So Much Water, So Close to Home [EXTRA TRACKS] [IMPORT]

Paul Kelly

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 12, 1997)
• Original Release Date: August 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Mushroom
• ASIN: B000007V8X
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #231,783 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
1989 album for the critically acclaimed Aussie singer songwriter. 12 tracks including, 'Everything's Turning toWhite' & 'Sweet Guy'.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still sounds fresh, July 10, 2004

By	Paul Kendall "Paul" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

I recently replaced my long lost tape with this CD version.

I can't say how great the tracks sound today, even after 15 years. I recall long drives listening over and over to Paul work his magic. "You Can't Take It With You" and "Careless" are sublime.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Quintessential Kelly--Ned's minstrel son, November 4, 1998

By A Customer

Do you have to be Australian to get Paul Kelly? I hope not, but wonder..... Paul Kelly's music is like the taste of red dust, the smell of the first torrential thunderstorm after a drought, teenagers snogging on a bull ant's nest, driving for thousands of k's on a totally straight, flat road, picking bindiis out of your feet... All part of growing up in Oz.

This was Kelly's first album after the classic "Under the Sun", and the first obviously aimed at a non-Australian audience. It has a far more folksy, country feel than his earlier albums, which at the time I didn't like much. Over the years though, what I have come to appreciate is just how quintessentially Australian the sound is, even if the lyrics don't show it. In this album is everything that was happening in Aus music in the late 80's. There's touches of zydecho (remember that?), melodic bass lines, simple chord structures, just enough production to ensure a clean sound without turning it to plastic, OTT electric piano with vibrato going full boar, and pure Oz folk, most obvious on "South of Germany" complete with sleazy slide guitar. "Pigeon" sounds like Yothu Yindi in the pre-Treaty remix days.

No wonder the Americans didn't get it. He's become more international since then, but in 1989 he just didn't make sense out of context. Paul Kelly's a national treasure, up there with Andrew Denton, Flacco, souvlaki, DAAS, AFL, Bradman and Gough. He's come a long way since this album, but it's still one of my faves.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paul's the man!, June 28, 2004

By	DK (Orlando) - See all my reviews

This was the first album I'd ever heard from Paul Kelly and it blew my mind! I mean, this guy is so unique. Literate, catchy, haunting songs with killer wild-west guitar parts and real story lines. Not many like him. Check out the new LP 'Ways and Means' for 2 CD's of solid bliss.