All About Eve [Import]

All About Eve | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal I.S.
• ASIN: B000001FNT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,598 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Flowers In Our Hair

2. Gypsy Dance

3. In The Clouds

4. Martha's Harbour

5. Every Angel

6. Like Emily

7. Shelter From The Rain

8. She Moves Through The Fair

9. Wild Hearted Woman

10. Never Promise (Anyone Forever)

11. Apple Tree Man

12. What Kind Of Fool

13. In The Meadow

14. Lady Moonlight

Editorial Reviews

Hit 1988 debut album for goth-inspired British indie act. 14 tracks.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars More About ALL ABOUT EVE, December 8, 1999

By 

S. Kelly "Ex-Dj and Music Lover" (Marietta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: All About Eve (Audio CD)

Magical melodies and angelic vocals set in a timeless style. A beautifully "lyric oriented" album of floaty,soft tunes with style unlike anyone else. Take a listen for yourself and enjoy more about All About Eve.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Lady of Shalott with a 4/4 beat, March 9, 2002

By 

O. Buxton "Olly Buxton" (Highgate, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All About Eve (Audio CD)

As if the Pre-Raphaelites had discovered rock n roll.

Picture a gypsy girl, legs dangling off the back of her wagon trilling folk songs which speak to a pastoral, idyllic childhood, while a team of muscular, well trained electric guitars pull the wagon through a cool forest glade of luscious production, leaves still glistening and dripping with the very latest in digital reverberation.

That's what All About Eve sounded like in 1988 - and that's what it sounds like now, the only difference being it sounded pretty cool back then. Now, it's as dated as a Camelot on Ice. Come to think of it, it's rather a lot like Camelot on Ice.

All the same, it's pretty music, and in tracks like Wild Hearted Woman and Martha's Harbour, has a commendable air of ballsy pre GirlPower feminism about it.

They're all great tunes, for the most part, and the best get well and truly anthemic (most notably Shelter From The Rain which, with its foreboding synth pads, shimmering acoustics and snarling guitars rumbles collossally across the soundscape as if Punk Rock had never happened). And the quieter moments stand up, and if anything outdo the bombast: Julianne Regan's almost unaccompanied rendition of the traditional She Moves Through The Fair is truly beautiful (if a little blighted by over production and what little arrangement there is behind it).

So it's difficult to isolate what hasn't lasted about the sound. I think it may be that it's just too earnest. All About Eve takes itself just a bit too seriously, which - when one is singing about gypsies, secret gardens and a brightly shining lady in the moonlight, is a bit rich - and it inevitably sees the band sail a tack too close to Spinal Tap's Stonehenge for it to be taken seriously, at least not once you've emerged from puberty and/or the Nineteen Eighties.

Still, when you put it on the shelf with its contemporaries - Queensr˙che (note umlaut!), Poison, the Mission, the Sisters of Mercy - by no means is All About Eve a candidate for most embarassing record in the collection.

Pull the curtains, and no one will know you still listen to it.

Olly Buxton

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Melodic and energetic!, December 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: All About Eve (Audio CD)

I've been listening to this CD and "Scarlet and Other Stories" for several years now, and I'm still enthralled by her balletic parade of music and voice. This music is a rare gem.