"Tommy" by THE WHO – Fourth Studio Album, A 2LP Set from May 1969 on Decca (USA) and Track Records (UK) featuring Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Keith Moon (11 November 2013 UK Polydor/Universal/Track Records 1CD Reissue - The Original Album 2013 Remaster – Jon Astley and Myles Clarke Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...

 

"...Amazing Journey..."

Some albums like Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon", Elton John's "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" and Steely Dan's "Aja" have been subject to a mind-blowing amount of CD and Audiophile reissues in the UK, USA and Japan – and it seems like The Who's 1969 double-album Rock Opera "Tommy" has been the same.

But which one do you splash the cash on? Well from my itsy-bitsy seagull perch in sunny but pooped upon Margate, I'd argue that although the 2CD Deluxe Edition has that fab live set on Disc 2 as a genuine bonus (recorded in Canada and initially thought lost) - if you're on a budget and still want uncompromising quality - then this humble 2013 Single CD Remaster for under six quid is the proverbial dogs dangly bits. Here are the acid queens and pinball wizards...

UK released Friday, 11 November 2013 - "Tommy: The Original Album 2013 Remaster" by THE WHO on Polydor/Universal/Track Records 3747403 (Barcode 602537474035) is the original 1969 double-album reissued and remastered onto 1CD and plays out as follows (74:58 minutes):

1. Overture [Side 1]

2. It's A Boy

3. 1921

4. Amazing Journey

5. Sparks

6. Eyesight For The Blind (The Hawker)

7. Christmas [Side 2]

8. Cousin Kevin

9. The Acid Queen

10. Underture

11. Do You Think It's Alright? [Side 3]

12. Fiddle About

13. Pinball Wizard

14. There's A Doctor

15. Go To The Mirror!

16. Tommy Can You Hear Me?

17. Smash The Mirror

18. Sensation

19. Miracle Cure [Side 4]

20. Sally Simpson

21. I'm Free

22. Welcome

23. Tommy's Holiday Camp

24. We're Not Gonna Take It

Tracks 1 to 24 are the double-album "Tommy" - released 17 May 1969 in the USA on Decca DSXW 7205 and 23 May 1969 in the UK on Track Records 613 013/4. Original copies came with a 'libretto' booklet featuring lyrics and drawings pertinent to the 'Rock Opera' – all of it is reproduced in the 24-page CD booklet with added reissue credits. Pete Townshend wrote all the songs except "Cousin Kevin" and "Fiddle About" by John Entwistle, "Tommy's Holiday Camp” by Keith Moon and "Eyesight To The Blind" aka "The Hawker" which is a cover of a Sonny Boy Williamson song. It peaked at No. 2 and No. 4 respectively on the UK and US albums charts.

THE WHO was:

ROGER DALTREY – Lead Vocals and Harmonica

PETE TOWNSHEND – Guitars, Keyboards, Lead and Backing Vocals

JOHN ENTWISTLE – Bass, French Horn, Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Lead and Backing Vocals

KEITH MOON – Drums, Tympani, Gong, Tambourine, Lead and Backing Vocals

Two things jump to mind – the fabulous new 2013 sound that feels like a real improvement on the overly loud 1996 initial effort and the underwhelming 2003 SACD effort. This latest audio restoration return to the original tapes by JON ASTLEY and MYLES CLARKE now sports a rather beautifully balanced feel between poise and power – much like the music itself. The acoustic guitar strings rattle and the riffs punch like they have been unleashed and on faves like the five-minutes of "Amazing Journey", the gorgeously rich acoustic/drums ten minutes of "Underture" and the gloriously bombastic finisher "We're Not Going to Take It" – you want to press replay to go back to the start - take me away once again baby (surely the best compliment a Remaster can be given).

The other thing that jumps to mind once you've settled in with the reissue is that while the booklet at 24-pages is aesthetically pleasing to look at – it's a damn shame that an essay on the double-album's history and impact wasn't included – especially given Tommy's astonishing 50-year legacy. I can remember as a kid pouring over every nuance of this beasty and every time it felt like you discovered something new. There is no sense of that impact on this singular CD version which is a shame...still to the good bits...

The opening strums of "Overture" leap out of the speakers, as does that familiar acoustic/electric guitar melody - horns too. "It's A Boy Mrs. Walker..." Townshend sings and the clarity is fabulous as is that segue into "1921" which as I recall dipped a little on the SACD version I've had. Entwistle's Bass notes threaten your living room on "Sparks" while their cover of Sonny Boy Williamson's "Eyesight To The Blind" (changed over the years to "The Hawker" from the original label name) hears Daltrey and Moon right up in yer face. Side 2 opens with "Christmas" where children wake up 'excited' but Tommy doesn't know what day it is - silent and unaware of anything. The deeply sinister "Cousin Kevin" is the first of two Entwistle compositions - the other is "Fiddle About" - both featuring abuse of the deaf, dumb and blind kid. I remember I had the picture sleeve single of "Acid Queen" when Merry Clayton covered it for the 1973 double-remake of Tommy - it was issued as a 45 in the UK on Ode Records with "Underture" as its flipside (ODS 66301). Here the Who original remaster feels huge, as does "Underture" in all its instrumental glory. By the time we get to "Pinball Wizard" (the obvious single) - I'm sold on this 2013 version - fantastic song that stills packs a whack (sure plays a mean pinball for sure). And on it goes to forgotten album gems like the ego-trip song "Sensation", the blue Rolls Royce tune "Sally Simpson" and the unexpectedly pretty "Welcome" - finally stomping its legend status with "I'm Free" and that massive finisher "We're Not Going To Take It" where Tommy is aware and advising you to put in your earplugs...

For sure in 2020, "Tommy" is of its 1969 time and truth be told, I probably return more to their 1973 double "Quadrophenia" because in my mind anyway, the music is even better. But what a great urge-splurge this early studio double-album was and still is. Re-visiting "Tommy" has been a joy and revelation.

See me, feel me, touch me - well I think this latest variant allows a punter to do just that – and for not a lot of wedge either...

"1917" The Movie - A Review Of The 2020 Sam Mendes World War One Film...

"...Went To Sea In A Sieve..." 

"1917" - THE MOVIE

A Review of The Movie by Sam Mendes...

It's Friday 10 January 2020, opening night for 1917 The Movie in the UK and hot on the heels of its surprise win at The Golden Globes as Best Picture only a few days ago. Well, having been glued to my seat, heart in my mouth and jaw dropped unceremoniously to the sticky floor of Westgate On Sea's lovely Carlton Cinema - it will come as no surprise to me at all when it wins at least 4 Oscars come awards season - Best Movie and Direction for Sam Mendes, Best Cinematography for Roger Deakins (and about bloody time too) and Best Score (yet again) for Thomas Newman.

Visually and sonically part Revenant, part Saving Private Ryan with large dollops of Dunkirk's sheer otherworldliness thrown in - "1917" is seriously visceral stuff. Even now when I think about the opening single tracking shot that has to have lasted maybe as much as 20 minutes without a cut - had any single thing gone wrong - the whole set up would have been kaput (the action all takes place on 6 April 1917 near The Western Front). There are walks through miles of trenches with every horrible conceivable sight - hundreds and hundreds of extras all having to hit their mark on time (a beautifully understated Colin Firth and a nerve-frazzled cigarette-smoking Andrew Scott do their big name parts justice as various sides of the military brass).

But it’s the sequence that follows that utterly amazes as the two lads are tasked with finding a misguided 2nd Battalion's gung-ho Colonel to avert a slaughter of huge proportions by the supposedly retreating Hun – and it begins by finding a gap where they can go over the top. I can't even imagine how long it took to set up these miles of craters and mud and dirty water and rotten horse corpse and barbed wire and flies and the endless twisted mutilated bodies of men - but it stays with you long after the two try to navigate no man's land without being shot or blasted to oblivion.

The lion's share of the movie focuses almost exclusively on the two young lads burdened with a suicide mission that must succeed or so many will perish amongst them an older brother - George MacKay and Dean Charles-Chapman magnificent in their full-frontal roles as Lance Corporals Schofield and Blake. 

Having said that, if I was to nitpick - while the horrible relentlessness of World War I's trench/town conditions are portrayed with truly amazing set pieces - the sheer sickening waste of life seems somehow sidelined at times. I often feel like a convenient re-writing of history takes place with the First World War - swap upper class arrogance for ordinary-man heroism and the puppet masters of these completely avoidable massacres can divert responsibility and hide their shame. It's like the hero element is all when of course we now know from so many first-hand accounts that ordinary soldiers were left with only mental and physical waste, sadness, faith destruction and rage at the landed aristocracy back in London who put them and their buddies there in the first place to die with such callous ease for King and Country. You would also have to agree with some critics that the technical can and does overwhelm the emotional a little too much at times and I think it's only this that stops "1917" The Movie from reaching true greatness (I'd still rate it as a five-star barnstormer nonetheless). Richard Madden, Mark Strong and Benedict Cumberbatch also all make brief but hugely impressive appearances - men of war – just some more in touch with the humane than others.

Two huge elements in the film’s swallow-you-up envelopment are Roger Deakins stunning cinematography that goes up and down from muddy boot to bloodied uniform - somehow drawing you into their Hell in a new way that makes it all feel so horribly real - and Thomas Newman's score that ups the thump-pulse one minute then tugs on the heartstrings the next – and always just when you think no more emotion can be wrenched from a scene (he manages this time and time again even amidst the horror).

The other unspoken hero is the way Mendes has shot the film - always feeling like you're on their shoulders - behind them - beside them - in front of them. The choreography is astounding at times too - the camera casually observing the mundane – grunt soldiers on a truck talking about the dead cows in the fields they pass - and then terrifying in equally brilliant measure – Lance Corporal Schofield head-injured as he is sucked along in the current of a river where branches, rocks and dead bodies batter against him in the truly gross detritus of war. There's a chance night-time encounter with a beleaguered mother and infant entrenched in a French ruin where he recites Edward Lear's poem The Jumblies to calm the milk-starved baby and the words don't just do the soothing trick but somehow also describe the sheer stupidity and hubris of the war to end all wars. There are buddy-buddy talks as they walk with their rifles and bayonets at the ready - weapons that seem pitiful in the face of the merciless war machine facing them in every pasture - chatting one minute in beautiful cherry-blossom orchards and then dashing the next through collapsing wood and dust in horror dugouts where suffocation is only seconds away unless you can summon up the will to live and move that tired body and pummelled mind. 

"1917" is a brilliant film and it seems that all of Mendes work to date has been leading up to this. There is also a genuine Spielberg-like sense throughout of a master of his craft finally at work on something that really matters to him - aided by a cast, crew and technical know-how that can deliver such a mind-blowing one-continuous-shot vision (the movie is dedicated to his uncle Alfred and his stories handed down to Sam as a child). 

Oscar glory surely beckons for "1917" in the award ceremonies held 9 February 2020 - and when the BLU RAY (especially the 4K variant) is released later in the year - it's on my shopping list pretty damn quick. "Well done lad..." one of the soldiers says to Lance Corporal Schofield knowing what he's been through. Amen to that and huge congrats to everyone involved...

"Jesus Of Cool" by NICK LOWE [ex Brinsley Schwarz] – 1978 Debut Solo Album in the UK on Radar (called "Pure Pop For Now People" in the USA with different tracks on Epic) (February 2008 UK Proper Records Deluxe Edition Expanded CD Reissue – Vic Anesini Remaster) - A Review by Mark Barry...

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"…Pure Pop For Now People…"

Like Elvis Costello's "My Aim Is True", Joe Jackson's "Look Sharp!" and "The Boomtown Rats" self-titled debut album – Nick Lowe's brilliant 1978 debut "Jesus Of Cool" is the kind of record that not only doesn't date - but somehow gets cooler as the decades pass, ageing like good wine (a little like the dapper Rock 'n' Roll gent himself). 

Here are the Breaking Glasses, Bunches of Stiffs and They Called It Rock details…

UK released February 2008 – "Jesus Of Cool" by NICK LOWE is a Deluxe Extended Edition Single CD on Proper Records CHOSEN1 (Barcode 805520039994) and breaks down as follows (62:51 minutes):

1. Music For Money (Side 1)

2. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass

3. Little Hitler

4. Snake And Pop

5. Tonight

6. So It Goes (Side 2)

7. No Reason

8. 36 Inches High

9. Marie Provost

10. Nutted By Reality

11. Heart Of The City (Live)

Tracks 1 to 11 on this CD are his UK debut solo album "Jesus Of Cool" released March 1978 in the UK on Radar Records RAD 1. Note: "Heart Of The City" on the album is 'live' – the single version is the studio cut.

The LP was issued May 1978 in the USA as "Pure Pop For Now People" on Columbia Records JC 35329 with an entirely different running order. This 21-track CD with allow fans to sequence the US version using the following songs/numbers…

1. So It Goes [6] – Side 1

2. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass [2]

3. Tonight [5]

4. Marie Provost [9]

5. Heart Of The City [20]

6. Rollers Show [18]

7. They Called It Rock [14] - Side 2

8. No Reason [7]

9. Little Hitler [3]

10. Nutted By Reality [10]

11. 36 Inches High [8]

12. Music For Money [1]

BONUS TRACKS:

12. Shake That Rat – non-album track, A2 of the 4-track "Bowi EP" released May 1977 in the UK on Radar Records LAST 1 - see also 15 for A1, 9 for B1 and 16 for B2

13. I Love My Label – exclusive track on the UK Various Artists label sampler LP "A Bunch Of Stiffs" released April 1977 on Radar Records SEEZ 2

14. They Called It Rock – non-album track, B-side to his 3rd UK 7" single "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" released February 1978 on Radar Records ADA 1

15. Born A Woman - non-album track, A1 of the 4-track "Bowi EP" released May 1977 in the UK on Radar Records LAST 1 - see also 12 for A2, 9 for B1 and 16 for B2

16. Endless Sleep – non-album track, B2 of the "Bowi EP" (see above). Also B-side to the October 1978 USA single for "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" on Columbia 10844

17. Halfway To Paradise - non-album track, A-side to his 2nd UK 7" single "Halfway To Paradise" released May 1977 on Stiff Records BUY 2. A Billy Fury cover version – Goffin/King song.

18. Rollers Show – track on the USA LP version "Pure Pop For Now People" – see above

19. Cruel To Be Kind (Original Version) – non-album track, B-side to UK 7" single of "Little Hitler" released May 1978 on Radar Records ADA 12

20. Heart Of The City – non-album track, B-side to his debut UK 7" single "So It Goes" released August 1976 on Stiff Records BUY 1

21. I Don't Want The Night To End - non-album track, B-side to his 2nd UK 7" single "Halfway To Paradise" released May 1977 on Stiff Records BUY 2

The packaging is unique and gorgeous - a multi-flap card sleeve that eventually folds out to a cross shape of Nick Lowe with each of the individual flaps covered in the US artwork, memorabilia montages and colour photos (it looks brill when folded out). The oversized 12-page booklet has fantastic period memorabilia pictured - like buttons, "Jesus Of Cool" ties, Street Advert Placards and even the Master Room Acetate of "So It Goes". There’s also a witty and informative essay by WILL BIRCH on Lowe's departure from England's Brinsley Schwarz after four albums with modest success – the formation of Stiff and Radar – and the sheer heady musical experience of 1976 to 1978. But the really great news for fans is the Audio – VIC ANESINI Remasters done in New York – and they’re so damn good. And as outlined above – this impossibly cool reissue will allow American fans to sequence the "Pure Pop For Now People" version they bought in 1978 – arguably a better listen actually (much like The Clash debut which suffered the same fate of hugely different track runs).

His debut UK 45 "So It Goes" b/w "Heart Of The City" is one those fabulous Seventies singles that somehow eluded so many – both tracks are belters and Anesini's remaster of "Heart In The City" (Studio Version) in particular rocks. The Instrumental "Bowi EP" track "Shake That Rat" sounds just HUGE rattling your speakers with a gnawing power - it feels like Rockpile firing on all sixes. And of course there’s the rattling echoed guitar of "I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass" – as cool as it gets. 

Album favourites for me include the very Rockpile sounding "Tonight" where they go all Everly Brothers and the creepy vibe of "36 Inches High" sounding like Elvis Costello getting mean on too many drugs. The remaster wallops The Jackson 5 opening of "Nutted By Reality" where Nick discusses Castro's unfortunate brush with genital torture (nice) - while the live cut of "Heart Of The City" should really have been the studio version that is one the great tracks of the period (Dr. Feelgood covered it on their 1991 set "Primo" with Lee Brilleaux giving it some big time Nick).

So there you have it – sexy, cool, nutting reality on the noggin (ouch) – in short a fabulous CD reissue.

"...Repent for He doth record…" - was one of the placards used in the "Jesus Of Cool" street campaigns around London in 1978. Thank God Nick Lowe has been sinning ever since...

"The Brentford Trilogy" by NICK LOWE (July 2009 UK Proper Records 3CD Reissue – Three Card Digipaks In A Card Wrap for Three Albums - "The Impossible Bird" (1994), "Dig My Mood" (1998) and "The Convincer" (2001)) - A Review by Mark Barry...

"...I Throw The Laundry In...And Pick Out The Cleanest Shirt…" 

"The Brentford Trilogy" by NICK LOWE is a 2009 UK CD reissue of 3 latter-day albums using reconfigured packaging. 

UK released July 2009 on Proper Records PRPCD025 (Barcode 805520030250) - you get "The Impossible Bird" from 1994 (40:28 minutes), "Dig My Mood" from 1998 (37:30 minutes) and "The Convincer" from 2001 (38:04 minutes).

And in January 2020 - it's available for just under a tenner - and it's a (if you'll forgive the pun) proper bargain.

Instead of the original jewel cases - the outer card slipcase contains the three albums in tasteful gatefold card digipaks (album credits on the inside) that are in turn sided by a 12-page booklet. PAUL GORMAN provides the affectionate and informative liner notes and there are new photos by LUCY ROGERS and GEORGIA RILEY. Although there's no mention anywhere of remastering - I’d swear that all three albums are sonically improved over my old versions – they sound just beautiful now.

Nick Lowe songs are sly – you think there's not a lot going on at first – but there is. They're immaculately played and recorded to start with and although based in rock - they're effortlessly soulful too even when he's gone into a boogie. And then there's the great lyrics - witty one moment - heartbreaking the next – like Elvis Costello at his best.

Take the hangover song "Lately I've Let Things Slide" from "The Convincer" (lyrics above) – the words are very funny, acidic almost - yet infused with an unsettling hurt that just gets to you time and time again. Its melody is beautifully arranged too, complimented by Herb Alpert trumpets and Spencer Davis organ throughout that somehow make it even more poignant. It's typical of the song-writing class that drips off almost everything on here. The drinking and brawling "Indian Queens" sounds like an unplugged Bruce Springsteen on a Pete Seeger tip - while "What Lack Of Love Has Done" is just fantastic, a song about singing songs of love and heartbreak on every stage around the world. There are so many other examples of consummately great tunes like these… and now it all sounds sweet as a nut too.

If I was to point out a downside - it's the disappointing lack of outtakes or extras. But retailing at just above a ten spot in a megastore and even less online – this dinky little box set is a great way of acquiring albums you need in your life. And for those who already own them – there's the upgraded sound to look forward to.

The blurb on the rear declares Nick Lowe to be "Britain's Greatest Living Songwriter" – and on the strength of these 3 masterpieces, you have to say Proper Records has a point. Besides - any man who writes a song called "12-Step Program (To Quit You Babe)" is good in bed and a frigging genius...

PS: The Sir Nicholas Lowe campaign starts here. Please make cheques payable to the Mark Barry "Consciousness And Social Happiness Society" Fund - or CASH for short…

"I SAW THE LIGHT: Overlooked Albums 1955 to 1979" - Your All-Genres Guide To Exceptional CD Remasters For Over 500 Forgotten LPs - A SOUNDS GOOD MUSIC BOOK by Mark Barry...

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Having worked for RECKLESS RECORDS in London for over 20 years as one of their principal Vinyl and CD buyers (one of the best secondhand record shops in the West End) and having once been a 'Hall of Fame' Reviewer on Amazon six times - as you can imagine - I have and do come across a huge number of reissues - some far more worthy than others.

To that end I've collated together these SOUNDS GOOD MUSIC BOOKS Series as guides to Exceptional CD Reissues and Remasters offering up in-depth reviews on a wide range of titles. And it doesn't have to cost the earth to Sound Good either – you just need to know which CD is the right issue to buy. 

 

Many entries in this large and unique book cost less than £10 while others are under a fiver. And even if some Box Sets/Deletions have acquired a price tag - because they're the best I've included them along with artists/titles that deserve your attention…

Took forever to collate this book - but I think it's the best in the Series so far.

Hope you enjoy the reads – MARK BARRY (March 2024)