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Mark Seymour Titanic
Information: A wholly acoustic live studio album from Mark Seymour (2007). Released in: [Australia / NZ]. Release Date: 28 September 2007. Australian Chart Position: [Did Not Enter]. Rating: 7/10. Availability: Moderately common. Available new in Australia on CD. Value: A$15-A$30. Front Cover: Back Cover: Disc:
Legend:
Version: Liberation Records Australian CD album. Album length: 51 minutes, 31 seconds. 01. Say Goodbye
02. True Believers 04. Back in the Hole 05. Blind Eye 07. Titanic 09. When You Fall 12. Hear No Evil
13. Dog 14. Parting Glass
Original studio source of the songs on this compilation album:
In the beginning it was all about "intimate evenings with," or "raw and acoustic", or Mark Seymour in "Intimate mode... solo and unplugged".. Well the hard truth is that though it was sometimes intimate never at any stage was it "unplugged." The guitar has always been "plugged-in" to something otherwise you wouldn't hear it, especially solo to a room full of Crows fans eating dessert and yelling at each other. Yes, it has to be said, the acoustic thing has grown in volume and "intimacy" has taken on many forms: small, middling to large, sometimes cacophonous. After all, the rules of the game haven't changed. If you've paid good money to hear something you may as well be able to. I should explain that the acoustic guitar I play has a pick-up in it which means that, with sympathetic engineering it can get bloody loud when required. And sometimes loud is REQUIRED. Someone recently asked me for the umpteenth time... "What kind of gigs do you prefer Mark?" "I'm sorry?" "Well, now that you're solo... now that you don't have the band behind you?" "Well, actually, I do on the odd occasion have a band behind me and not very far behind either. A few feet in fact. Sometimes the stages are so small the drummer practically has his head up my arse but let's not go there." "But how do you feel about that, not having the band?" "Hmm," I thought, "This isn't going well." "Look, let's cut to the chase," I said. "I don't mind how it looks nor how many people are on stage, as long as it doesn't exceed forty like it did in the old days but since you're asking I'll say this. I'm happy as long as it sounds good and you can understand what I'm singing about, accompanied or otherwise.. But that said, no matter how intimate it sometimes can get, I still refuse to play in my pyjamas, though I have been asked to." Vocals/Guitars: Mark Seymour Produced & Engineered by Cameron McKenzie Say Goodbye True Believers The One & Only You Back in the Hole Blind Eye She's Not Fooling Around Titanic Everything's On Fire Long Way To The Water Talking To A Stranger Hear No Evil When You Fall Dog Parting Glass |
Highly recommended track.
Commercial single.
Promotional single.