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Music : The Imagined Village
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The Imagined Village by: Various Artists List Price: £15.99 CD-Charts Price: £8.98 You Save: £7.01 (44%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5099950386727 Label: Real World Manufacturer: Real World Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Real World Release Date: October 15, 2007 Studio: Real World Sales Rank: 129 Disc 1:
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 Rating:  - Almost moved to tears, wonderful I can't quite work out why i was almost moved to tears by this album, then I listened to 'Hard times in Old England' and thought "John Peel would have loved this..." and it pushed me over the edge... This album has profoundly affected the way i think about not just English Folk music but Englishness in general: I like folk, but in small doses (and definitely without my finger in my ear!) and I also like house, rock, drum and bass, reggae, and this album made me think these days bands like Fairport Convention and Steeleye Span make up a backbone of "what people think folk used to be". We should remember these bands were ground breaking in their day, and so it is with this album. Enjoy, and if you can't afford to buy it, dowload ... Read More: Rating:  - Eddie Reader, but even worse !....warbling, affected, ill-considered, jarringly incompatible ingredients.... total rubbish. Except for Bob (?) Coppers' little spoken word section; for which the only star. Rating: - Best folk album in yearsI bought this album after seeing their performance at the Cambridge Folk Festival - it's a masterpiece. Rating:  - 90% pretentious rubbish, with one gem of utter brillianceI've seen this live as well as have the CD, and it's worth buying the CD for 'Cold Haily Rainy Night' alone as it's an interpretation of utter brilliance - on which the interplay of Chris Wood and Eliza Carthy's vocals is magnificently offset by the backing from the rest of the ensemble. Unfortunatly it's really the only reason for buying the CD as the rest of the assembled tracks range from the mediocre to the embarrassing. One desperatly wishes that the Kipper Family could have been substituted for the Coppers as at least then this inflated balloon of 'Pomp Folk' would have been suitably deflated at birth with a gale of laughter. It is difficult to see what the point of 'The Imagined Village' actually is. There ... Read More: Rating: - fantastic and joyful. Buy it now!Don't tell anyone, but the first time I listened to The Imagined Village, I wasn't sure I liked it. I had already heard the excellent version of John Barleycorn on a Word CD, but the rest left me a little cold. How wrong could I be? Now, however, after repeated listens, this album has revealed itself as a minor masterpiece. It opens with a deliberate link from the past to the present in Ouses, Ouses, Ouses, reminding us of those who kept the folk tradition alive "when no one wanted to listen" and proceeds to celebrate folk's rise from the ashes to a new prominence in the 21st century. The album also makes you remember that folk music was always as much about dancing as storytelling, fusing modern beats onto classic folk tunes in a brilliant ... Read More: |
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