Fog on the Tyne [Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Import]

Lindisfarne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 10, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: EMI Europe Generic
• ASIN: B00022M00Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,376 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

UK Remastered reissue of 1971 album that went all the way to #1, includes the hits, 'Fog On The Tyne' & 'Meet Me On The Corner'. Charisma. 2004.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lindisfarne's tour d' force release, June 28, 2000

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R. Lindeboom "theboomer" (Paso Robles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fog on the Tyne (Audio CD)

This album came along in the States at a time when groups like Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Strawbs, Nick Drake and a bunch of others were plying the waters of Celtic folk rock. But Alan Hull & Company were different; these guys were as ragged as Fairport in their loosest moments -- but they could be as polished and sharp as the Strawbs in their best moments. These guys were tight, multi-instrumentalists that played in the best of the tradition of English folk bands of the late 60's and early 70's. Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull and Gryphon were also contemporaries of Lindisfarne and had nothing on these guys. If you like any of the bands mentioned here and you've never added any Lindisfarne to your collection, you are missing a real treat here. Fog On the Tyne is Lindisfarne's best effort overall (though many of their albums are very good) and their combination of rich, instrumental passages is backed by thick and bawdy harmonies in a very British and rollicking sensibility. The band's guitar, mandolin and a seeming hundred other stringed instrument attack -- along with a great rythym section on the bass and drums -- gives them a sound that holds up well even today, thirty years later. Sadly, I heard somewhere that Alan Hull passed away recently, so there will be no nostalgia tours or "here we are again" releases from Lindisfarne. Get this one. It's simply great.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lindisfarne at their Best, October 13, 2004

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Morten Vindberg (Denmark) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fog on the Tyne (Audio CD)

"Fog on the Tyne" was Lindisfarne's second album originally released on Charisma records in 1971. It contains their first single-hit "Meet Me on the Corner", and the album itself spent many weeks in the charts. It's popularity even brought their first album "Nicely out of Tune" back into the charts. Interesting that their second hit single "Lady Eleanor" was taken from their great debut-album.

Though "Meet Me on the Corner" was written by Rod Clements, it is still lead singer and guitarist Alan Hull who is the dominating personality with his great songs like "January Song", "Peter Brophy Don't Care", "City Song" and "Passing Ghost".

Compared to their debut, the overall feeling on this album is more acoustic and though many songs are up-beat tempo, there is a very relaxed and pleasant feel to the album.

The two bonus-tracks are great additions; especially Alan Hull's fine B-side "No Time to Lose".

Like their debut "Nicely Out of Tune" , this is one of my all-time favourite albums.

Great sound on this new remastered CD release.

Highly recommended!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars She's a big lass, she's a bonnie lass, she likes her beer..., March 11, 2006

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Junglies (Morrisville, NC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fog on the Tyne (Audio CD)

Lindisfarne's greatest hit and more popular than the charming, folksy subtleties of Nicely Out of Tune, this album has much to commend it.

As the first album captured the return to the roots to traditional music in the heydey of psychedelica, so this, the second album is atune with the times as young people resumed their long term relationship with alcohol. This album for Lindisfarne is their equivalent of the second Grateful Dead live album, derided by New Musical Express as the boogie Dead. Well this is the drinker's album and I say that not in a derogatory way.

Meet Me On The Corner sounds like an anthem to a dug dealer and begins the album while the famous Fog On The Tyne which closes on the original celebrates the boozy rowdy city of Newcastle on Tyne with that wonderful refrain, we can have a wee-wee, we can have a wet on the wall. In between though the songs take on a more robust outlook while retaining the essential folk-rock sound. No Incredible String Band here but certainly the sounds of the urban poets in an environment forged in shipyards and coalmines and transient factories while industrial decline was to put thousands out of work.

The connection with drinking is very strong in the North East of England. Indeed the Saltgrass folk club in Sunderland was housed in a pub next to a shipyard which overwhelmed the sky and where shipyard workers, coming out of their shift would slake their thirst with a pint or six before going home to eat before returning to a local pub later in the evening. In the early days of deindustrialisation in the godforsaken council estates of Tyneside with their soulless uniformity and treeles vistas, then the only alternative to a life sentence on the dole was drugs and alcohol, the Lindisfarne album was most appropriate for the times. Indeed when touring in promotion of the album, drink was taken aplenty by performers and audience alike while the dancing was robust too.

All of the songs on this album have much to commend them. Alan Hull in particular hits his stride here with tight lyrics with a political message and songs, which outsiders might not find tender but girls from Benwell might.

This album is as much folk-rock as any Fairport Convention album but while the latter reflects a more genteel, middle England view, Fog on the Tyne is Northern through and through. Fog on the Tyne too is certainly more populist and gained the band a strong local following evidenced by the packed house at the first farewll concert at Newcastle City Hall where we all felt like part of the Lindisfarne extended family and the fact that this could be repeated by full houses for many years afterwards despite break ups and reformations and the decline in national popularity.

This album has an endearing quality to it which still exists to this day. So open up a bottle of Newcastle Brown Ales put on your dancing shoes and enjoy.