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David Gilmour - About Face Audio CD

A fair review of the David Gilmour "About Face" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all David Gilmour reviews here, or go back to the David Gilmour tabs.

David Gilmour Band: David Gilmour
Title: About Face
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Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Until We Sleep 2: Murder 3: Love on the Air 4: Blue Light 5: Out of the Blue 6: All Lovers Are Deranged 7: You Know I'm Right 8: Cruise 9: Let's Get Metaphysical 10: Near the End

Gilmour's second solo album is another winner considering it was the 1980s

The album was co-produced by Gilmour and Bob Ezrin (whom David worked with last on Pink Floyd's The Wall). Pink Floyd's singer and guitarist David Gilmour released his second solo album About Face in March of 1984.
The album was recorded throughout 1983 in France.
In addition to David on vocals and guitar, he is joined by Toto drummer Jeff Porcaro, bass player Pino Palladino and keyboard player Ian Kewley (both from Paul Young's band).
David wrote eight of the ten songs himself on this album including the pulsating opener "Until We Sleep", which is a great song. "Murder" is next and is the best track on the album with David pulling out all the stops on electric and acoustic guitars. "Love on the Air" is next and David wrote the music while Pete Townshend penned the lyrics to this song as well as the second half opening superb rocker "All Lovers Are Deranged". The single "Blue Light" follows and is a good funky track. Steve Winwood plays Hammond Organ on this track as he did on Love on the Air. The only thing that dates it is the horns but a great song. The ballad "Out of the Blue" ends the first half on a poignant note with the late Michael Kamen's superb orchestrations.
"All Lovers Are Deranged" kicked off the second half and a great rocker. The anti-Roger Waters rocker "You Know I'm Right" follows and showed David was still angered and upset about Waters' ill-treatment to him during the torturous Final Cut sessions (who knew the two would reconcile in 2005). Next is "Cruise", which is apparently an ode to an MX nuclear-tipped cruise missile. The classical meets grand guitar instrumental "Let's Get Metaphysical" follows and beautifully blends Michael's orchestrations with some killer guitar work from Gilmour on his trust Fender Stratocaster. The fittingly titled "Near the End" ends this album on a bittersweet but beautiful note and the ending acoustic then Stratocaster solos of Gilmour's are some of his finest.
I first got About Face on cassette when I was 12 in February of 1988 and it is better on CD (especially the 2006 remaster).
The album hit a modest #32 in the US and would eventually go Gold (500,000 copies sold) as a result.
I highly recommend this album to any Floyd fan! .


Pink Floyd fan's (like me) be honnest please
If you don't see difference in these cd, see a doctor !
Five stars goes to an album like "Wish you were here"
Four stars goes to an album like "Momentary lapse of reason"
Three stars goesn to the first solo album of David, just a good cd. Hey, I'm a Pink Floyd fan, but being a fan doesn't mean you have to rate everything a band, or even a band member has released, as a five star rating !
To help you see more clearly, here's some example of five, four and three stars rating.
Two stars goes to this one, be honnest and don't compare it with "Wish you. . . " for instance. Listen to "Blue light", "Cruise" or "All lovers are derandged" and see that About face is not a great cd, few good cuts and nothing more.


David's pulls an about face and says Roger who?
David has a lot of pent up anger here and it helped the creation of a few tracks here "you know I'm right" which is David's version of Lennon's "how do you sleep"
Speaking of Lennon, "Murder" is a tribute to that sad day 12/80. The follow up to Final Cut is a breath of fresh air for Gilmour, who couldn't contribute much to Roger's last 2 masterpieces.
About Face and the first solo record David Gilmour are David's own stellar creations and he proves he can pull it off.
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Just don't feel it
Gilmour's solo stuff sounds dated in my opinion. Most of Floyd to me is timeless. That's certainly not a bad thing in and of itself but this record just seems a bit too 80's poppish to me. The song Love On The Air is just ridiculous. Of course I've never cared for Townsends style of writing and think he's written several songs that just can't be taken serious. I find no songs on this record worth even putting on a compilatation. Off to the used cd store with this one.


About halfway good
Don't get your hopes to high like I did those many years ago. Your search likely led you here looking for more great music by the guys who brought you Pink Floyd. David Gilmour is great guitarist and mediocre songwriter - nothing he's put out as a solo artist or as the leader of the post-Waters Pink Floyd lite would make you think otherwise. It's very similar to "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" in many ways, but he's at least trying to make it on his own here. Both this album and "AMLOR" are very listenable, but they're not the desert island discs some of these reviews make them out to be.


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