Icehouse - Big Wheel
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: IcehouseEdition: Music CD Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2002-10-21 Music Label: Wea Int'l Soundtracks:
Free Music Notes for Big WheelFree Music Review: Elegant Rock with a Chaser of Glam
Coming after the dunderheaded rawk of "Code Blue," this album was a big bounce back for Icehouse upon its original release. The result is an album of gritty, but elegant rock in the vein of leader Iva Davies' role models of Ferry, Bowie and Eno. One can hear the echoes of "Here Come The Warm Jets," "Country Life" and "Heroes" but also lesser-known glam touchstones like the work of Metro or David Werner. The majestic title track with its soaring solos and pure-Eno backing vocals get things off to a sterling start. Davies' expressive guitar solos on "Invisible People" strongly recall Duncan Browne's work on the first Metro album. "Sam The Man" is another criminal lowlife tale from Davies' pen - coming after "Fatman" and "Mr. Big" - he must have seen a lot of this type around Sydney. It's backing vocals were ripped straight from Bowie's "Joe the Lion," but I'm not complaining! This one is the last great Icehouse album of original songs; taking its place next to "Primitive Man," "Sidewalk" and "Measure For Measure." The MOR pop leanings of "Man Of Colours" are not to be found here; the elegant ballads of that album and of "Measure For Measure" as well, are absent from the proceedings here. This one is very much a rock album, dominated by guitar albeit miles smarter than the preceding "Code Blue." A notable exception is the atmospheric closer "The System," which sits on the same shelf as earlier works like "The Mountain" and "Great Southern Land." The bonus tracks on this pressing are a real delight, particularly the fun Brian Eno covers (Driving Me Backwards, Blank Frank).
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