- Audio CD (26 Jan 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Original recording remastered
- Label: Demon Records
- ASIN: B000058A1C
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 578,697 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I really must agree with the previous reviewers. This was in my opinion Horslips running out of ideas and trying to be main stream rock artists. Most if not all of their previous albums were simply superb, and back in the 1970s an album release by The Horslips was an event to anticipate.(Ignore the poor live recordings & The Unfortunate Cup Of Tea) Possibly the only song of any worth here is the superb opening track 'Guests of a Nation' after that things begin to fall badly apart. There is little subtance to the songs, they are simply poor MOR efforts. It is possible that this recording came about because they needed to honour an album deal, but really they should have called time after the last studio album 'The Man Who Built America' and bowed out at the top of their game. If you are a Horslips fan you no doubt will have this album, but it is not for those unfamiliar with their work a good starting point. Any of the great studio albums, Happy To Meet / The Tain / Dancehall Sweethearts / The Book Of Invasions / Aliens / The Man Who Built America are highly recommended, and due to Horslips metamorphosis from traditional Irish music through to Celtic Rock, I would highly recommend that you start your collection from their first studio release, as particularly from The Tain, the subject follows a path from Irish Mythology to emigration from Ireland in the 1800s / 1900s.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This is the least definitive album in the Horslips back catalogue, and it`s only of value to Horslips `freaks` and completists.
That said, "Guests of the Nation", "The Life You Save", and "Rescue Me" are actually pretty good songs and well worth a listen, which makes it all the more disappointing that the rest of the album is so mediocre, at best, and abysmal, at worst. Unfortunately, the recently released "definitive" `Best Of` Horslips double CD compilation does not provide the expected solution to the dilemma facing those who would like to have the three good tracks from "Short Stories/Tall Tales" without being lumbered with the rest of the album, because the Best Of CD includes "Summers Most Wanted Girl" and NOT "The Life You Save"!
Very naughty indeed...
That said, "Guests of the Nation", "The Life You Save", and "Rescue Me" are actually pretty good songs and well worth a listen, which makes it all the more disappointing that the rest of the album is so mediocre, at best, and abysmal, at worst. Unfortunately, the recently released "definitive" `Best Of` Horslips double CD compilation does not provide the expected solution to the dilemma facing those who would like to have the three good tracks from "Short Stories/Tall Tales" without being lumbered with the rest of the album, because the Best Of CD includes "Summers Most Wanted Girl" and NOT "The Life You Save"!
Very naughty indeed...
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Sounds like this was their attempt at being eclectic, with its mix of pop(ish)-rock and new wave(ish)sensibilities. That`s the trouble with this record; it defies description or categorisation, it`s all so pseudo and would-be. Some of the band members were enamoured of the punk and new wave bands then prevalent on the music scene, but if some of the guitar-riff oriented tracks on this album, such as Law On The Run and Unapproved Road(were they trying to copy The Cars?) were an attempt at contributing to that scene, then the results are underwhelming to say the least.
The only decent tracks here are Rescue Me(acoustic and folky-sounding), The Life You Save(in the same vein as The Man Who Built America album), and the simple but infectious Guests of the Nation, which was also released as a single. Back In My Arms is tolerable padding.
Of the rest of the material, Amazing Offer and Ricochet Man are cringeworthily frivolous, and the cheesy Soap Opera is equally execrable.
Oh but how could I forget Summer`s Most Wanted Girl - very easily, in fact.
Short Stories/Tall Tales more often than not sounds like a lame and forgettable debut album by a late 70`s wannabe pop-rock band that would subsequently disappear without a trace, as Horslips were in fact to do not long afterwards.
The only decent tracks here are Rescue Me(acoustic and folky-sounding), The Life You Save(in the same vein as The Man Who Built America album), and the simple but infectious Guests of the Nation, which was also released as a single. Back In My Arms is tolerable padding.
Of the rest of the material, Amazing Offer and Ricochet Man are cringeworthily frivolous, and the cheesy Soap Opera is equally execrable.
Oh but how could I forget Summer`s Most Wanted Girl - very easily, in fact.
Short Stories/Tall Tales more often than not sounds like a lame and forgettable debut album by a late 70`s wannabe pop-rock band that would subsequently disappear without a trace, as Horslips were in fact to do not long afterwards.
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