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Summary: Wow...
Comment: The music is perfect background music for after a long day, or if you just want to listen to Anthony Stewart-Head's sexy voice...I love it, and listen to it nearly every day, not ever getting tired of it. It's worth the money and the wait... ;)
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Summary: Still listening years later...
Comment: Just a quick review agreeing with many others on here - this album is wonderful.
Having bought the album years ago and listened to it repeatedly during the first year you'd assume that it would rarely be dug out and listened to now years later. But it sounds as excellent as ever.
Highly recommended
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Summary: Not elevator music
Comment: At first I thought "oh, here's another actor who thinks he can sing." But after seeing him sing on Buffy made me what to give his cd a listen. Turns out he has a great voice. Seems every song on the cd was planned out to the letter. All the songs were good but 3 stood out for me, BABIES (THE IN BETWEEN), ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR, AND ONE MAN'S RAIN. This is a great cd my only queston: When's he going to put out another cd?
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Summary: to go chilling on the sofa...
Comment: it's not a surprise, either nothing new, Anthony Stewart Head - aka Mr. Giles in Buffy the vampire slayer or the primer minister in Little Britain- has a charming and very soft voice, that kind of voice that you never get tired oflistening to and makes you feel at home.
That's the reason you can fee like if you were in a very cosy coffee place, sitting on a sofa and having a nice cup of coffee and listening on the background this nice and beautiful songs. Track # 2 is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
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Summary: Excellent, with caveats.
Comment: Like pretty much everyone else, I bought this for the vocals of Anthony Stewart Head, and I'm not disappointed. This, however, might have something to do with the fact that I came of age in the 80s, and the arrangement of the synthesizers didn't cross my eyes. It reminded me of many of my favorites from the 80s (Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Bowie - albeit a more velvety Bowie, so don't get all crazed when I say that, Camouflage - this should give you an idea of how synth-intensive the album is. You get the sense that they had a pretty good mixing board, a couple of high-end synths, some good microphones, and great strings (guitar, violin, bass cello) to work with. Nothing wrong with that - though I do wonder if the album wouldn't have been more successful if they'd ditched the synth-pop elements and used a piano or two and session drummer instead of the sometimes extremely cheesy synthesizer stuff. The synth stuff is at its best when it stands for a piano anyway. But seriously: some of the drum tracks I swear to goshen I recognize from my first hand-held Casio synthesizer. I swear. The drum tracks and occasionally bizarre use of 1950s girlband style do-wop backup singers is downright awful in places (it very nearly ruins The Last Time and One Man's Rain, both of which could have been deeply amazing done just to piano, Tori style). The engineering is very good, though - and some of the arrangements are downright amazing (This Town In the Rain and We Can Work It Out immediately come to mind). Just be prepared for the synths. Which will DEFINITELY come as a surprise to people who were hoping for Giles-folk-rock, and probably anyone born after 1990, give or take 5 years. I seriously would have paid another $20 to have a full cover of Freebird by Head. For reals. I'm crazed for his voice, which I think sounds pretty much like Nick Drake would have sounded if he'd grown older and wiser instead of tragically topping himself. I do recommend the album - and I live in the probably futile hope that Head will release another album at some point which lets the vocals lead. It's a shame to drown such a gorgeous voice in all the sauce that got ladled over this album.
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