Tracks:

Bill Lloyd - Every Word Means No
Don Dixon & Jamie Hoover - Horizon
Doug Powell - Waters Part
Tommy Womack - Make Up With Me
The Saving Graces - Talking To Myself
Spike Priggen - Last Chance Town
Marti Jones - Room With A View
The Crowd Scene - Writing The Book Of Last Pages
The Trolleyvox - Crows On A Phone Line
Neilson Hubbard - Fell
King Fly - Every Dog Has His Day
King Kilowatt - Mr. Fool
Soap Star Joe - I Feel Funny
Velvet - Bad Machinery
Failed Energy Giants - Blue (Pipe)Line
Paul Chastain - Flags For Everything
Girls Say Yes - Too Bad
Drop Quarters - Two Yous
Jerry Chapman - In Little Ways
Bobby Sutliff - Badger

Customer Reviews:

This is Good.......2005-11-30

Hey if you like Lets Active you will like this interpretation Great band that will never get the attention they deserved... Saw them many times in the 80's and man Mitch Easter knows how to deliver a pop song ... and do a good cover of the Rover by Led Zepp.. At William and Mary Hall in Williamsburg, VA opening for REM

A rare tribute album that actually works.......2003-09-30

"The business of America's talking/If your speed's good you're in demand." Post-Iraq, Mitch Easter's tart 1984 couplet still sounds savvy.

The North Carolina producer (REM, Pavement, dBs, Velvet Crush, Some Loves) is less well known as a remarkable writer and performer. The bands he produced rarely matched his own Let's Active, a stellar band of the 1980s.

US East Coast groups stand out in this tribute. Also appearing are West Coast groups and Sydney's Soap Star Joe. Australia's own pop guru, Stuart Coupe, co-produces.

Easter's pure pop inventiveness properly inspires several performers to have a go at emulating it. Long-time Easter associate Don Dixon delivers a spacious take of "Horizon", while Doug Powell deconstructs the difficulties of "Waters Part" with strings and psychedelia. Trolleyvox and Saving Graces stay nearer the originals, but make sparkling work of them. Less successful are efforts to completely subvert the intoxicating originals of "In Little Ways" and "Every Dog Has His Day".

These acolytes know their stuff. Their twenty covers scoop the cream of the 40-odd Let's Active songs we have. I pined for the dual-paced swamp-grunge of "Night Train", but in golfing terms I think that one's an unplayable lie.

Tracks:

We Could Have Been the Closest of Friends
Come Sundown
Mention a Mansion
You're Gonna Love Yourself (In the Morning)
Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)
Oh, Lonesome Me
What I've Got in Mind
Hey Won't You Play (Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song)
Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends
River's Too Wide

Average customer rating:

Closest Friends
Heavensent
Manufacturer: Intersound Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music

Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music

Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music

Tracks:

Judgement Day
Closest Friends
I Can Do All Things
Therefore If Any Man Be In Christ
So Good
I Will Always
Serve You Lord
Lead Me
He's That Kind of Friend
'Cause My Jesus Did
Friends
He's Wonderful

Country Classics [Import] ... What I've Got In Mind / Come Sundown / Mention A Mansion / You're Gonna Love Yourself / Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette / Oh, Lonesome Me / We Could Have Been The Closest Of Friends / Hey, Won't You Play / Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends / The River's Too Wide

Average customer rating:

Country Classics [Import] ... What I've Got In Mind / Come Sundown / Mention A Mansion / You're Gonna Love Yourself / Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette / Oh, Lonesome Me / We Could Have Been The Closest Of Friends / Hey, Won't You Play / Please Don't Tell Me How The Story Ends / The River's Too Wide
Sammy Davis Jr.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000QXH086

Music Review:

Music Review

Music Review

1. Judgement Day
2. Closest Friends
3. I Can Do All Things
4. Therefore If Any Man Be in Christ
5. So Good
6. I Will Always
7. Serve You Lord
8. Lead Me
9. He's That Kind of Friend
10. 'cause My Jesus Did
11. Friends
12. He's Wonderful