Customer Reviews

The Cake Sale

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

This is a good little collection of songs, that compliment rather than enhance a collection. Tracks such as 'Some Suprise', 'Black-Winged Bird', & 'Last Leaf' all hit the right notes, but Conor Deasy's version on the Josh Ritter composition 'Good Intentions Rust' is truely aweful and looses 2 stars for me. A great cause 'OXFAM' benefitted from the sale of the album and all collaborators seemed to have enjoyed the process. It is worth the price for the above songs at least and is a welcome diversion from other sorry attempts at charity records.

This is the best album I heard in 2006 (when it was originally released in Eurpoe) with some fantastic gems of songs 'Vapour Trail', 'Black Winged Bird' and 'Some Surprise' in particular that alone make it worth buying. Surprised Snow Patrol and Bell X1 did not keep some of the songs for their own albums. A masterpiece - buy this album and you will not regret it, plus money goes to a good cause.

I was expecting more from this than I got, it mostly just sounded very boring and bland to me. Even with the supposed best songs like "Some Suprise", I found nothing memorable or redeemable about them. It's only good for a charitable contribution, and not much more.