Cinerama John Peel Sessions
Format: CD.
Label: Manifesto.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M82345
Approximate release date: April 17, 2001.
Genres: British Bands, Rock/Pop
Price: $14.00 [Out of Stock]
On Sale! (Usual price$15.56)
List price:$16.97
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Track listing:
1. "Comedienne"
2. "Maniac"
3. "You Turn Me On"
4. "Honey Rider"
5. "Pacific [Acoustic Version]"
6. "Dance, Girl, Dance [Acoustic Version]"
7. "146 Degrees"
8. "Reel 2, Dialogue 2"
9. "Film"
10. "Elenore"
11. "Kerry Kerry [Live]"
12. "Hard Fast and Beautiful [Live]"
Twee Kitten review of John Peel Sessions
by Keith Mclachlan
I am old enough to remember a period in time when you couldn't walk twelve feet in Lake Orion, Michigan without being quickly accosted on the main strip (right next to Sagebrush Shorties) by someone with this desperate plea that if you hadn't yet heard you must now hear the Wedding Present's 'Bizarro' record. Strange this since Lake Orion (where living is a vacation) is filled with likely the highest per capita number of Dave Matthews' fans on earth. Anyhow after much harangueing I decided to finally concede to their wishes and instistence and immediately i knew 'disappointment' was not the right word, utter crap is likely more precise, Bizarro was a guy who had somehow once forgotten you are supposed to shave the outside of your throat and not the inside surrounded by 483 mph guitars and allegedly passionate lyrics though I can't often find the passion in sandblasting. I suppose that I was not in the right state of mind to hear that just then so I cast the cassette from my car onto Interstate 75. So, after my staid delivery of that little anecdote, you can just imagine the ease with which I was able to ignore the Wedding Present derived band Cinerama up until just very recently, a walk in the park to be certain. But then life has a way of tricking you cause when I finally did hear Cinerama in the car on a long cross country trip back to Lake Orion (ironic) they seemed to be just about the most perfect pop band ever. The alleged passion of the past was very real, the throat/voice had been transplanted with a honey smooth earnest delivery and the songs were just spectacular and then they were mostly b-sides! So, after digesting that and each of the other Cinerama releases I was justly looking forward to 'The Peel Sessions' just released, and despite the person who introduced Cinerama to me being mildly disappointed in the idea that this record is filled with 'second rate versions of the great songs on the records' I find it lovely and heartfelt and boyishly charming. All of the songs may be about sex (pehaps some are about Amelia Fletcher?) but as is the case with Hefner they are hardly raunchy and taken, at least for me, as a declaration of freedom from the shackles of twee-pop that the music might suggest. They do a pretty straight cover of the Turtles 'Elinore' and there is one other previously unreleased number but mostly a nice selection of the hits minus their studio sheen. Strangely, too, Gedge's speaking voice is almost identical to his singing voice which means he sings with an accent, I have never been able to discern a person's nationality by their singing voice and I always attributed that to my openmindedness of judging a person's character instead of by their accent but maybe it is just some sort of auditory defect.
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Format: CD.
Label: Manifesto.
TK Mailorder Reference ID: M82345
Approximate release date: April 17, 2001.
Genres: British Bands, Rock/Pop
Price: $14.00 [Out of Stock]
On Sale! (Usual price
List price:
1 unit in cart. Remove from cart.
Track listing:
1. "Comedienne"
2. "Maniac"
3. "You Turn Me On"
4. "Honey Rider"
5. "Pacific [Acoustic Version]"
6. "Dance, Girl, Dance [Acoustic Version]"
7. "146 Degrees"
8. "Reel 2, Dialogue 2"
9. "Film"
10. "Elenore"
11. "Kerry Kerry [Live]"
12. "Hard Fast and Beautiful [Live]"
Twee Kitten review of John Peel Sessions
by Keith Mclachlan
I am old enough to remember a period in time when you couldn't walk twelve feet in Lake Orion, Michigan without being quickly accosted on the main strip (right next to Sagebrush Shorties) by someone with this desperate plea that if you hadn't yet heard you must now hear the Wedding Present's 'Bizarro' record. Strange this since Lake Orion (where living is a vacation) is filled with likely the highest per capita number of Dave Matthews' fans on earth. Anyhow after much harangueing I decided to finally concede to their wishes and instistence and immediately i knew 'disappointment' was not the right word, utter crap is likely more precise, Bizarro was a guy who had somehow once forgotten you are supposed to shave the outside of your throat and not the inside surrounded by 483 mph guitars and allegedly passionate lyrics though I can't often find the passion in sandblasting. I suppose that I was not in the right state of mind to hear that just then so I cast the cassette from my car onto Interstate 75. So, after my staid delivery of that little anecdote, you can just imagine the ease with which I was able to ignore the Wedding Present derived band Cinerama up until just very recently, a walk in the park to be certain. But then life has a way of tricking you cause when I finally did hear Cinerama in the car on a long cross country trip back to Lake Orion (ironic) they seemed to be just about the most perfect pop band ever. The alleged passion of the past was very real, the throat/voice had been transplanted with a honey smooth earnest delivery and the songs were just spectacular and then they were mostly b-sides! So, after digesting that and each of the other Cinerama releases I was justly looking forward to 'The Peel Sessions' just released, and despite the person who introduced Cinerama to me being mildly disappointed in the idea that this record is filled with 'second rate versions of the great songs on the records' I find it lovely and heartfelt and boyishly charming. All of the songs may be about sex (pehaps some are about Amelia Fletcher?) but as is the case with Hefner they are hardly raunchy and taken, at least for me, as a declaration of freedom from the shackles of twee-pop that the music might suggest. They do a pretty straight cover of the Turtles 'Elinore' and there is one other previously unreleased number but mostly a nice selection of the hits minus their studio sheen. Strangely, too, Gedge's speaking voice is almost identical to his singing voice which means he sings with an accent, I have never been able to discern a person's nationality by their singing voice and I always attributed that to my openmindedness of judging a person's character instead of by their accent but maybe it is just some sort of auditory defect.
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