Demos Federico

Holly & Italians | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 25, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Wounded Bird Records
• ASIN: B00008BNTP
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,719 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. It's Only Me [Demo Version]

2. Fanzine [Demo Version]

3. Chapel of Love [Demo Version]

4. One More Dance [Demo Version]

5. Honalu [Demo Version]

6. Unoriginal Sin [Demo Version]

7. Where Baby Walks

8. Marcy [Demo Version]

9. Love Letter

10. That Was

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. The Lonely Ones [Version #1]

2. Then Carolyn

3. Witness

4. My Town

5. Mysteries in a Doll's House

6. The Longest Breath

7. Treasure Island

8. Walking With Lorraine

9. Try Me

10. Weekend

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buried treasure from a time of glory!, August 31, 2006

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Milesman (Redwood City, CA United States) - See all my reviews

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Gems and gold buried for 20 years! None of this material has ever been previously released, it's off demo tapes and you will be hearing in many cases pristine, brand-new Holly songs you've never heard before! Many are obviously, not sugar-coated by commercial production... and you'll love them that way--raw power and the clean edge of newborn songs. Highlights: the gorgeous epics "Hey Christine" and "Here Comes Another Day"; sweet surfy, irresistible "Love Letter"; "Lonely"; the two versions of "Mercy"; awesome demo versions of "Honalu" and "One More Dance"; hard-rockers "Weekend" and "Iguana"... and the never-before-heard original version of "You Can Love Her", which Shirley Manson covered as a devastating goth prophecy with Angelfish. There is the lovely second version of "The Lonely Ones", written for a movie soundtrack... and on and on.

Once you fall under the spell of Holly's unique, passionate, commanding, and unforgettable voice you'll trip on every one of these 29 songs! Echoes of goth, of surf beckon in the depths of these new wave war dances. They cover a whole spectrum and show all of Holly's vibrant styles... much like the facets of a diamond. Here and there, it is still a diamond in the rough, and you may wish you could dial down a slightly harsh track in an otherwise mind-blowing demo, but these are minor flaws utterly eclipsed by the steady professional power and inspiration flowing like high voltage through all of this music.

Thank God they released these!

Bottom line: ain't no "filler", ain't no "mellow" on these discs. In this case, "demo" stands for "demolition"!

29 rounds of live ammunition for your CD player.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars inspirational and frustrating, December 1, 2006

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Buddy Barker "clandeinc" (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Demos Federico (Audio CD)

As the previous reviewer said there is no filler here. Even though I've heard some of these songs before in different incarnations this still feels like a proper Holly album. These songs represent Holly during the time she kind of fell off the music map up to her resurfacing as the Oblivious. Everything here is a winner. The songs are so catchy and Holly is quite an underrated guitar player. Still I think it's her voice with its breathy romantic melancholy that sucks me in. It makes me glad to know that without a record contract Holly still moved onward and continued to make music of merit with little or no audience. The fact that these tracks have only recently seen the light really angers me in that so many monumentally untalented people crank out so much dreck when someone like Holly is ignored. I hope I'm not alone in eagerly awaiting to see if Holly decides to release anything anytime soon (it took almost a decade last time she went away). So how about it Holly? If you actually read this somewhat gushy review please know that you are missed respected and loved.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must concur with the previous, August 18, 2008

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William Kirk (Rochester, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Demos Federico (Audio CD)

I go back a long way with H.B.V. Saw her twice, fell over myself to meet her backstage, telling her 'You have done such great things'!
Well, I got my copy about 6 months ago. I must say I've been listening to it pretty regularly since. As far as I am concerned, 'Lonely', with its cellos and crunchy rock chords is probably the most rocking song I have heard in a long damn time. And 'Mysteries of a Doll's House' is almost painfully plaintive; these are the best two songs from ANY artist in any pop/rock/folk/C&W idiom that I have heard in years. You know, if it weren't that Ms. Vincent is probably starving in LA, or at least not drowning in her success, I would be GLAD that there are so few of us to share this treasure. I am greedy.