Robyn Hitchcock - This Is the BBC
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Music CD Cover Artist: Robyn Hitchcock Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Original Language) CD Release Date: 2006-04-03 Music Label: Hux Records Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for This Is the BBC Album
Free Music Review: Arguably, among his best live releases
Hit: 5 Stars
If you read some of the reviews of Robyn's incredibly prolific releases over the years, be they live or studio records, you might run across comments like "...not as good as his (fill in the blank) live album or studio release..".
That's kind of like saying one Beatles album isn't as good as another. Admittedly, there may be one or two near misses among the 20+ releases in my Hitchcock collection, but it's difficult to say one of his records is better or worse than another. He's gone through phases, but it's all good.
As to this live collection from the late 90s, here he's picked some of the best of the best, not only from the excellent studio albums of the period, but also digging back about a decade to the late 80s. My only complaint is that the song sequence intersperses songs from one session among another, but that's a very small complaint. The sound quality is excellent....very intimate, as you'd expect from a radio session, and without any audience sound, which at times can be distracting.
As with a fine wine, Robyn just keeps getting better with time.
Looking forward to the next chapter from this unbelievably underrated song writer and guitarist.