The Charlatans - Some Friendly
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Track List: Some Friendly
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- You're Not Very Well - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- White Shirt - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- The Only One I Know - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- Opportunity - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- Then - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- 109 Pt2 - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- Polar Bear - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- Believe You Me - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- Flower - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- Sonic - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
- Sproston Green - The Charlatans UKDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Some Friendly
- Release Date:
- 01/01/1990
- Label:
- Beggars Uk - Ada
- UPC:
- 607618003029
User Reviews: Some Friendly
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Breakthrough!
, August 29, 2000Reviewer: Scout Piecuch - See all Scout Piecuch's reviewsIt was strange to be entering college in 1990, and even stranger that I got into these guys. The strangest thing is that this group never got the big breakthrough they deserved, nor the attention of "worthy" music minded magazines. The whole albums' psychedelic flow/feel gives the listener a feeling that he/she is in control. Misanthropic lyrics to groove on while the music dizzingly makes the lyrics come alive. The hammond and superb mixing makes this album is a solid 1990's alternative classic. This whole late 1980's early 1990's sound from England WAS gaining steam on college radio in America (especially in New England) until the grunge explosion killed everything, including "alternative" music in late 1991. The Charlatans UK deserve some credit for their debut album, a well done job, and a fine example of early 1990's alternative music from England. ...
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Pro Reviews: Some Friendly
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Emerging out of seminowhere well, Norwich the Charlatans UK were saddled with a name that lent itself to jibes about their quality, perceived bandwagon jumping and the burden of being a onehit wonder with "The Only One I Know." Then Some Friendly, the group's debut, planted itself at the top of the UK charts; while the rest of the '90s were upanddown for the band, this album set the band on its way. Drawing on Blunt's background in mod and psych outfits, Collins' outrageously funky keyboards and Burgess' unexpected star quality even if his voice wasn't the strongest Some Friendly is just that, a friendly and fun vibe. Some of the lyrics betray Burgess' sharptongued punk background "You're Not Very Well," the opener, expresses anything but sunny sentiments but otherwise Some Friendly delivers everything from '60s beat groove to Madchester bagginess with verve. True, the group was still following in the Roses/Mondays slipstream "Fool's Gold" was the blueprint for much of the album but the individual delights of the slow trance "Opportunity," "Polar Bear"'s upfront rhythms and "Flower"'s slightly ominous funk all show the band's abilities well. "The Only One I Know" remains the bestknown cut, Blunt's crisp bass and Collins' Deep Purpleinspired keyboards providing its charge. But Some Friendly's hidden masterpiece comes at the very end "Sproston Green," a monster jam based on Collins' supreme keyboard work, with Burgess' soaring lyric matching the massive surge of the music. It remains the concluding number of the band's sets to this day for good reason. - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide |
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For many years, the Charlatans [U.K.] were perceived as the also-rans of Madchester, the group that didn't capture the zeitgeist like the Stone Roses or the band that failed to match the mad genre-bending of the Happy Mondays. Of course, they were mo...Full The Charlatans Biography
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