Delilah [Import]

Alex Harvey Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram UK
• ASIN: B000024EE7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #522,923 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Delilah

2. Money Honey

3. The Impossible Dream

4. Last Of The Teenage Idols

5. Shake That Thing

6. Framed

7. Anthem

8. Gamblin' Bar Room Blues

9. Tomorrow Belongs To Me

10. There's No Light On The Christmas Tree Mama They're Burning Big Louie Tonight

11. Cheek To Cheek

12. Runaway

13. School's Out

14. Faith Healer

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Great tunes, but mighty incomplete..., July 27, 2006

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Mark Hurley "Scumbag Style" (Long Island, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delilah (Audio CD)

Alex Harvey was the godfather of glam rock, mixing Bowie and Mercury's sensibilities with vaudeville and big band sounds, and giving birth to the era that spawned your precious GNR and AC/DC without falling into the pretensions that make such music all but unlistenable. The best part about SAHB is that Harvey is a brilliant man but never (ever) takes himself too seriously. That said, the multiple of incarnations of his hits compilations always seem to fall flat when one considers the wealth of tracks in his early career outside of SAHB and his solo work afterward. This compilation does that, and takes it a step further. There are tracks from the hight of SAHB's career that never make the cut, such as "Snakebite", "Vambo", and "The Tale of the Giant Stoneeater", not to mention the tracks seruptitiously released on The Penthouse Tapes and the underrated SAHB Stories. While the band's penchant for quirky covers is notorious, making "Delilah" - the swinging Tom Jones cover - the centerpiece of a hits album is insulting to the brilliance of the band, and Harvey in particular. Even as an introduction to the uninitiated, the record is stale and incomplete without the aforementioned tracks.

3.0 out of 5 stars On Familiar Turf, September 2, 2009

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Bicycle Day - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Delilah (Audio CD)

As with all SAHB CD releases, they are imported from the UK and are obviously targeted for an audience more attuned to the complete catalog of music that is (finally) receiving critical re-evaluation, especially with the band active again over the past several years.

Delilah is perhaps the most renowned of the band's numbers (and covers) on home turf, so a collection that prominently features it is not out of line. What is intriguing is four of the songs - Runaway, School's Out, Cheek to Cheek, Gamblin' Bar Room Blues - are pulled from The Penthouse Tapes, an album of covers. The other tracks stride on familiar territory - Framed, Faith Healer, Last of the Teenage Idols, Money Honey/Impossible Dream and There's No Lights on the Christmas Tree Mother, They're Burning Big Louie Tonight - with Shake That Thing and Anthem breaking away from the typical terrain.

Until a definitive box set - with alternate/unreleased studio and live tracks, etc. - is compiled, the variety of CD's that pull numbers from the eight albums (seven studio, one live; Fourplay was the band without Alex Harvey) released with Alex Harvey will need to suffice to fill in any gaps, especially for new fans.