The Cake Sale Music Cd

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The Cake Sale      Artist : The Cake Sale      List Price : $15.99 USD        Your Price : $13.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2007-10-16      Studio : Yep Roc Records      Label : Yep Roc Records      Avg. Customer Rating : (3 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for The Cake Sale      Interesting Side Project      Rating:      This is a good little collection of songs, that compliment rather than enhance a collection. Tracks such as 'Some Suprise', 'Black-Winged Bird', & 'Last Leaf' all hit the right notes, but Conor Deasy's version on the Josh Ritter composition 'Good Intentions Rust' is truely aweful and looses 2 stars for me. A great cause 'OXFAM' benefitted from the sale of the album and all collaborators seemed to have enjoyed the process. It is worth the price for the above songs at least and is a welcome diversion from other sorry attempts at charity records.     Customer Reviews for The Cake Sale Cd      Only Good As A Charitable Donation      Rating:      I was expecting more from this than I got, it mostly just sounded very boring and bland to me. Even with the supposed best songs like "Some Suprise", I found nothing memorable or redeemable about them. It's only good for a charitable contribution, and not much more. Editorial Reviews for The Cake Sale Audio Cd      Product Description      The Cake Sale was devised by Brian Crosby of Irish indie-rockers Bell X1 as a collective and concept album benefiting the Oxfam organization s Make Trade Fair campaign and their other poverty relief projects. With a roll call that includes Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol), Glen Hansard (The Frames/ONCE), Nick Seymour (Crowded House), Nina Persson (The Cardigans), and solo artists like Gemma Hayes and Josh Ritter, The Cake Sale features an incredible list of talented songwriters and performers who have donated their publishing royalties from the project to benefit Oxfam s worthy global causes. Recorded in Dublin throughout last year, the bones of The Cake Sale s tracks were laid down by Bell X1 duo Crosby and Paul Noonan along with Crowded House bassist Nick Seymour and drummer Graham Hopkins. Much like the case of Gary Lightbody and Lisa Hannigan s Some Surprise, lead vocals for much of the album were recorded in different studios around the globe. Despite the disparate location of the musicians, the resulting record is a cohesive collection of songs from a group that made it a point not to fall victim to charity compilation album clichés. We wanted to make an album that benefited this great cause but also one whose songs related to each other in a relevant way, says Crosby. Mission accomplished.