Legendary Wolfgang Press & Other Tall Stories [Import]

Wolfgang Press | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: 4ad
• ASIN: B00000INJ5
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #67,109 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #96 in Music > Alternative Rock > British Alternative > General

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Press you can get on CD., June 6, 2001

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This review is from: Legendary Wolfgang Press & Other Tall Stories (Audio CD)

This EP collection is easily the best Press you can get. Deep, Driven, Depressing. Musically even much better than later works by them. I have a couple times had "Favorite" songs on this disk, only to start liking other songs "more." It's that deep! Truly sad in a way that a band with so much promise turned so vile...er..."musically evolved?" While TWP had a shining moment or two in the future; (Rotten Fodder - Standing up straight),(The Wedding - Bird Wood Cage),(Sucker - Queer), It's best just to get this and live in a time when people made dark atmospheric music that was good. Can you imagine seeing the tour when these guys opened for Nick Cave! O sweet lord. And by the way Elisa Staneff, your first review states that Neil Young lyrics where 'Lifted' from heart of gold. Now I've heard this before and am growing sick of it, Please point out these lyrics...did Neil say "The sound of music and lighted gardens"?

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars still fresh and enjoyable, February 2, 2002

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This review is from: Legendary Wolfgang Press & Other Tall Stories (Audio CD)

Eventually WP must have despaired of making their unique brand of music and turned to a more commercial (?) talking heads/pere ubu approach that we begin to glimpse on "Queer" and "Kansas" which are enjoyable nonetheless, but Legendary Tales is strong from start to finish even if the added DVD tracks are a bit murkier than the tracks from the original LP. If "Heart of Stone" hearks to Neil Young, it's anti-Young: a drowning man's plea amid self-absorption: "follow me and spread the word of all the people who go unheard." I don't know of anyone to whom to compare this, certainly not those in the 4AD stable--at that time, the WP seems a band apart. Livelier and less pretentious than Nick Cave's work, although with some inpenetrable lyrics at times, I'm reminded a bit more of the Mekons without the country but with the drunken flippancy, or Shriekback with a rougher edge. Recommended wholeheartedly.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent CD, September 8, 1999

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This review is from: Legendary Wolfgang Press & Other Tall Stories (Audio CD)

Wolfgang Press are for sure one of the best indie bands of the 80's. This album is very touching, and some people find it very dark as well. The best tracks on the album are Ecstasy, and I'm coming home(Mama). With an incredible mixture of sounds and instruments, W.P's music is really unique and...independent!