CD Charts
Welcome to The CD Charts, here you will find all the latest and top selling Music cds available to buy online. You can search and locate the best selling Music cd's and have them delivered to the door. We have a large selection of Music all with reviews.
Back to Home Page > Go back a page
Music : Exile on Coldharbour Lane
See Larger Image |
Exile on Coldharbour Lane by: Alabama 3 List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £4.98 You Save: £5.01 (50%)Prices subject to change. |
|
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 5023469004025 Label: Elemental Manufacturer: Elemental Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Elemental Release Date: October 17, 2005 Studio: Elemental Sales Rank: 2650 Disc 1:
Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: They're not from Alabama, and there's many, many more than three of them. In fact, Exile On Coldharbour Lane is the product of a warped gang of Scottish DJs, reformed junkies and sideshow entertainers. Don't be cynical, though--they've had a calling; the Alabama 3 gospel embraces Deep Southern Christian fundamentalism, revolutionary Marxism, serious drug abuse and the loved-up embrace of acid house music. Exile On Coldharbour Lane, however artificial, is a thoroughly enjoyable cabaret record. With titles like "Bourgeoisie Blues", "Mao Tse Tung Said" and let's not forget "Hypo Full Of Love (The 12 Step Plan)", Alabama 3 have created a peculiar fusion of country, techno, and hip-hop, and somehow made it funny. There's even time to fit in "Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness"--a traditional American folk number, performed with po-faced aplomb. You'll consider converting. --Louis Pattison Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Best live band in the country!!!Alabama 3 are, in the words of The Guardian newspaper', 'the best live band in the country'. This album has most of their singalong crowd favourites, including 'Woke up this morning' of Sopranos theme tune fame - buy it now and be converted. Rating: - The last step in a long journey? Perhaps.This cd was first encountered on the jukebox of my favourite watering hole in Edinburgh,thanks to the then manager "Barnacle Bill" who was an early convert, sometime in '97 and the funky,swampy,dancy groove has been with me ever since.We played it to death and back again spending a fortune in the process and then i got round to buying my own copy and proceeded to do the same at home!Such genuine originality is indeed very rare these days and i must agree with other reviewers who comment on the paucity of real talent in popular music these days and the formulaic persuit of a tawdry buck. That the A3 have achieved some measure of recognition through association with The Sopranos is a good thing but it is by no means everything ... Read More: Rating: - Moments of distilled beautyI'm not exaggerating when I use the word beauty in connection with this album. It's quite possibly my favourite album, and even though it has a tongue-in-cheek sensibility about it, I take it seriously as a work of art and musical achievement. I played it on my 5.1 surround sound system for the first time the other night, and it opened up an entirely new level, the sound was almost divine. A3 have incredible ears for music and are clearly accomplished at all kinds of composition because these songs work so well on so many levels that you'd be forgiven for thinking they knew something the rest of us didn't. There are no bad songs on this album, not even marginally weak ones. 'Converted' gets things started in terrific fashion, following ... Read More: Rating:  - Get Converted…I couldn’t help thinking that 5 years after its original release this was going to sound rather dated. When the band themselves describe this CD as Country-Acid-House Gospel music you can’t help but fear that it’s all going to sound a bit of a mess in 2004. Not a bit of it though. And then you realize that it could never sound dated. It was unique when it came out and it remains so now. If it does have a problem it’s that it has a slightly comedic feel to it, almost spoof like. A shame really because most of the music here is actually quite beautiful. You can start off quite jaded but as soon as the opener ‘Converted’ kicks in you’re starting to sway. The most beautiful track here is ‘Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness’, ... Read More: Rating: - So original, so rule breakingGiven the various descriptions of acid house, tekno, country, marxism, polemic etc you'd have thought this an unbearable mess. Wrong-diddly-wrong-wrong! It's just fantastic. Highly original, great to listen to - wonderfully different. "Ain't going to Goa" is a classic and "U don't dans to tekno" is a top (but sad) tune. P*ss on Pop Idol - buy it! |
|