Deep Cuts / Burning for You [Import]

Strawbs | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 11, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Road Goes on Forever
• ASIN: B00000746S
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #490,717 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I Only Want My Love to Grow in You

2. Turn Me Around

3. Hard Hard, Winter

4. My Friend Peter

5. The Soldiers' Tale

6. Simple Visions

7. Charmer

8. (Wasting My Time) Thinking of You

9. Beside the Rio Grande

10. So Close and Yet So Far Away

Disc: 2

1. Burning for Me

2. Cut Like a Diamond

3. I Feel Your Loving Coming On

4. Barcarole (For the Death of Venice)

5. Alexander the Great

6. Keep on Trying

7. Back in the Old Routine

8. Heartbreaker

9. Carry Me Home

10. Goodbye (Is Not an Easy Word to Say)

Editorial Reviews

1996 release on The Road Goes On Forever/ Witchwood label. Features their 1976 & 1977 studio albums, respectively, and digitally remastered on two separate CDs within a double slimline jewel case. 20 tracks total, including 'I Only Want My Love To Grow In You', 'Turn Me Round', 'Burning For Me' & 'Cut Like A Diamond'. Also contains a 12 page lyric booklet. The full titles of each are 'Deep Cuts' and 'Burning For You'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed bag., October 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Deep Cuts / Burning for You (Audio CD)

Deep Cuts, the first of the two discs included in this two-for, is actually a pretty good album. As of the release of Ghosts, the Strawbs began developing more along the lines of prog-pop than prog-folk/rock. Where not as strong as Ghosts or the follow up recording, Nomadness, Deep Cuts is along those lines but with a harder sound. The band is solid, and the songs, for the most part, are as well. The second disc, Burning for You, is really quite a weak recording. In fact, at this point the Strawbs were finished. In an effort to attempt to stay relevant to the sound of the times they lost that which made them original and ended up sounding like a second rate power pop band. It's a shame really as they had put together a rather impressive catolog of material that still holds up well to this day. Beginners should start with Hero and Heroine, Ghosts, Bursting at the Seams, and Grave New World. Nomadness, is unfortunately unavailable at this writing as it too is worth obtaining....Simon

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars By no means, their best, June 4, 2000

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Scott T Mc Nally (ORLANDO, Fl USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deep Cuts / Burning for You (Audio CD)

In the early and mid 70's the Strawbs were one of my favorite bands.The addition of Dave Lambert on lead guitar and vocals in 73 was a Godsend at first, but the songs he wrote on his own became cheesier with each passing release. I do agree with another reviwer here that "Deep Cuts" has some fine moments, but "Burning For You", aside from the great title track is downright embarassing. If you're looking for a good starting point to get into with this band, for God's sake don't start here. Start with "Bursting At The Seams" or "Hero and Heroine" The band went into a steady artistic decline after they left A&M in 75. The material they released from 1969-1975 is by far, their best

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars one good, one bad, February 2, 2005

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Jim Panzee (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Deep Cuts / Burning for You (Audio CD)

My only real disagreement with Lawrance Bernabo, is that I like Deep Cuts much better than Nomadness. Nomadness was an artistic and marketing disappointment that brought an end to the Strawbs A&M recording contract. Deep Cuts represented a return to form. The album isn't totally consistent -- the Strawbs rarely were -- but I Only Want My Love to Grow in You, the Soldiers Tale, Simple Visions and Beside the Rio Grande are superlative tracks which stand comparison to the best of the Strawbs earlier work. The other tracks are all pretty good. Overall, the album is actually more like Bursting at The Seams (or at least the Cousins tracks on it) than the intervening albums. The Soldiers Tale, for instance, has a thundering final instrumental section that reminds you of Down By the Sea.

If you're a fan of the group, Burning For You is painful to listen to. Burning for Me and Cut Like a Diamond are the only good tracks; the rest don't even qualify as mediocre. I don't think the problem is John Hawken's absence, although he's missed. It's that the Strawbs always relied on Dave Cousins' songwriting, and on Burning For You he had run out of ideas. Maybe they had a contractual obligation to get an album out by the release date -- that's the only explanation I can offer.