Bill Nelson - The Strangest Things: A Collection of Recordings 1979-1989 (1989)

Posted By : Virginia Plain | Date : 20 Feb 2010 21:14:05 | Comments : 3 |

Bill Nelson - The Strangest Things: A Collection of Recordings 1979-1989 (1989)
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Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Amazon.com wrote:

There is no way that I can pan a Bill Nelson album. His lamest, most irritating efforts, compiled onto a single CD, would spend more time coming through my speakers than all commercial radio combined. But, on to this title.

Subtitled "A Collection of Recordings 1979-1989," this is an interesting side-trip in the corpus. It shares four cuts with the two-CD set "What Now, What Next?" which is a compendium of Nelson's output on the Cocteau label. Meanwhile, "The Strangest Things" is a compendium of songs put out on the eventually ill-fated Enigma label in the U.S., most of which were licensed copies of the Cocteau albums.

To apparently confuse matters further, 7 of the cuts on this CD (half, that is) had not been previously released in the U.S.... which meant that they hadn't been released on Enigma -- one, in fact, had been released on Harvest, not Cocteau.

Hmm.

Is it a decent album? Oh, yes. Nelson's "samplers" are fascinating, beginning with the apparent sonic hodgepodge. When I play it for people, they ask me why the hell I pasted so many disparate bands onto one CD, as there's no apparent unifying point -- in that respect, it sounds like a K-Tel album assembled by some hung-over mid-level exec (which is likely all, but I digress).

As a sampler, "Strangest" is pleasing from the first. It includes Nelson looking solo as well as under the Red Noise & Orchestra Arcana rubrics. There's some of his orchestral, some of his ambient, some of his jazzier side, some frantic Europop, & a hint of his sheer ability to rock out on a whim.

All in all, if you're still new to the corpus, go for "What Now, What Next?" & build from there, as that's as good a guide to his range & span as any. The reason I knocked "Strangest" down a star is because the CD mostly makes me long for a "The Harvest Years" compendium CD set that goes from Be Bop Deluxe through Red Noise.

If you can handle a range of music from ambient whooshing through jarring/dazzling guitar, you'll never likely go wrong with Nelson.

Oh... did I forget to mention that he's one of the best orchestrators I've ever heard, an amazing marimba player, possesses a dozen distinct singing voices over the years, & crafts some of the most devilishly memorable free-association quasi-beat poetry imaginable?

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Tracklisting:
1. The Strangest Things The Strangest Times (2:24)
2. Acquitted by Mirrors (4:58)
3. The Spirit Cannot Fail (2:07)
4. Fellini's Picnic (2:30)
5. Dancing In The Wind (5:06)
6. Instantly Yours (2:10)
7. Heroes de Lumiere (5:53)
8. Um, Ah Good Evening (2:56)
9. Several Famous Orchestras (3:24)
10. A Dip In the Swimming Pool Reactor (2:33)
11. Youth of Nation On Fire (4:04)
12. Eros Arriving (3:35)
13. Short Wave (3:32)
14. Life In Your Hands (4:15)

Total Time: 49:27

Pressing: Enigma 773372-2

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Posted By: carrak Date: 20 Feb 2010 22:46:28

Thank you!

Posted By: araneus Date: 22 Feb 2010 12:09:17

thank you very much for nelson albums !!!

Posted By: diluiz Date: 27 Jul 2010 05:56:26

Thanks. Bill Nelson is a really great musician.

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