Sleeper Catcher / Time Exposure

Little River Band | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 21, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B000066JFG
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,034 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #34 in Music > Indie Music > Pop > Soft Rock
  • #72 in Music > Indie Music > Pop > Adult Contemporary

Track Listings

1. Shut Down Turn Off

2. Reminiscing

3. Red-Headed Wild Flower

4. Light Of Day

5. Fall From Paradise

6. Lady

7. Sanity's Side

8. So Many Paths

9. One For The Road

10. The Night Owls

11. Man On Your Mind

12. Take It Easy On Me

13. Ballerina

14. Love Will Survive

15. Full Circle

16. Just Say That You Love Me

17. Suicide Boulevard

18. Orbit Zero

19. Don't Let The Needle Win

20. Guiding Light

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Little River Band was the first Australian group to achieve a gold album in the United States. This collection includes two original albums, together for the first time, from the vaults of Capitol Records. 22 tracks including the bonus cuts 'We Two' & 'You're Driving Me Out Of My Mind'. 2002 release on Collectables.

Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Looking Back"- "Sleeper Catcher/Time Exposure", July 7, 2002

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Francis X. Homsany (Corona, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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If you want to listen to some music with a real "thowback in time" feel, you might want to buy Little River Band's "Sleeper Catcher/Time Exposure" 2 disc CD. When "Sleeper Catcher" came out in l978, Little River Band was swimming more heavily into "soft rock" waters and slowly abondoning their "Crosby, Stills, and Nash" flavor. "Sleeper Catcher" is a very pleasant sounding album with a blend of quality songwriting from group leaders Graham Goble, Glenn Shorrock, and Beeb Birtles. "Time Exposure" was released a few years later in l981 with, essentially, the same band and producer (John Boylan), but with a different musical flavor directed toward "pop" as opposed to "soft rock". "Time Exposure" contains some of LRB's most commerical hits, such as "Take It Easy On Me", "Man on Your Mind", and "The Night Owls". "Time Exposure" was the band's commerical peak with key members slowly disbanding on the albums thereafter. All in all, this 2 disc album is a smart buy for pleasant '70's music with quality songwriting.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sleeper Catcher alone is worth the price of this double feature!, September 25, 2009

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Parrish A. Highley "the_projectron" (Somewhere I've Never Travelled) - See all my reviews
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Although they may never get the credit they deserve for paving the long way to America for other Australian acts like Air Supply and Men At Work, The Little River Band did so with stellar musicianship, beautifully arranged vocal harmonies, and some incredibly versatile songcraft. Anyone who truly lends Sleeper Catcher the ear it so richly deserves would be hard-pressed to force it into any single conventional category. While generally regarded as soft rock or adult contemporary, in truth The Little River Band harnessed any number of progressive elements to make their particular brand of popular rock music far more intriguing than many of the groups with whom they typically get lumped.

Shut Down Turn Off opens Sleeper Catcher with a nicely progressive chord structure before "progressing" into the core of the song. It then ends in such a cleverly ambient manner that I cannot help but think that it would probably make Alan Parsons proud. It's the sort of album-oriented song that used to thrive in the 1970's and make the album experience unique to simply listening to the radio. But as much as I love Shut Down Turn Off, I love the languidly jazzy and beautifully arranged "Light of Day" even more!

The two big hits off Sleeper Catcher are Reminiscing and Lady. While I like the former, I love Lady for its, again, more progressive arrangement which ebbs and flows whereas the arrangement of the former is much more straight-forward and conventional. That said, one cannot find fault with the chord progression in album's biggest hit. Other songs that really standout are "Fall From Paradise" and "Sanity's Side" which seems almost like a prelude to another fantastic LRB song Cool Change.

While Sleeper Catcher is a solid five-star achievement, Time Exposure is best rated with four stars. Good, but just not inspired in the same manner that Sleeper Catcher clearly was. But even with that said, there are several fantastic songs on Time Exposure like Take It Easy On Me, Man On Your Mind, and, especially, the standout track on the album The Night Owls! The album-oriented songs on this album probably won't grab a newer listener immediately, but, given time, I think many will grow to appreciate Ballerina, Guiding Light, and We Two.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite LRB albums., July 27, 2005

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Sheila Parker (Aberdeen, USA) - See all my reviews

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These are my 2 all-time favorite LRB albums. I have them on vinyl and I was happy to see that they came out on cd, which includes 2 extra tracks, You're Driving Me Out Of My Mind and We Two, which also happen to be my favorite LRB songs. These have been my favorites albums for over 25 yrs. Get it, you won't be disappointed.