Children of the Sun [Import]

Sallyangie, Mike Oldfield, Sally Oldfield, ?????? | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 1968
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Transatlantic Records
• ASIN: B001GBJT0E
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Editorial Reviews

TRACK LISTING: 1. Strangers - 1:14 2. Lady Mary - 3:45 3. Children of the Sun - 5:04 4. A Lover for All Seasons - 3:43 5. River Song - 3:42 6. Banquet on the Water - 4:47 7. Balloons - 5:30 8. Midsummer Night's Happening - 4:08 9. Love in Ice Crystals - 3:07 10. Changing Colours - 0:26 11. Chameleon - 2:25 12. Milk Bottle - 0:34 13. The Murder of the Children of San Francisco - 4:03 14. Strangers ---- Oh, what would the world be without those humble beginnings? Children of the Sun is the first and final album from The Sallyangie, the debut of Sally Oldfield and her younger brother Mike ("Angie" being his favorite guitar tune at the time) working together as a folk duo. This is one review where I'll have to pull my punches a bit, because otherwise I'd feel like I was slapping around a little kid. What can you really say about an album that makes Jon Anderson's solo work sound stern? Sally's lyrics, oversaturated with enough fairy tale imagery to drive the entire Disney animation staff to drink. In essence, these really are thinly veiled, hormonally-charged rhapsodies of a teenage girl (from the liner notes, she was 20 when she wrote this, though other sources suggest 18). Sample lyrics? Heh heh...all right, you asked for it. "Hey sweet prince/I love your hair of darkest violet...high king/give me princes to walk by my side" ("Lady Mary"); "My lover's hands are whiter than the wings of a dove/His hair is softest fire that falls in heavenly love" ("Children of the Sun"); "Cos I love you lover/I love you like I love the four high seasons" ("A Lover for All Seasons"); "Hey man let's have a banquet/Don't wanna know your name/You're just my lover...So keep off my lover's moon or he'll blind thee/As he walks in beauty on the water" ("Banquet on the Water"). Um, yeah. Are we detecting a common pattern here?

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars bad quality sound, September 1, 2005

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xvgh - See all my reviews

This review is from: Children of the Sun (Audio CD)

The music is excellent, if you enjoy folky dreamy music from the 60's, but the sound quality is appalling in places - sounds like the original tape has disintegrated in parts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful! Magical!, December 22, 2006

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Derek A. Estes "Film Lover" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Children of the Sun (Audio CD)

Unlike the first reviewer who found the sound quality bad enough to rate this one star. I find the music of The Sallyangie to be worth any very minor recording limitations. Unless you are an audiophile, this should not keep you from enjoying some of the most enchanting british folk pop of the 1960s.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars NOT FAIRPORT OR PENTANGLE.., September 29, 2009

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peace train "katman 7" (richmond va) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Children of the Sun (Audio CD)

IF YOUR HERE BECAUSE YOUR A MIKE OLDFELD FAN, OR LIKE MUSIC LIKE 'TUBULAR BELLS', KEEP LOOKING..I BOUGHT THIS ON A RECOMMENDATION FROM A PENTANGLE PURCHASE...NOT EVEN CLOSE. SOME OF THE SONGS ARE WELL CONCEIVED, BUT I FIND SALLY'S VOICE SHRILL AND CONTRIVED..SHE SOUNDS, AND LOOKS, TRAUMATIZED//...MIKE IS PLAYING GUITAR AND IS OBVIOUSLY QUITE YOUNG. HE GETS AN E FOR EFFORT, BUT THIS MATERIAL IS BELOW HIS WATERMARK..FOR FRIENDS AND FAMILY ONLY... BRITMAN..