Rapture

Peter Mulvey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 30, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eastern Front Records
• ASIN: B000003GUW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #254,363 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rapture

2. On the Way Up

3. Question Mark

4. Smell the Future

5. The Voice

6. So Much More

7. If Love Is Not Enough

8. The Whole of the Moon

9. Half the Time

10. Black Rabbit

11. Dog Talk

12. The Dreams

13. Whole of the Moon [Live Subway Recording]

14. Aurora Boreallis

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time grants perspective, July 26, 2001

By 

Steven Carroll (Sammamish, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rapture (Audio CD)

This is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. It never leaves my CD for extended vacation and yet it remains fresh. Mulvey is a great singer songwriter with fantastic guitar skills. So here are some reasons you should buy this CD:

1) the live version of Whole of the Moon at the end is jaw dropping and a good idea of what live Mulvey is like. There's something very "real" about the subway train arriving in the middle.

2) even if you don't like the singer songwriter guys, if you are a guitar player, the guitar instrumental on this album will make you stare at your own hands with disdain and then go play finger exercises for a few hours. jaw-dropping.

3) i can't think of a more beautiful song than "One the way up". (for the young female audience i would add "and it was on Felicity")

4) White boy funk of "If love is not enough" would have been written by Stevie Wonder if he could see and was a white guy from Wisconsin.

5) Aurora Borealis. Archie Bunker experiences spiritual enlightenment or something. Again, amazing guitar work, great characterization in the lyrics.

I could list more, but you should be pushing the order button. Now go!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buying this album is step one, seeing him live is step two., September 14, 2003

By 

Scott Ulrich (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rapture (Audio CD)

I have all of Mulvey's cds, and they are all good, but Rapture is definitely my favorite. I'd put this on my top 10 cds of all-time list - I can leave this in my car cd player for weeks at a time. The guitar work on this cd is amazing and the lyrics are poeticly some of the best in modern day songwriting.

I've seen Mulvey play a handful of times and for anyone who has never seen him play, go to his website, find out when he is playing nearby, and go! If you have even a remote appreciatian for good music then I guaruntee you will not be disapointed. Peter has a funny personality and an interesting past as a Boston subway musician.

If you play guitar you will be amazed at how he plays. His guitar playing is full of odd tunings, and he comes up with a creative new style to playing guitar.

So what are you waiting for? Buy this cd, it is one of my personal all time favorites.
Scott

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great find!, November 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Rapture (Audio CD)

This album has been the soundtrack to my life for the past two years. The honesty of Peter Mulvey's words in combination with the simple power of his voice makes this album something that nearly every music lover will enjoy. Buy it now; put it on repeat and listen to one of modern folk's great poets.