- Audio CD (16 Aug 2010)
- Number of Discs: 2
- Format: Import
- Label: Cherry Red
- ASIN: B003UN2IN6
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 61,909 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 |
|---|
| 1. ALISON |
| 2. MACHINE GUN |
| 3. 40 DAYS |
| 4. SING |
| 5. HERE SHE COMES |
| 6. SOUVLAKI SPACE STATION |
| 7. WHEN THE SUN HITS |
| 8. ALTOGETHER |
| 9. MELON YELLOW |
| 10. DAGGER |
| Disc: 2 |
| 1. SOME VELVET MORNING |
| 2. SO TIRED |
| 3. MOUSSAKA CHAOS |
| 4. IN MIND |
| 5. GOOD DAY SUNSHINE |
| 6. MISSING YOU |
| 7. COUNTRY RAIN |
| 8. IN MIND BANDULU MIX |
| 9. IN MIND RELOAD MIX |
Product Description
CD Description
Souvlaki was released on May 17, 1993 in the UK and on
February 8, 1994 in the U.S. Widely regarded as their
best album, it benefits from synthesizer contributions
from co-producer Brian Eno on Sing (which he co-wrote)
and Here She Comes .
The album's U.S. release includes the previously
unreleased cover of Some Velvet Morning (written by
Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in 1967) and three
tracks from the band's 1993 5 EP, all of which feature on
this edition.
February 8, 1994 in the U.S. Widely regarded as their
best album, it benefits from synthesizer contributions
from co-producer Brian Eno on Sing (which he co-wrote)
and Here She Comes .
The album's U.S. release includes the previously
unreleased cover of Some Velvet Morning (written by
Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra in 1967) and three
tracks from the band's 1993 5 EP, all of which feature on
this edition.
Product Description
(2CD) 2010 reissue of 1995 album from seminal UK shoegazers fronted by Neil Halstead,later of Mojave 3! Includes bonus disc of rare b-sides & alternate mixes.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Damn, but I wish I'd heard this a long time ago.
I bought this album purely on spec after hearing Slowdive being mentioned alongside the likes of Engineers, Pure Reason Revolution & Oceansize. I could never do MBV's sonic blitzkrieg and missed the rest of the so-called `dream pop' thing, and had no idea what to expect. What I heard was a beautiful lost gem filled with stunning spaced-out guitar soundscapes, drifting ethereal vocals, some serious dub rhythms and the delicate touch of Eno (albeit through a slight psychotropic haze), plus evidence of a growing song-writing talent in Neil Halstead.
This is definitely a songs album, but the band is pushing at the boundaries all the time. Mellow or acoustic songs elegantly draped with atmospheric light and shade (Here She Comes, Altogether & Dagger); great melodic pop songs in vast spaces full of ebbing and flowing layers of guitars and vocals (Alison, Machine Gun, the fine cover of Some Velvet Morning and the excellent When The Sun Hits); ambient songs with voices weaving between shifting patterns of sound and rhythm (Sing, Country Rain); and truly epic songs, soaring celestial vocals and indie reverb guitars surfing into deep space on a current of heavy cosmic dub (the magnificent Souvlaki Space Station).
Considering it was released in 1993 the music here is bold experimental stuff, and it's easy to hear why they are such an influence on some of the aforementioned bands. On this album at least, Slowdive seem to be probing the borderland between indie rock and atmospheres, crafting some fine songs and creating soaring ambient spaces to perform them in. They were definitely ahead of their time and got swamped by the successive waves of Grunge & Britpop, but they left us a masterpiece. Wonderful stuff.
I bought this album purely on spec after hearing Slowdive being mentioned alongside the likes of Engineers, Pure Reason Revolution & Oceansize. I could never do MBV's sonic blitzkrieg and missed the rest of the so-called `dream pop' thing, and had no idea what to expect. What I heard was a beautiful lost gem filled with stunning spaced-out guitar soundscapes, drifting ethereal vocals, some serious dub rhythms and the delicate touch of Eno (albeit through a slight psychotropic haze), plus evidence of a growing song-writing talent in Neil Halstead.
This is definitely a songs album, but the band is pushing at the boundaries all the time. Mellow or acoustic songs elegantly draped with atmospheric light and shade (Here She Comes, Altogether & Dagger); great melodic pop songs in vast spaces full of ebbing and flowing layers of guitars and vocals (Alison, Machine Gun, the fine cover of Some Velvet Morning and the excellent When The Sun Hits); ambient songs with voices weaving between shifting patterns of sound and rhythm (Sing, Country Rain); and truly epic songs, soaring celestial vocals and indie reverb guitars surfing into deep space on a current of heavy cosmic dub (the magnificent Souvlaki Space Station).
Considering it was released in 1993 the music here is bold experimental stuff, and it's easy to hear why they are such an influence on some of the aforementioned bands. On this album at least, Slowdive seem to be probing the borderland between indie rock and atmospheres, crafting some fine songs and creating soaring ambient spaces to perform them in. They were definitely ahead of their time and got swamped by the successive waves of Grunge & Britpop, but they left us a masterpiece. Wonderful stuff.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Slowdive became a much more interesting band in the period between debut album Just for a Day (1991) & this 1993 release. It did get some decent reviews then, but does feel overlooked- which might be due to the music press passing over the "shoegazing" bands they feted in 1990/1991 and focusing on "Grunge"- which was in turn exchanged for tokenist dance music coverage and the horror that was "Britpop".
This collection showed that Slowdive main-man Neil Halstead was advancing as a songwriter- their earlier material might have relied too much on chimes & drones. Here She Comes & Alison (about a charming girl who used to work for a record chain in the Maidenhead/Reading region?)show advances in songwriting that would lead towards the song-orientated secret that is Mojave 3. Not that the soundscapes have been abandoned- Melon Yellow fuses a great Syd Barrett/Robert Wyatt style song with acoustic guitars & dubby basslines. Whether this was the influence of too much smoking, On-U-Sound dub albums or The Orb I don't know- the title track Souvlaki Space Station (too much watching Solaris maybe?) has a sound like Lee 'Scratch' Perry meeting...well, Slowdive.
Souvlaki remains a highlight of imaginative guitar-orientated music, though it has more in common with the ambient sounds of the era (such as The Aphex Twin- who would remix their 5 ep the following year). Hopefully this will get re-released at some point in the future, perhaps in a manner as attentive as the Ride reissues of 2001. I think it's a lost classic, but any album that blends Eno's ambient works, MBV inspired guitar sounds & dub-basslines equal to those on PIL's Metal Box must be worthy of investigation by the open minded...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I bought this album on tape back in '93'getting towards the end of the shoegaze era,and it still has the same impact on me 17yrs later.
My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive are definitely my favourite shoegaze bands.Now with the bonus tracks which are heading into a dancier direction it would be interesting to see how there sound might of evolved.Just as a recommendation if u love this kind of music there is a New York band called 'A Place to Bury Strangers'who have released 2 incredible albums.
My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive are definitely my favourite shoegaze bands.Now with the bonus tracks which are heading into a dancier direction it would be interesting to see how there sound might of evolved.Just as a recommendation if u love this kind of music there is a New York band called 'A Place to Bury Strangers'who have released 2 incredible albums.
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Beautiful guitars, beautiful music!
Rating: 9/10
Best tracks: 'When the Sun Hits', 'Alison', 'Machine Gun', 'Sing', '40 Days'
Washing over you in a wave of pure, intoxicating melody and... Read more
Best tracks: 'When the Sun Hits', 'Alison', 'Machine Gun', 'Sing', '40 Days'
Washing over you in a wave of pure, intoxicating melody and... Read more
Published 20 months ago by New Gold Dreamer
Better Than "Loveless"
As a dedicated fan of Shoegazer & Dreampop, I'd have to say that this is the masterpiece, superior even to My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless" - quite a bold statement I'll admit. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2004
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