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Everything Is Beautiful (A Retrospective 1983-1995) (Import) (CD)

By: Wolfgang Press (The)

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DISC 1 for Everything Is Beautiful (A Retrospective 1983-1995) (Import) (CD) Album By Wolfgang Press (The)
1   Birdie Song  
2   Dreams And Light  
3   Going South  
4   Sweatbox  
5   Chains  
6   Heaven's Gate  
7   Kansas (Flood mix)  
8   Honey Tree  
9   Sucker (Young mix)  
10   Executioner (Adamson mix)  
11   Slowtime  
12   Girl Like You  
13   Respect  
14   Mama Told Me Not To Come  
15   Shut That Door  
16   I Am The Crime  
17   People Say (live)  
 

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Review

Q (11/01, p.146) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...They traced a compellingly maverick path from the proto-house punk-funk of 1985's SWEATBOX to the stinky, side-alley funk of 1994's GOING SOUTH..."
Mojo (11/01, p.130) - "...Unsettlingly compelling..."
Uncut (12/01, p.122) - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "...True kamikazes..."

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The Wolfgang Press: Andrew Gray (vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass); Michael Allen (vocals, dobro, keyboards, bass, drums); Mark Cox (guitar, keyboards, programming).
Additional personnel includes: Annie Anxiety (spoken vocals); Gini Ball, Sonia Slany (violin); Chris Pitsillides (viola); Audrey Riley (cello); Richard Thomas (programming); Ruby James, Leslie Langston (background vocals).
Producers include: The Wolfgang Press, Drostan Madden, Flood, Barry Adamson, Robin Guthrie.
Engineers include: Drostan Madden, John Fryer, Alan Jenkins.
Recorded between 1983 and 1995.

Album Description

Always willfully inscrutable (and occasionally downright insufferable), the Wolfgang Press have had a long and colorful career, one which is nicely summarized in this retrospective compilation. Although the trio has always had something of a reputation as artsy iconoclasts, the simple fact is that the band has never stopped looking back at vintage American soul music; the massed horns and falsetto backing vocals on "Going South," the gospel overtones of "A Girl Like You," and the band's famously execrable cover of "Respect" (recorded with help from Cocteau Twins) are all evidence of a fairly single-minded musical sensibility. What has always made them unique is the skillful complexity of their beat-driven sound and the really pretty awful voice of singer and bandleader Michael Allen. Highlights here include the beautifully funky "Chains" and the just plain beautiful live version of "People Say." Fans will appreciate the remixes, and for everyone else, this is probably all the Wolfgang Press they need. ~ Rick Anderson

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