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33 track 2CD compilation of the best that he could find from 1988 to 2000. It perfectly sums up his art. Disc 1: Thunder And Rainbows / I Will Follow / Contradictions / An Aching And A Longing / Working Mother / Change Your World / I Will Be Waiting / Please Sir / Gift To Me / Let's Talk About It In The Morning / Dolphins Make Me Cry / Between The Raindrops / Cardiff Bay / Precious / Carried In Sunlight. Disc 2: Treasure The Questions / Dic Penderyn / Arizona Dreams / Love The Light In You / Strange Way / In Between Rounds Girl / Hang The World / He Never Said / Have An Angel Walk With Her / My Love My Life / People As Crazy As Me / The Good In Me Is Dead / One Of Us / Do Not Disturb / Liberal Backslider / All This Time / This Is Us / Undiscovered Love.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Described in the press as "The Welsh Springsteen" and "David Gray with balls", Martyn Joseph received the "Best Male Solo Artist" award at the Third Annual Welsh Music Awards this year, following in the foot steps of David Gray in 2001 and Steve Balsamo in 2002.
I've been a fan of Martyn Joseph's for about 15 years or so since I borrowed "Sold Out" and "Treasure the Questions" from a friend and then saw him in concert and at Spring Harvest. I own all of his albums except "Ballads" (which Martyn cringes when he thinks about anyway) so I would say I am as good a judge as anyone of this collection.
If you are totally new to Martyn's work, let me start off by saying that "Thunder & Rainbows" covers the following albums released between 1988-2000, some of which you cannot get anymore: "Treasure the Questions", "An Aching and a Longing", "Being There", "Martyn Joseph", "Full Colour Black & White", "Tangled Souls" and "Far from Silent".
Looking through the track listing it is incredibly hard for me to pick a particular favourite track of mine. The Proud Welsh amongst you will certainly find "Please Sir" (pit closures) and "Dic Penderyn" (English oppression of the Welsh) of interest. For those of you looking for soul food or acoustic ballads there are plenty of tracks to whet your appetite such as "Change Your World", "Precious" and the incredibly moving "Carried In Sunlight" which Martyn wrote about the last years of his grandfathers life when he was afflicted by Alzheimer's.
In the same way that if you were only going to ever own a single Billy Joel album, I would have no hesitation in recommending his 1985 Greatest Hits 1&2 double CD, I would say that if you are only going to own one of Martyn's albums that this as the one to go for. It contains the very cream of the albums listed above and is a fantastic introduction to one of our greatest hidden treasures.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I had the good fortune to first come across Martyn Joseph earlier this summer at the SWAP festival in Manchester, where he played a set before Thea Gilmore, whom I had gone principally to see. No sooner had he started to perform was I aware that here was a singer-songwriter of real talent. I enjoyed his performance so much that I knew I would have to track down some of his records.
Thunder and Rainbows seemed the obvious place to start, being a compilation of material spanning most of his career, and I was not disappointed. In this day and age it is rare that one finds music that has genuine meaning and prompts the listener to think about what he or she is being asked to consider. Thunder and Rainbows is, however, such an album. Containing 33 tracks on 2 cds, it provides and array of considered folk-orienatated tracks covering topics both political and personal. My own personal favourites include 'The Good in Me is Dead', a heartbreaking tale of conflict in Yugoslavia told from the perspective of a girl who has fled her home, and which sends a shiver up my spine every time I hear it. 'Dic Penderyn' and 'Please Sir' are grounded in Joseph's welsh roots and tell respectively the stories of oppression of workers in the nineteenth century and pit closures in more recent times.
While a lot of the tracks reflect despair, others reflect hope and optimism. Songs like 'Liberal Backslider' and 'Working Mother' have an upbeat tempo. If you like music that requires you to listen, rather than just hear, this is a great collection. I know that I am hooked.
Thunder and Rainbows seemed the obvious place to start, being a compilation of material spanning most of his career, and I was not disappointed. In this day and age it is rare that one finds music that has genuine meaning and prompts the listener to think about what he or she is being asked to consider. Thunder and Rainbows is, however, such an album. Containing 33 tracks on 2 cds, it provides and array of considered folk-orienatated tracks covering topics both political and personal. My own personal favourites include 'The Good in Me is Dead', a heartbreaking tale of conflict in Yugoslavia told from the perspective of a girl who has fled her home, and which sends a shiver up my spine every time I hear it. 'Dic Penderyn' and 'Please Sir' are grounded in Joseph's welsh roots and tell respectively the stories of oppression of workers in the nineteenth century and pit closures in more recent times.
While a lot of the tracks reflect despair, others reflect hope and optimism. Songs like 'Liberal Backslider' and 'Working Mother' have an upbeat tempo. If you like music that requires you to listen, rather than just hear, this is a great collection. I know that I am hooked.
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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After hearing Martyn Joseph at Greenbelt Music Festival on several occasions I bought several of his albums and instantly fell in love with Martyn's music and the message that he is trying to deliver. This compilation contains most of Martyn's best work, and is melodically absorbing and beautiful in places. Lyrically it can be quite heavy going at times however.
You can really notice what Joseph has set out to do since ditching the major record label he had signed with a few years ago and as a result this album is a refreshing change to the most of the stuff around at the moment.
It has to be said that Martyn Joseph is at his best live, but as a compilation of his best work, this CD is fine and extremely comprehensive and thought provoking. Buy it!
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