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Coming from Reality [Extra tracks]

~ Sixto Rodriguez
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  • Audio CD (4 May 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks
  • Label: Light In The Attic
  • ASIN: B001TCHDPS
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 28,434 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  2. A Most Disgusting Song 4:49£0.79
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Listen  4. Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour 3:22£0.79
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Listen  6. Sandrevan Lullaby-Lifestyles 6:37£0.79
Listen  7. To Whom It May Concern 3:21£0.79
Listen  8. It Started Out So Nice 4:01£0.79
Listen  9. Halfway Up The Stairs 2:27£0.79
Listen10. Cause 5:29£0.79
Listen11. Can't Get Away (Bonus Track) 3:55£0.79
Listen12. Street Boy (Bonus Track) 3:51£0.79
Listen13. I'll Slip Away (Bonus Track) 2:50£0.79


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Recorded in 1971 as the second chapter in this legendarily under-the-radar Detroit bard's career, COMING FROM REALITY reads like the coda to a hippie dream the singer never got tohave. Dylan, Donovan, and the Beatles remain the primary influences here, but the vision and approach is all his own: images are simultaneously psychedelic and stark, lyrical themes both sociopolitical and inner, and arrangements both embroidered and hard-hitting. Much like that of FOREVER CHANGES-era Arthur Lee, the "reality" of this title encompasses botha vivid romantic's sense of heaven and a nihilist's sense of hell. The gentle suite "Sandrevan Lullaby-Lifestyles" finds nightmarish poetics ("The generals hate holidays/Others shoot-up to chase the sun blues away/Another store-front church is open") framed by rich strings while "It Started Out So Nice" repeats the same trick with sci-fi overtones. COMING FROM REALITY's emotional centerpiece happens with "A Most Disgusting Song"--a talking-blues/country tune based on the Beatles' "Rocky Raccoon"--that chronicles in indelible detail agig at a dive full of seriously hung-up characters and plays like an absurdist fusion of Dylan's "Desolation Row" and Billy Joel's "Piano Man." Disturbing stuff but, all told, an album as unexpected and essential as COLD FACT.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sixto Rodriguez. After The Fact, Coming From Reality, 15 Jan 2010
By Russell Taylor (Blackpool, England) - See all my reviews
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Another Masterpiece

The Cold Fact is, this piece of music is pure excellence. Having been listening to his 1st album [Cold Fact] for the past 25yrs. I was eager, to say the least, to get my fill of his 2nd Album [After The Fact, Coming From Reality] & i certainly was not dissapointed. The Question, is it better than 'Cold Fact', is a question discussed by my friends & myself. What we came up with was "ask us in 25yrs". No it isn't 'Cold Fact', it is 'After The Fact, Coming From Reality' & it is exactly what it's title describes. The guy is a lyrical genius only rivaled by Dylan & that is some accolade. As Rodriguez suggests 'Climb Upon My Music', you will not be dissapointed. Hat's off to the guy. He is the man.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not as great as the first, 14 Nov 2009
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The cold fact is that it's not as great as his monumental first release, but a very fine sequel nonetheless. However, it's a real pity both have been re-issued in infernal digipaks. Praise and Shame on you, Light in the Attic, in equal measure!
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