Levellers-Levelling_The_Land-2CD-(Remastered)-2007-uF

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MP3/FLAC

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uF

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167,94 MB

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28

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2007-07-13

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ARTiST: Levellers
TiTLE: Levelling The Land
LABEL: Rhino / Warner
GENRE: Rock
TiME: 118:03 min
SiZE: 167,9 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Jul-13-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jul-16-2007
WEBSiTE: n/a

Track List:

    Cd1

01. One Way                                    04:09
02. The Game                                   03:26
03. Fifteen Years                              03:10
04. The Boatman                                05:56
05. Liberty Song                               04:28
06. Far From Home                              03:46
07. Sell Out                                   04:17
08. Another Man's Cause                        04:34
09. The Road                                   04:00
10. The Riverflow                              03:02
11. Battle Of The Beanfield                    03:43
12. Last Days Of Winter                        02:25
13. Dance Before The Storm                     04:03
14. Hard Fight                                 04:27
15. The Devil Went Down To Georgia             03:49
16. Plastic Jeezus                             02:05

    Cd2

01. The Game (Glastonbury '92)                 04:03
02. World Freak Show (Glastonbury '92)         03:30
03. Dance Before The Storm (Glastonbury '92)   04:28
04. The Boatman (Glastonbury '92)              04:15
05. Far From Home (Glastonbury '92)            04:18
06. Sell Out (Glastonbury '92)                 04:49
07. The Riverflow (Glastonbury '92)            03:12
08. Battle Of The Beanfield (Glastonbury '92)  03:23
09. Jig / Three Friends (Glastonbury '92)      08:36
10. Liberty Song (Glastonbury '92)             04:48
11. One Way (Glastonbury '92)                  05:36
12. The Devil Went Down To Georgia             05:45
    (Glastonbury '92)

Release Notes:

That the band's all-time theme song "One Way" should
become a stick to beat the Levellers with by its
critics made a certain sense -- experiencing a crowd
of fans singing along to "There's only one way of
life and that's your own" must have been equivalent
to the one scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian,
when Brian tries to convince his followers to think
for themselves. Give the band this much, though --
another lyric states "the problems of the
world/Won't be solved by this guitar." Such
situations aside, what comes clear upon listening to
Levelling the Land is that the group was neither the
salvation of music's conscience nor a sad joke --
they're at heart a less ambitious but still vaguely
pleasant Waterboys. Chadwick's singing is of a more
strained, higher-pitched Mike Scott -- if not as
dramatic, then on the flipside less immediately
prone to tripping over his own acrobatics -- while
the music aims for the Big and Anthemic crossed with
the Authentically Folky. Sevink's fiddle provides
most of the latter, adding reasonable enough color
on tracks like "Another Man's Cause" and the jaunty
"Far From Home." The Mission UK might as well be
another good comparison point, with the vague
invocations to a mystic past crossed with a focus on
the here and now. A nod or two to then-rampant
Madchester semi-funky beats bubble up here and
there, while songs like "The Boatman" suggest Sinead
O'Connor's hip-hop revamp of "I Am Stretched on Your
Grave" was favored listening in the studio. The
Levellers certainly have their heart in the right
place -- concluding track "The Battle of the
Beanfield" commemorates a notorious Thatcher-era
crackdown on a group of travelers -- but on
Levelling the Land, they're neither fish nor fowl,
not great nor pathetic. They're enjoyable enough and
have a way with instant anthems, and that's about
it.

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