What Are You Listening To?

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ALEX LLOYD "watching angels mend" cd, 2001

career stats:
studio albums............6
singles.....................26

this album....................#2 AU...#22 NZ
singles:
"downtown"..................#75 AU
"amazing".....................#14 AU...#1 NZ
"green".........................#25 AU
"everybody's laughing"...#33 AU
"bus ride".....................no chart action

Aussie Alex's second solo set....
a vastly different sounding album to his superb debut "black the sun" which was more alt...
this one is pure pop,lots of well crafted tunes on this one and more raido friendly than than the debut set....
I was surprised to find the big his "amazing" only made it to #14 here, must have spent a long time in the charts though...
its also the best track on here, written for his then recently departed mother....
Alex played all instruments on his debut and produced that one also....
on this one he plays most instruments but still produced it....
I was also surprised to find when I read the linear notes that Neil Finn's wife Sharon sang backing vocals on this album...
all up a fantastic album that he never matched again(his next couple of followup albums were good,the fifth lousy and I never heard the latest effort)

I LOVE THIS ALBUM

worst track: trigger
best track: amazing

[video=youtube;mJPDJRLxHek]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPDJRLxHek[/video]

tracks:

1...everybody's laughing ***
2...green ***
3...trigger **
4...my friend ***
5...lost in the rain **
6...sleep **
7...amazing ***
8...downtown ***
9...bus ride ***
10.burn **
11.easy exit station **

3s=6
2s=5
1s=0

rating: 2.5