Tuesday May 23, 2006

Three new cd's

Three new cd's are in our collection; first Superbi from the Beautiful South . The album cover although not making any difference to their music is excellent as usual with an old bus featured. The album has twelve Classic Beautiful South tracks on it. The first track Rose of my Cologne is an excellent fast country number and I hoped for some other different tracks from the band but its pretty normal BS stuff - but still ok. The vocals are as clever as usual, and the music pleasant and easy listening. A note in the cd cover says after all the other thanks to friends etc "No thanks to God he did $%^& all".

The next album is Neil Young's Living with War I bought it knowing it was a ten track anti war cd. I found it indifferent at first but after a second listening it is growing on me. However the last track has a choir singing America the Beautiful is misplaced on this rock cd I think - even is there is a sublime message hidden away in featuring it. However his last album Prairie wind is a much better investment...

Last but not least another old rocker - not as old as is Bruce Springsteen's latest offering We shall overcome; the Seeger sessions. This album I think is a tribute to Peter Seeger. In fact some of this material was recorded in the 1997 the rest in 2005 and 2006. The band did no rehearsals. Bruce clearly enjoyed making the album and it shows in the performance of him and the band. It really is a lot of fun to listen to it and we both took a liking to it straight away. (recommended by a friend who saw him recently...) Our CD also includes a DVD with the tracks in PCM stereo whatever that is. The DVD also has two bonus tracks on it and the usual DVD extras. He calls the music street corner music, parlor music, tavern music, wilderness music, circus music, church music and gutter music. Either way there is a lot of good music on the cd - a strong recommendation.