hate and would stand up ('I got mad at soledad') for unethical behaviour by politicians ('Up yours'). It's great music. It's a mix of folkish ('Piece of my own'), heavy ('the birth'), mystical ('It isn't you'), melodish (' Double agents'). All the moods you're in, Edgar Boughton (vocal, guitar), his brother Steve(drums), the linking bass of Arthur Grant and Victor Unitt (second vocal, guitar)delivers it. One of those bands in the 60 and 70th that was much understimated.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Make it right.
20 Mar 2001
Format:Audio CD
Take a trip back to time with this double l.p. of Edgar Broughton's band first two albums. A much underatted art rock band that never really enjoyed the broader success it deserved and slowly drifted unaknowledged into oblivion at the end of the 70s, performing some reform concerts in the next two decades and enjoying a cult following in record collectors circles and avid rock music listeners alike. The music on this c.d. is dreamy, rocky, bluesy, psychedelic, experimental and even subtly political at parts. Edgar Broughton has a strong Beau Brummels-y male vocal, the rhythm section (esp. the drums) rock and the songs range from the seminal and great to the listenable relic of a period in time with plenty of flower power, drugs, revolution and hope.
Also included here is the gorgeous "Evening over rooftops",
"the air was thick like honey looking from a room, the room had open windows to let the spring time through..",
which one could say makes this cd worth buying just for the sake of this magical, mystical, spell-binding song.
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