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| | Trailer Park (Legacy Edition) | | | Music Artist : | | Beth Orton | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Sony Legacy | | Release Date : | | 2009-03-10 | | Discs : | | 2 | | Store Price : | | $15.93 | | Artistopia's Price: $15.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. She Cries Your Name
2. Tangent
3. Don't Need A Reason
4. Live As You Dream
5. Sugar Boy
6. Touch Me With Your Love
7. Whenever
8. How Far
9. Someone's Daughter
10. I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine
11. Galaxy of Emptiness
Disc 21. Safety
2. It's Not The Spotlight
3. Galaxy of Emptiness (live)
4. Pedestal
5. Touch Me With Your Love (Inst)
6. It's This I Am Find
7. Bullet
8. Best Bit (early version)
9. Best Bit
10. Skimming Stone
11. Dolphins (feat. Terry Callier)
12. Lean On Me (feat. Terry Callier)
13. I Love How You Love Me
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Sweet Spot
Submitted on: 2009-11-24 |
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I got snagged by Beth Orton after hearing a cut from Trailer Park. Her music is original and her voice, though vulnerable, has an attractive bite. The quality of the songs and the eclectic nature of their accompanying backgrounds creates a time tested durability. What makes Beth Orton "sing" for me is her inate ability to combine melacholia with a sexy vitality. She finds that real, life conveying sweet spot, a human twangy pathos that gets you choked up with each listen. Her talent deserves a broader audience.
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Outstanding 'legacy' treatment
Submitted on: 2009-06-29 |
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Beth Orton blew onto the music scene with her incredible 1996 debut album "Trailer Park", and this legacy edition does one better with a remastered and expanded version of it. I'm not going to review the original album (11 tracks; 60 min.) as there are plenty of reviews out there of it, although after 13 years it is remarkable to hear those songs, and how well they've aged with time, check out the opener "She Cries Out Your Name", or "Touch Me With Your Love" and of course the 10+ min. closer "Galaxy of Emptiness".
The newly added second CD (13 tracks; 58 min. ) brings a fantastic mix of demos, unreleased songs, live songs, and other assorted stuff. The CD starts off with Beth just with guitar on "Safety" and "It's Not the Spotlight", then followed by a great live version of "Galaxy of Emptiness", sounding quite different (and much shorter) than the studio version. The instrumental version of "Touch Me With Your Love" sounds like a movie-made mood piece, just beautiful. Then there is the unreleased "Best Bit" (both in an early version and a fully fleshed-out one), just great. There are also 2 great songs featuring Terry Callier on "Dolphins" and "Lean On Me". The last track "I Love How You Love Me" is a delicious throw-back to the 60s sound.
In all, this is a reissue/legacy edition well done, even though the credit notes are somewhat skimpy. "Trailer Park" was/is a monumental album, deserving the legacy issue. I've been a Beth Orton fan from the early days, and would also recommend her 2002 album "Daybreaker" in a heartbeat. She has only released 4 albums in her career so far, and I can only hope we are in for more music from her soon. Meanwhile, the legacy edition of "Trailer Park" is worth very penny, even if you have the original album. |
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 Where it all begins...
Submitted on: 2009-04-03 |
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| I don't think this is the best Beth Orton album like other people do, probably because I didn't hear it all at the time it came out. I do remember seeing "She Cries Your Name" on 120 Minutes back in 1997 and being struck by the bleakness and originality of the song and video. The rest of the album is good, but a bit dated, and the songs don't gel as easily as they might have in 1996. That being said, she easily deserved all the critical acclaim for her lyrics and vocal abilities, and only just hinted at what was to come. |
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Fans can never be objective...
Submitted on: 2006-04-25 |
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| From the OBJECTIVE reviewer...Beth has a unique voice...kudos...and this album highlights perfectly her folk sensibility with the touch of electronic influence she probably picked up from William Orbit. |
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 Better in Person
Submitted on: 2003-07-17 |
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| After seeing Beth Orton live at Field Day I was impressed by her accoustic solo music, as well as her lively personality. I was so excited to buy this cd based on what I had heard, but was dissapointed when I received it. Very little of the folkish guitar work that I had fell in love with was audible on the CD, and Orton over-layers her work with poppy base and drums. At some points on this CD she reminds me of radiohead (faintly) or Beck (especially on "tangent"), and at times delivers the folk feel that I found so appealing, but for the most part comes off as poppy and frankly, boring. Though this CD is certainly worth buying for tracks 1-3 and 10 and 11, it lacks replay value. Perhaps I am being overly critical because I had such high expectations for Beth. I would reccomend buying this CD, however, see her live. She is a great musician and a charming personality. |
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