12-10-2016, 03:44
DAVID SYLVIAN "gone to earth" cd, 1986
career stats:
studio albums...................10
this album...................no chart action
David's third solo album after disbanding Japan.....
I have two others, "secrets of the beehive" and "dead bees on a cake", love both of those...
this one is totally different from the alternative sounds on those two...
its what they call "art rock"/"experimental rock" and "ambient"...
there are two discs here, the first contains seven tracks and contains songs with vocals and the tracks
are generally acoustic in nature...
the second disc contains ten tracks and theyre all instrumentals and are electronic/ambient in nature, not my
thing, but might well be something Jerome would appreciate...
as youd expect, I hate all the tracks on the second disc but like the one on the first disc...
had I have bought this one first instead of third I would not have ventured any further with the music of David Sylvian...
I DO NOT LIKE THIS ALBUM
worst track: 10 of them!
best track: silver moon
[video=youtube;QQ6dwk5gufU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQ6dwk5gufU[/video]
tracks:
1...taking the veil **
2...laughter and forgetting **
3...before the bullfight **
4...gone to earth **
5...wave **
6...river man **
7...silver moon **
8...the healing place *
9...answered prayers *
10.where the railroad meets the sea *
11.the wooden cross *
12.silver moon over sleeping steeples *
13.campfire coyote country *
14.a bird of prey vanishes into a bright blue cloudless sky *
15.home *
16.sunlight seen through towering trees *
17.upon this earth *
3s=0
2s=7
1s=10
rating: 1.4
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.