Set Of 5 - Daryl Runswick & Keith Tippett

Advantages: Toby's Best Work to Date
Disadvantages: None

...Fight Too Toby. Toby Cuts Very Few Outside Songs But Thanks for cutting this gem Toby. 3. White Rose-Takes You Back Like a Country Song Should. Pure Country, Pure Honky Tonk. Takes Me Back To The Old Honky Tonk Bars That Are Disappearing Too. Love The Background Vocal Echos It Really Sets The Scene For Me. 4. Get My Drink On-Is An Awesome Leaving Song. Gonna Be A Great Live Song I Can Already Hear This One Grooving Up The Charts. One of the Best Ones On the album. Pure Country Fun. One of Five Songs Scotty Emerick helped Write On This Album and One of the Best. 5. Wouldn't Wanna Be Ya-Love the spin Toby puts on This popular saying, Nothing tells a story Better Than a country song and this one does it all. Great Song. 6. Big Dog Daddy-This is gonna be Toby's best live performance song I can see it already, Warriors... Read review

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Advantages: Aggression-fuelled dance/rock hybrid brilliance
Disadvantages: 'Serial Thrilla' and 'Fuel my fire'

..., that's the funky shit!", and throwing in another couple of sound effects and/or excerpts, this is a brilliantly relentless bit of hard dance that at times makes you laugh. It's 'boogie-disco' beat, and the "Hey!" vocal effects are hilarious at times, but it just adds to the brilliance of this stonking tune. After four-and-a-bit minutes of madness, we break to a swirling, pulsating mess of noise, and then a continuous one-note synth bleep, that melts into our next track. 5) 'Serial Thrilla' This samples the Skunk Anansie track 'Selling Jesus', and the music is hypnotic and well-structured. Unfortunately, the vocals, and particularly lyrics, are not up to scratch, from Mr Flint. His delivery is fairly suitable, but the lyrics are meaningless, especially with the chorus, which probably sounded great when Keith wrote it, but sounds worse... Read review

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Advantages: Re-working of old songs, emotional stuff
Disadvantages: A few don't work so well this way, rather sad

...for £8.99). The full track-listing is as follows, with those marked * originally found on Died Laughing: 1. Upsy Daisy [Cookie Monster Version]* 2. Why [Annie Lennox cover] 3. Brandy Duval [Acoustic]* 4. New York City [Acoustic]* 5. Honeycomb [Acoustic]* 6. Razzberry Mockery [Acoustic]* 7. Dew Drop Magic [Acoustic]* 8. Yesterday Is an Eternity 9. Girl I Love [Unfinished] 10. Why [Dafunk Version] [alternate version of track 2] 11. Let's Pretend (Dad Dug a Hole) [Life of Agony cover] As you can see, six tracks basically come from the album, so you might ask whether it's worth owning them again - specially because they weren't particularly non-acoustic (i.e. very rocky) in the first place. In fact, however, the acoustic performance really brings out the reflective melancholy behind these songs, and the emotion in Keith's voice... Read review

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