Retrospective Rarities

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Full title - Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals. Two CD overview brings together some of the highlights of the chamber-pop act's career, the 'hits' on disc one & a collection of sought after rarities on disc two. V2. 2003.

Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Good stuff, but far from rare.
  • Donald Fagan meets Brian Wilson for tea in the country
  • Sounds to lift the weary-hearted
 Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals
The High Llamas
Manufacturer: V2
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00008W2P7
Release Date: 2003-04-15

Tracks:

  1. Checking In Checking Out
  2. Glide Time
  3. Nomads
  4. Literature Is Fluff
  5. Bach Ze
  6. The Sun Beats Down
  7. The Goat Looks On
  8. Harpers Romeo
  9. Ill-Fitting Suits
  10. Three Point Scrabble
  11. Sparkle Up
  12. Triads
  13. Green Coaster
  14. Apricots
  15. The Dutchman
  16. Holland

Tracks:

  1. It Might As Well Be Dumbo
  2. Over The River
  3. Beachy Bunch
  4. Janet Jangle
  5. In The Yacht
  6. Vampo Brazil
  7. Mini-Management
  8. Shuggie Todd
  9. Harmonium
  10. Stop Trainer
  11. Elliot Bridge
  12. Hi Ball Nova Scotia
  13. Showstop Hip Hop
  14. Homespin Rerun
  15. Cropduster

Album Description

Full title - Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals. Two CD overview brings together some of the highlights of the chamber-pop act's career, the 'hits' on disc one & a collection of sought after rarities on disc two. V2. * US version is out-of-print.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good stuff, but far from rare........2005-01-07

Stripping vocals off tracks from albums, repackaging recent material and throwing on a few outtakes is hardly worth a purchase. One would do much better listening to Cold and Bouncy which it seems a majority of this is from.

A much more interesting idea would be a Sean O'Hagan album, with Stereolab collaborations, High Llamas material other side projects and tracks from other artists Sean found influential [yes, I might guess a Brian Wilson track may possibly show up there.]

4 out of 5 stars Donald Fagan meets Brian Wilson for tea in the country.......2004-07-19

Sunshine music! Multi-talented Sean O'Hagan has come up with some of the most pleasingly crafted pop song experiments of the last ten years. Period. There are so many high points throughout this intelligently selected, generous two-disc set that I can't say just what are the best numbers here. This collection flows like an idyllic summers day and reminds me of daydreaming outside in a cot on a lazy day. If you at all like Pet Sounds through Sunflower Beach Boys or Steely Dan's more gracefully melodic pop displays, then surely you need to snatch this up like the prize that it is. Excellent banjo and horn orchestrations along with dreamilly beguiling tuned percussion work throughout. While the impression given is more like one mood stretched out to song length, the repetiousness of the melodic motifs in the end results in an overall dream-like impression. Sean O'Hagan may work best at creating singular moods that sustain themselves rather than writing songs which gradually unfold, and this High Llamas compilation shows just how sensitive an ear Sean has for arranging enchantingly off-beat, experimental pop minitures. The performances by the musicians is always just right. The level of quality arranging (O'Hagan's strongest suit) throughout makes this cd a welcome pleasure. The High Llamas aren't so much about songs as they are about setting a particular mood, one that's always welcoming and unassumingly small scale. Not insignificant, more like charmingly inviting and pleasantly unobtrusive, when you feel like things being "just so..."

4 out of 5 stars Sounds to lift the weary-hearted.......2003-08-25

Best-known for his string arrangements for Stereolab, High Llama Sean O'Hagan may be short on originality, but possesses an extraordinary gift for combining Bacharach melodies with the plush orchestration in the tradition of Brian Wilson. O'Hagan's songwriting bears the imprint Robert Wyatt's tidal meditations. (Now there's an idea for a cross-generational collaboration!) Though the repeated use of a banjo lick more suggestive of "Sesame Street" than Morricone wears out its welcome the fourth time it crops up, there's over an hour of comfort music on this double CD collection.
Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Good stuff, but far from rare.
  • Donald Fagan meets Brian Wilson for tea in the country
  • Sounds to lift the weary-hearted
 Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals
The High Llamas
Manufacturer: V2
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Indie RockIndie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Chamber PopChamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Electronic PopElectronic Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
Experimental RockExperimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Pop | Styles | Music
Pop RockPop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
Experimental MusicExperimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
ElectronicaElectronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music
Alternative RockAlternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music
RockRock | Imports | Stores | Music
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  1. Beet, Maize & Corn
  2. Cold and Bouncy
  3. Snowbug
  4. Buzzle Bee
  5. Gideon Gaye

ASIN: B00008BLG3
Release Date: 2003-05-05

Tracks:

  1. Checking In, Checking Out
  2. Glide Time
  3. Nomads
  4. Literature Is Fluff
  5. Bach Ze [Edit]
  6. Sun Beats Down
  7. Goat Looks On
  8. Harpers Romo
  9. Ill-Fitting Suits
  10. Three Point Scrabble
  11. Sparkle Up
  12. Triads
  13. Green Coaster
  14. Apricots
  15. Dutchman
  16. Holland

Tracks:

  1. It Might as Well Be Dumbo
  2. Over the River
  3. Beachy Bunch
  4. Janet Jangle
  5. In the Yacht
  6. Vampo Brazil [#]
  7. Mini-Management
  8. Shuggie Todd
  9. Harmonium
  10. Stop Trainer
  11. Elliot Bridge
  12. HiBall Nova Scotia
  13. Showstop (Op Art Informal)
  14. Homespin Rerun
  15. Cropduster

Album Description

Full title - Retrospective, Rarities & Instrumentals. Two CD overview brings together some of the highlights of the chamber-pop act's career, the 'hits' on disc one & a collection of sought after rarities on disc two. V2. * US version is out-of-print.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Good stuff, but far from rare........2005-01-07

Stripping vocals off tracks from albums, repackaging recent material and throwing on a few outtakes is hardly worth a purchase. One would do much better listening to Cold and Bouncy which it seems a majority of this is from.

A much more interesting idea would be a Sean O'Hagan album, with Stereolab collaborations, High Llamas material other side projects and tracks from other artists Sean found influential [yes, I might guess a Brian Wilson track may possibly show up there.]

4 out of 5 stars Donald Fagan meets Brian Wilson for tea in the country.......2004-07-19

Sunshine music! Multi-talented Sean O'Hagan has come up with some of the most pleasingly crafted pop song experiments of the last ten years. Period. There are so many high points throughout this intelligently selected, generous two-disc set that I can't say just what are the best numbers here. This collection flows like an idyllic summers day and reminds me of daydreaming outside in a cot on a lazy day. If you at all like Pet Sounds through Sunflower Beach Boys or Steely Dan's more gracefully melodic pop displays, then surely you need to snatch this up like the prize that it is. Excellent banjo and horn orchestrations along with dreamilly beguiling tuned percussion work throughout. While the impression given is more like one mood stretched out to song length, the repetiousness of the melodic motifs in the end results in an overall dream-like impression. Sean O'Hagan may work best at creating singular moods that sustain themselves rather than writing songs which gradually unfold, and this High Llamas compilation shows just how sensitive an ear Sean has for arranging enchantingly off-beat, experimental pop minitures. The performances by the musicians is always just right. The level of quality arranging (O'Hagan's strongest suit) throughout makes this cd a welcome pleasure. The High Llamas aren't so much about songs as they are about setting a particular mood, one that's always welcoming and unassumingly small scale. Not insignificant, more like charmingly inviting and pleasantly unobtrusive, when you feel like things being "just so..."

4 out of 5 stars Sounds to lift the weary-hearted.......2003-08-25

Best-known for his string arrangements for Stereolab, High Llama Sean O'Hagan may be short on originality, but possesses an extraordinary gift for combining Bacharach melodies with the plush orchestration in the tradition of Brian Wilson. O'Hagan's songwriting bears the imprint Robert Wyatt's tidal meditations. (Now there's an idea for a cross-generational collaboration!) Though the repeated use of a banjo lick more suggestive of "Sesame Street" than Morricone wears out its welcome the fourth time it crops up, there's over an hour of comfort music on this double CD collection.

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