Fretplay.com Robyn Hitchcock CD reviews Robyn Hitchcock guitar tabs Robyn Hitchcock CD reviews Robyn Hitchcock tabs Eye


Robyn Hitchcock - Eye Audio CD

A fair review of the Robyn Hitchcock "Eye" 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 Robyn Hitchcock reviews here, or go back to the Robyn Hitchcock tabs.

Robyn Hitchcock Band: Robyn Hitchcock
Title: Eye
Rating:
Release Date: 1992-09-10
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Cynthia Mask 2: Certainly Clickot 3: Queen Elvis 4: Flesh Cartoons 5: Chinese Water Python 6: Executioner 7: Linctus House 8: Sweet Ghost of Light 9: College of Ice 10: Transparent Lover 11: Beautiful Girl 12: Raining Twilight Coast 13: Clean Steve 14: Agony of Pleasure 15: Glass Hotel 16: Satellite 17: Aquarium 18: Queen Elvis II 19: Raining Twilight Coast [*][Demo Version] 20: Agony of Pleasure [*][Demo Version] 21: Queen Elvis [*][Demo Version]

The best Hitchcock album!
This is the best Hitchcock album ever. I don't know what some of you are talking about. I Often Dream of Trains is a very close second. There is 'no filler' as someone else stated and it certainly isn't shrill. Linctus House being the most raw heartbreak song I've ever heard. I love Robyn - whether he's with the Egyptians, the Venus 5 or solo. He's underappreciated and better than anyhting else out there today. .


Great Songs from a great Singer Song writer

The sound is bare acoustic and piano and voice and it suits Robyn's talents well. Just re listened to this album, and I still love most of the songs on it. I saw him play this album live at Einstein's in Jax Beach, FL when it came out in 1990, and he was amazing. There are stand out moments on every song, with my favorites being, Satelite, Cynthia Mask, Beutiful Girl, Lincus House. Very Syd Barrett.


Almost great
I used to be mad crazy for it. I recently rediscovered this album after 15 years. Then I lost the tape, and moved a couple of times, and the album went out of print. . . Now I have the CD, and I have to say I'm not as mad crazy for it as I used to be, but I still think it's a very fine album. Or, more accurately, it's a very good album with some excellent songs. It doesn't cohere particularly well as an album. Some material feels a bit flabby, especially the repetitive instrumental bits, which could have been world-class hooks if they'd been embedded in songs. Robyn's a good and inventive guitarist, but his sort of sloppy playing feels part and parcel with his lyrics: maybe he's being a little too lazy, or smoking too much grass, because everything feels a little squishy around the edges. Nonetheless, the album is full of gorgeous melodies. One of its characteristics that has weathered the intervening 15 years remarkably well is the vivid imagery. Robyn's always been a very cinematic or visual lyricist, even at his most surreal, and the images have sticking power. Who can ever forget the furry bees? Or Chamberlain pathetically waiving his paper? Or Queen Elvis fitting her dress so well?

I've often felt that Robyn could have been a sort of George Harrison figure: musically inventive, technically adept, eclectic, all that good stuff, but that he's squandered some of that gift on indulgent, undisciplined silliness. But I love the indulgent undisciplined silliness, too.

Almost great.


Important note about the original Twintone version
, lacks the last 3 bonus tracks. It appears that the original Twintone Records version released in 1990 contains only 18 TRACKS, ie.


Strange, yet satisfying
You'll find the catchy quirkiness that makes all of Hitchcock's albums so irresistible. I first heard this album in the early nineties. One of my favorite songs is "Chinese Water Python", a gentle, meandering instrumental. This album is definitely recommended, along with "Queen Elvis" and "I Often Dream of Trains".


You can see a complete list of all Robyn Hitchcock discography, or go back to the Robyn Hitchcock tabs. There is also a good guide on how to read guitar tabs here.

Search guitar tabs

#ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
[ Search tabs | Guitar tabs | Bass tabs |
Easy guitar tabs | Guitar solo tabs |
Acoustic guitar tabs | Guitar chords |
How to read guitar tabs ]
Forum topics
Music forums
- Bands and artists - Songwriting and lyrics - Tablature talk - Promote your band
Instrument forums
- Guitar basics - Gear & accessories - Bass guitar
Community
- The pit - Site Feedback - Reviews
[ User survey | About us | Privacy statement ]