Word to the Wise Guy [Original recording remastered, Import]

Mighty Wah (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1984
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Import
• Label: Castle
• ASIN: B00004YU4K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #552,107 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Story of the Blues, Pt. 1 [*]

2. Yuh Learn

3. Weekends

4. Everwanna

5. The Lost Generation

6. Yuh Learn 2

7. I Know There Was Something

8. Hope (Faded) [*]

9. Yuh Learn 3

10. In the Bleak/Body and Soul/Midwinter

11. Papa Crack/God's Lonely Man

12. What's Happening Here

13. Yuh Learn 4

14. Come Back [Story of the Reds]

15. Talkin' Blues (The Story of the Blues, Pt. 2) [*]

16. Don't Step on the Cracks [*]

17. Yuh Learn [*][Version]

18. Come Back [The Holiday Romance Version][*]

19. The Devil in Miss Jones [*]

20. Remember [*]

Editorial Reviews

Reissue of 1984 album from Pete Wylie, remastered from the original tapes. 20 tracks including 5 bonus tracks, 'Talkin' Blues (Story Of The Blues Pt 2)', 'Don't Step On The Cracks', 'Yuh Learn' (Version), 'Come Back' (The Holiday Romance Version) & 'The D

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "God gave us this leisure to enjoy", July 17, 2002

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A. J. Griffiths "griff164" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Word to the Wise Guy (Audio CD)

...is the motto of the city of Liverpool. A city which, in 1984 when this record was made, was having unwanted leisure time forced upon it in the form of mass unemployment as well as suffering seamingly terminal urban decay, riots and industrial strife, all of which galvanised a face-off between the left-wing city council and Thatcher's centralised rate-cappers. Out of all this emerged one of the most remarkable records of its era. Helplessness and defiance, frustration and rage, bitterness and, ultimately, optimism and reaffirmation are all here in a concept album which has reality and truth at its heart instead of wizards, elves and dragons. Pete Wylie, once described as the second greatest songwriter to come out of liverpool, commited commercial - but not artistic - suicide with these truely political songs. "Weekends" eloquently observes the irony of having leisure time but no means to enjoy it, "The Lost Generation" is a rallying cry for the dispossessed of the "Me" decade, "I Know there was Something" dips into the crushing inertia of a failing relationship, while "Come Back" somehow manages to mix anger, defiance, motown, hope, guitars and self-belief in the most thrilling of ways. All this interwoven with Eugene Lange's vitriolic scouse proto-rap rants. Strummer and Jones, Weller, Dammers and Bragg cannot touch this record. Magnificent.