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Format:Audio CD
With Mike Oldfield and Lol Coxhill as part of Ayer's Whole World, it was always going to be an album with a difference. Starting with the romantic almost ballad like May I, my particular favourite, other tracks to note are the rock and roll of Lunatics Lament and the child like Oyster and a Flying Fish with Bridget St John. Pisser Dans Un Violin is the lowest point but then a Kevin Ayers album wouldn't be the same without a track 'of difference'. Sit back and enjoy. Vive la banana!!
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When Kevin Ayers, a man described as `a supreme musical raconteur' went and got himself a proper band it probably wasn't ambition that led him to call it `The Whole World'
It included both Lol Coxhill and Mike Oldfield anyway, the latter at a time perhaps when `Tubular Bells' and everything that it went on to become was merely the stuff of Oldfield's fancy. He plays guitar and bass like a dream anyway. His playing of the latter on `May I?' is a total joy set against Ayers's rhythm guitar part and Coxhill's inimitable soprano sax takes things to another even more joyous level.
Critics of the day -1970 as it happens- were a bit dismissive of the album, which only goes to show how little attention they deserve. SATM is admittedly a bit self-indulgent but when set against some of the musical toss that was being put out at the time it's a model of rectitude the like of which ensures that `Lunatics Lament' is right in keeping with the deal even while it includes a suitably demented guitar solo.
Any road up, some forty years after this event it feels like Kevin Ayers enjoys an ever growing cult following, which is something in times like these, especially if the more recent converts can get to grips with this album.
It included both Lol Coxhill and Mike Oldfield anyway, the latter at a time perhaps when `Tubular Bells' and everything that it went on to become was merely the stuff of Oldfield's fancy. He plays guitar and bass like a dream anyway. His playing of the latter on `May I?' is a total joy set against Ayers's rhythm guitar part and Coxhill's inimitable soprano sax takes things to another even more joyous level.
Critics of the day -1970 as it happens- were a bit dismissive of the album, which only goes to show how little attention they deserve. SATM is admittedly a bit self-indulgent but when set against some of the musical toss that was being put out at the time it's a model of rectitude the like of which ensures that `Lunatics Lament' is right in keeping with the deal even while it includes a suitably demented guitar solo.
Any road up, some forty years after this event it feels like Kevin Ayers enjoys an ever growing cult following, which is something in times like these, especially if the more recent converts can get to grips with this album.
Format:Audio CD
I bought this to replace my old vinyl copy, bought after hearing a track played by John Peel on his saturday afternoon show on radio 1. This was my first introduction to the wonderfully obtuse, still undiscovered, Kevin Ayers and it still sounds wonderful all these years later - I know there are some weird tracks on here (pisser dans un violon for instance) but they are more than balanced by tracks like Lunatics Lament, Rheinhardt and Geraldine (love the bass on this one) and Shooting the Moon. I don't know what it is about the magic that this man imbues the simplest of rhyming couplets with - I don't think anyone else could get away with stuff like "Blue is the colour of sky, and I won't even try to explain how or why - I'll just show you the sky", but Kevin just does it so artfully that it is a beautiful sound blending with the backing vocals. Some lovely savage guitar solos from Mike Oldfield too - to my mind better than anything he did on tubular bells! Overall still sounds good and I'm glad I bought it.
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always a bit up and down
the other reviews of this album seem pretty much on the money to me.There are some great tracks, some fillers, and of course the"avant-garde" stuff which is pretty dire. Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2009 by Hugh Crawford
Experimental and ultimately rewarding
An album of much experimentation, this probably isn't the best place to start on first listening to Kevin Ayers. Begin with Banamour. Read more
Published on 29 July 2009 by J
Eccentric genius
This album contains much of what is good about Kevin Ayres as a songwriter many of the songs stroll along with an unrivalled melody. Read more
Published on 27 Jun 2003 by Fletch-a-sketch
Replacing my vynal
After 30 or so years my origional vynal record version of this is finally worn out, and I've succumbed to the CD. A brilliant one off.
Published on 14 Jan 2003 by NIGEL GODFREY
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