Greenhouse: 20th Anniversary Edition

greenhouse: 20th anniversary edition

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
In the 1980's, Absolute Grey was part of an indie rock sound that included REM, Rain Parade, Let's Active and Dream Syndicate - all of whom were fans of Absolute Grey's electric folk rock. Led by vocalist Beth Brown, the band recalled the early Jefferson Airplane & Fairport Convention mixed with the modern psychedelic guitar sounds of Echo & The Bunnymen. Never before on CD, their 1984 debut LP GREENHOUSE has now been remastered and expanded to a 2 disc set with a bonus disc of unreleased 1984 live material. Long time favorites of Forced Exposure magazine, the 24 page booklet includes liner notes by Byron Coley and Lester Bangs biographer Jim DeRogatis.

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Greenhouse: 20th Anniversary Edition
Greenhouse: 20th Anniversary Edition
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Absolutely excellent
  • Live excitement rescues studio dirges
 Greenhouse: 20th Anniversary Edition
Absolute Grey
Manufacturer: Dbk Works
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DBJAU
Release Date: 2003-11-18

Tracks:

  1. More Walnuts
  2. Saving Face
  3. Sidewalk
  4. Memory Of You (Live)
  5. Remorse
  6. Notes
  7. Beginning To See The Light (Live)
  8. Willow

Tracks:

  1. Two Years A Handshake
  2. More Walnuts
  3. Candy Canes
  4. Tell Me When It's Over
  5. Cover Me
  6. Watching Waiting
  7. Elements
  8. Song Of
  9. Sidewalk
  10. Getting Me Down
  11. Willow
  12. Saving Face
  13. Don't Close That Door
  14. Out Of The Blue
  15. We Autumn
  16. Umbrella
  17. Endeavor

Album Description

In the 1980's, Absolute Grey was part of an indie rock sound that included REM, Rain Parade, Let's Active and Dream Syndicate - all of whom were fans of Absolute Grey's electric folk rock. Led by vocalist Beth Brown, the band recalled the early Jefferson Airplane & Fairport Convention mixed with the modern psychedelic guitar sounds of Echo & The Bunnymen. Never before on CD, their 1984 debut LP GREENHOUSE has now been remastered and expanded to a 2 disc set with a bonus disc of unreleased 1984 live material. Long time favorites of Forced Exposure magazine, the 24 page booklet includes liner notes by Byron Coley and Lester Bangs biographer Jim DeRogatis.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Absolutely excellent.......2007-02-19

I think the Grey did sound somewhat like the Airplane, as well as Joy Division. Mithcell Rasor's bass playing is often reminiscent of Jack Casady and Beth Brown does often have the same vocal quality as Grace Slick, without the psychotic edginess. Dig up anything you can by this band because while you can hear their influences, they truly conjured up a totally unique sound. This cd is a reissue/remaster of their best work. A lot of the studio stuff actually sounds more like vintage Great Society and as far as them being dirgelike, remember that a lot of psychedelic music had that dark side ie. the Doors, Serpent Power and others. They are far less dirgelike than Mazzy Star for instance. Like Bev Bivens of We Five, Signe Anderson Ettlin of the Airplane and Judy Dyble of Fairport, Beth Brown is one of the great lost female vocalists of our time.

4 out of 5 stars Live excitement rescues studio dirges.......2006-01-12

The product description sums up this previously nearly-impossible to find artifact of the Paisley Underground's Rochester contigent circa 1984. In the wake of REM, covering not only the Velvets but their imitators the Dream Syndicate, reminiscent of not so much the Airplane or Fairport (except all three had female singers) nor the Bunnymen so much as what I hear as Joy Division (yes) meets Let's Active, with a touch of The Teardrop Explodes!

As Jim DeRogatis notes in his notes, the studio tracks do not show off this band at its best. I found many of them leaden and plodding. Beth Brown's limitations as a vocalist unfortunately are heightened by the band's lack of range in many of the studio tracks that give off more annoyance than excitement as their primary mood. Compare "Sidewalks" in its studio to its live version, which channels the Joy Division/Factory sound in its bass and haunting vocal delivery, while the studio cut is simply dreary and one-dimensional.

Far better than most of the original album are the appended live tracks (skip the awful demo that starts Disc 2) which show a different quartet, lively, nimble, swirling, and having fun, which does not come across at all on record except on the live covers of the Velvets and Dream Syndicate wisely added to the original "Greenhouse" album. These live tracks show a much more confident and capable band, worth hearing 20 years on.

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  1. Green Room Blues
  2. Greetings from South Carolina [Original recording remastered]
  3. Greg Lake [Original recording remastered] [Import]
  4. Grooves in Orbit
  5. Grooviest Hits Ever
  6. Groovy Sixties, Vol. 1
  7. Group Sounds EP [EP]
  8. Growers of Mushroom
  9. Guilty [CD-single] [Import]
  10. Guitar Gods [Import]

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