Original Flying Pickets [Import]

Flying Pickets | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea
• ASIN: B00000JSPM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #392,699 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Under The Bridge

2. When Doves Cry

3. Sign Your Name

4. Smells Like Teen Spirit

5. Wonderful World

6. Here There & Everywhere

7. Tracks Of My Tears

8. She Drives Me Crazy

9. Only You

10. When You're Young & In Lo

11. Dance The Night Away

12. Road To Nowhere

13. Take My Breath Away

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, August 3, 2000

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Fabrisse "Fabrisse" (Dorchester, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Original Flying Pickets (Audio CD)

I've been a Flying Pickets fan since I heard the song *Wide Boy* on British radio 17 years ago. I thought that they'd only made the one studio album ("Lost Boys" 1983); after all the current Flying Pickets lineup doesn't have a single one of the original group in it. Then I discovered this album made 11 years later with 5 of the original 6 members (Rick Lloyd who wrote many of my favorite songs on "Lost Boys" isn't here). I've been playing it almost constantly since it arrived. Most of the songs are covers including a version of Nirvana's *Smells like Teen Spirit* that is dark and clear. There's also some terrific doo wop with *Tracks of My Tears* and *Wonderful World*. They also rerecorded their 2 top 10 (British and European Charts)hits in versions closer to the live performance that I saw. My 2 favorite covers are Terence Trent D'Arby's *Sign your Name* and the Beatles *Here There and Everywhere*, but then I've always been a sucker for both love songs and David Brett's voice. Good music, great performers, sensuous harmonies. The best of acapella.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Is this the greatest a cappella album ever?, January 21, 2005

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J. Mackerras "bristol diva" (Bristol, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Original Flying Pickets (Audio CD)

In my opinion, this is hard to beat. The arrangements are inventive, the song choice excellent, and the production is superb. The group manage to both pay homage to the original recording and surpass it in musicality and fun.

Buy it - your ears will love you forever.

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellence Defined!, February 7, 2009

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Richard Staats (McLean, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Original Flying Pickets (Audio CD)

What a fantastic album! I had a chance to attend a Flying Pickets concert, and it was a religious experience. They are absolutely brilliant.

Every sound on the album originates from the human body (albeit some with a little digital sound alteration).

Amazing!

I highly recommend this album for anyone that enjoys music and sound.

In service,

Rich
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