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Chris Rea - God's Great Banana Skin Audio CD

A fair review of the Chris Rea "God's Great Banana Skin" 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 Chris Rea reviews here, or go back to the Chris Rea tabs.

Chris Rea Band: Chris Rea
Title: God's Great Banana Skin
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Release Date: 2008-01-13
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Nothing to Fear 2: Miles Is a Cigarette 3: God's Great Banana Skin 4: 90's Blues 5: Too Much Pride 6: Boom Boom 7: I Ain't the Fool 8: There She Goes 9: I'm Ready 10: Black Dog 11: Soft Top, Hard Shoulder

WOW
Just when I think he can't surprise me amymore than he has,,he does. Have been a fan of Chris since 1988,,,whew, where has the time gone? I was working and had teenagers, so now I am making up for lost time. The CD is excellent and with the "Too Much Pride" song he just blows my mind. He IS God's gift to women. His throaty voice is a gold mine. .


Have you seen the 'Nothing to Fear' video?
I have several others of his but after I saw the video of 'Nothing to Fear' I went looking for that tune. This may be an odd review as I have not purchased the CD - yet. That video is so GREAT. Especially looking back at the time and now after 911. My only complaint is that the switches between his playing and the other scenes was a bit too fast (I'm not a member of the short attention span group). I'm going to buy this CD just to get that tune.


A Review from a Chris Rea Fan


I own every album or CD Chris ever made. Let me start by saying two things: 1) I have never reviewed an album or CD before, and 2) I am a tried and true Chris Rea FAN. OK, there are two I know of that are not in my collection, but they are on my list. I started with Whatever Happened to Benny Santini and recently bought The Road To Hell And Back. I can honestly say that I love them all. However, this CD has become my favorite.

If you have seen the Stony Road DVD, you know that Chris' career is divided by his bout with cancer into two segments: commercial (pre-cancer) and artistic (post-cancer). God's Great Banana Skin falls in the commercial half of Chris' career, but more than any CD of that segment shows his tremendous talent and songwriting ability.

You would also have learned from the Stony Road DVD that the blues don't always show up as angry, hard-driving music. Chris says that sometimes it's simply a longing. This CD points that fact out better than any of his prior work. This is a longing CD.

IMHO, the guitar work on this CD is Chris' best. He plays with much feeling and expression, especially when playing the slide, or "bottleneck", the term Chris prefers. Especially after journeying through Stony Road and Blue Guitars, the 11-CD set, before hearing this CD, his remarkable talent for the blues comes out here - even before he was able to fully express it due to record company issues.

My favorite tracks are . . . ALL OF THEM. However, the play count on my iPod tells me that I listen to Boom Boom, Too Much Pride, Soft Top Hard Shoulder, and Nothing to Fear the most. I also find 90's Blues to be one of Chris' better efforts.

I could write more, but you've already figured out that I heartily recommend this CD.

Happy Listening!.


Not his best work
Unfortunately, I was not very pleased with his efforts here. After borrowing friends' LPs and tapes, this was the first Chris Rea CD I actually bought, based on previous enjoyment of his work. I still think Dancing With Strangers is Rea's best album, both personally pleasing and commercially accessible.
God's Great Banana Skin moves further into blues territory than previous albums and sacrifices the musical diversity that permeated Dancing With Strangers. The only song I really enjoyed on this album is Too Much Pride with its rockier beat and melodious backing vocals. Oddly enough, this song was not released as a single.
The title track is a nice enough tune, the lyrics being typical of Rea's wry humor. Both 'Banana Skin and Miles is a Cigarette were repeated on the US edition of Rea's next album, Espresso Logic.


there she goes
I just want to hear it first if this is the song I am looking for.


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