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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Positively brilliant sound!!! Why 2 discs???, 30 Sep 2003
Track 1 (Oil on canvas) leads us in, with a warmth that we could certainly believe was live. Here and now live, I mean. Then, out of the calm, comes Karn's weird, wonderful bass, followed by Jansen's drums, and suddenly you're inside the Odeon 20 years ago. And thus the tone is set for the rest of the album, an amazing remaster which I will certainly treasure just as I did the vinyl and the previous CD issue. Could it sound better? I don't know how.Now the question I have to ask (and already did)- WHY 2 discs??? If Sylvian wanted to duplicate the exact sequence of the original double LP, shouldn't we have gotten 2 double-sided CDs? They exist, I've seen classical recordings on them. Was it the packaging? Let us have a booklet, like with Tin Drum (another mystery- those bonus tracks would have fit onto the album disc, and there was no problem putting extras on Gentlemen Take Polaroids). Strange one, that Sylvian. But I just can't stop listening to him. The album is too brilliant. I simply can't take away a star for Virgin/Sylvian's putting it onto two discs. Buy it. If you love this band, you'll be doing yourself a favour. If you don't know them, you'll be doing yourself an even greater one.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
SEPIA, 29 Sep 2003
This is the only live album from one of the most inspired bands of the 1980s - and it also rates amongst their finest work.
Featuring wonderful, muscular versions of such hits as Swing and Methods Of Dance, it also boasts a heart-rending performance of Night Porter where David Sylvian seems on the verge of crying. Beautifully opened and closed with chiming studio tracks, Oil On Canvas also shows the direction that Sylvian decided to pursue as a solo artist.
Interestingly, it's not only the Pet Shop Boys who discovered how to blend melancholy and uptempo . . . Sylvian and co did it far, far earlier.
Pawel Lopatka, Krakow, Poland
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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
the band before there time, 30 Sep 2003
this is a must for any japan fan,,,,,,,to hear there amazing live sound,,,,this is from there last tour of 83, and is the only offical live tour you can get,,,they play stuff of gentlemen and tin drum,,,plus a great version of quiet life,,,,,,if u like japan .....then add it to your collection
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