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Nothing Can Stop Us

~ Robert Wyatt
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (27 Oct 2008)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Domino
  • ASIN: B001F9Y26S
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 70,101 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Still under contract to Virgin as the '70s drew to a close, Robert Wyatt got special dispensation from Richard Branson to record a series of singles for upstart indie Rough Trade, the glorious results of which found their way onto this reissued 1982 compilation. Wyatt's melancholy choirboy voice and minimalist arrangements are astonishingly effective throughout a series of unlikely covers, including a liturgical rendition of Chic's "At Last I Am Free," the Golden Gate Quartet's "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'," the Billie Holiday-identified "Strange Fruit," and a suitably bizarre, tabla-driven take on Ivor Cutler's "Grass" (sample lyric: "While we talk I'll hit your head with a nail to make you understand me / I have something important to say"). It's a shame Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" is not included here, but no matter: Wyatt's "Caimanera" and "Arauco" alone are worth the price of admission. --Billy Grenier

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Three E's - Education, Entertainment & Elegiac, 26 April 2001
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This review is from: Nothing Can Stop Us (Audio CD)
This is a glorious record. Arguably on of Wyatt's best. Made during those exciting Rough Trade days when punk was moving off into 360 versions and great singles were popping up on a weekly basis. What we have here is Robert taking on songs by Chic, Ella Fitzgerald, Ivor Cutler amongst others and laying his own unmistakable blueprint over them. Personal favourites are his very own "Born Again Cretin", a slow scat breeze through his thoughts on Revolution and the universe. Another cracker is his take on "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'", a 1940's redneck ode to Uncle Joe before the weight of McCarthyism hit. Bizarre, ironic and a fantastic pop song to boot. I have been listening to this collection for 15 years and don't see a time when I will ever tire of it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Can Stop Us, 1 Aug 2009
By Mr. David A. Norris "Krimson Norris" (Marlow UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a classic Robert Wyatt album and essential listening,for those of us who love Robert. I suspect it will still sound weird to those who fail to tune in to Robert Wyatt. Roberts voice you either love as something that goes stright to your heart, or you think is thin and quirky. It only fails to get 5 stars because it is a faithful cover of the original release, a later release includes Shipbuilding, so I had to download that from iTunes. But this is still great Robert Wyatt.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Yes it's great but no Shipbuilding, 4 May 2008
This review is from: Nothing Can Stop Us (Audio CD)
This is a wonderful record ... but the above reviewer is wrong: Shipbuilding is not amongst the tracks on the version I received.
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