![]() Still POCO fans will love the Quality Audio and Gloss but lack those killer tunes - especially on that rightly forgotten 2ndĪtlantic Records LP. Seventies Country-Rock heyday – these Eighties uber-productions have all the Your Heart" just about saves a patchy album. In desperate need of an actual tune - while the hooky "Save A Corner Of The duo of "Brenda X" and "Standing In The Fire" are again Is Cotton's "Odd Man Out" and the chipper "How Many Moons". "Daylight" is a victim of its own over-produced cleverness - better With the catchy "Days Gone By" which is followed by the mellow That all this musical talent produced a winner - it didn't. – this time with band stalwarts Rusty Young and Paul Cotton at the helm. "Ghost Town" such an Audio winner followed the band into "Inamorata" The same quality production values that made In The Fire") – it was down to Reed Nielsen to provide the odd man out Out", "How Many Moons", "Brenda X" and "Standing "The Storm") and Paul Cotton ("Days Gone By", "Odd Man "When You Love Someone", "Save A Corner Of Your Heart" and The bulk of songwriting shared between Rusty Young ("Daylight", (ex Buffalo Springfield) and George Grantham (Neil Young's Crazy Horse). Saw both Young and Cotton stay in POCO, but joining them was a virtual Raunchy riffage of "High Sierra" – a rare moment when the album shows "Special Care" is pseudo guitar-boogie best forgotten. "Break Of Hearts" is more Radio-friendly Countryish smooch while Where Paul Cotton urges his lover to 'take a chance' and 'shoot for the moon'. Tonight?" – nor the pretty melody behind "Shoot For The Moon" Hard to resist the slick strummed guitars of "How Will You Feel, Rock that cluttered up radios everywhere at the time. Say that I love either "Ghost Town" and especially its weedyįollow-up "Inamorata" – both are the kind of mid Eighties Schlock Town" and RUSTY YOUNG with PAUL COTTON on "Inamorata". Reflecting the original Production values of JOHN MILLS on "Ghost – audiophile recording from the Original Master'. Licensed tapes – and as the card slipcase says is 'Mastered in high definition The ANDREW THOMPSON Remasters were done in 2015 in the UK from WEA Town" only), artwork, band photos and new liner notes by noted writer JOHN Slipcase, a 16-page booklet with full-albums credits (lyrics to "Ghost "Inamorata" – released May 1984 in the USA on Atlantic 7 80148-1 and "Ghost Town" – released December 1982 in the USA on Atlantic 80008-1 "Ghost Town/Inamorata" by POCO on Beat Goes on BGOCD 1212 (Barcodeĥ017261212122) in a compilation that offers 2 albums Remastered onto 1CD that Remastered to perfection onto 1CD by Beat Goes On of the UK. It's a welcome interlude of 'Watching The River Flow' boogie.īy POCO from their 'yacht rock' stay at Atlantic Records in 19. Ian McLagan of The Small Faces and Faces is on piano while Colin Allen plays huge drums. The Irish outdoor crowd is hearing Mick Taylor of The Rolling Stones lay his guitar into what could easily have been The Fabulous Thunderbirds getting all message. First live track is from Slane Castle in Ireland where the Bobster laughs with the crowd before he rocks it up with "Enough Is Enough". Not sure I like it, but it's interesting. In what is a rarity on this set, Dylan drags out the harmonica for "Tell Me" - a song that also sways and swims with a Sly and Robbie Caribbean shuffle - Dylan does Calypso. We settle into a classier guitar shuffle from Knopfler for "I And I" - his playing and Dylan's different and impassioned lyrics both highlights. Messy yet slightly awkward sounding electric guitars open the Stones slapdash rock of "Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart" - Dylan in passionate vocal form - Mick Taylor giving it the ramshackle. In fact it's more cluttered than it should be when you're trying to work out who played on what and where. The gorgeous and innovative artwork isn't expanded upon which is a damn shame. The 12-page booklet has pictures from the movie - Willem Defoe as Christ - some words from Gabriel about the album and its sources and musician credits - nothing that wasn't in the June 1989 CD. ![]() Of all his albums, I would love to hear outtakes from "Passion" - a surefire cry out for 2CD Deluxe Edition if ever there was one (including the Scorsese film itself on a DVD). The inner sleeve holding the CD shows rows of tape boxes with tempting outtakes and differing variants - none of which are available to us even now in March 2023 as I write this - and the inner sleeve is exactly the same for all issues in this series - frankly a bit of a waste of space and an annoyance (see photos). Each right flap however has a die-cut look that is unique, reflecting the LP in question - a '4' for Peter Gabriel 4, '3' for Peter Gabriel 3 and so on. The artwork for each of these 'Limited Edition Mini Vinyl Compact Disc' sleeves all looked the same, gatefold card sleeves with a CD and inner on one side and the booklet stuck into the other.
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