Gideon Gaye

High Llamas | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 7, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002BD2
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,735 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #29 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Chamber Pop
  • #61 in Music > Alternative Rock > Indie & Lo-Fi > Electronic Pop
  • #65 in Music > Indie Music > Dance & DJ > Electronica

Track Listings

1. 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]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful record, June 3, 2008

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Bill Your 'Free Form FM Handi Cyber Print DJ ... (Mahwah, NJ USA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: Gideon Gaye (Audio CD)

Brian Wilson did rock and roll a great service by not putting out Smile in 1967. Since the album was the best psychdelic masterpiece music fans never heard in their lives, lots of musicians with great taste spent 35 years trying to make a record that would fill the gap Smile's legend left.

Gideon Gaye is the best of these albums. All the songs are well-written and tightly arranged. Strings, harpsichords and horns abound, but always serve the music, never sounding guady or flashy. There are lots of backward tape swells and sounds you can only make in a studio-well maybe that's not true with today's technology, but you get my point- but there is a musical reason for all this and it is never contrived or pretentious. The songs segue well, and the whole CD is a wonderful suite. The Llamas listened intently to their Smile bootlegs, went into a studio, and play every gambit extremely well.

I am glad Mr. Wilson finally completed his masterpiece, so many years later.

But I am even more glad he gave the High Llamas a chance to make Gidion Gaye first. I am just so surprised other reviewers don't like it.

1 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars weak...the musical equivalent of capri sun, August 2, 2004

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Davy (Athens, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Gideon Gaye (Audio CD)

i got this at a wherehouse music going-out-of-business sale for hardly anything at all, and for what i payed for it, it's a great find. but this just isn't my kind of music. too pleasant, not enough shadows...it's nice background music, is what it is. the same problem i have with stereolab. the only difference is that these guys tend to do things a little more organically. you know you've got some problems when the two best things about a pop album are its clever title and an 8-minute flute solo (which is admittedly wonderful).