Gideon Gaye [Extra tracks] [Import]

Editorial Reviews
Album Details
Japanese Version featuring Two Bonus Tracks: Might as Well Be Dumbo, and Mini-management.

Tracks:

Giddy Strings
The Dutchman
Giddy And Gay
Easy Rod
Checking In, Checking Out
The Goat Strings
Up In The Hills
The Goat Looks On
Taog Skool No
Little Collie
Track Goes By
Let's Have Another Look
The Goat (Instrumental)

Customer Reviews:

One phrase description:.......2005-11-10

Magical Mystery Tour chill out music. That's what it is. OK Brian Wilson too, but it's as though "Flying" from the Beatles MMT and all the musical bits at the end and in between songs off MMT were turned into a more modern chill out CD. Now I hate "chill out" CDs, but this album is mesmerising while being musically rich. I disagree with the previous reviewer who said the 12 minutes at the end of Track Goes By goes on too long. Once you realize that its intention is to be 12 minutes, you start to understand why and just groove along, playing Scrabble and drinking wine or whatever it is you do while appreciating this kind of music. Expect a 3 minute tune and yes, you'll be confused.

They Want to Take You Higher.......2000-02-07

Though more an extended EP than a genuine album, Gideon Gaye is nevertheless the best place to start appreciating the work of Sean O'Hagan's High Lllamas. Echoing the lush textures Beach Boy Brian Wilson sculpted during his Smile heyday, Gideon Gaye is awash with exotic arrangements, blending strings, vibes, fuzz bass, electronic effects and exquisite harmonies that seem to go up and up and up. O'Hagan also works with Stereolab, however, and the ambient approach of that outfit isn't as effective when applied here -- the songs tend to wander off for no good reason. "Track Goes By" boasts the most immediate hook on the album but drifts into an epic flute solo that drags on for a far too long twelve minutes. The constant remixing of key tracks as bumpers also becomes repetitive. The major numbers, though, are strong: "The Dutchman" is so masterfully arranged that it's hard to believe the Llamas' previous album was average three-chord bash and pop, while "Giddy and Gay" is everything implied by the title; "ear candy" doesn't begin to describe its effervescing melody. And though the lyrics for the centerpiece, "The Goat Looks On", are disappointingly oblique, its message is communicated well enough through impressionistic sound painting.

one of the greatest albums ever made.......1999-09-23

This is glorious -- some sort of wild mixture of Brian Wilson, Steve Reich, the Band, the Beach Boys, and a distinctly 90s sensibility. Created for 4000 pounds sterling, it is an absolute whirl of different influences, transcended and exalted by Sean O'Hagan, the High Llamas' resident genius. There's nothing like "Gideon Gaye" anywhere. Do not let the seeming lightness of this album fool you. It is a particularly tender surrealism, with a distinctly English conservatism -- and by that, I don't mean the Religious Right or anything like that. Rather, the conservatism lies in the preservation of old values -- small towns, country lanes, gentility -- expressed in terrific rock and roll. Absolutely brilliant, with that marvelous mixture of the new and the old that T.S. Eliot explored in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The High Llamas embrace both.

"Holland" on Sea.......1999-06-24

Gideon Gaye is the first introduction I had to the High Lamas. Sean O'Hagan's previous arrangement and production work for Stereolab are the driving force behind this extension of the West Coast US - Brighton axis. Littered with Brian Wilson's melodic flourish this LP has the dreamy melancholia of 'The warmth of the Sun' mixed with the counter culture and everyday sadness of the English South coast off season. Gideon Gaye, in such tracks as 'the goat' retains O'Hagan's characteristic nod to French experiementalism whilst not being so dominated by nob twiddling as in earlier Stereolab works. It is a foreunner of greater LP's to come

Not a period record.......1999-06-03

Singing like Donald Fagan and arranging like Brian Wilson does not make Sean O'Hagan a throwback artist or a mimic. O'Hagan uses ideas and riffs from Pet Sounds as his pallette to create a completely new work of art. His use of repetition to create musical trances is totally contemporary. This is a best of the Nineties record as far as I'm concerned.

Average customer rating:

weak...the musical equivalent of capri sun

Gideon Gaye
The High Llamas
Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002BD2
Release Date: 1995-11-07

Tracks:

Giddy Strings
The Dutchman
Giddy And Gay
Easy Rod
Checking In, Checking Out
The Goat Strings
Up In The Hills
The Goat Looks On
Taog Skool No
Little Collie
Track Goes By
Let's Have Another Look
The Goat (Instrumental)

Customer Reviews:

weak...the musical equivalent of capri sun.......2004-08-03

i got this at a wherehouse music going-out-of-business sale for hardly anything at all, and for what i payed for it, it's a great find. but this just isn't my kind of music. too pleasant, not enough shadows...it's nice background music, is what it is. the same problem i have with stereolab. the only difference is that these guys tend to do things a little more organically. you know you've got some problems when the two best things about a pop album are its clever title and an 8-minute flute solo (which is admittedly wonderful).

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Gideon Gaye
The High Llamas
Manufacturer: Alpaca Park/Epic
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000007WX5
Release Date: 1994-01-01

Tracks:

Giddy Strings
Dutchman
Giddy and Gay
Easy Rod
Checking In, Checking Out
Goat Strings
Up in the Hills
Goat Looks On
Taog Skool No
Little Collie
Track Goes By
Let's Have Another Look
Goat [Instrumental]

Album Details

Reissued in an LP Style Slipcase.

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Gideon Gaye
The High Llamas
Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00000G5O5
Release Date: 1999-06-01

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