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Bill Nelson - The Strangest Things: A Collection of Recordings 1979-1989 (1989)
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Anthony D. Ravenscroft, Amazon.com wrote:

There is no way that I can pan a Bill Nelson album. His lamest, most irritating efforts, compiled onto a single CD, would spend more time coming through my speakers than all commercial radio combined. But, on to this title.

Subtitled A Collection of Recordings 1979-1989, this is an interesting side-trip in the corpus. It shares four cuts with the two-CD set What Now, What Next? which is a compendium of Nelson's output on the Cocteau label. Meanwhile, The Strangest Things is a compendium of songs put out on the eventually ill-fated Enigma label in the U.S., most of which were licensed copies of the Cocteau albums.

To apparently confuse matters further, 7 of the cuts on this CD (half, that is) had not been previously released in the U.S.... which meant that they hadn't been released on Enigma -- one, in fact, had been released on Harvest, not Cocteau.

Hmm.

Is it a decent album? Oh, yes. Nelson's samplers are fascinating, beginning with the apparent sonic hodgepodge. When I play it for people, they ask me why the hell I pasted so many disparate bands onto one CD, as there's no apparent unifying point -- in that respect, it sounds like a K-Tel album assembled by some hung-over mid-level exec (which is likely all, but I digress).

As a sampler, Strangest is pleasing from the first. It includes Nelson looking solo as well as under the Red Noise Orchestra Arcana rubrics. There's some of his orchestral, some of his ambient, some of his jazzier side, some frantic Europop, a hint of his sheer ability to rock out on a whim.

All in all, if you're still new to the corpus, go for What Now, What Next? build from there, as that's as good a guide to his range span as any. The reason I knocked Strangest down a star is because the CD mostly makes me long for a The Harvest Years compendium CD set that goes from Be Bop Deluxe through Red Noise.

If you can handle a range of music from ambient whooshing through jarring/dazzling guitar, you'll never likely go wrong with Nelson.

Oh... did I forget to mention that he's one of the best orchestrators I've ever heard, an amazing marimba player, possesses a dozen distinct singing voices over the years, crafts some of the most devilishly memorable free-association quasi-beat poetry imaginable?

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Tracklisting:
1. The Strangest Things The Strangest Times (2:24)
2. Acquitted by Mirrors (4:58)
3. The Spirit Cannot Fail (2:07)
4. Fellini's Picnic (2:30)
5. Dancing In The Wind (5:06)
6. Instantly Yours (2:10)
7. Heroes de Lumiere (5:53)
8. Um, Ah Good Evening (2:56)
9. Several Famous Orchestras (3:24)
10. A Dip In the Swimming Pool Reactor (2:33)
11. Youth of Nation On Fire (4:04)
12. Eros Arriving (3:35)
13. Short Wave (3:32)
14. Life In Your Hands (4:15)

Total Time: 49:27

Pressing: Enigma 773372-2

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EAC extraction logfile from 17. February 2010, 21:44

Bill Nelson / The Strangest Things- A Collection of Recordings 1979-1989

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