Eps By Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 9, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 5
• Label: Thirsty Ear
• ASIN: B00000I14G
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #787,989 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I'm a Believer [Extended Version][#]

2. Memories

3. Yesterday Man

4. Sonia [Alternate Version]

See all 5 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Shipbuilding [Remastered Version]

2. Memories of You

3. Round Midnight

4. Pigs... (In There)

See all 5 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Yolanda

2. Te Recuerdo Amanda

3. Biko

4. Amber and the Amberines

Disc: 4

1. The Animals' Film

Disc: 5

1. Was a Friend [Remix]

2. Maryan [Remix]

3. A Sunday in Madrid [Remix]

4. Free Will and Testament [Remix]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only Robert Wyatt Can Do This, May 27, 2001

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"undeletablearchive" (Hove, East Sussex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Eps By Robert Wyatt (Audio CD)

This is a superb collection. It's not just an outtakes/alternate takes/odds'n'sods set. It brilliantly catalogues Robert's history, compressing it into 5 short, absolutely essential CDs gorgeously packaged by Alfreda Benge and stacked inside a lovely plasticised blue box. CDs 1-3 are uniformly excellent, documenting Robert's sophisticated pop period ('I'm A Believer'; 'Shipbuilding'), followed by some of his overtly political material. 'Pigs... (In There)' is a short docu-drama of animal rights outrage, done without any hectoring or proselytising; just an innocently human, incredulous 'Pigs?... In THERE?' repeated over and over. Simple, unassuming, but deeply, deeply affecting. CD 4 presents the eerie, disoriented music of 'The Animals Film': thinly produced, solarized, insomniac, frazzled. There is real suffering here. After all this, though, it's Disc 5 that really drops your jaw. This is - wait for it - a set of techno remixes of some key tracks from 'Shleep'. 'Shleep' is already the best progressive rock record of the last 20 years; but these tracks, ProTooled to perfection with dark ambient textures, dubscapes, and sophisticated beats, boost Wyatt the Artist straight into the stratosphere, as far as I am concerned. This CD reinvents the progressive rock genre, showing with absolute grace how current forms can reframe mature concerns for modern consumption. Robert would probably shrug and tell us it was just an experiment and anyway he didn't have much to do with it. How Robert Wyatt. How... refreshing. Buy this CD, because only Robert Wyatt (a genius who would look at his shoes if you said so) Can Do This.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic !!!, June 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eps By Robert Wyatt (Audio CD)

This album is the one I've been looking for so long. Especially the video-enhanced clip of SHIPBUILDING.