Concrete and Clay/Unit 4+2

by Unit 4+2

Overview

This 29-track CD combines the contents of both Decca Records LPs by the Hertfordshire, England sextet, plus seven additional tracks that were never on either of their albums. The result is a somewhat uneven collection that is melodious enough at various times but often lacking in excitement and drive. The group treads a fine line between delicacy and blandness as they go through various originals, spiced by covers of such familiar fare as "You've Lost That Loving Feeling," "Cotton Fields," "500 Miles," and "La Bamba." Their elegant vocal textures can be startling and even revelatory, as on their cover of the then-new Bob Dylan song "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere." They got better as they went along, but they were never able to come up with a song to match the attractiveness of "Concrete and Clay," from their own pens or in the form of covers of other authors' work. Their legacy, presented virtually in full here, is a body of soft acoustic pop/rock that's only interesting enough to sustain itself about half the time. The remastering is superior to the sound on Decca's vinyl collections of their material from the late 1970s, although -- for reasons that are unclear -- apparently everything that the group ever recorded, even as late as 1967, was issued in mono only. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date:	07/15/1994
Label:	Repertoire
UPC:	4009910419120

Tracks

1. Concrete and Clay
2. Sorrow and Pain
3. Couldn't Keep It to Myself
4. You'll Remember
5. Cotton Fields
6. 500 Miles
7. La Bamba
8. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
9. Swing Down, Chariot
10. Wild Is the Wind
11. The Girl from New York City
12. Cross a Million Mountains
13. Butterfly
14. I Will
15. Face in My Head
16. 3.30
17. Too Fast, Too Slow
18. Something I Can Believe In
19. (Living in) The World of Broken Hearts
20. Loving Takes a Little Understanding
21. Booby Trap
22. I Can't Stop
23. You Ain't Going Nowhere
24. (You've Never) Been in Love Like This Before
25. Baby Never Say Goodbye
26. For a Moment
27. Fables
28. The Green Fields
29. I Won't Let You Down

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Unit 4+2   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Maurice Gibb   Composer
Bob Dylan   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Tommy Moeller   Composer
Brian Parker   Composer
Dave Meikle   Composer
Cynthia Weil   Composer
Lead Belly   Composer
Russ Ballard   Composer
Ritchie Valens   Composer
Barry Gibb   Composer
Hedy West   Composer
Phil Spector   Composer
Barry Mann   Composer
Robin Gibb   Composer