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George Best Plus (CD)

By: The Wedding Present (Artist)

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The Wedding Present Artist Snapshot:

The Wedding Present is one of the finest bands to emerge from England's C-86 movement. Offering a warp-speed take on jangly, bittersweet guitar-pop, the Wedding Present were never huge stars in the U.S. or the U.K., but their clever lyrics, effortless melodies, and intense live shows led to a sizable cult following by the mid 1990s. Frontman David Gedge formed the short-lived and considerably more subdued Cinerama in '98, only to reassemble the Wedding Present for a new album and tour in the early 2000s.

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DISC 1 for George Best Plus (CD) Album By The Wedding Present (Artist)
1   Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft
2   What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?
3   Don't Be So Hard
4   Million Miles, A
5   All This And More
6   Getting Nowhere Fast
7   My Favourite Dress
8   Shatner
9   Something And Nothing
10   It's What You Want That Matters
11   Give My Love To Kevin
12   Anyone Can Make A Mistake
13   You Can't Moan Can You?
14   All About Eve
15   Nobody's Twisting Your Arm
16   Nothing Comes Easy
17   Don't Laugh
18   I'm Not Always So Stupid
19   Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?
20   Not From Where I'm Standing
21   Give My Love To Kevin - (acoustic)
22   Getting Better
23   Pourquoi Es Tu Devenue Si Raisonnable?
 

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Review

Melody Maker (10/25/97, p.54) - "...the sound of a young band struggling to find their feet, to find the right words, to get the noise right. Maybe that's why it sounded so fresh, so bullshit free and life-affirming in 1987 and...sounds so poignant and startlingly innocent now."

Title Note

The Wedding Present includes: David Gedge.

Additional personnel includes: Amelia Fletcher.

Although the Wedding Present would go on to make more nuanced and refined albums later in its career, this 1987 debut full-length captures the band at its sweetly rambunctious best. Mixing a thunderous tidal wave of fuzzed-out guitars with classic pop melodies played at a furious clip, GEORGE BEST is the sound of a precocious bunch of young hipsters trying to recreate Phil Spector's Wall of Sound with a limited musical arsenal--consisting of drums, bass, and guitars--and very little cash. Frontman David Gedge, who also writes the songs and plays guitar, sings about a variety of topics (most commonly love and its pitfalls) in what is one of the most unique and distinct voices in rock & roll: part aching wail, part brilliant lilt--a description not inappropriate to the Wedos themselves. Tracks like "Shatner," "All This And More," and "Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft" are gleefully rough around the edges, but posses an urgency and romanticism that is impossible to resist. While the band would refine and perfect the sound found here (most notably on the Steve Albini produced SEAMONSTER), GEORGE BEST remains a quintessential document of a truly brilliant band.

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