Earth Song Ocean Song Music Cd

Mary Hopkin - Earth Song Ocean Song

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Earth Song, Ocean Song      Artist : Mary Hopkin      List Price : $51.99 USD        Your Price : $51.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 2005-05-09      Studio : Toshiba EMI Japan      Label : Toshiba EMI Japan      Avg. Customer Rating : (3 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Earth Song Ocean Song      earth song, ocean song      Rating:      five stars ?? i will give here six... Nothing on this cd is weak or bad. Excellent!!     Customer Reviews for Earth Song Ocean Song Cd      I CAN'T count the ways I love this one...      Rating:      It's hard to know where to begin a review of one's all time favorite album. Maybe that's the best way to begin, actually. I probably own around 2,000 albums, featuring most genres and fairly evenly spread from the 1940s to today in terms of when they were recorded. And "Earth Song/Ocean Song" is #1 among them all. That should tell you something, but maybe not enough to decide on buying it for yourself. So let me tell you a bit more about why I love it so much. First of all, Mary Hopkin had (and no doubt still has) a terrific voice, and she put it to great use here. That sugar-sweet sadness you hear on "Those Were The Days" is more restrained and mature here, with a breathier quality when it suits the song. She also sounds much closer up and never drowned out by the music. And speaking of the music, it's mellow but lush throughout, intense but never too hard. Themes range from breakups to homelessness to plain old self-awareness, but all the songs seem woven together flawlessly into a cycle that somehow makes perfect sense. The album's centerpieces are its two title songs, written by Liz Thorsen. Maybe they're both about finding inner peace (that's the interpretation I've always stuck with), maybe they're about drug-addiction, or maybe they really are only about climbing a crystal mountain and finding a ride to the end of the ocean. However you choose to hear them, they're both wonderfully evocative and relaxing to hear, and as fresh on the 500th listen as on the first. Other standouts include "Silver Birch and Weeping Willow," about finding comfort in your own company when you can't count on others (or is it really just about watching a sunset? You decide!); "There's Got to Be More," about ending a stagnant relationship; "Streets of London," a not-at-all-preachy look at homelessness; and "Water, Paper and Clay," a classic folk-singalong whose meaning is anyone's guess. That said, there isn't a single wasted note on the album, and you could call them all standouts. I could go on for pages, but suffice to say: if you like folk music, folk-rock, singer-songwriters, or any genre that sticks to real instruments and meaningful lyrics, you can't miss with this CD. Buy a copy for a friend, too. Editorial Reviews for Earth Song Ocean Song Audio Cd      Album Description      Japanese re-issue packaged in a paper sleeve. EMI. 2005.