16-06-2014, 21:58
CRAZY-HORSE Wrote:
IMELDA MAY "mayhem" 2010, cd. #7 UK.
i bought this album a couple of months ago thanks to seeing her perform on "later...with jools" but just got around to listening to it.
this is Imelda's third album release, she is a 36 year old from the emerald isle.
the album is primarily a jazz album with bits of rockabilly thrown in either as individual tracks or infused within the jazz tracks.
IMO Imelda is to modern jazz what Amy Winehouse was to 'soul' music with her superb debut album.
theres an interesting jazz/rockabilly version of Soft Cell's classic eighties hit "tainted love" on here along with a new version of her 2005 debut single "johhny got a boom boom"....never heard the original recording of this but this one is brilliant.
the album starts off at a frantic pace then slows down in the middle only to liven up towards the end again. along with that "johnny" track the two best ones are two of the slow moody pieces, "too sad to cry" and "all for you" which really let her jazzy vocals come to the foreground to show off her fantastic ability.
I LOVE THIS ALBUM
worst track: psycho
best track: all for you
tracks:
1. pulling the rug **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzf0_EDTxXg audio
2. psycho **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-_gSOFJ2lM live
3. mayhem **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rik8lOmh9Ag live
4. kentish town waltz **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEYZx7Wc7E live
5. all for you ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4bSReiy6U audio
6. eternity **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DnfslI-sSw audio
7. inside out **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4Ut9_PS_DA live
8. proud and humble **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2j2qrrYhU live
9. sneaky freak **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss-gycxTroQ live
10.bury my troubles**
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHehHLidlcA audio
11.too sad to cry ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ3bgTCibxo audio
12.im alive ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnjigMXoYug audio
13.let me out ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpNqqXOzG0Q audio
14.tainted love **
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOgSdc8OAI live
15.johnny got a boom boom ***
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9p0NUNlSk live
3s=5
2s=10
1s=0
rating: 2.3
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Well, tickle my pickle, if it ain't Imelda May--sorry, but that name sounds like US Southern white trash or a Filipina bar singer. Anyway, she's for real and has gone from strength to strength. Here's her and her band with Jeff Beck playing a substantial part, at the Les Paul Memorial Throw-down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0NsAwMMnTI << overstating the obvious but Mr. Beck doesn't lend his name or his talents to trifling people or events--go hog-wild with this!
Here she's doin' the do at the Isle of Wight...and the 'rads went crazy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy1-1QuhMnc
The G-2 on her: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_May She has a disc freshly out called Tribal (mostly self-written, some with her husband and siblings--no other info available). European tour this fall. Want to get in touch? http://imeldamay.co.uk/
A man accustomed to hear only the echo of his own sentiments, soon bars all the common avenues of delight, and has no part in the general gratification of mankind--Dr. Johnson
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR
What he said. Amen, Bro--JazzboCR