Shine: The Best of the Early Years

David Gray - Shine: The Best of the Early Years

Shine: The Best of the Early Years
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Artist: David Gray
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-04-03
Music Label: Astralwerks
Soundtracks:
  1. Shine
  2. Late Night Radio
  3. Coming Down
  4. Birds Without Wings
  5. The Light
  6. Everytime
  7. A Century Ends
  8. Lullaby
  9. Faster, Sooner, Now
  10. Wisdom
  11. Falling Free
  12. Sell, Sell, Sell
  13. Debauchery
  14. Flesh
  15. Hold On To Nothing

Music reviews of Shine: The Best of the Early Years

Music Review: a good start but his 1st 3 CDs are worth buying instead of this CD.
Rating: 5 Stars

I was lucky enough to hear "Shine" playing in a used CD store back in 1994. I asked the clerk if I could listen to the rest of the albulm (his 2nd, Flesh) and after 2 more songs I was hooked. I spent the rest of the afternoon searching for other albums by David Gray & picked up A Century Ends without hearing a song.

I love all 3 of his early works and the songs on the compilation are very good representations of what you will find on the CDs. My only wish is that it contained "Gathering Dust" -- a hearbreaking song about the end of a relationship & one of my absolutely favorite songs on his debut. If you are a casual fan, this CD is for you. If you really enjoy David Gray's music, I recommend buying the complete albums (A Century Ends, Flesh, Sell, Sell, Sell) instead. His earlier work is similar to White Ladder in terms of excellent songwriting but the arrangements are far more sparse & have less synth/drum machine like sounds. My only wish is that his earlier works were re-released with better production values -- not changing the sparse arrangements but improving the quality of the recording/sound.

Description of Shine: The Best of the Early Years

This is not the first collection of David Gray's "pre-success" recordings, but it is the best one. Unlike many such collections of early works by noted artists, you're not seeing the artist's abilities in their infant state--each of these 15 songs is already great. The Mancunian musician's performing abilities were well developed by the time he first recorded in the early '90s; one might even argue that they sound best in the often stripped-down, more raw state on display here. The songs themselves, however, have definitely matured since Gray hit the alt-adult-contemporary big time with the electronica-tinged White Ladder in 2000; such songs as "Wisdom" and "Birds Without Wings" do show the marks of other singer-songers (notably Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan). These days, of course, David Gray is himself often used as an adjective, to describe all the other scruffy-bearded blue-eyed songsters reaching for the sensitive crooner's crown. --Mike McGonigal

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