The Band - Islands
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Artist: The BandEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-05-08
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Right As Rain
- Street Walker
- Let The Night Fall
- Ain't That A Lot Of Love
- Christmas Must Be Tonight
- Islands
- The Saga Of Pepote Rouge
- Georgia On My Mind
- Knockin' Lost John
- Livin' In A Dream
- Twilight (Single Version)
- Georgia On My Mind (Alternate Take)
Free Music Notes for Islands
Free Music Review: This is a very underrated album
Hit: 4 Stars
Islands was the Band's last studio album released in 1976. Reading through the liner notes on the new remastered cd, one finds out that this wasn't supposed to be taken as an album proper as it was just a bunch of songs they were working on at the time. Well, I know band members should have their word but I wouldn't put it down as it's been done through the years mainly because as a fan - and I know all their albums - I regard Islands as a highlight in their career with them being exactly where they'd left off on Northern Lights-Southern Cross a year before. Their sound had gone that direction anyway. Let The Night Fall, Christmas Must Be Tonight, Street Walker and Knockin' Lost John are standout tracks. So IMHO Islands is sadly a very underrated album indeed.
Islands Poster
The liner notes for Robbie Robertson's version of the Band's swan song makes the case that Islands was never meant to be viewed as their studio signoff. Rather, argues Robertson, it was seen as their version of the Who's Odds and Sods and a contract fulfiller so that the quintet could release their true coda, The Last Waltz, on Warner Bros. With such modest aspirations in mind, Islands, while falling far short of the Band's creative heights, provides a pleasant listen for stalwart fans. Covers of "Ain't That a Lot of Love" and "Georgia on My Mind" (the latter recorded to boost Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign) showcase the always striking vocals of Levon Helm and Richard Manuel, respectively. And while the likes of "The Saga of Pepote Rouge," "Knockin' Lost John," and "Let the Night Fall" lack the passion and precision of prime Band, they're appealing in their own modest way. --Steven StolderClassic Rock Music CDs
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