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I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight | 
 enlarge | Artist: Richard & Linda Thompson
Label: Ume Imports
Category: Music
List Price: $10.98
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 26627
Format: Enhanced, Extra Tracks, Import, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5.1 x 0.5
MPN: 9817907
UPC: 766487384049
EAN: 0766487384049
ASIN: B0001N9ZKW
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand new. Shipped from the UK by Airmail direct to 5 airports in the United States. Delivery takes approximately 5 working days from posting - we're frequently faster than a lot of US based sellers.
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| Tracks:
| • | When I Get to the Border | | • | The Calvary Cross | | • | Withered and Died | | • | I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight | | • | Down Where the Drunkards Roll | | • | We Sing Hallelujah | | • | Has He Got a Friend for Me | | • | The Little Beggar Girl | | • | The End of the Rainbow | | • | The Great Valerio | | • | I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight | | • | Together Again | | • | The Calvary Cross |
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Album Description
Full title - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. The British folk-rock duo's 1974 masterpiece, digitally remastered, featuring 13 tracks including 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks recorded live at The Roundhouse, 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight', 'Together Again' (Buck Owens cover), & 'Calvary Cross'. Packaged in a slipcase with 12-page featuring full lyrics & sleeve notes. Universal. 2004.
Album Details
2004 Digitally Remastered Edition of the Thompson's Tour De Force Album which was Originally Released in April 1974 on Island Records. It Stands as One of the Great Masterpieces of English Folk Rock. For this Remastered Edition, We have Taken the Opportunity to Add Three Previously Unreleased Live Performances Captured at the Roadhouse, London on September 7, 1975.
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Brilliant is an over used accolade November 20, 2008
Jennifer Heidmann
but there's really no other word for this album. Fascinating lyrics, lovely melodies, a thoroughly pleasing mix of the wry, the melancholic, the absurd, the surreal, and the celebratory. Linda's singing is wonderfully controlled and understated, but Richard's is even better. He may lack her pipes but his delivery was never better.
Most amazing of all, though, is Richard's impeccable guitar work. It is delightful throughout, but especially on the first two cuts. The extended fade out of "When I get to the border", where he trades licks with the concertina, would be enough all by itself to establish him as one of the great originals of the instrument. But that's just a set-up for what he does at the beginning of 'Calvary Cross,'-- a chilling display of fret-prowess. Even after all these years, it still sends spiders crawling up my spine.
Top 50, of all time March 29, 2008
M. S. Thomas (Kyoto, Japan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How could a man so young be so bitter? And how could it all sound so great, even so life-affirming? Not a misstep on the record, every song here is written and exists; these are not just words set to music, they have the quality of folksongs transmitted orally over generations. Some of the really world weary, misanthropic songs that would pervade 1975's Pour Down Like Silver, but there is a little bit more af a joyous atmosphere working here, despite songs like "The End of the Rainbow": "Life seems so rosy from the cradle/ but I'll be a friend, I'll tell you what's in store/ there's nothing at the end of the rainbow/ there's nothing to grow up for anymore."
A true folksinger, Thompson is so at home in the genre that he is not even working within the genre, but has become it in a way... Linda Thompson has, in my opinon, one of the most affecting, if not strictly beautiful, voices I have ever heard. Listen to her on "Has He Got a Friend" where she begs for a date: "If you know someone who's graceful and wise/ doesn't mind girls who are clumsy and shy/ I don't mind going with someone who I've never seen." Or on "Down Where the Drunkards Roll": "You could be a gambler who never drew a hand/ you could be Lord Jesus, all the world would understand/ down where the drunkards roll." Her voice floors me, leaves me shaken with goosebumps.
Love this CD August 21, 2007
Dye (Northern California)
I'd never heard much Richard Thompson when he performed with Linda. This album holds up VERY well. The music is fun. The lyrics are gifted. Linda is a great singer!
A Masterpiece July 6, 2007
Morten Vindberg
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
When Richard Thompson released this album, his first with his wife Linda, he had already a relatively long recording career behind him. As a founder member of Fairport Convention he was the group on their first five albums. His characteristic guitarplaying style can also be heard on Sandy Denny's early solo albums and he had released his own soloalbum "Henry the Human Fly" in 1972.
During his time with Fairport Convention Thompson matured a lot as a songwriter and many of the band's early favourites were either written or co-written by Thompson. His inspiration by traditional British music also became still more clear. Many of the songs on "Henry" and "I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" actually sound like they were traditional folk-songs.
His collaboration with Linda lasted for 8 years and resulted in 6 great albums. This their first is often regarded as the strongest with Richard's songwriting extraordinary inspired and varied, and his distictive voice blends beautifully with Linda's on these great songs.
The terrific opener "When I Get to the Border", sung by Richard, is catchy with optimistic lyrics. A little unsual for Thompson, whose lyrics often are dark and sad.
Equally catchy ( and optimistic ) is the title track which deserved to be hit beautifully sung by Linda.
Heartbreakingly beautiful is also the sad ballad "Withered and Died", sung by Linda in way that makes you think of her friend Sandy Denny.
The dark side of Richard's songwriting become apprent on songs like "Down Where the Drunkards Roll", "Has He Got a Friend For Me" and especially "The End of the Rainbow" . Even the catchy "We'll Sing Hallelujah" has some pretty dismal lyrics.
The budget for this album was supposedly very limited, but it does show anywhere. Great arrangements, crisp sound and best of all strong songwriting and palying from first track till the closer "The Great Valerio".
The bonus-tracks are 3 1975 live-recordings - nice to have but some may find that they disturb the very consistent feel of the original album, which I won't hesitate to call a masterpiece.
Desert Island Disc March 7, 2007
a reader (California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
My partner and I have over 4,000 CDs (all types of music), and if I could only keep 10 of them, I'd keep this one.
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