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Coming from Reality [Extra tracks]

Sixto RodriguezAudio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (277 customer reviews)

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Coming from Reality + Cold Fact + Searching for Sugar Man (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Product Details

  • Audio CD (May 5, 2009)
  • Original Release Date: 1970
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks
  • Label: LIGHT IN THE ATTIC
  • ASIN: B001TCHDPS
  • In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (277 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Climb Up on My Music
2. A Most Disgusting Song
3. I Think of You
4. Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour
5. Silver Words?
6. Sandrevan Lullaby-Lifestyles
7. To Whom It May Concern
8. It Started out So Nice
9. Halfway Up the Stairs
10. Cause
11. Can't Get Away [*]
12. Street Boy [*]
13. I'll Slip Away [*]

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded reissue of his 1971 album. Coming From Reality is another treat for fans new and old, designed as Rodriguez's vision of a perfect Pop album. Coming From Reality found Rodriguez decamping from Detroit to London's Lansdowne Studios, where the album was recorded with some of the UK's top talent including Chris Spedding and producer Steve Rowland), who recalls Coming From Reality as his all time favorite recording project. The reissue also includes three previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded in Detroit in 1972 with Cold Fact collaborators Mike Theodore and Dennis Coffey, representing the last thing the trio ever did together. 13 tracks.

Customer Reviews

Great music and great story of this great artist. Stanley C. Wentworth  |  60 reviewers made a similar statement
I listen to this CD all the time. Mick  |  45 reviewers made a similar statement
I have told everyone to see the movie and to get the records! Carol Brumm  |  24 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
136 of 137 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Reality Comes Back - at Last! May 29, 2009
Format:Audio CD
You could say that the good news is the bad news concerning this long-overdue reissue, since with its release the entire recorded output of Detroit singer/songwriter Sixto Rodriguez is available to the public for the first time in over thirty-five years. That output consists of exactly two albums - 1970's COLD FACT and this 1971 follow-up - as well as three additional songs recorded later and first released many years after that. Not much of a catalogue, especially for one of the most unique and worthwhile songsmiths of the past four decades.
I've already touched on the mystery of Rodriguez - which, thanks to the extensive liner notes in these reissues, is no longer that much of a mystery - in my review of FACT, so I'll refer the curious to that nonpareil gem of musical criticism and get right down to brass tacks. COMING from REALITY is a fully worthy successor to FACT, with all of its creator's dizzying wordplay and compositional acumen intact, but it's also a very different album in many respects. Recorded in London with British session musicians and a full string section, REALITY inhabits a separate sonic territory from that of its Motor City predecessor. It's also a good deal less eclectic, which helps to enhance its "album feel" but also casts its weaker moments in sharper relief - not that there are all that many of them.
"Climb Up on My Music" is a tough, driving opener, instantly establishing that blown-glass balance of pop accessibility and esoteric intelligence which has always distinguished the greatest songwriters. "A Most Disgusting Song" is in fact a spoken poem (Proto-rap?
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars How did we miss this!! October 22, 2012
By lucie
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Fabulous, just fabulous. I listen over and over. Beautiful ballads on this one. The great shame is the loss of the body of work that Rodriguez would have created if he had had just some success here. Someone should do an investigative piece on why he didn't make it here. But so happy we have these two terrific albums.
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34 of 36 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Another gem from Rodriguez. July 24, 2011
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After having his "At his Best" CD i thought i would see what his other CD was like. I am so glad i purchased this as it is in the same quality. You cannot go wrong with this one....the songs are infectious and who would believe this is from another era.
Sounds as fresh as today. This guy deserves more recognition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Searching for Sugar Man October 21, 2012
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Saw the movie, went home and ordered Rodriguez' CDs. No disappointment, the music is just like that in the movie, and Rodriguez is fantastic.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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I absolutely love Searching for Sugar Man and the album Cold Fact but the arrangements in this take away from Rodriguez' contribution. Its like its about the orchestra and not the singer. There are a few that work really well like Cause but this album is its own worse enemy. Stripped down versions would be much better. The Movie and the most recent live stuff Rodriguez has been playing is so fantastic. Deserves the Oscar.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Classy Man June 12, 2013
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I watched the DVD at home and had to buy the CD's They didn't disappoint me. Being a teen in the 60's I felt right at home listening to Sixto. I'm glad he has at least felt the stardom he deserved a long time ago.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Still great June 9, 2013
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Check out my review of Cold Fact! I think Rodriguez is fabulous! I can listen to his music for hours. After getting Coming from Reality and Cold Fact, I loaded them into iTunes and stored away the originals!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Great timeless music June 5, 2013
By fs15
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After seeing the story of Rodriquez, I had to get his CDs and I've been playing them almost non stop for weeks.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Coming from Reality by Rodriguez
Product was delivered in a quick and timely manner. The reason to buy the music instead of downloading it, is that Sixto Rodriguez was denied royalties from his albums for 30... Read more
Published 15 hours ago by Michael J. Hight
4.0 out of 5 stars second album
i didn't like these songs as well as his cold fact album but it is nice to have the words to all the songs,and it is still his honest, simple, almost haunting voice telling his... Read more
Published 6 days ago by linda theede
5.0 out of 5 stars loved coming from reality
I chose this rating because the lyrics and melodies of Rodriguez appeal to me viscerally. Being a child of the sixties and coming from a city in the northeast, it reminds me of the... Read more
Published 6 days ago by James R. Markle
5.0 out of 5 stars Yes we saw the movie first, still absolutely worth it
I saw Searching for Sugarman with my parents and then got Rodriguez's two CD's immediately after for my mom's birthday. Read more
Published 8 days ago by Robert O'Har
3.0 out of 5 stars Rodriguez
Good music and lyrics but the sound quality is less than excellent. Pretty disappointed with the quality of the work.
Published 8 days ago by Richard B Packard
5.0 out of 5 stars Rodriguez sings and sings
Great performer. Poet in the best since of the word. Take in the movie about him and you will fall in love with him. Just a great guy from the streets of Detroit.
Published 8 days ago by J. Peterson
2.0 out of 5 stars Prefer Cold Fact.
After listening to Cold Fact, I was disappointed with the songs on this CD.
I would just stick with Cold Fact.
Published 10 days ago by Janis Terry
5.0 out of 5 stars A hometown talent we did not know
if you do not know who Rodriguez is and you are a music lover, you need to watch the the documentary on this artist, "Searching for Sugarman". Read more
Published 10 days ago by Carol Santavicca
5.0 out of 5 stars great album!
This guy is great. I listen to him all the time in the car.
Shipped very fast. Good price!
I would buy again.
Published 14 days ago by lynn
5.0 out of 5 stars What an Amazing Story
Everyone who loves music should watch this! I went out after seeing it and bought his CD's! Three more words required by Amazon
Published 20 days ago by Richard a. Cotton
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