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Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains Audio CD

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Robyn Hitchcock Band: Robyn Hitchcock
Title: I Often Dream of Trains
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Release Date: 2007-11-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Nocturne (Prelude) 2: Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl 3: Cathedral 4: Uncorrected Personality Traits 5: Sounds Great When You're Dead 6: Flavour of Night 7: Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus 8: This Could Be the Day 9: Trams of Old London 10: Furry Green Atom Bowl 11: Heart Full of Leaves 12: Autumn Is Your Last Chance 13: I Often Dream of Trains 14: Nocturne (Demise) 15: Winter Live 16: Bones in the Ground 17: My Favourite Buildings 18: I Used to Say I Love You 19: Chant/Aether 20: Heart Full of Leaves 21: I Often Dream of Trains 22: Not Even a Nurse 23: Slow Chant/That's Fantastic Mother Church 24: Traveller's Fare

Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains
Its still held in high esteem by his fan base. Undoubtedly the best album by the man

Peter Buck (of REM) in a recent documentary on Robyn points out that this is a great album that everyone should pick up on

Not much to add to that - I've seen Autumn is your last chance & Heartful of Leaves played live in the past - Robyn still does songs from this album live. Robyn has spoken of the atmosphere that runs through the album. . very true. You get a definite vibe from songs like "Trams of old London" - theres a melancholy that runs through this from the very first track (a piano instrumental)

The video from this album (the title track) is a lot of fun - Robyn being menacing with a newspaper, sipping his tea. . Thats worth checking out too

This is Robyn's Forever Changes - it really doesn't get better than this. A VERY strong collection of songs, all the way through. And very entertaining in parts ("Sleeping knights of Jesus")

For starters, listen to Autumn, or the title track. "Uncorrected personality traits" is a hoot

Buy it buy it! and see the tour for this album later in the year (2008) - hes playing the album in its entirety. In this area (NYC) hes playing the Symphony Space in November.


Haunting, Scary, Funny, Beautiful
What can you say about an artist who is like a cross between Bob Dylan and The Gormenghast Trilogy? The first thing that stands out in any Hitchcock excursion is the quirky sense of humor, best seen here in the hilarious Freudian barbershop "Uncorrected Personality Traits. Robyn Hitchcock saved me from oblivion in the early 1980s, shortly after David Bowie had sold out to stadium pop. " But the underside of a dark sense of humor is just plain dark: "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl" and "Sounds Great When You're Dead" have an edge and desperation so intense and authentic as to border on the frightening. But there is sweetness and sadness here as well, as in "Autumn Is Your Last Chance" and the instrumentals that bookend the album. This is one of finest pieces of solo work by an utterly unique artist.


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