Immortal Story [Extra tracks]

1. Gone With The Wind: Tara's Theme
2. Shane: The Call Of The Faraway Hills
3. Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing: Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing
4. East Of Eden: East Of Eden
5. The Eddy Duchin Story: To Love Again
6. South Pacific: Some Enchanted Evening
7. West Side Story: Tonight
8. Breakfast At Tiffany's: Moon River
9. Doctor Zhivago: Lara's Theme
10. The Sound Of Music: Edelweiss
11. The Graduate: The Sound Of Silence
12. Romeo & Juliet: Love Theme
13. Love Story: Theme
14. The Godfather: Love Theme
15. Jaws: Jaws
16. Star Wars: Star Wars
17. Close Encounters Of The Third Kind: Close Encounters

Average customer rating: One Of the Best Bands You've Never Heard Of........ oh, so very, very, very, very, very good But there IS ONLY ONE

The Immortal Story The Only Ones Manufacturer: CBS ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Power Pop | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: The Only Ones Special View Specials ASIN: B0000072OQ Release Date: 1995-01-01

Tracks:

1. Lovers of Today
2. Peter and The Pets
3. Whole of the Law
4. Another Girl, Another Planet
5. Special View (AKA Telescopic Love)
6. Beast
7. It's the Truth
8. No Peace for the Wicked
9. Immortal Story
10. From Here to Eternity
11. In Betweens
12. No Solution
13. Curtains for You
14. Someone Who Cares
15. Miles from Nowhere
16. Instrumental
17. Your Chosen Life [Rarity 'Obscene' B Side]
18. Baby's Got a Gun [Remix]
19. Why Don't You Kill Yourself?
20. Oh Lucinda (Love Becomes a Habit)
21. Big Sleep

Album Description

Customer Reviews:

One Of the Best Bands You've Never Heard Of...............2003-11-13

oh, so very, very, very, very, very good.......2003-07-29

The path that led me to The Only Ones started in about 1996 when I heard Goo Goo Dolls' "Name" on the radio. I bought the album that contained that song, and subsequently all the Goo Goo Dolls that had preceded it. And I loved it. Not because it was great songwriting, but because they really and truly sounded like they couldn't care less. About anything. Even the music. And I thought that was cool. And then, lo and behold, they sobered up and produced excrement such as "Iris" and....well, I will post a review where it belongs...
But, through my affinity for the Goo Goo Dolls, I learnt about The Replacements and Paul Westerberg. And if you are reading this and haven't heard of them either, then this really is turning out to be a tragedy. I suppose that's besides the point. As I was saying......my "research" into the 'Mats led me to The Only Ones, and figured that if they were mentioned in the same circles as the 'Mats, they couldn't be all that bad.

When I bought this CD, I was firstly pleasantly surprised (because the guitar riff of the first song, Lovers of Today, went straight into my head), then impressed (because the songs that followed were all so good), then shocked (because nobody that I knew had ever heard of these guys and I assumed not many others did either), then saddened (for the same reason I was shocked), and then eventually delighted that I had heard The Only Ones.

And, in spite of all that Paul Westerberg wrote that was SO brilliant, Peter Perrett of The Only Ones wrote perhaps my favourite lyric ever in The Whole of the Law. Short, sweet, to the point, and oh so true.

You might be thinking, if they were really THAT good, then they WOULD be famous. That sounds like a logical and reasonable argument .....and...hmmm....I don't know what to tell you........except that somewhere, something must've gone horribly wrong and so here we stand today - me trying to convince you.

So, seeing as this is The Only Ones that we are talking about, I think there is a very big chance that nobody will ever read this review. So, this may all be in vain. But let me still say this: whatever record you were going to buy next, skip it, or postpone it, and use the spare 10 bucks to buy this. If your musical tastes can be placed in the broad category of "music with guitars", then there are very few records that are better than this, and that combined with the sense of discovering a band as good as this will make this almost certainly one of the better music purchases you will ever make. I am pretty confident about that.

So, from here I will try to continue my musical journey back and forth in time, searching for ever better things (I will settle for equally good, or even not quite as good)....and I think New York Dolls is my next target. There may have been a beginning to it all that counts for more than all that came afterwards, but the great characters, whenever they appeared along the way, shouldn't be ignored. Peter Perrett is without any doubt whatsoever one of these great characters.....he would always have been so, but combined with a superb guitarist, made some very, very, very enjoyable songs.

But there IS ONLY ONE.......2000-02-03

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Immortal Story Only Ones Manufacturer: Epic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000I2J2 Release Date: 1998-11-21

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