Giddeon Gaye

High Llamas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: V2 / Wasabi
• ASIN: B000004BSC
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,992 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Dutchman

2. Giddy and Gay

3. Easy Rod

4. Checking In, Checking Out

5. The Goat Strings

6. Up in the Hills

7. The Goat Looks On

8. Taog Skool No

9. Little Collie

10. Track Goes By

11. Let's Have Another Look

12. The Goat [Instrumental]

Editorial Reviews

Import pressing of their 1994 album. 13 tracks in all including the single, Checking In and Checking Out. V2.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of the greatest albums ever made, September 22, 1999

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This is glorious -- some sort of wild mixture of Brian Wilson, Steve Reich, the Band, the Beach Boys, and a distinctly 90s sensibility. Created for 4000 pounds sterling, it is an absolute whirl of different influences, transcended and exalted by Sean O'Hagan, the High Llamas' resident genius. There's nothing like "Gideon Gaye" anywhere. Do not let the seeming lightness of this album fool you. It is a particularly tender surrealism, with a distinctly English conservatism -- and by that, I don't mean the Religious Right or anything like that. Rather, the conservatism lies in the preservation of old values -- small towns, country lanes, gentility -- expressed in terrific rock and roll. Absolutely brilliant, with that marvelous mixture of the new and the old that T.S. Eliot explored in "Tradition and the Individual Talent." The High Llamas embrace both.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not a period record, June 2, 1999

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Singing like Donald Fagan and arranging like Brian Wilson does not make Sean O'Hagan a throwback artist or a mimic. O'Hagan uses ideas and riffs from Pet Sounds as his pallette to create a completely new work of art. His use of repetition to create musical trances is totally contemporary. This is a best of the Nineties record as far as I'm concerned.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful attempt at recapturing the "pet sounds" essence, April 29, 1999

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this was my second dose of the high llamas, the first being their most recent "cold and bouncy." although this album lacked the electronic blurps and bleeps that o'hagen's work with stereolab brought to "cold and bouncy," (which i really dug!) it still turned out to be cash well spent. being a fan of both stereolab-esque electro-euro-muzak-pop and classic rock and roll like steely dan, this seemed to fit right in the middle somewhere. in fact, i'd recommend throwing this disc in with "pet sounds" and steely dan's "can't buy a thrill" and hitting the random button. sometimes you're left guessing exactly who's who. many folks may feel that o'hagen's quest to create the next "pet sounds" is a worthless folly -- i'd most likely have to agree, that album may never be matched. but nevertheless, his attempts prove to be quite enjoyable for myself, as i've had this one on repeat for a few days now. if you really want something melodic and orchestral to chill out to, look no farther, my good man.