Prefab Sprout / Let’s Change the World with Music Жанр: Alternative/Indie Rock, Sophisti-Pop Носитель: CD Страна-производитель диска (релиза): Japan Год издания: 2013 Издатель (лейбл): Sony Music (Epic) Номер по каталогу: SICP 30406 Страна исполнителя (группы): UK Аудиокодек: FLAC (*.flac) Тип рипа: tracks+.cue Продолжительность: 00:46:36 Источник: собственный рип Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да
01. Let There Be Music 03:45 02. Ride 04:04 03. I Love Music 04:50 04. God Watch Over You 04:34 05. Music Is a Princess 03:32 06. Earth: The Story So Far 05:01 07. Last of the Great Romantics 04:40 08. Falling in Love 03:11 09. Sweet Gospel Music 04:24 10. Meet the New Mozart 04:14 11. Angel of Love 04:24 All songs written by Paddy McAloon
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“I love music, and when I die. . . I’ll tell Saint Peter, if he’s the one asks me why: ‘She’s richer than money, and bigger than fame. . . And love is the reason I’m playing this game. . .’”— Prefab Sprout’s Let’s Change the World with Music Be prepared, because I’m about to sound off on what is definitely one of my favorite albums ever, perhaps in my top ten. . . And, arguably, the finest moment in the career of Prefab Sprout, which I know will be hotly contested, especially given my love for this odd gem. It also should be noted that this is mostly a Paddy McAloon solo effort under the name “Prefab Sprout,” with some very minimal yet ever-present contributions from the band members throughout. Let’s Change the World With Music brings together an immaculate frontier of sound design, refined production, mature lyricism, and unhinged beauty that is so effortless, it inspires the listener immediately. Now that all the gushing is through, let’s get into the actual stuff you will find on this joyous album. This album is often pinned down as Prefab Sprout’s foray into house music, which I find a bit laughable, being a fan of progressive / deep house music. The entire album is primarily organic instrumentation, so it can be assumed that the references made to this being “house music” are related to the fact that it is immaculately produced, and thus the drumming and more beat-oriented rhythmic choices fool people into thinking this is somehow electronic in nature. This is more or less an ambient pop album, but one that seriously grooves to the fullest, and sounds as fresh as the band did in the 1980s. Many tracks on here give off the impression that they were recorded in the mid-’90s; it’s quite curious. The first track, “Let There Be Music,” gives listeners a taste of what this album has to offer, starting off with a smooth dance beat backed by a stuttering Hammond B-3, synth, lush piano, and McAloon’s booming godlike vocals. It sounds like something off of Seal’s Seal or Seal II (in other words, totally awesome). The lyricism here sees Paddy becoming older and reflecting more on humanity and his own spirituality. He does so with here with a clever and slightly sarcastic smirk on his face, but you can never tell if he’s bluffing. It’s all a part of the magic. A gorgeous conception of life and its curiosities. Paddy could be a successful modern poet or novelist, yet he decided to do both with his undying love for music. That is another thing that attracts me deeply to this work; McAloon’s ability to spin fairytales with words of divine optimism and realism. This album is Paddy’s love-letter to God, people, love, and music. Such seemingly simple things in life that are anything but. Paddy wears his heart on his sleeve like few other musicians dare to, not falling into the tempting art of satisfying the craving to fill a hole with lyrics of pain and suffering. No, McAloon sees such lyrical regularities as far too conventional, and anything but artistically effective. Paddy McAloon has the unique skill of being able to create perfect pop songs. Through his genius obsession with major 7 chords, he has spun songs that time and time again revel in their ability to be wonderous, triumphant anthems. I’ve shown Prefab Sprout to friends, to which they say it sounds like “music that could be in an anime.” Little do they know McAloon’s perfected the musical formula for giving off this impression to newcomers of the band. One could say this is how it would sound if Joe Hisaishi sat down and wrote the instrumentals for a pop album. So that about does it. I can’t say enough good things about this album. I could break down every single melodic moment, every soundscape, every lyric and why it all moves my heart. That gets tiring, and with music this good, it’s completely unnessecary. The lyrics I chose for the summary of this review, from the song “I Love Music,” sums up everything very well. This album is criminally underrated even for a Prefab Sprout album, and it is probably because McAloon queitly releassed it in 2009 without much fuss. Meanwhile the bloggers of the day were out sleeping on a full-fledged masterpiece. A work for the ages. Once you hear it, everything will make sense. (Posted on 27/01/2019 by AnimalsAsSummit (sputnikmusic.com) https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/78811/Prefab-Sprout-Lets-Change-the-World-With-Music/
One of the most acclaimed British pop bands of the ’80s and ’90s, Prefab Sprout was the creative vehicle of vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Paddy McAloon, who has been regularly hailed as one of the greatest songwriters of his era. McAloon has often been compared favorably to Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, and even Cole Porter, not just because of his lyrical and instrumental gifts but for the ambitious creative vision of his catalog. A notorious perfectionist who is also known for his shyness and his struggles with health problems, McAloon has created a relatively small body of work (ten albums in three decades), but Prefab Sprout’s music is beloved in the U.K., and they have a smaller but passionately loyal audience in the United States. Moving from the smart, beautifully crafted pop of 1984’s Swoon and 1985’s Steve McQueen (titled Two Wheels Good in the U.S.), Prefab Sprout would explore the influences of American music on 1988’s From Langley Park to Memphis, embrace the sound and style of stage musicals on 1990’s Jordan: The Comeback, use the Old West as a metaphor on the 2001 concept album The Gunman and Other Stories, and celebrated the power and energy of music on 2009’s Let’s Change the World with Music and 2013’s Crimson/Red. Prefab Sprout were formed in Newcastle, England, in 1977 by Paddy McAloon, who sings and plays guitar and piano, and his bass-playing younger brother, Martin. In the group’s early days, McAloon spun several fanciful tales about the origin of their odd name (one favorite was that the young McAloon had misheard the line “hotter than a pepper sprout” in Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood's “Jackson”), but the truth is that an adolescent McAloon had devised the meaningless name in homage to the long-winded and equally silly band names of his late-’60s/early-’70s youth. With an early fan, Wendy Smith, drafted into the lineup to sing helium-register backing vocals, the trio released its first single, “Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone),” on its own Candle label in July 1982. Written for a girlfriend who had left Newcastle to study in Limoges, France (check the acronym of the title), the song was exceedingly clever, but obviously heartfelt. The single’s warm reception, including many plays on John Peel’s radio show, led to the Sprout’s signing to CBS subsidiary Kitchenware Records, which reissued the single in April 1983. Another single, “The Devil Has All the Best Tunes,” followed later that year. Prefab Sprout’s first album, Swoon, was released in March 1984. Shortly after Swoon’s release, drummer Neil Conti joined the group, and Thomas Dolby was tapped to produce the second Prefab Sprout album, 1985’s Steve McQueen (retitled Two Wheels Good in the U.S. due to litigation from the late actor’s estate). Dolby smoothed out the kinks a bit, and his keyboards helped enrich the album’s sound. Prefab Sprout returned to the studio without Dolby in the summer of 1985 and quickly recorded an album’s worth of material that was initially meant to be released in a limited edition as a tour souvenir. However, several months after Steve McQueen was released, its song “When Love Breaks Down” (which had been released as a single four different times in the U.K. without chart success) finally became a hit, and CBS feared a new album would hurt its predecessor’s sales, so the project was shelved. The “proper” follow-up to Steve McQueen was 1988’s From Langley Park to Memphis. It became their biggest hit, thanks to the massive U.K. chart success of “The King of Rock and Roll” (about a one-hit wonder stuck performing his silly novelty song on the nostalgia circuit; ironically, it was Prefab Sprout’s sole U.K. Top Ten hit and remains their best-known song) and the U.S. college radio success of the genial Bruce Springsteen parody “Cars and Girls.” Following that chart action, CBS dusted off the shelved acoustic project from 1985 and released it (in the U.K. only) under the title Protest Songs in June 1989. Issued in 1990, Jordan: The Comeback, which McAloon describes as a concept album about Jesse James and Elvis Presley, was released to enormous critical acclaim in late 1990, but unfortunately, its ornate, lush production and suite-like structure doomed it to commercial failure in the U.S., though it was another big hit in the U.K. A fine but unimaginative best-of, A Life of Surprises, met similar respective fates in the summer of 1992. Many thought Prefab Sprout disbanded at that point, and indeed, Conti did leave the band at some point in the ’90s. However, McAloon had written (and in some cases, recorded) several albums’ worth of material during the first half of the decade, abandoning them all before finally releasing the crystalline Andromeda Heights in 1997. The album wasn’t even released in the U.S., but it was another deserved U.K. hit. An album of subtle beauty, Andromeda Heights showed how far McAloon had come as a songwriter and singer since Swoon. A much-improved two-disc anthology, The 38 Carat Collection, was released by CBS in 1999 as the group was leaving the label. (Unexpectedly, the group’s U.S. label, Epic, belatedly reissued this set as The Collection in early 2001.) Wendy Smith left the group during this period, after the birth of her first child. Prefab Sprout, by this point consisting solely of the McAloon brothers, signed to EMI in late 2000 and delivered their Western-themed concept album, The Gunman and Other Stories, in early 2001. Unfortunately, the album’s release was delayed several months when Paddy McAloon was diagnosed with a medical disorder rendering him partially blind. As McAloon was homebound due to his health problems between 1999 and 2002, he wrote an album of music inspired by true life stories he recorded from radio broadcasts. Combining the radio recordings with orchestral arrangements of McAloon’s melodies, the mostly instrumental I Trawl the Megahertz became his first solo album when it was released in 2003. After a six-year layoff, McAloon returned to recording as Prefab Sprout and released the self-produced, performed, and recorded Let’s Change the World with Music in 2009. This set’s songs and concept date to 1992 and were originally to be recorded as the follow-up album to Jordan: The Comeback; for various reasons, those sessions never happened. It was initially issued by Ministry of Sound and later in the year licensed by Sony/BMG in the U.K. In 2010, the independent Tompkins Square imprint issued the album in the United States. Both the album Crimson/Red and its lead single, “The Best Jewel Thief in the World,” were issued by the Icebreaker label in 2013. In March 2017, a video posted on the Internet featured a homemade solo acoustic clip of McAloon performing an original song, “America,” a protest against U.S. immigration policies under Donald Trump. In 2019, Sony reissued McAloon’s I Trawl the Megahertz under the Prefab Sprout banner. (Stewart Mason, AllMusic)
From Prefab Sprout’s early-’80s singles up through their often brilliant but much maligned album The Gunman and Other Stories in 2001, Paddy McAloon has written some of the finest pop tunes you’re likely to hear in your lifetime. Comparisons have been made with Cole Porter, Lennon/McCartney, Brian Wilson, Stephen Sondheim, Jimmy Webb, Elvis Costello, and many others, but he remains a truly original and gifted singer and songwriter. While Prefab Sprout could never be called prolific in terms of physical album releases, McAloon has continued to write and demo material throughout the band’s 20-plus-year career. In recent years McAloon has dealt with a series of health issues that have left hiim virtually unable to carry on as a recording artist. Thankfully, he continues to write songs that can be sung by other vocalists, and perhaps one day he will be able to grace listeners with his own voice again. Until then, listeners will fortunately be graced with previously unreleased Prefab Sprout music, such as Let’s Change the World with Music, the often rumored 1992 follow-up to the Sprouts’ Jordan: The Comeback album. While the album was never actually completed by the band, McAloon’s fully formed demo is not just a hint of “what might have been”: it’s one of the most consistent albums of the band's career. Let’s Change the World with Music is a loose concept album that is based around the intense, oftentimes religious, joy of music and the gift it brings to those who allow it to overcome and overwhelm them. While McAloon is not a Bible-thumping evangelist, he uses religious imagery to describe the magical power of music and how it can literally change the world. Those who choose to push music to the background in their lives may not understand where McAloon is coming from, but for those who have lived and breathed music since their early days, Let’s Change the World with Music is a revelation (pun intended). From the intro of the leadoff track, “Let There Be Music,” it is immediately obvious that this will be a different Prefab experience to what most fans are used to. In the past (especially on Jordan: The Comeback), the band used keyboards to add depth and atmosphere to its tracks, but Let’s Change the World is a different ball of wax: it is all keyboards. As stated previously, this is McAloon’s demo version of his musical vision and does not feature backing vocalist Wendy Smith or brother Martin. . . or anyone else for that matter. And to be honest, even without the other bandmembers, it’s an absolute joy to listen to. Would it have sounded better with real strings, real drums, guitars, and proper production from someone like Thomas Dolby? It’s really hard to tell, since the album is a nearly perfect collection of songs celebrating the glory of music, becoming a glorious piece of music in the process. Some of the lyrics on the album may seem a bit twee and trite on the surface (particularly on “Music Is a Princess”), but in the context of the album, they become touching and heartwarming. Like all Prefab albums, there are moments of absolute joy on display mixed with an equal amount of bittersweet and touching songs that reach right down and stir your soul. Highlights include “Ride,” “Earth: The Story So Far,” “Last of the Great Romantics,” “Angel of Love,” and the title track. For the uninitiated, the Prefab Sprout albums to investigate first would certainly be Steve McQueen and Jordan: The Comeback, but Let’s Change the World with Music isn’t far behind. It is a beautiful, joyful, and unpretentious musical love letter written to and about this life-changing force called music. (Stephen Schnee, AllMusic)
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