Wedding Present - Take Fountain
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 See Larger Image | Take Fountain Artist : The Wedding Present List Price : $16.98 USD Your Price : $16.98 USD ProductGroup: Music Release Date : 2005-02-15 Studio : Manifesto Records Label : Manifesto Records Avg. Customer Rating : (9 reviews)
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Reviews Customer Reviews for Take Fountain Wow. I love The Wedding Present, but this sucks. Rating: I give it one star for the actual album and one because it's The Wedding Present.
Buy every other album they made before this one.
Customer Reviews for Take Fountain Cd Glorious Rating: I started listening to the Wedding Present with Seamonsters and followed them through the wonderful Hit Parade CDs but then sort of lost touch with them. About a month ago I found WP on a friend's Top 8 List on Myspace.com and thought I should get out the old CDs and see how they had aged. After listening to them all multiple times I figured I needed to see what Gedge was up to now and ran out to buy Take Fountain.
As Interstate 5 kicked in my first thought was that they still manage to get some of the greatest drum sounds ever recorded. As a musician/producer I live for killer recordings, especially drums, and WP have never dissapointed. The second surprise was Gedge's voice. If I didn't know it was WP that I was listening to I may not have recognized him right away. He seems to have shed a bit of his accent and now, where his voice used to be somewhat buried on previous albums, his vocals are pushed forward in the mix. He's voice has matured wonderfully and the listener can now hang on every one of his excellent lyrics. And speaking of lyrics, I noticed that a previous reviewer here at Amazon was struck by the same line as I - "how can I just shake his hand when it's been all over your skin". When I heard that for the first time it was like a knife in the chest. Even now after the 10th listen it still causes brings an ache.
I could sit here all night and write praise for Take Fountain. The production is amazing, the songs are fantastic, the musicianship is beautiful. It's a glorious album and I'm sure I will be obsessed with it for quite some time. Do yourself a favor and buy a copy. You won't regret it.
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