After the Satellite Sings [IMPORT]

Bill Nelson

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 28, 2005)
• Original Release Date: April 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Resurgence UK
• ASIN: B000024LQR
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #229,275 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill's best, May 28, 1999

By	Peter Hansen (New York City) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: After the Satellite Sings (Audio CD)

After the Satellite Sings was my re-introduction to Bill's work after years away. After Be Bop Deluxe's demise, I was disappointed with Red Noise and drifted away. Be Bop fans, please come back, all is forgiven! I simply can't get enough of this CD. It all comes together here, strong melodies, inspired lyrics, wonderful themes and some of the world's best guitar playing make this my favorite BN work. I simply can't understand why Bill isn't one of the most celebrated artists in the world. Maybe if more people took the time to listen to "Satellite", it would come to pass.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Nelson = Genius, June 12, 2004

By	TM77 "TM77" (nj, usa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After the Satellite Sings (Audio CD)

After The Sattelite Sings is a brilliant blend of drum & bass + ambient, classic guitar rock and even jazz in some songs. All of which Bill Nelson is very, very good at. The standouts for me are Old Goat, Tomorrow Yesterday (Dreamster 2.L.R), Rocket To Damascus, and Beautiful Nudes. This album predates David Bowie's Earthling by a year, which covered some of the same territory only he needed Trent Reznor's help.
As great an artist as Bill Nelson is, I don't think he will ever be fully recognized for his talents, and that is a real shame.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy this CD, play it until all the bits fall off, June 23, 2003

By	Anthony D Ravenscroft (Santa Fe, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: After the Satellite Sings (Audio CD)

I've had this CD since its initial release, & I am honestly surprised that I haven't worn it out -- CDs are really only good for 10,000 plays or thereabouts. It is one of the few albums I have ever owned that I can literally play over & bloody over again for 10 hours at a time -- and never grow tired of it.

I keep meaning to burn a copy of it with only the outright RAWK TUNES MAN, but I find I'd be missing the sweet jazz guitar of "Streamliner" (George Benson, eat your heart out), or the interaction of marimba & bass on the latter half of "Phantom Sedan."

But enough of that. What I want to point out is something that even many hard-core fans overlook.

In the winter of 1995, Nelson got to humming a few snatches of melody that were hanging around. With these snippets & a few stray bits of lyric on scrap paper, he retired to his studio at the back of the house.

Once there, he created the melodies, wrote the lyrics, set down the percussion tracks, sang, built harmonies, laid down synth & bass, & pushed everything into reasonable shape. Okay, he did add an Octapad bit from one friend, & a bass line from another, & he had someone to engineer the tracks who could say, "No, Bill, if you touch that I'll slap your hands." Other than that, he put the whole thing together, then brought it to someone else for mastering.

All told, from the Beethoven-like distraction at the onset to delivering the tapes for finalising, Bill Nelson took 28 days.

Twenty-Eight Friggin' Days.

Every time I listen to this CD, I waver frantically between inspiration & utter discouragement. I mean... geez... 28 *days*! Most of us would work 28 YEARS to make something this good!!