Sweet Home Chicago
Format: CD
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Splinter Group/Destiny Road
Peter Green , and Splinter Group
Manufacturer: Recall Records UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 General
| Blues
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B0000CA3KE
Release Date: 2003-11-25 |
Tracks:
- Hitchhiking Woman
- Travelling Riverside Blues
- Look on Yonder Hill
- Homework
- Stumble
- Help Me
- Watch Your Step
- From Four Till Late
- Steady Rollin' Man
- It Takes Time
- Dark End of the Street
- Going Down
Tracks:
- Big Chance Is Gonna Come
- Say That You Want To
- Heart of Stone
- You'll Be Sorry Someday
- Tribal Dance
- Burglar
- Turn Your Love Away
- Madison Blues
- I Can't Help Myself
- Indians
- Hiding in Shadows
- There's a River
Product Description
Disc 1: Splinter Group
1. Hitch Hiking Woman
2. Travelling Riverside Blues
3. Look On Yonder Wall
4. Homework
5. The Stumble
6. Help Me
7. Watch Your Step
8. From 4 'Till Late
9. Steady Rollin' Man
10. It Takes Time
11. Dark End Of The Street
12. Going Down
Disc 2: Destiny Road
1. Big Change Is Gonna Come
2. Say That You Want To
3. Heart Of Stone
4. You'll Be Sorry Someday
5. Tribal Dance
6. Burglar
7. Turn Your Love Away
8. Madison Blues
9. I Can't Help Myself
10. Indians
11. Hiding In Shadows
12. There's A River
Format: CD
Average customer rating:
- fascinating sample disc of questionable usefulness
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Electric Newspaper: Issue Four
Splinter Test
Manufacturer: Invisible Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Indie Rock
| Indie & Lo-Fi
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Experimental Rock
| Rock
| Alternative Styles
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
Meditation
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
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- Electric Newspaper, Media 1
ASIN: B000004B60
Release Date: 1997-04-29 |
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Customer Reviews:
fascinating sample disc of questionable usefulness.......2004-03-17
This disc is a compilation of strange and curious vocal samples, evidently from the archives of Genesis P-Orridge and the Psychic TV crew. It's not even music, mind you, just a collage of audio snippets taken from old sex education records, religious television performances, obscure radio broadcasts, and God knows where else. A few quotes:
"This should be the order of the day when building up hypotheses: use a shotgun, not a rifle."
"We tolerate anybody, even the intolerable."
"If you see Brother Love on the street, just nod your head, so I know it's you... blow your mind..."
There are hundreds of bizarre and fascinating snippets like these, if they catch your fancy. Some of them are quite pornographic in nature, but I'm unwilling to quote them here.
Incredibly, the disc makes for a strangely fascinating listening experience. None of the samples are longer than a few seconds, and all the samples have been packed together randomly with little space between them, ultimately making the disc feel like some sort of postmodern commentary on the human experience, and as such, it's actually sort of interesting.
However, this also makes the disc sort of difficult to use for music production. The tracks are not organized in any manner, so samples about, say, the Roman Catholic church can be found in track 10, or track 30, or track 53, or track 66... if you hear something you like, make a note of it immediately. Furthermore, the tight positioning of the audio samples means you might be doing a bit of manual truncating, so I hope you like pressing the buttons of your sampler.
Unless you generally make experimental instrumental electronic music, the disc is probably not very useful (speaking of which: clearance? Psychic TV don't need no stinkin' clearance), but if you happen to come across an inexpensive copy of the disc, it is probably worth purchasing.
Average customer rating:
- Engrossing and enlightening.
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Thee Fractured Garden
Genesis P-Orridge , and Splinter Test
Manufacturer: Invisible Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Alt Industrial
| Industrial
| Goth & Industrial
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
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- Part Two. The Endless Not
- Hell Is Invisible...Heaven Is Here
- Godstar: Thee Director's Cut by Psychic TV
ASIN: B000004B5D
Release Date: 1996-02-20 |
Tracks:
- Thee Decaying Matter Ov Family L-ov-e
- A Debris Ov Murder
- Avatar
- Freedom Is A Sickness
- Maybe Who E Am
- Thee Seeding Ship
- Thee Desert Ov Dark Skies
- E Was A Mirage
- Thee Fractured Garden
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- When Fire Cleanses
- Does 'MIND' Leave?
- Cortex Ov Light
Customer Reviews:
Engrossing and enlightening........2005-09-08
It's a shame that the musical category "psychedlic" is so crassly overpacked with tripe like Strawberry Alarm Clock, Iron Butterfly or whatever Austin Powers 60's-flavored K-tel classic you care to name. THIS album is what, to me, the category of psychedelic music really promises--the music honestly creates an internal mood and environment for reflection, thought, or simply unbridled creativity.
I have a small collection of Genesis P-Orridge discs (which probably isn't destined to grow much bigger, with his albums seeming to go out of print by the day) and this one is the best I've heard so far. The subtitle of this album is "Discourses ov Innocence Devoured," and really it's sort of a vague spoken word project by P-Orridge. Yet, unlike the monolithic "Hollow Cost" disc, the focus is more evenly mixed between the music and the spoken word elements. On "A Hollow Cost" the music felt like more decorative to Gen's spoken word piece on it (which doesn't make "A Hollow Cost" a bad disc by far--it's still well worth the investment), here it strikes a good balance between house, industrial and ambient styles, and is just as gratifying as a casual listen as with intent, focused analysis.
P-Orridge really has a remarkably spiritual feel on this album, which helps to transcend the album to much more than the sum of it's parts. Probably the only thing I've heard that's much like it is Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's amazing album Ecstasy. Well worth grabbing before all the copies evaporate off ov thee surface ov thee global biosphere.
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- Delta Blues, London Style
- Drop-Dead Gorgeous
- A nice idea well realized
- Comeback Player of the Year
- The Robert Johnson Songbook
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The Robert Johnson Songbook
The Peter Green Splinter Group
Manufacturer: Artisan UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Blues
| Styles
| Music
Blues Rock
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
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- Hot Foot Powder
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ASIN: B000006PYU
Release Date: 1998-05-19 |
Tracks:
- When You Got A Good Friend
- 32-20 Blues
- Phonograph Blues
- Last Fair Deal Gone Down
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues
- Walkin' Blues
- Love In Vain Blues
- Ramblin' On My Mind
- Stones In My Passway
- Me And The Devil Blues
- Honeymoon Blues
- I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
- If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
- Sweet Home Chicago
Album Details
The First Studio CD in Almost 20 Years from British Blues Legend and Fouder of Fleetwood Mac.
Customer Reviews:
Delta Blues, London Style.......2004-04-15
I bought this CD back when it was issued but hadn't listened to it much until recently when Peter Green's fellow British guitar wizard Eric Clapton issued his own tribute to Robert Johnson called Me and Mr. Johnson. Although the two CDs are very different in both approach and sound, I like them both. The one I would pick as the "best" would depend on my mood on any given day. But if its "authenticity" you seek, then Green's Robert Johnson Songbook comes closest to the Delta Blues sound.
Since I have not actually heard most of Johnson's own work, I won't inject myself into the "what would Johnson do?" speculations. I have a feeling that he would be pleased and amused that so many white boys see him as a blues god and want to cover his music. However, I have heard all these songs before covered by a variety of artists from across the rock and blues spectrum, so I can comment on their relative merits.
There is a lot to like here. Green and his sidekick Nigel Watson put their hearts into this recording and serve up some very tasty Delta Blues, London style. I like the whole CD, but my favorite renditions here are of Phonograph Blues, a gospel-flavored Last Fair Deal Gone Down, a slow, Stones-like Love in Vain Blues, the mournful Stones In My Passway, the macho I Believe I'll Dust My Broom, and the swinging Sweet Home Chicago.
The CD comes with an informative booklet that compares and contrasts the lives of Robert Johnson and Peter Green. It also offers some intimate observations on how the idea for this tribute was born. If you like the blues in general and aren't a stickler for note-for-note authenticity, then I recommend The Robert Johnson Songbook highly.
And for the record, some reviewers mentioned erroneously that Peter Green had been away from recording since his Fleetwood Mac days. Not so. He made a number of albums, some of them quite good, during the late 70s and the 80s. If you were unaware of that, its because none of his albums were given proper promotion.
Some of that period's music is available here on this site, mostly in compilation form.
Drop-Dead Gorgeous.......2004-04-03
I admit I was disappointed when this CD came out. Since Peter Green had returned to performing and recording in 1996, I was hoping for new songs from him. A whole album of Robert Johnson covers? Why?
After listening to this, however, I began to appreciate it more and more. Nigel Watson and Peter Green manage to be respectful without being overly reverent, well aware that they're updating Johnson's classic songs for contemporary audiences. (It's worth noting that the only Peter Green compositions to appear on any Splinter Group CD are re-arrangements of ... old Peter Green songs.) Peter's voice is getting pretty creaky, but on this record it's warm and husky, just hoarse enough to give you the feeling of someone who's lived the blues. The piano and rhythm work are excellent, as are Nigel Watson's singing. And a special word for the Street Angels backup singers, whose performance on some tracks gives them a gospel feel that's entirely appropriate to the material.
There's no point in comparing this to Robert Johnson's originals. However, you can compare it to Eric Clapton's new release, by contrast a rather dry, lifeless exercise that goes in one ear and out the other. If you're a Clapton fan, you can string me up and call for the executioner, but first... listen to this CD. It's a must for any blues fan.
(And don't forget to buy "Hot Foot Powder", the follow-up album with more delicious blues!)
A nice idea well realized.......2003-11-21
On "The Robert Johnson Songbook", and its 13-track companion volume "Hot Foot Powder", Peter Green goes through all of Robert Johnson's twenty-nine recorded songs. Or rather through twenty-seven of them, according to the track list here on Amazon, which doesn't feature "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" or "Terraplane Blues" (they are both on my CD, however, but that may be a European thing).
The arrangements are mostly acoustic, featuring guitars and dobros, piano and the occational harp, and while former Fleetwood Mac-guitarist Green's vocals aren't excactly powerful, he sings with a lot of soul and an impeccable sense of rhythm, sounding in fact very much like Eric Clapton.
Bad Company's Paul Rodgers guests on a couple of tracks, and vocal group Street Angels 98 lend a distinct gospel-like flavour to "Last Fair Deal Gone Down".
This isn't aggressive electric blues with lots of fiery lead guitar, rather it's mellow and rather faithful to Johnson's original readings. And virtually every song is excellent, from the classic guitar/piano duet on "When You Got A Good Friend" and the harp-driven "Stop Breakin' Down Blues", to the Paul Rodgers-sung "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" and the delightful low-key rendition of "Sweet Home Chicago".
And Robert Johnson's version of "Walking Blues", which incorporates the rhythm, the phrasing and even the main slide guitar riff from Son House's "Death Letter", sounds even more than usual like "Death Letter". Not that I'm complaining, I love that song!
There isn't a whole lot to complain about here, actually. This is Robert Johnson's songs, after all, and while Peter Green has updated the arrangements to a certain degree, he doesn't really alter any of the songs enough to offend any Johnson lovers. A little bit more variation might be nice, but "The Robert Johnson Songbook" is a perfectly good record as it is.
And it's successor, "Hot Food Powder", is even better, so don't forget to pick up both of them.
Comeback Player of the Year.......2002-12-17
An excellent return from a welcome old friend. Riveting & gut wrenchingly beautiful, simple, sraightforward blues with a feeling. A guitarist and bluesman who certainly still belongs in the same class as his bretheren Kim Simmonds and Eric Claptin. I enjoy this very much and listen to it frequently with growing appreciation.
The Robert Johnson Songbook.......2002-11-25
Like a little Blues in your life? Well, You can't beat this.
Did you ever buy a record that only had one good song on it? (Manfred Mann's "Quinn The Esquimo" comes to mind.) Well, There's 16 songs on this album - and 14 of them will knock your socks off!
I got this CD in the mail about three days ago. I've listened to it about a hundred times. This is one of the best.
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The Unexplored Cosmos
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Antologia Inedita [Import]
Best of My Love Pt.1 [CD-single]
The British Blues Collection
Buddha-Bar
50 steps down.......2007-04-29
Splinter is just okay........2006-09-02
I feel personally offended by this album........2006-06-10
