Last Man to Fly

Tear Garden | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 1992)
• Original Release Date: June 12, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Nettwerk Records
• ASIN: B000005DBJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,108 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CD sounds like how the cover looks., November 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Last Man to Fly (Audio CD)

First off, I don't traipse around amazon handing out 5 star reviews. This may be the first i've given.

This cd is fabulous. I just picked up joy division, das ich, die form, r(italin)x, dire straits and this. And this is all i play. I had downloaded romulus and venus a long time ago and bought the cd on account of it. This is my first tear garden cd.

To the uninitiated, tear garden is the psychadelic love child of Eddie Ka-Spel and Kevin Crompton. Or whatever their names are. cEvin's sound manipulations are as brilliant as in skinny puppy, yet this time somehow playful. All the songs twist the listener's perspective to a rose colored reality, cEvin does that. I believe Ka-Spel's (or whatever) lyrics are the most intelligent, poetic and mystitying (quirky too). Real instruments, melody, never heard anything like it.

There are no awful songs on here. The Great Lie and Empathy With the Devil are spoken, so they get old after a while. Apart from that everything is great. If i hear the beginning of 'hyperform', i have to hear the song out, i can't skip it. Romulus and venus could be my favorite song of any artist, for right now. Love notes and carnations and isis veiled are both also insanely awesome.

If you're like me you surf reviews like these looking for mp3s to start on. Get romulus and venus and one other (hyperform, love notes and carnations, isis veiled), then buy the damn cd.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars You will love it or hate it.., March 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Last Man to Fly (Audio CD)

The Tear Garden is one of the supreme powers of electronic music. In my opinion, the Tear Garden is musical genius cEvin Key's best project. With bands like Skinny Puppy, Hilt, and Download under his belt, you know that is a tremendous compliment. I hate the way the CD starts though. "Hyperform" had no business being the first song. The CD starts off slow and builds momentum at uneven intervals. Relax and open your mind to the awesome synth work. This CD is mind music. Check out "Romulus and Venus." This song makes the whole CD worth buying. It is the best piece of electronic music I've ever heard. Awesome synths, strings, movie voice-overs, pounding beat, and unforgetable chorus meld together to form a piece of true magic. Worth checking out. Probably not for everyone though. I you like ORIGINAL music check it out NOW!!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Such A Surprise, August 2, 2005

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ThunderGrunge (Hampton, NH) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Man to Fly (Audio CD)

I have been a huge Skinny Puppy fan for years and I was in my local music store about 5 months ago. Anyways, one of the workers saw I was looking into Puppy and asked if I ever heard of Tear Garden? Amazingly, I never had, he instantly put this disc into my hands and compared it to Pink Floyd turned electronic. After blasting it for 5 months straight I have to say, this is such an amazing album. Personally, my favorite song would be "love notes and carnations" I always have that chorus stuck in my head. I have to admit the spoken word is a bit too much sometimes, but all in all, this disc is a return of psychedelic music with an upgrade.