Comus - Song to Comus: The Complete Collection
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Artist: ComusEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-06-20
Music Label: Castle Music UK
Soundtracks:
- Diana
- Herald
- Drip Drip
- Song To Comus
- Bite
- Bitten
- Prisoner
- Diana
- In The Lost Queen's Eyes
- Winter Is A Coloured Bird
- Down (Like A Movie Star)
- Touch Down
- Waves & Caves
- Figure In Your Dreams
- Children Of The Universe
- So Long Supernova
- Perpetual Motion
- Panophany
- Get Yourself A Man
- To Keep From Crying
- After The Dream
Music reviews of Song to Comus: The Complete Collection
Music Review: Why you should get this version
Rating: 5 Stars
The first Comus album, First Utterance, is widely-regarded as a classic in the genres known as acid folk, progressive folk, or more generally British folk rock. This is for very good reason--I can't say I own or have heard an album as creepy, disturbing, wildly creative, musically imaginative, or anything quite like it at all. I won't go into great depth like I often do for albums that are important to me (if you want to see that, please read my review of the Italian import issue of First Utterance, which I'm about to tell you not to buy). If you like the unique British spin on folk rock, you have to own Comus' first album--it's not for everyone, but you've never heard anything like it, and there's a good chance it'll become a prized gem in your collection.
Here's why you should buy this version: Right now, the most widely-available edition is an Italian import (linked above). It's got an awesome digipak case with all of the original album's artwork. The problem, though, is the mastering. It just doesn't sound good (almost like it was remastered from a tape, vinyl or a CD), and there is a really annoying click/popping mastering flaw that pops up at the end of the second track and a minute or two into the third. Not acceptable--that product should have never been released. Since I've owned both, I can say that the sound on this version is vastly improved--impeccable. Not only are there no flaws, the overall sound is much better; the instruments sound like they're in the room with you, they're fuller and less harsh, and it sounds like it could have been recorded yesterday.
Here's one more reason: this 2-CD set includes all of the band's recorded output--First Utterance, three non-album tracks and a single, the band's 1974 quasi-reunion album (not all original members were present) To Keep From Crying, and two Roger Wooton solo tracks. If you, like many people who get this album, are completely entranced by its unique spell, you'll probably be hungry for more and want everything the band put out. I have to warn you--To Keep From Crying and Roger Wooton's solo cuts are, at the very least, nowhere near First Utterance in style, creativity, musicianship, or songwriting/lyrical quality. That's putting it pretty nicely--though some reviewers are gracious enough to point to "Children of the Universe" and "To Keep From Crying" as tracks that approach the first album's greatness, I have to say that, after multiple listens, I still find the album bland, sub-par (by any standards), and annoying (just listen to "Perpetual Motion;" I'm shuddering thinking about it). Once you're hooked on First Utterance, though, you'll probably want to find this out for yourself (I did)--if you get this version, you'll be able to hear To Keep From Crying and decide for yourself, but at least you'll have everything Comus, and the best-sounding issue of First Utterance available, without paying expensive Japanese mini-LP prices. The only downsides; it's a bit more expensive since it's 2 discs, and you don't get a booklet-sized version of the chilling First Utterance artwork.
Description of Song to Comus: The Complete Collection
Taking their name from a character in a John Milton poem, Comus was a short-lived but powerful folk-rock band that mixed elements of King Crimson with the influences of Pentangle, Fairport Convention and other more traditional folk outfits. This 2 disc Complete Collection contains the band's debut, First Utterance (1971) plus the Dawn EP and To Keep From Crying (1974). Castle Music. 2005.Folk CDs
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