I've Always Wanted to Do This [Import]

Jack Bruce | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 16, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Esoteric
• ASIN: B001BWQ0EQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #347,426 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Hit and Run

2. Running Back

3. Face Lift 318

4. In This Way

5. Mickey the Fiddler

6. Dancing on Air

7. Livin' Without Ja

8. Wind and the Sea

9. Out to Lunch

10. Bird Alone

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I've Always Wanted To Do This - Jack Bruce

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jack in the post 70s..., November 6, 1999

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Jason A. Levine (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I've Always Wanted To Do This (Audio CD)

For 1980's "I've Always Wanted To Do This," Jack Bruce took a step out of the 'self-indulgent-ME' 70s and leapt out into the world of click tracks, digital reverb and tight studio (albeit bare) production. The album has a feel which can only be found on releases from 1980-1982, but that's okay. Frankly, this IS NOT one of my favorites (thought Hit and Run is quite catchy); and if you're not keen on that particularly thin, dry, 80s Studio-Sound, you probably won't like this...However, it truly is a period piece, and though it may not shine like 1971's Harmony Row or 1977's How's Tricks, it is certainly akin to Picasso's 'blue' period pieces; a slight departure, but nonetheless brilliant...

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Memories of an 18 year old, July 1, 2003

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G. Shaw (Nr Winslow, Bucks United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I've Always Wanted To Do This (Audio CD)

This is one of Jack's great albums. The strength of writing is univesally strong and the musicianship - as one would expect - of the highest quality.

The album was written and rehearsed at an old manor house on Exmoor in the wilds of North Devon in England during the Summer of 1980. I was working there as a callow youth and my abiding memories of that time:-

1. Waking up to hear Jack working on Bird Alone - with its remarkable riff.
2. Playing Billy's drum kit oblivious to the fact that the entire band was watching my pathetic endeavours,
3. Being comprehensively outplayed at tennis by Clem Clemson
4. Drinking Guiness with Billy and helping him home!!
5. Playing scrabble - and losing - with Jack and Pete Brown

Oh and then there was the music.

For a good idea of what the band sounded live at this time look to the live album - Doing this on Ice.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thinking feeling music..rock solid Jack., May 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: I've Always Wanted To Do This (Audio CD)

Jack's music to me, can as a whole be rated a 10. This one is a 9 only compared to the body of his other work. It's not experimental and is just more of classic Jack Bruce. Very solid studio effort. The production is a little (by todays standards) sterile. The song writing style of Jack Bruce on this album seems to be completely unaware or uncaring perhaps of current trends. This doesn't matter much to the listener if the music is taken in an (as is) attitude. In the Album notes Jack comments that he always wanted to get together with these musicians (friends) and do a project. Thus the title. The "fun" they must have had shows through as well as does the obvious meeting of minds