Velvet Donkey [Import]

Ivor Cutler | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 12, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00013BOBA
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #246,386 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. If Your Breasts

2. I Got No Common Sense

3. Useful Cat

4. Oho My Eyes

5. The Dirty Dinner

6. Yellow Fly

7. Mother's Love

8. The Meadows Go

9. Phonic Poem

10. Live In A Scotch Sitting Room Vol. 2

11. Birdswing

12. Nobody Knows

13. Uneventful Day

14. Little Black Buzzer

15. Bread And Butter

16. A Nuance

17. Go And Sit Upon The Grass

18. The Even Keel

19. Pearly Gleam

20. The Best Thing

See all 31 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

1975 album from the Scottish singer/songwriter, one of the most unique figures on the pop music fringe, features 31 tracks including 6 tracks accompanied by Fred Frith , using his own arrangements, on the viola. Virgin.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars I've got no common sense, and neither has nobody else (but read my review anyhow!), June 6, 2011

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J. Bonder "A Sound Painter" (Toronto) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Velvet Donkey (Audio CD)

The title sums this one up pretty well folks; this album is both easy and ungainly, smooth and rough around the edges, incredibly soft and soothing and abrupt at once. For Cutler fans who haven't gotten around to purchasing this one yet, there is no excuse for further hesitation. For those of you new to Mr. Cutler, this is likely as fine a place to start as any.

This album is positively sublime. Cutler's creativity, wit and insight into humanity is truly one of a kind. His songs, poems, jokes and stories somehow manage to be incredibly funny, touching, bizarre, melancholic and wistful. A surreal streak follows through all of his creations, whether they are based on real experience or entirely fictional. Cutler, like many a great "genius" has retained his sense of child-like wonder, and easily recaptures and makes plain the awe and bewilderment with which a child observes the world.

Velvet Donkey and Cutler's other works demonstrate the true value of combining entertainment with real substance. This album always gets me laughing, thinking, reflecting and feeling warm and tingly. Who wouldn't want that?