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Flat Earth Society | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Arf Arf
• ASIN: B0000035ZK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #387,218 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Feelin' Much Better

2. Midnight Hour

3. I'm So Happy

4. When You're There

5. Four & Twenty Miles

6. Prelude for the Town Monk

7. Shadows

8. Dark Street Downtown

9. Portrait in Grey

10. In My Window

11. Satori

12. Space Kids, Pt. 1

13. Space Kids, Pt. 2

14. Incidental Music to "Space Kids"

15. Incidental Music to "Space Kids" (Continued)

16. Incidental Music to "Space Kids" (Continued)

17. Incidental Music to "Space Kids" (Continued)

18. Incidental Music to "Space Kids" (Continued)

19. Incidental Music to "Space Kids" (Continued)

20. Incidental Music to "Space Kids" (Continued)

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you LIKE the Bosstown sound..., February 3, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Waleeco (Audio CD)

There are always people who enjoy denigrating all of the bands which make up the Bosstown sound, but there are also people who enjoy these bands as well. If you're a fan of the Ultimate Spinach, or the Beacon Street Union, you will not be disappointed with this album. I personally think their cover of "Midnight Hour" is fantastic!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent album with some awesome songs, October 31, 2004

By 

C. M. Roughan "Panamaniac" (London,UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waleeco (Audio CD)

Having read the previous review of this album,it's time to set the record straight.Firstly,their cover of the midnight hour[all the other songs are originals]is a fair effort.I wouldn't call it either dreadful or fantastic.

But I would call the haunting,eerie "Dark Street Downtown" fantastic..a masterpiece with its distinctive vocals and piano accompaniment supported by lyrics of the finest order.Turn the lights out,light the candles and just listen.Breathtaking stuff!! Very Baroque and very beautiful.

This standard is maintained on "Prelude For The Town Monk", another Jack Kerivan composition and with equally thought- provoking lyrics.A young man in his late teens getting his message across in the most literate of ways and with a voice to match any before or since in Rock.

His third contribution is "Shadows",an uptempo,organ-driven number but with the same haunting mood of "Dark Street".The rest of the songs are written by Jack Kerivan and Phil Dubuque or Jack Kerivan and Rick Doyle. The latter collaboration contains two excellent instrumentals of a laid-back,psychedelic nature, "Portrait in Grey" and "Satori". Some nice phasing and experimentation that rounded off an excellent debut[and sadly only]album.

If you like Folk Rock, you'll like The Flat Earth Society.If you like Baroque,similarly.Psychedelic,garagey, quite a mix in this album..as the band themselves say "no particular bag at all"

I rate this album with any Boston album of the era and probably any album of any area.But it's for the mellow,haunting moments when you want to be both relaxed yet stimulated by thoughts and imagery.Was music ever so good?

Wonderful fare from one of Boston's greats and if you like this try The Rising Storm's "Calm Before" and The Beacon Street Union's two albums.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 2 tracks are among the best '60s pop psych, February 11, 2005

By 

Ken Kaffke "danger man" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Waleeco (Audio CD)

2 guitar-driven tracks on Flat Earth Society's 1968 album WALEECO -

"Four and Twenty Miles" (Surrealistic Pillow-inspired riffs)

"In My Window" - though generally overlooked by reviewers, are essential.