Listening to this album again is giving me the warm and fuzzies. When I hear Jackie I can only think of Mark Almond's cover. He does it so well and faithfully that I expect this whole album is actually the spirit of Mark Almond in an earlier time.
This is of course a completely lyrical and vocal album. The music is completely in the background yet it does not sound like a backing track at all. Even when Scott sustains a note and there are various other musical phrases in the background (Jackie and The Girls and The Dogs), it is the voice that takes centre stage.
I have listened to this album various times, but only now realised that the orignal of Black Sheep Boy is on here. I loved the Paul Weller cover, having thought until today, that it was a Weller original.
I love this album - and I think it is something that deserves listening to on a wintery day with mist outside and visibility of less than fifty feet and the soft shadow of a fox moving through the quiet of the mist. There should be an open fireplace in the room and a nice bottle of deep red wine open - with at least one glass down and another making its happy and warm journey to the brain.
This is of course a completely lyrical and vocal album. The music is completely in the background yet it does not sound like a backing track at all. Even when Scott sustains a note and there are various other musical phrases in the background (Jackie and The Girls and The Dogs), it is the voice that takes centre stage.
I have listened to this album various times, but only now realised that the orignal of Black Sheep Boy is on here. I loved the Paul Weller cover, having thought until today, that it was a Weller original.
I love this album - and I think it is something that deserves listening to on a wintery day with mist outside and visibility of less than fifty feet and the soft shadow of a fox moving through the quiet of the mist. There should be an open fireplace in the room and a nice bottle of deep red wine open - with at least one glass down and another making its happy and warm journey to the brain.
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