Great Eastern

Delgados | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 9, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Beggars UK - Ada
• ASIN: B00004SA96
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,473 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reserve making judgment, September 3, 2000

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Mark Keith (Mesa, AZ USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Eastern (Audio CD)

"Soft Bulletin"? "Deserter's Songs"? I thinking more along the lines of "OK Computer": the quintessential, remarkable third album. The first five or six times I listened this I was afraid I might have added another mediocre CD to my collection -- something a shade below the previous "Peloton" and "Domestiques". But sometime in there, having owned "The Great Eastern" for a little over a week, listening to it at least twice while driving from Arizona to Kansas, sometime about 10 o'clock in the evening (Central time) on August 2nd, while entering Clay Center Kansas, I came to the conclusion: "I really like this CD. I like it a lot."

I'll admit, most of the tunes seem to begin a little wimpy, a little self-conscious and flat. But by the time last note is played they will have long transcended all of their seeming weaknesses. And I think it's good to hear intelligent pop music that doesn't rely heavily on irony and sarcasm to give it that aura of intelligence. This is a close second in my favorite CDs of the year 2000 (The Mendoza Line's "We're All In This Alone" is currently my favorite).

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars relax - its about the music!, March 10, 2003

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Paul (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Eastern (Audio CD)

...The Delgados are truly wonderful composers of music that has many depths and layers. Ironically, they also can sound quite bare.

For those who fail to see the connections between, say a Soft Bulletin or a Deserter's songs, might I add that Dave Fridmann produced all three records (buy them all - they're all gggreat or grate as they say in the UK).

This Delgado's album is simply a harder edged Bulletin or Mercury Rev album. They are all unique but they share the glorious production of Dave Fridmann.

God bless Emma, Alun, Stuart, and Paul and their session musicians for making a remarkable piece of art that will last forever.

P.S. Check out their recent album, HATE. It lacks the edge that 'Eastern' has but is beautiful in its own right.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recomended, March 22, 2004

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"thecenturyoffakers" (Provo, UT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Eastern (Audio CD)

Few bands are a consistantly brilliant as the Delgados. Forget not releasing a bad album, the Delgados haven't even released a bad song. With the relese of Hate last year, I went through their back catalog and was plesently surprised, especially with this one. Their albums definantly stand the test of time. Their are a lot of great bands from Glasgow (Belle and Sebastian, Mogwai, ect...), but the Delgados are far more consistant than those bands and I find myself listening to "The Great Eastern" far more than "The Boy With the Arab Strap".