Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival [Import, Live]

Robyn Hitchcock, Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 12, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Live
• Label: Cambridge Folk Fest
• ASIN: B00000G6PO
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,830 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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  • #52 in Music > Folk > Contemporary Folk > Alternative Folk

Track Listings

1. So You Think You're In Lo

2. Driving Aloud

3. Uncorrected Personality T

4. Satellite

5. Birds In Perspex

6. Railway Shoes

7. Yip! Song

8. Egyptian Cream

9. Globe Of Frogs

10. Oceanside

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars fans will enjoy, newcomers may not be convinced, September 22, 2004

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Ed Stokes "another paid shill" (Philadelphia, PA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival (Audio CD)

Track listing is out of sequence. Performance varies from fairly energetic but not exactly rocking, to woozy. I expected something folkier. Snappy take on "The Yip! Song", cute a cappella harmonizing on "Uncorrected". When the band takes on its well-played, medium-slow, shiny, langorous groove, the words don't stand out quite enough, and the music loses me, as is typical in Robyn Hitchcock's post Soft Boys bands; "Globe of Frogs" works with this treatment, the rest is just okay.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Folk Festival Hitchcock, January 8, 2002

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Relayer71 "relayer71" (Astoria, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival (Audio CD)

While nowhere as good sounding as 1985's "Gotta Let This Hen Out", this unofficial (in that it was a BBC recording, and not released through the band's regular label at the time, A & M) live album recorded in 1992 is still worth owning.

It's a little on the short side, but the band's last two albums, 1991's "Perspex Island" and 1993's "Respect", are well represented, and we also get excellent renditions of "Egyptian Cream" from the band's 1985 debut "Fegmania", and the title track of 1988's "Globe Of Frogs". I however, could have done without the A Cappela "Uncorrected Personality Traits" from Hitchcock's solo album "I Often Dream Of Trains" and would have instead prefered something from one of the band's other albums. I would have also preferred to have a recording of the band at one of their regular shows, as this was an acoustic set.

As mentioned above, the sound isn't as clear and dynamic as on their official 1985 live album, but it sounds decent enough. If anything, it sounds more live because of this.

Note: The track listing on the sleeve is not in the correct order.