Pete Seeger. This charming collection of animal songs, remastered from two Seeger LPs originally recorded in 1955, will delight children and parents alike. Comforta...
Pete Seeger. This charming collection of animal songs, remastered from two Seeger LPs originally recorded in 1955, will delight children and parents alike. Comforta...
Album Notes: Full title: Birds, Beasts, Bugs & Fishes (Little & Big). Solo performer: Pete Seeger. Originally released as 2 LPs. Not so much a children's folk album as it is a folk album with songs suitable for children, BIRDS, BEASTS, BUGS & FISHES--a 28-song compilation originally released in 1955 on two LPs--collects American and European folk songs about the animal kingdom. There're fanciful anthropomorphic narratives like the endlessly bizarre "Frog Went a-Courtin'," songs about the majesty of animals both wild and domesticated such as "I Had a Rooster" and "The Fox," and homespun narratives and dances that use animals as both metaphor and subject. One particular highlight is Seeger's peculiarly joyful version of "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground." Though not as celebrated as Bascom Lamar Lunsford's rendition, Seeger's take on the traditional tune is as mysteriously moving. By turns humorous and heartbreaking, BIRDS, BEASTS, BUGS & FISHES is a strong collection of folk classics.
Advantages: Some great little numbers on here Disadvantages: Some not so great little numbers on here
...Now this whole one man and his guitar thing is all good. I like it. The simplicity of it reaches out to me. Its not over complicated like so many things are in music now. Oh and it means I can sing along and pretend I'm really famous *ahem*
Pete Murray is probably best known in Australia but will be known in the UK to anyone who watches a popular Ramsey Street based Soap as his songs are littered throughout it.
The album flys up to this hemisphere at 41:16 long and throws a complete and utter mixxed bag of standard at us.
TRACKS (11)
FEELER (4:21)
A title track of an album normally has to be good. A title track of an album that is also the opening track better be darn good. Now as normaly for a One Man and his Guitar type song, this has Pete singing over himself playing. However there is also a hint of an organ playing now...
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Advantages: Bruce Dickenson on vocals Disadvantages: None
...Woe to you o earth and sea, for the Devil sends forth the beast with wrath, because he knows the time is short… Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast for it is a human number, its number is six hundred and sixty six. Revelations 13:18.
After two studio albums front man Paul Di anno left and was soon after replaced with the Samson lead Bruce Dickenson. In 1982 the band released their third studio album the number of the beast which became their most popular album and probably one of the most controversial albums ever with religious groups branding the band as Devil worshipers and Satanists. On hindsight this worked in Maidens favour gaining them extra publicity. With Bruce at the helm new and interesting things begin to happen and he manages to bring the band forward with a superb vocal range and fresh...
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Advantages: Fresh Voiced Bruce Dickinson to name one Disadvantages: None
...This is probably one of the most important albums in Heavy Metal history, most notably because it was the first Iron Maiden LP to feature Bruce "Air Raid Siren" Dickinson on vocals.
Picked from relative obscurity, Bruce was singing in the band Samson (as Bruce Bruce) before Steve Harris and Co asked him to audition for Iron Maiden when Paul D'iano left the band in 1980. What then follows is over two decades of an important piece of the Rock music jigsaw.
But onto this important album:
We are given some classics of our time here. I don't think I will ever forget buying Run to the Hills on picture disc and playing it over and over, or watching the video for the first time on TOTP with Mr Dickinson screaming into the mike, rocking his locks and looking… well, so cool man. We also have that great song The Number of the Beast...
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