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Sky Cries Mary | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 22, 1995)
• Label: World Domination
• ASIN: B000005LA7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #546,935 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Walla Walla

2. Moving Like Water

3. Gone

4. Circus Church

5. 2000 Light Years from Home

6. When the Fear Stops

7. Lay Down Your Head

8. Rain

9. Ocean Which Humanity Is

10. Broken Down

11. Rosaleen

12. Buss to Gate 23

13. Joey's Aria

14. We Will Fall

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best neo-psychedelia album ever, period., June 6, 2001

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Mitchell C. Loe "arcana13" (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Return to Inner (Audio CD)

No one has reviewed this? It's out of print? Has the world tilted off its axis, lost all 23 degrees of taste and surrendered itself to the boy bands and teen-blonde-of-the-month acts? Alas, perhaps it has. If you can find this album, buy it. These Seattle tripsters were not grunge, not Soundgarden-heavy. Nor were they Paisley Underground school psych, either. When Aniso Romero joined up with Roderick and multi-instrumentalist bandmates, began harmonizing like Marty Balin and Grace Slick, and writing long, swirling jams with excellent production, psychedelia was finally reborn in a manner equal to its origins. This is the best Sky Cries Mary album; Exit at the Axis and This Timeless Turning still earn 5 stars from me; with their move to a major label (which gave them little promotion or support, it seems) their sound began moving towards mainstream pop and they soon disbanded. "Rain," the cover of "2000 Lightyears from Home," and the long jam at the end of this album are more than worth the purchase price alone. I like Mazzy Star, Opal, Rain Parade and all those related acts--SCM is better. I love Syd Barrett and his Pink Floyd, SCM is the natural heir. I love Prog, particularly Robert Fripp fronted sounds, Soft Machine, and Henry Cow--This Sky Cries Mary album fits in my 5 disk player with these and at times overwhelms the others, it's that good.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Reliving the inner experience, May 15, 2004

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Erica Anderson (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Return to the Inner Experience (Audio CD)

I was a freshman back in '93 when I bought Sky Cries Mary's "A Return to the Inner Experience". I was looking for music that was different from what my housemates were listening to which was top 40/country garbage. Like anyone in Iowa was going to listen to more experimental, less commercial music like Sky Cries Mary. I was attracted to the beautiful album cover which made me buy it. I was rummaging through my old cassette collection and came across my Sky Cries Mary tape. I hadn't listened to it in years. When I first listened to it ten years ago, I didn't know what to make of it therefore I set it aside to collect dust. I really wasn't familiar with world and ambient music at the time. I was still pretty set in my punk roots. Listening to the tape now, the music makes more sense to me since I have learned to embrace music of different cultures as well as techno music. Sky Cries Mary reminds me of Dead Can Dance, The Cocteau Twins, with a smidgeon of Delerium. The album starts off with the beautiful instrumental "Walla Walla" and from there gets better and better with its more rock-orientated, world and ambient influence songs. Singer Anisa Romero has a beautiful set of pipes. Her ethereal vocals reminds me a little of Elizabeth Frasier (The Cocteau Twins) and Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance). If you ask me, Anisa has that voice that would be ideal for Delerium's music. If she is still around, Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber should ask her to contribute to their music. All the songs are great but I especially enjoy the haunting sounds of "Rosaleen". That song has always stuck out for me. I also especially enjoy listening to "Moving Like Water" and "Gone". If you are looking for something different from what you hear on the radio, Sky Cries Mary is for you. If you want to hear the same old bland, boring so-called alternative music, this band isn't for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Seattle's First Band On The Moon, June 3, 2003

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Timothy A. Rundquist (Fergus Falls, MN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Return to Inner (Audio CD)

SCM was too far-out to be aptly described in words, to be commercially successful-- and, ultimately, to reside on this earth. Their live shows were a swirling trip, with pulsating amoebae projected onscreen and the lead female singer dressed as a tree; no drugs were necessary. This particular album captured that feeling perhaps the best of any of their outings, with their cover of (appropriately) "2,000 Light Years From Home" as the major highlight.
Perhaps, from a musical standpoint, it's good that they never made the "big time," as we'd likely have seen a number of pale imitators. SCM was truly one-of-a-kind.