Richard & Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight [Bonus Tracks]
Rolling Stone: 4.5 out of 5 stars - "...Captures all the intensity that made their work together so gripping, so full of possibility and so impossible to sustain."
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CD Details
- Released: April 12, 2004
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Ume Imports
Entertainment Reviews:
Rolling Stone - 7/5/01, p.146
4.5 out of 5 stars - "...Captures all the intensity that made their work together so gripping, so full of possibility and so impossible to sustain."Spin - p.110
"[S]eductively bleak..."Q - p.135
5 stars out of 5 -- "[Richard Thompson] gives full vent to his talent on this dark, brooding album."Q - 11/99, p.163
Included in Q Magazine's Best Folk Albums of All Time - "...confirmed Richard Thompson as the authentic voice of English music....The fearless use of seemingly incompatible instruments...provided a compelling backdrop for Linda's bruised voice and rarely has misery sounded so persuasive."Q (Magazine) - p.123
"Calling on the services of CWS Silver Band, the title track surely ranks as one of the most joyful tunes ever written about painting the town red at the end of the working week."Pitchfork (Website) - "Its songs treat drink, festivity, and even love as fleeting escapes from life's difficulties, staring through the good times to the black holes that often lie behind them."
Tracks:
- 1.When I Get to the Border
- 2.The Calvary Cross
- 3.Withered and Died
- 4.I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
- 5.Down Where the Drunkards Roll
- 6.We Sing Hallelujah
- 7.Has He Got a Friend for Me
- 8.The Little Beggar Girl
- 9.The End of the Rainbow
- 10.The Great Valerio
- 11.I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight - (previously unreleased, live, BonusTrack)
- 12.Together Again - (previously unreleased, live, Bonus Track)
- 13.Calvary Cross, The - (previously unreleased, live, Bonus Track)
Product Info
- UPC: 602498179079
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