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Track Listings
| 1. Let's Dance |
| 2. Working On It |
| 3. Ace Of Hearts |
| 4. Josephine |
| 5. Candles |
| 6. On The Beach |
| 7. Fool |
| 8. I Can Hear Your Heartbeat |
| 9. Shamrock Diaries |
| 10. Stainsby Girls |
| 11. Windy Town |
| 12. Driving Home For Christmas |
| 13. Steel River |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The thirteen songs on this early Best Of collection take us from Rea's 1978 debut to the Dancing With Strangers album. New Light has since been superceded by The Best Of Chris Rea, which also includes material from Auberge and The Road To Hell. This selection, however, is in some ways preferable, since the songs all exhibit the looser performing style of his earlier years and their mix of soul, classic rock and MOR schmaltz sit together more naturally. Like his fellow Northeastener Robert Palmer, Chris Rea is hard to pigeonhole: if not a great guitarist he is at least very gifted, with a warm style that borrows from Keith Richards and Eric Clapton. Apart from the timeless "Fool (If You Think It's Over)", his songs tend towards the derivative, but his voice is rich and charming enough for this not to matter. Lyrically, he is always honest and unpretentious, and his evocations of his Middlesborough childhood, in "Windy Town" and "Steel River", are genuine urban romance. Rea has few real competitors in the art of the corny love song, and "Josephine" still runs away with the prizes. New Light is best heard by candlelight with a glass of red wine-throughout, it is beautifully produced, intelligent and exceedingly mellow. --James Swift
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
The history to this album is interesting: All the tracks on this albums are available on other previous albums, but every one is a re-recording, starting from scratch, not some disco dub/remix of the original - hence the New Light Through Old Windows Titles.
Rea and his band reportedly recorded these tracks during sessions for other albums, and kept it from the record company until Rea was happy with the recordings and production/mixing. The record company snapped it up immediately and released it as an album, much to Rea's surprise who thought of it as more of a private pet project.
So here we get Chris' own favourite tracks re-recorded, perhaps the way he would have preffered to do them (or perhaps the way he heard them in his head) all those years ago: Ace of Hearts, Josephine, Candles, they're all here - and all sounding refreshed and new! Of course, this album is nearly twenty years old now (I can remember buying it on vinyl!) but still the tracks are great.
Reccomended.
Rea and his band reportedly recorded these tracks during sessions for other albums, and kept it from the record company until Rea was happy with the recordings and production/mixing. The record company snapped it up immediately and released it as an album, much to Rea's surprise who thought of it as more of a private pet project.
So here we get Chris' own favourite tracks re-recorded, perhaps the way he would have preffered to do them (or perhaps the way he heard them in his head) all those years ago: Ace of Hearts, Josephine, Candles, they're all here - and all sounding refreshed and new! Of course, this album is nearly twenty years old now (I can remember buying it on vinyl!) but still the tracks are great.
Reccomended.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album has a lot of personal significance for me, my Father got me into Chris Rea with this album and whenever I hear a song from New Light... I always think about him. I love Rea's style, the laid back approach and his husky voice make for very pleasant listening and showed me during a time when I was steeped in heavy metal music that there were other forms of enjoyable music out there.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
This album is classic Chris Rea: a real mixture of songs, some festive Like Driving Home For Christmas and others very romantic and though-provoking such as I Can Hear Your Heart Beat and On The Beach. The voice of Chris Rea has an earthy quality to it which can be quite depressing to listen to but I think is really mellow and relaxing.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
i love Chris Rea
i had this on a cassette and it became so worn i had to put it in the bin, i wanted to get another copy. it has some great songs on it. my favorite track is steel river.
Published 6 months ago by Janet Mary Pepler
the master
I could listen all day to this album been trying to obtain it for some time now as l originally had it in cassette form some years ago but unfortunately it became unplayable. Read more
Published 7 months ago by bob
chris rea
track listings would have been nice but i did own on cassette so i know this cd and it is a fine product with grat songs. great to own by all chris rea fans.
Published 9 months ago by rose
Old wine is best!
This compilation was a trip down memory lane for me. I got the album on cassette tape for Christmas in about 1989 and track two blew me away. Read more
Published 15 months ago by A. MCKAY
Time to run a bath, its Chris Rea...
Picked this album up on vinyl in a charity shop for £1 - probably one of the best quids I've ever spent! Read more
Published 16 months ago by C. P. Whiting
Great Album
I lost this album a while ago so bought it again recently.
It's as good the second time around as it was when I first bought it. Fantastic!!
It's as good the second time around as it was when I first bought it. Fantastic!!
Published 17 months ago by purple haze
Love it
Shamrock Diaries is one of my favourites albums in the world ever. Nice to hear some of those tracks re-done on this album for a bit of a change, as well as all the other lovely... Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2008 by Bev - LittleSunflowers
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