Rating: 3/5
Review:
Rather bland and uninspiring
I'm probably in an unpopular minority here, but after
getting on for 40 years I don’t think Brewer and Shipley's work has lasted very
well.
There are some very good things about this release: it's
excellent value for four albums, the sound quality is good and I think it's
great that they have just put the original albums onto two CDs rather than
bloat the reissue with a lot of dodgy "bonus" material. My problem is with the music itself, which at
this distance sounds pretty bland and rather dull to me. It's a pleasant enough sound which formed a
background to a lot of illicit smoking in student rooms, but it's not really
much more than that, I'm afraid. Take
their version of All Along The Watchtower, for example; it's a cosy,
undemanding, sub-Eagles treatment which robs it of much of its mystery and
poetic power – and that's how almost all of this release strikes me nowadays.
There's nothing actively wrong with any of it and at this
price it may well be worth having a nostalgic record of some of the music of
the time, but I was disappointed in how uninspiring I found it and I won't be
listening to it much, I'm afraid.
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