Young Gifted & Black Country

The Mighty Lemon Drops | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 23, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Devil in the Woods
• ASIN: B00035W5QO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,564 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent release, capturing a truly magical time, November 27, 2004

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Jack Dempsey (South Miami Beach, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Young Gifted & Black Country (Audio CD)

Ok, first, this site gives you absolutely no info on this release, so here's the deal. First, the track listing - broken up in to two sets, though it's only one disc (I'll explain later):

01 Inside Out

02 Rollercoaster

03 No Bounds

04 Open Mind

05 Closer To You

06 Out Of Hand

07 When I Dream

08 Paint It Black

09 Like An Angel

LIKE AN ANGEL EP:

10 Something Happens

11 Sympathise With Us

12 Now She's Gone

13 Like An Angel

So the deal is this. Tracks 1 through 9 are live tracks captured in 1988 for Deidre O'Donoghue's SNAP radio show, caught live in the basement of KCRW on May 12,1988. It captures the Mighty Lemon Drops at a time when they were white hot. When they were really the darling children of 120 minutes on MTV (back in Kevin Seal's day). It's an awesome time to hear them live. The songs were recorded rather on-the-spot and the sound is wonderful. It's great to finally be apart of them, though I did catch them live several times over the years, the most stand-out-ish of which was with John Wesley Harding.

The last few tracks are from their "Like an Angel" EP which, as you can surmise, has been out of print since the horse and buggy era or, more precisely, 1985 (when it was released in scarce amounts).

Get this, get this, get this. It truly is a treasure you will cherish for years to come.