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1990 reissue of 1977 release for British rock act led by guitarist Bill Nelson. Standard jewel case.
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Live! In the Air Age [Live]
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Live! In the Air Age
Be Bop Deluxe
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ASIN: B000024H5Y
Release Date: 2004-11-30 |
Tracks:
- Life In The Air Age
- Ships In The Night
- Piece Of Mine
- Fair Exchange
- Mill Street Junction
- Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
- Blazing Apostles
- Shine
- Sister Seagull
- Maid In Heaven
Album Description
1990 reissue of 1977 release for British rock act led by guitarist Bill Nelson. Standard jewel case.
Album Details
Following a Long American Tour, the Band Decided to Record Some of their UK Concerts So Took a Recording Studio on the Road and Ended Up with the Live Album "Live! in the Air Age". The Album was Originally Released on Double White Vinyl, with One Record Being the LP and the Other a 12" EP. The Album Includes a Number of Concert Highlights Such as the Sarcastic Fair Exchange, the Leisurely Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape, and the Monolithic Instrumental Version of "Shine", which was Originally a Much Shorter and Far Less Monolithic B-side.
Customer Reviews:
Bill Nelson was hot, but..........2007-03-19
Bill Nelson, one of the most under-rated art-rock guitarists of his time, shows his stuff on some great solos. The band had a cult following, but like others of their genre, they lacked a certain "extra" quality that pushed bands like Bowie and Pink Floyd to the top. The problem with many British rock bands of that era is they were told they needed hit songs to propel their career. Just not true. Bob Dylan had very few "Top 40" hits. There's too much of a "we want to be like The Kinks" vibe to Be Bop's studio albums that makes me like them in limited amounts. If you're going to be a great pop band, you need to master the hook-filled, 3-minute format, and I think the creative/jamming nature of Bill Nelson prevented that, at least from American radio. (Reminds me of why Paul Westerberg's band, The Replacements, fared a similar fate.) Nonetheless, this CD shows that BBD were truly great in concert... even better than in the studio. Even if the only track on the disk was "Shine", I'd still buy it.
LIVE (kinda).......2006-01-20
Great CD but not really live... at times. If you compare this CD to other live BBD recordings, differences in sound become very apparent. This is because of studio over dubs which have really added value to the album. The guitar playing is exquisite, quirky and down-right, jaw-dropping beautiful... an impeccable onslaught of technique and art. The only draw back is the art work which adds a scifi dimension that isn't really picked up in the album's music but, thankfully, neither does it detract. Definitely a high point for BBD and Bill Nelson.
Life in the PROGressive age!.......2005-07-25
This is PROG rock at it's best. These guys rode the college radio air waves of 1977-78 along with Crack the Sky, Genesis, and Gentle Giant. Great hooks, guitars everywhere kind of sound, understandable but non-sensical lyrics, top notch musicianship. Along with Crack the Sky, BeBopDeluxe were the heaviest sounding prog rockers thanks to Bill Nelson's guitar histrionics. Great, Great, Great but you had to have been there. If you weren't, you might not get it. Anyway, minus a couple of songs, this is a greatest hits live package whether it was meant to be or not.
Deluxe Be-Bop.......2005-04-01
This is probably Be-Bop Deluxe's best album. I boughtz it on impulse in the late 80's and back then was floored by the energy of the recordings. Here Bill Nelson clearly is at the crossroads between the art-rock found on the previous albums and the more new-wave approach he would embrace on his solo albums a few years later. While the sound on some of the original Be Bop Deluxe albums has aged somewhat, the live album is quite extraordinary. Take Shine which is simply fantastic jazz fusion or blaziing apostles with its hard rock approach...stunning.
Lost treasure of the 1970s.......2004-03-07
It took a while for this group to find its feet. Rotating personnel in the early days and a bit too much homage to Mr. Z. Stardust prevented Bill Nelson and his cohorts from really breaking out. By their brilliant 1976 album, Modern Music, they had worked out the bugs. Live! in the Air Age takes Be Bop Deluxe to a whole new level: Older material such as "Sister Seagull" and "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" is so charged with energy that it charges out of the speakers in three well-defined dimensions, while obscurities such as "Shine" and "Mill Street Junction" reveal the new territories this great band had yet to conquer. Unfortunately, they made only one more album -- the synthesized wonderful new direction of "Drastic Plastic" in 1977 -- before punk and the touring treadmill convinced Nelson to opt for a more hermetic existence. (Sound-on-Sound by his Red Noise, and Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam are brilliant slabs of entirely committed performance.) By now, Nelson has released as many albums as Zappa ever did, and the wander through the catalogue has its share of caveat emptor. But this album is five-star for both the Be Bop convert and the unfamiliar listener looking for an example of the great places the legacy of Hendrix left others to expand.
Average customer rating:
- Bill Nelson was hot, but...
- LIVE (kinda)
- Life in the PROGressive age!
- Deluxe Be-Bop
- Lost treasure of the 1970s
|
Live! In the Air Age
Be Bop Deluxe
Manufacturer: One Way Records Inc
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ASIN: B000002R0N
Release Date: 1995-08-08 |
Tracks:
- Life In the Air Age
- Ships In The Night
- Piece Of Mine
- Fair Exchange
- Mill Street Junction
- Adventures In A Yorkshire Landscape
- Blazing Apostles
- Shine
- Sister Seagull
- Maid In Heaven
Album Description
1990 reissue of 1977 release for British rock act led by guitarist Bill Nelson. Standard jewel case.
Album Details
Following a Long American Tour, the Band Decided to Record Some of their UK Concerts So Took a Recording Studio on the Road and Ended Up with the Live Album "Live! in the Air Age". The Album was Originally Released on Double White Vinyl, with One Record Being the LP and the Other a 12" EP. The Album Includes a Number of Concert Highlights Such as the Sarcastic Fair Exchange, the Leisurely Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape, and the Monolithic Instrumental Version of "Shine", which was Originally a Much Shorter and Far Less Monolithic B-side.
Customer Reviews:
Bill Nelson was hot, but..........2007-03-19
Bill Nelson, one of the most under-rated art-rock guitarists of his time, shows his stuff on some great solos. The band had a cult following, but like others of their genre, they lacked a certain "extra" quality that pushed bands like Bowie and Pink Floyd to the top. The problem with many British rock bands of that era is they were told they needed hit songs to propel their career. Just not true. Bob Dylan had very few "Top 40" hits. There's too much of a "we want to be like The Kinks" vibe to Be Bop's studio albums that makes me like them in limited amounts. If you're going to be a great pop band, you need to master the hook-filled, 3-minute format, and I think the creative/jamming nature of Bill Nelson prevented that, at least from American radio. (Reminds me of why Paul Westerberg's band, The Replacements, fared a similar fate.) Nonetheless, this CD shows that BBD were truly great in concert... even better than in the studio. Even if the only track on the disk was "Shine", I'd still buy it.
LIVE (kinda).......2006-01-20
Great CD but not really live... at times. If you compare this CD to other live BBD recordings, differences in sound become very apparent. This is because of studio over dubs which have really added value to the album. The guitar playing is exquisite, quirky and down-right, jaw-dropping beautiful... an impeccable onslaught of technique and art. The only draw back is the art work which adds a scifi dimension that isn't really picked up in the album's music but, thankfully, neither does it detract. Definitely a high point for BBD and Bill Nelson.
Life in the PROGressive age!.......2005-07-25
This is PROG rock at it's best. These guys rode the college radio air waves of 1977-78 along with Crack the Sky, Genesis, and Gentle Giant. Great hooks, guitars everywhere kind of sound, understandable but non-sensical lyrics, top notch musicianship. Along with Crack the Sky, BeBopDeluxe were the heaviest sounding prog rockers thanks to Bill Nelson's guitar histrionics. Great, Great, Great but you had to have been there. If you weren't, you might not get it. Anyway, minus a couple of songs, this is a greatest hits live package whether it was meant to be or not.
Deluxe Be-Bop.......2005-04-01
This is probably Be-Bop Deluxe's best album. I boughtz it on impulse in the late 80's and back then was floored by the energy of the recordings. Here Bill Nelson clearly is at the crossroads between the art-rock found on the previous albums and the more new-wave approach he would embrace on his solo albums a few years later. While the sound on some of the original Be Bop Deluxe albums has aged somewhat, the live album is quite extraordinary. Take Shine which is simply fantastic jazz fusion or blaziing apostles with its hard rock approach...stunning.
Lost treasure of the 1970s.......2004-03-07
It took a while for this group to find its feet. Rotating personnel in the early days and a bit too much homage to Mr. Z. Stardust prevented Bill Nelson and his cohorts from really breaking out. By their brilliant 1976 album, Modern Music, they had worked out the bugs. Live! in the Air Age takes Be Bop Deluxe to a whole new level: Older material such as "Sister Seagull" and "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" is so charged with energy that it charges out of the speakers in three well-defined dimensions, while obscurities such as "Shine" and "Mill Street Junction" reveal the new territories this great band had yet to conquer. Unfortunately, they made only one more album -- the synthesized wonderful new direction of "Drastic Plastic" in 1977 -- before punk and the touring treadmill convinced Nelson to opt for a more hermetic existence. (Sound-on-Sound by his Red Noise, and Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam are brilliant slabs of entirely committed performance.) By now, Nelson has released as many albums as Zappa ever did, and the wander through the catalogue has its share of caveat emptor. But this album is five-star for both the Be Bop convert and the unfamiliar listener looking for an example of the great places the legacy of Hendrix left others to expand.
Average customer rating:
- Bill Nelson was hot, but...
- LIVE (kinda)
- Life in the PROGressive age!
- Deluxe Be-Bop
- Lost treasure of the 1970s
|
Live! In the Air Age
Be Bop Deluxe
Manufacturer: Harvest
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ASIN: B000003PLE
Release Date: 1996-02-28 |
Tracks:
- Life in the Air Age
- Ships in the Night
- Piece of Mine
- Fair Exchange
- Mill Street Junction
- Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape
- Blazing Apostles
- Shine [*]
- Sister Seagull [*]
- Maid in Heaven [*]
Album Description
1990 reissue of 1977 release for British rock act led by guitarist Bill Nelson. Standard jewel case.
Album Details
Following a Long American Tour, the Band Decided to Record Some of their UK Concerts So Took a Recording Studio on the Road and Ended Up with the Live Album "Live! in the Air Age". The Album was Originally Released on Double White Vinyl, with One Record Being the LP and the Other a 12" EP. The Album Includes a Number of Concert Highlights Such as the Sarcastic Fair Exchange, the Leisurely Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape, and the Monolithic Instrumental Version of "Shine", which was Originally a Much Shorter and Far Less Monolithic B-side.
Customer Reviews:
Bill Nelson was hot, but..........2007-03-19
Bill Nelson, one of the most under-rated art-rock guitarists of his time, shows his stuff on some great solos. The band had a cult following, but like others of their genre, they lacked a certain "extra" quality that pushed bands like Bowie and Pink Floyd to the top. The problem with many British rock bands of that era is they were told they needed hit songs to propel their career. Just not true. Bob Dylan had very few "Top 40" hits. There's too much of a "we want to be like The Kinks" vibe to Be Bop's studio albums that makes me like them in limited amounts. If you're going to be a great pop band, you need to master the hook-filled, 3-minute format, and I think the creative/jamming nature of Bill Nelson prevented that, at least from American radio. (Reminds me of why Paul Westerberg's band, The Replacements, fared a similar fate.) Nonetheless, this CD shows that BBD were truly great in concert... even better than in the studio. Even if the only track on the disk was "Shine", I'd still buy it.
LIVE (kinda).......2006-01-20
Great CD but not really live... at times. If you compare this CD to other live BBD recordings, differences in sound become very apparent. This is because of studio over dubs which have really added value to the album. The guitar playing is exquisite, quirky and down-right, jaw-dropping beautiful... an impeccable onslaught of technique and art. The only draw back is the art work which adds a scifi dimension that isn't really picked up in the album's music but, thankfully, neither does it detract. Definitely a high point for BBD and Bill Nelson.
Life in the PROGressive age!.......2005-07-25
This is PROG rock at it's best. These guys rode the college radio air waves of 1977-78 along with Crack the Sky, Genesis, and Gentle Giant. Great hooks, guitars everywhere kind of sound, understandable but non-sensical lyrics, top notch musicianship. Along with Crack the Sky, BeBopDeluxe were the heaviest sounding prog rockers thanks to Bill Nelson's guitar histrionics. Great, Great, Great but you had to have been there. If you weren't, you might not get it. Anyway, minus a couple of songs, this is a greatest hits live package whether it was meant to be or not.
Deluxe Be-Bop.......2005-04-01
This is probably Be-Bop Deluxe's best album. I boughtz it on impulse in the late 80's and back then was floored by the energy of the recordings. Here Bill Nelson clearly is at the crossroads between the art-rock found on the previous albums and the more new-wave approach he would embrace on his solo albums a few years later. While the sound on some of the original Be Bop Deluxe albums has aged somewhat, the live album is quite extraordinary. Take Shine which is simply fantastic jazz fusion or blaziing apostles with its hard rock approach...stunning.
Lost treasure of the 1970s.......2004-03-07
It took a while for this group to find its feet. Rotating personnel in the early days and a bit too much homage to Mr. Z. Stardust prevented Bill Nelson and his cohorts from really breaking out. By their brilliant 1976 album, Modern Music, they had worked out the bugs. Live! in the Air Age takes Be Bop Deluxe to a whole new level: Older material such as "Sister Seagull" and "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" is so charged with energy that it charges out of the speakers in three well-defined dimensions, while obscurities such as "Shine" and "Mill Street Junction" reveal the new territories this great band had yet to conquer. Unfortunately, they made only one more album -- the synthesized wonderful new direction of "Drastic Plastic" in 1977 -- before punk and the touring treadmill convinced Nelson to opt for a more hermetic existence. (Sound-on-Sound by his Red Noise, and Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam are brilliant slabs of entirely committed performance.) By now, Nelson has released as many albums as Zappa ever did, and the wander through the catalogue has its share of caveat emptor. But this album is five-star for both the Be Bop convert and the unfamiliar listener looking for an example of the great places the legacy of Hendrix left others to expand.
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