All Dolled Up Like Christ [Import]

Current 93 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 7, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Durtro
• ASIN: B00002R0TK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #611,539 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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First release of new material since their 'Soft Black Stars' album. 22 minute mini album features the world's greatest living writer of strange stories Thomas Ligotti. Vocals byDavid Tibet, and all text by Ligotti. Recorded andengineered by long time Curr

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good live material., January 27, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: All Dolled Up Like Christ (Audio CD)

First, a track listing - Disc 1 1. In The Heart Of The Wood (And What I Found There) 2. Calling For Vanished Faces II 3. This Carnival Is Dead And Gone 4. The Descent Of Long Satan And Babylon 5. Black Flowers, Please 6. Be 7. All The World Makes Great Blood 8. The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of The World. 9. A Song For Douglas After He's Dead 10. Horsey 11. Happy Birthday Spooky Moonbeam 12. Oh Coal Black Smith 13. Dormition And Dominion 14. So: This Empire Is Nothing 15. This Shining Shining World 16. A Sadness Song 17. Lucifer Over London

Disc 2 1. The Death Of The Corn 2. Calling For Vanished Faces I 3. Happy Birthday Peek-a-Moonbeam 4. Horsey 5. All The World Makes Great Blood 6. The Great, Bloody And Bruised Veil Of The World 7. A Song For Douglas After He's Dead 8. Dormition And Dominion 9. So: This Empire Is Nothing 10. This Shining Shining World 11. Oh Coal Black Smith 12. Black Flowers, Please 13. When The May Rain Comes 14. The Blue Gates Of Death 15. In The Heart OF The Wood (And What I Found There) 16. A Sadness Song 17. Christ And The Pale Queens Mighty In Sorrow

OK. I just wanted to put those up there since Amazon probably didn't have the list to put it up. Now about the discs themselves, as you can see, they both contain a number of the same songs with a few variations. Any Current 93 fan will be pleased to hear this live recording since they rarely play live, but the mix sounds a little too off for me to give it 5 stars. The recording itself is good, but it seems like the vocals are mixed too far forward at times, and makes the songs sound 'awkward.' All in all a good release, and a good price considering it's 2 discs and the art is excellent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some of their best material performed live, August 29, 2002

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Travis M. Owens (Syracuse, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All Dolled Up Like Christ (Audio CD)

I have to agree with another review here that in some of the songs the vocal recording sounds very distant from the microphone but in those same songs the music isn't recorded proper either. Overall I have to say this sounds like an official bootleg as if recorded by someone right in front of the stage. Neither the vocals nor the instruments are a direct audio feed but despite this I'm happy with the purchase because I finally got to hear a different versions of some of the songs I've come to love and it seems C93 no longer plays much of their accoustic tracks live anymore. I have to say if you like the album version of these tracks then the live performance won't dissapoint you despite the recording quality.

I find it rather bizarre that this is a 2 cd release since basically all the same tracks are are on both CDs which were performed on 2 seperate nights and recorded with the same methods and played in the same style.