... Formerly of underground rap group 'Crack Village', his debut album "When We Were Young" is a breath of fresh air amongst todays rap artists. Combining electro, rap and rock (amongst others), this album is very different to anything I had heard before.
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When We Were Young
n John Burningham?s enchanting and truthful compendium of childhood the well known and the
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unknown contribute funny, moving, magical and occasionally dark childhood memories. From Michael Palin?s memory of seaside holidays with his dad and Seamus Heaney?s evocation of a crashed Cadbury?s chocolate van (?a trail of silver papers up the road?) to the institutional upbringing of the mixed-race child of a black GI in the 1950s and a typical rural childhood in the Scottish highlands, it is full of evocative memories. And woven into the mix is a rich selection of quotation and fifty more of John Burningham?s witty and poignant drawings. ?Thankfully, this collection of new and classic childhood memoirs steers well clear of sentimental mythology. Instead, we have some refreshingly dark memories of the wonder years ? other highlights come from such diverse sources as Kofi Annan and Michael Palin. The tales are entertaining in themselves but their real value is how they elucidate the adults the children grew into? Glasgow Herald
Orchestra) (Val Rosing) Tubby The Tuba (Danny Kaye) The Runaway Train (Vernon Dalhart) The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Frank Luther) We're Off To See The Wizard (The Ken Darby Singers) The Bee Song (Arthur Askey) The Laughing Policeman (Charles Penrose) Three Little Fishes (Maurice Denham) Life Gits Tee-Jus Don't It? (Carson Robinson) Christopher Robin At Buckingham Palace (Ann Stephens) On Top Of Old Smoky (Burl Ives) Trains (Part 1 & 2) (Reginald Gardiner) The Woody Woodpecker Song (Danny Kaye) (The Andrews Sisters) The Thing (Phil Harris) Christopher Robin Is Saying His Prayers (Gracie Fields)
Advantages: Every track is awesome, very unique Disadvantages: Some of the songs take a while to grow on you
...great lyrics and music loops. When I hear albums with opening tracks as good as this I want to listen on, the disadvantage to a good opener is that the rest of the album has expectations to meet!
Luckily, in this case, every track on the album is pretty good. Some of the tracks I didn't like the first time I heard them, but they grew on me, and now there is no track I don't like. My favourite track has to be "Oh! (What A Glorious Thing)" (track ... ...a good mood everytime I listen to it.
Like a lot of his music, a lot of the songs on this album are about serious issues, some controversial. "1 2 3 4 5 6 7" is about religion - in particular Christianity, the song "Dead Babies" is about abortion. Due to these controversial lyrics, especially the ones found in "Thanks For All The AIDs" lead to Interscope (the record label) deciding they weren't going to release the album because it was too politically ...
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