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Mock Tudor by: Richard Thompson List Price: $16.98 CD-Charts Price: $9.99 You Save: $6.99 (41%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724349886025 Label: Capitol Manufacturer: Capitol Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Capitol Release Date: August 24, 1999 Studio: Capitol Sales Rank: 67501 MPN: 98860 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com's Best of 1999 : A literate songwriter and fearlessly talented guitarist, Richard Thompson is also a complete bust when it comes to romance. Or so Mock Tudor, which details love gone wrong from an early age to present, suggests over and over. Fortunately, Thompson makes his troubles worth our concern, thanks to his mix of wounded perseverance ("Dry My Tears and Move On") and all-out bile (the vindictive but ultimately self-destructive "Hope You Like the New Me"). --Keith Moerer Amazon.com: Few musical charms compare with those of Richard Thompson's better albums. Mock Tudor easily ranks amongst them, thanks in part to inventive producers Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf, who help strike a melodious balance between Thompson's genre-hopping instrumental subtleties and the gritty rave-ups that characterize his full-flail live shows. Together again with Fairport drummer Dave Mattacks and bassist Danny Thompson (and with help on guitar and vocals from son Teddy), Thomspon is set free. There's a delightful, modal minisolo on "Sibella"; "Uninhabited Man" finds the former student of Sufism holding down a Led Zep-ish Eastern groove; and every other song is a subtle, midtempo, sure-fire hit in an alternate universe. Lyrically, Thompson sticks to dark-side-of-the-street subject matter; the majority of the songs describe a relationship gone over the edge or about to (Elvis Costello is Thompson's only peer when it comes to charming, post-Dylan misanthropy in song). Women are goddesses ("Cooksferry Queen"), a bad match ("Sibella," "Two-Faced Love"), evil temptresses ("Bathsheba Smiles," "Hard on Me"), and about to dump the protagonist any second now ("Crawl Back Under My Stone")--and that's just the first six songs! In "Cooksferry Queen" when Thompson sings, "People speak my name in whispers--what higher praise can there be," the singer-songwriter might well be describing himself. --Mike McGonigal Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - even a heavy metal fan can appreciate this kind of talentAs a die hard heavy metal fan it shocks most people and even my friends that I am a devoted fan of RT. I have worked at record stores since Rumor & Sigh came out and it wasn't until this release that I paid him attention again and realized what a great songwriter, guitarist and all around good storyteller that has eluded mainstrea success. I enjoy this album and "the Old Kit Bag" as my personal fave cd's from RT besides Rumor. If you are a fan of good music then check this guy out! Rating:  - What a disapointing and dull albumAfter seeing several fine performance on YouTube and hearing Mirror Blue, I was really looking forward to this one. Ufff, what a bummer it turned out to be. All the songs are similarly lame and pedestrian. The melodies are definitely towards the boring side, and there's nothing on hear that's catchy or complex (Crawl under my Stone coming the closest). And Richard, for Gods sake stop crying incessantly about lost love. Every freaking song, my god. Get a mail order bride from Russia with love or something. Uff! Huge let down. Listened once and trashed. Rating: - 8 years later, and it still holds up as his bestThe conventional wisdom/opinion is that Richard Thompson's best recording is "Shoot Out the Lights," his last duo with ex-wife, Linda. I would never argue the point. It's ridiculous to argue over whether any piece of artwork is better than another. Subjectivity, after all. Still, for my money, "Mock Tudor," (after 8 years of comparing music from his earliest days to his wonderful latest, "Sweet Warrior") is still his greatest masterpiece. Only the last two cuts on this 12-song set are only O.K. The rest are beautiful, thrilling, worth listening to over and over and over again. If you want the opinion of one Thompson fanatic, this is the record for the newcomer to buy first. You're liable to be hooked for life, just like those of us rabid fans ... Read More: Rating: - MasterworkSimply put this is one of RT's best records and one of the best records, all artists included, in the last 20 years. BUY THIS RECORD! Whats more, it only gets better with the "semi-detached" live version! Rating: - RT Mocks all pseudo competitorsOkay, alright...so RT is a bit of an acquired taste...the taste is excellant. This is one of the top 10 discs in my collection (which numbers a couple of thousand) because of incredibly literate song writing matched with flawless instrumental execution. RT really has no peer...in a just world he would sell millions and do stadium shows. Okay, forget the stadium shows. "That's All, Amen Close the Door" is one of his weighty songs a la "I Still Dream" that provides a truly transcendant moment. He works his axe with sledgehammer abandon on "Hard on Me"...this is 'heavy' music of a different kind; emotional substance, but musically inventive and rewarding. If you've heard a better disc than this, beginning to end, in the last ten years I'd like ... Read More: |
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