Sweep the Desert

sweep the desert

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Product Description
Sweep the Desert has been compiled by band members Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl & Jowe Head, & focuses on the more experimental side of the Swell Maps. Alive Records.

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Sweep the Desert

Average customer rating:

Really good - interesting, certainly, but...
Experimental Maps

Sweep the Desert
Swell Maps
Manufacturer: Alive Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Similar Items:

International Rescue
Wastrels & Whippersnapper

ASIN: B000056V8W
Release Date: 2001-02-13

Tracks:

Then Poland
Full Moon In My Pocket
Blam!!
Full Moon (Reprise)
Big Maz In The Desert
Big Empty Field (No. 2)
Don't Throw Ashtrays At Me
Midget Submarines
Bridge Head (Pt. 9)
Never To See Any Other Way
Doomette
Collison With A Frogman Vs. The Mangrove Delta Plan
Fashion Cult
Big Maz In The Country
Cave Mines
Avalanche
Big Empty Field
Raining Room
The Graveyard Shift

Album Description

Sweep the Desert has been compiled by band members Nikki Sudden, Richard Earl & Jowe Head, & focuses on the more experimental side of the Swell Maps. Alive Records.

Customer Reviews:

Really good - interesting, certainly, but..........2003-12-24

Frankly, I object to the way that this album and "International Recue" were compiled. Each one manages to give, on it's own, a frustratingly inaccurate portrayal of what Swell Maps are really about (IMO, a real Swell Maps album somehow resembles closely Pavement's "Wowee Zowee," and the Stocktonites were certainly influenced by SMs). This album leans heavily on the Krautrock-ian, experimental side, while IR presents them as a bordering-on-conventianal, if very good, punk band (i.e. "Read About Seymore," "Let's Build a Car"). The ideal would be to mix and match these two collections on your own mix-tape; so, buy 'em both, and do just that!

Experimental Maps.......2001-03-09

This apparently was intended as a companion piece to "International Rescue" and highlights the Maps' more experimental side. I must say I strongly disagree with this approach to compiling a bands' output. Neither CD, by itself, gives a good impression of what the band intended or acheived with their two "proper" albums: "A Trip To Marineville" & "Jane From Occupied Europe" (both sadly out of print). Therefore, you need both of the available CDs to get the full spectrum of Swell Maps' sound. What we have here are most of the longer, textural, instrumental pieces that served as interludes between the straight ahead "punk" songs on the aforementioned albums. Griping aside, both CDs are great and essential. Some of these songs are pretty, some a bit grating. There are a few of the classic "punk" songs not included on "International Rescue" but included here probably because they drone on a little longer. Two of these songs: "Full Moon In My Pocket" and "BLAM!" are tracks two and three on the CD but not listed on the song list above for some reason. I can't describe their sound but here are a few reference points: Buzzcocks, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Pere Ubu, the Fall.

Average customer rating:

Fool

Manufacturer: Rich Cloud
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000CAD20I
Release Date: 2004-03-02

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