Del Amitri [Import]

Del Amitri | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Chrysalis/EMI Records
• ASIN: B000003JAT
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #436,069 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK re-issue of their first album originally, released in 1985.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars pop genius, May 6, 2004

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Marquis (CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Del Amitri (Audio CD)

I'll admit that I came about this album by accident. I immediately fell in love with "Roll to Me" and after vaguely remembering that they had a tune a few years earlier that I also liked (Always the Last to Know) I went to the record store with the intention of buying the new CD (I am refering to Twisted which was new at the time). They only had this one in stock. I hesitated but ended up with it mostly because it was only a few bucks. Thank god. Every song kicks ass. Screw Roll to Me. These songs are incredible. One after another. My personal faves are Former Owner and Sticks and Stones, and Ceasefire. I put I Was Here and Keepers in a league with the best the eighties have to offer, period. The only tune I don't care for is the first one (Heard Through a Wall I believe is the title of it). Great stuff. Pick it up if you find it. One word of caution from a person that was subsequently disappointed. This is the only Del album that sounds like...well, like it does. They changed drastically and for the worse save a few one offs in this reviewer's op.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars sorry, dude...you're out-numbered, January 9, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Del Amitri (Audio CD)

I get a kick out the one review listed: ACK, ACK...HATED IT!!

Everyone else afterwards thinks it flippin' brilliant, and I have to fall into the latter category. The Dels have done NOTHING that comes REMOTELY close to this magnificent work, (for that matter, neither had anyone else...hmmm...maybe Prefab Sprout). The observation that everything afterward was "polished and lubed for commercial airplay" is dead on!! They are truly left to "fly" on this record. The musicianship on this disc is incredible, and contrary to what that other guy says, the lyrics are phenomenal, ("I suppose love lives in a dustbin behind the garden wall....")

I saw them doing an acoustic set at a last-minute, unpublicized show in Detroit - what a thrill.

This is one of the BEST pop albums of all time, in my not-so-humble-opinion, (and don't get me wrong; I KNOW it's just that). I am INFINITELY glad I found it here, my old cassette from the mid-80's has seen better days.

If you are able, pick it up...NOW!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars springboard for a career, January 26, 2001

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Don Riley (Asheville, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Del Amitri (Audio CD)

For those of us who were around in the late 70's, early '80's after the bubblegum was stale and the leisure suits had holes in them, we waited while music was poised on the edge of receiving in a new era -- not knowing what form it would take. The world was an experiment. This album for the dels marked the only time they were quirky and care-free and not trying to become a marketable product without giving up their artistic freedom. Every album after this, though they included many bright spots as "Hatful of Rain" attests (not a single cut of this masterpiece is on there), was a sacrifice of that freedom. The 33 minutes contained here are the sparse, basic and raw talent of the boys to just plain let it fly. And it soars. Owning this with the guitar pick beginning and 28 beat vocal hold in "Heard Through a Wall", the beautiful angst of "Former Owner" to the final jangle of "Breaking Bread" plus the "Hatful of Rain" CD will teach you all there is to the dels and you won't regret either lesson. They never played like this again, and though I enjoyed much of the later stuff, I was sorrier for it.