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 The Acoustic Adrian Belew Vol.2: Belewprints - Adrian Belew
Description: Genre: Rock - Pop Rock / Artist: Adrian Belew / Audio CD released 1998-03-16 at Discipline / Disc #1 Tracklisting 1 Me ... more  The Acoustic Adrian Belew Vol.2: Belewprints - Adrian Belew ... Men In Helicopters2 Cage 3 I Remember How To Forget 4 Young Lions 5 Never Enough 6 Things You Hit With A Stick 7 Everything 8 Big Blue Sun 9 Bad Days 10 One Of Those Days 11 Return Of The Chicken 12 Dinosaur 13 1967 14 Free As A Bird 15 Nude Wrestling With A Christma Tree Newest Review: ... a string section, to the point that this might as well be considered an album of alternative versions rather than bare-bones ... more ... acoustic renditions. It's slightly better for it.
The main problem here is the clashing of styles, as Belew tries to arrange simplistic, light pop-rock songs alongside pointless experimental interludes in the form of 'Things You Hit With a Stick,' 'Return of the Chicken' and finale 'Nude Wrestling With a Christmas Tree.' These frivolous songs were fun on the previous studio release, but here just seem out of place and immature. Perhaps even weirder is the on-off presence of other instruments, as Belew tackles a few so...more |
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The Acoustic Adrian Belew Vol.2: Belewprints - Adrian Belew: Thing You Hit With a Stick (435 words)
by Frankingsteins - written on 22.03.08 (Very useful, 10 readings)
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The first 'Acoustic Adrian Belew' release was a huge disappointment mainly for being so boring, but it's obvious that the musician's return to an experimental agenda with the previous year's 'Op Zop Too Wah' has impacted on this second "acoustic" collection, in which Belew digs more self-assessed "classics" from his archive and gives them the unplugged treatment. Except that his acoustic guitar is plugged in, supplemented by electric guitar on occasion (as in 'Never Enough'), as well as a whole load of other instruments including piano, percussion and a string section, to the point that this might as well be considered an album of alternative versions ...
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