Abbey Road Ep [Extra tracks]

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
All three tracks from the U.K. edition of 'The Abbey RoadE.P.' ('Come Together', 'Broken Heart' & 'Broken Heart'(Instrumental)), plus four tracks recorded live at Pinkpopby Radio 3 FM: 'Shine A Light', 'Electric Mainline', 'HomeOf The Brave' & 'The Indivi

Product Description

Contains: Fire / Backwoods / Catholic School Girls Rule / Hollywood (Africa) / True Men Don't Kill Coyotes

Customer Reviews:

The 5 Song Naked Cover E.P. Thingy.......2006-10-22

I like the early RHCP material not really the stuff from ''One hot minute'' on up, and if your not so sure about the early RHCP, check this E.P. out, it's affordable, and it contains 1 song from each of the first 5 albums, Plus a kind of disturbing front cover, it's on the back, it's on the inside. Try this or ''what hits?!'' Since this one's kind of hard to find.

Average customer rating:

Hope you feel OK
searing EP details highs and lows of life, love, chemicals
terrible--drastically inferior versions
Not hard to swallow..
Several swings below par

The Abbey Road Ep
Spiritualized
Manufacturer: Deconstuction
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0000088YZ

Album Description

The third single from their 1997 album 'Ladies And GentlemenWe Are Floating In Space'. Contains three tracks: 'ComeTogether', 'Broken Heart' and 'Broken Heart' (Instrumental).Slipcase with protective inner sleeve. 1998 Deconstructionrelease.

Album Details

Featuring the Two Biggest Songs on their Recent We Are Floating in Space CD Rerecorded at the Famous Abbey Road Studios with Gospel Choirs Brass and String Sections

Customer Reviews:

Hope you feel OK.......2001-01-02

"Abbey road" is a 4-track EP which will be primarily of interest to people who are looking to buy anything with the Spiritualized name on it. The packaging of this CD with its slipcase cover and the image which refers to the band's last album is quite nice, but there's nothing on this EP you cannot find in superior editions on "Ladies and gentlemen", so there's no point in shelling out the cash for a remake of "Come together" and two lackluster re-recordings of "Broken heart". The first track, an abridged take of "Come together" with multi-tracked guitars and crisper sound, leans heavily towards the pretentious pomp-rock end of Pierce's spectrum (no pun intended) and simply can't compare with the powerful yet still restrained album version. The problem with the "Broken heart" pieces is that they are also rather boring - neo-classical monstrosity with nothing really going on. The mix of "Broken heart" enhaces the symphonic sound of the original with a slightly different orchestral/vocal accompaniment but adds nothing really new. Maybe Jason Pierce wanted to break away from the spacy noise-rock sound one usually associates with Spiritualized, but were characterless remixes/re-recordings really the way to go? Much of the vocal harmonizing and arrangements of the aforementioned pieces are typical of the Beatles's latter-day work and sound fairly outdated today. The most interesting cut on this EP is Andrew Weatherall's (remixer of Primal Scream, MBV, and other early-'90s noise-rock bands) 15-minute deconstruction of "Come together", a track which is quite typical for Weatherall's own output under the Sabres of Paradise/Two Lone Swordsmen banner: The combination of strangely fractured rhythm constructions and dark atmospherics works best at a subliminal, almost subconscious level and provides an interesting sonic landscapes over which the listener can put his own thoughts and dreams. Not as breathtaking and progressive as Andrew's earlier remix efforts, but it still shows what can be done with Pierce's brilliant compositions. In conclusion, this EP might be worthy of consideration for the devoted one, if only as a curiosity piece, while the more casual fans who already own "Ladies and gentlemen.." or the double-disc live album will probably be wasting their time and money.

searing EP details highs and lows of life, love, chemicals.......2000-08-19

The Abbey Road EP, Jason's most recent release save for the live discs, is a heartrending and sadly overlooked addition to the Spiritualized canon. Primarily issued to the English market because Jason felt he would rather re-record "Come Together" than bleep out its numerous instances of the "F-word", and recorded when he was assisting Dr John on the Anutha Zone album, this EP has a seething undercurrent of heroin come-down that sees it as a miniature summation of earlier material like the Spacemen 3 LP, The Perfect Prescription. Whereas that album telescoped the life cycle from birth to death into a single heroin trip, Abbey Road builds on the towering arrangement of "Come Together" (a Spector-like wall of noise closer to the live version than the version that appeared on the masterpiece, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space) to depict excess and the dirty high in the same sort of vein (nudge nudge, wink wink) as earlier classics like "Take Me to The Other Side". Jason growls out startling lines about the dead-end, ephemeral highs of chemical hedonism: "Little J's a (messed) up boy who's dulled the pain but killed the joy," then: "those tracks of time those tracks are mine, little J is occupied." The second track, "Broken Heart" was, simply put, the most devastatingly beautiful piece of music ever put to tape. This version doesn't quite scale the heady heights of either the tear-stained strings of the original album version or the soulful skyward harmonicas of the live version but its relative brevity does make it the most externally accessible of the three. Still, when the choirs coo in, helping Jason mutter "I've been told that this would heal, given time, Lord I have a broken heart", every relationship you've ever had that's disintegrated will flash by, and the beautiful barrage of blue and maroon-tinged strings will minister your wounded soul. The instrumental version that follows works in much the same fashion, stripped of the vocals and cutting down to the crushingly pure sounds of Jason's broken soul. Astonishing.

This EP is no replacement for any of Jason's studio recordings or the cosmically transcendent live discs, but it IS a small glimpse into the psyche of the greatest artistic genius of our time -- maybe, of all time.

(The American version of the Abbey Road EP, sold here, also adds Andrew Weatherall ('The Two Lone Swordsmen')'s remix of "Come Together", which doubles the disc's length. Its bizzarre deconstructionism is well suited to dark, headphone listening and does not disturb the EP's delicate cohesion - if anything, it adds depth and resonance to the rest of the record.)

terrible--drastically inferior versions.......1999-06-20