Liverpool Sessions [EP]

Tracy Bonham | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 7, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: EP
• Label: Cherrydisc
• ASIN: B000001BGU
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,397 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sunshine

2. Dandelion

3. Heads Roll By

4. The Real

5. Talk

6. I'm Not A Waif

7. Big Foot

Editorial Reviews

TRACY BONHAM The Liverpool Sessions (Original 1995 US Cherrydisc label 7-track CD EP - her debut release including Sunshine Dandelion and Im Not A Waif tinted colour picture sleeve)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tracy Bonham - So underrated! So good!, October 5, 2004

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Misty K. Turner (VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liverpool Sessions (Audio CD)

This was her first (I believe!) release on Cherrydisk records, and she comes out of the gate with an amazing voice and sound that takes you by surprise. Even though it's an EP, it made an impression on me so great that I've been a fan ever since! Songs like Dandilion are still on my playlist, years later. This is a great start for any collection of her CDs, but make sure you check out the Burdens of Being Upright as well.

3.0 out of 5 stars A Strange but Memorable Debut, July 27, 2006

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Peter Marinari (Philadelphia, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liverpool Sessions (Audio CD)

Tracy Bonham's precociously oddball songwriting and her unusual electric violin backing won her enough support to issue this debut EP, which was re-released by her label after she hit it big with "Mother Mother." Her inexperience is evident on this uneven collection of early tunes that mostly favors a focus on loud guitars, but also evident are the elements that would make her debut album so widely-appreciated.

Of note is "Sunshine," a peculiar lullabye libelling a peculiarly sociopathic acquaintance of the titular name. But, the best-in class here are a pair of raucous rockers. Punk-paced "I'm Not a Waif" is the first of many tunes to match Tracy's sardonic lyric wit with a surge of distorted guitars and unusual Eastern-European-tinged violins ("I'm not a waif, but oh i am tired ... who cares if i'm hungry?"). "Dandelion" is a modern rock hit never landed - Tracy locks on to her "The One" loud-to-quiet ratio, but with clever lyrics that match her youthful indecision ("All my life i thought if i was the one to save the world it would come easy, but now i'm old enough to piss and moan instead").

An interesting glimpse into Tracy's perhaps too-quick early development as a songwriter, but "Sunshine" and "Dandelion" prove the chops that lead her to getting signed.