| Giant Steps | 
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| Artist: The Boo Radleys
Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Category: Music
List Price: $22.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 142091
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5099747413322
ASIN: B0000240JU
Release Date: January 22, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | I Hang Suspended | | • | Upon 9th and Fairchild | | • | Wish I Was Skinny | | • | Leaves and Sand | | • | Butterfly McQueen | | • | Rodney King | | • | Thinking of Ways | | • | Barney (...and Me) | | • | Spun Around | | • | If You Want It, Take It | | • | Best Lose the Fear | | • | Take the Time Around | | • | Lazarus | | • | One Is For | | • | Run My Way Runaway | | • | I've Lost the Reason | | • | The White Noise Revisited |
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Album Description
Sony budget series release of 1993 album, out of print in the States.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
ONE REVIEW?!!?? ONLY ONE????? March 23, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
You have got to be kidding me! I NEVER write reviews on AMAZON, but seeing this album with only one supporter, well, I just had to get my 2-cents in.
For you aging sixties hipsters, remember the first time you heard Pet Sounds? Or perhaps LOVE's Forever Changes? How 'bout Tommy?
For you seventies burn-outs, remember Led Zep IV? Wish You Were Here? Bowie's LOW?
How about all you eighties 'wavers' (including myself!), do YOU remember the first time you heard Joy Division's Closer, Pornography by the CURE, or Laibach's Opus Dei?
In the early nineties, you had Screamadelica by Primal Scream, which drastically changed the sonic landscape by melding stonsey-type rockers with house and ambient music.
And you had the Boo Radleys GIANT STEPS, which combined the shoegazing sonics of My Bloody Valentine with Brian Wilson style harmonies. But that was not all. One listen to Lazarus (in an abbreviated version here, unfortunately) and you will become a fan. As my brother would say, "it's a dubtastic psychedelic trip, maaaaaan!"
Every track is a psychedelic standout, the best of the best being the afore mentioned Lazarus, Rodney King, Butterfly McQueen and Best Lose the Fear.
If you buy this album and have never heard it before, your first listen should be on high quality headphones, lest you miss the little gems of musical wonder hidden in each track.
Bottom line: everyone with even a passing interest in quality music should own this. Yes, it really is that good, it stands the test of time by sounding both nostalgic and twenty years ahead of it's time.
Say what I can't say. December 7, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Giant Steps is one of those extraordinary albums that tugs at your unconscious and whirls you through some airy region that is part molten dreams and part hair-thin half remembered visions that only flicker into life when this album shakes your biological fat encrusted brain from its habitual somnanbulance. The tunes are as striking as anything penned by Brian Wilson; however, they also contain some strange psychic liquid distilled through the emotional falls and glides of the albatros, Martin Carr. On this album he and the band risk their lives to extract these tunes from the undiscovered country where dwell spectres indifferent to the fears and hopes of schmuks like me. Just when your life seems dominated by your stupidity an album like Giant Steps reminds you that there are characters like Martin Carr that have courageously travelled to the edge of our banality and found mystery drifting in rivers just beyond our ken. Everytime I hear this album it peals with an intensity of joy mixed with craving for that something that both saves and destroys us. But best of all this album reminds me that these glorious songs switch an extra chamber in my mind that enlarges my megre existence. Thank you Boo Radleys for this gift.
Beautiful album, sadly out of print in America April 23, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Boos' second major label album following the underwhelming Everything's Alright Forever, Giant Steps was indeed a giant step forward for the band. Led by songwriter Martin Carr, Giant Steps features a stunning variety of sounds - the Boos seem to try almost everything, from acoustic pop ("Wish I Was Skinny"), to jazz ("Leaves and Sand"), to trancey dance music ("Rodney King [Song for Lenny Bruce]"), to dub (the amazing "Lazarus"), to Oasis-style rock ("If You Want It, Take It" - recorded a year before Definitely Maybe came out) and succeed an enormous amount of the time. In fact, if the Beatles had been a 90's group, I'm tempted to say that they might have sounded more like the Boo Radleys than Oasis - the Boos had the same experimental, try-anything attitude that the Beatles had three decades prior.The album almost sounds like a mess upon first listen, but repeated playing brings out the adventurous nature and quality of what the group did. It's very rare for a contemporary group to push limits like the Boo Radleys did, and do it with such success, but Giant Steps is just that- it's a great, well-done album from an underappreciated group (even in Britain). Highlights include all of the aforementioned songs, plus the opener "I Hang Suspended", and the poppy "Barney (...and Me)".
A must in every collection June 18, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was lucky enough to get this album shortly after it came out. After 2 breathless listens i was sure that eventually this band would take over the world. Its funny the way things work out. For at least 2 years after I got this slice of genius - it was played daily in my house. Now almost 10 years later i still haven't come accross an Album as good. I've been on many web-sites and seen reviews of this album which invariably give 5 stars or 10/10. This is no fluke guys. It can reasonably be considered amongst the greatest rock albums of all time. By some freak its not sold well. 100,000 in 10 years is an estimate flying around!!!Do not be mis-led. You have the chance to join an elite few and witness 1hr 15 minuets of the greatest pop , shoegazing, alternative, reggae album. Stone Roses - pretty good , Nirvana - fair play to you lads , Beatles - where would we be without you. But Giant Steps - by the Boos , that my friends, is the standard. "Take what you know , break it up and rearrange it" Dan
butterfly mcqueen December 2, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
i stepped on the original copy i had of this cd breaking it into pieces, so for several years i went without this in my collection. one of those "i'm gonna get another cd i haven't heard instead of replacing one i should still have" deals.finally i saw a used copy for just a couple bucks so i grabbed it and tossed it in on the ride home. with each song i kept jacking the volume up a notch instantly recalling the brilliance of each song. quiet acoustic one moment followed by blistering noise the next. add the vocal harmonies and i wondered why i deprived myself of this for so long. all the 'bombs' (lazarus, barney, suspended, skinny) are justified in getting their props in the reviews, but 'butterfly mcqueen' is the song that defines the boo radleys for me....the very description i gave above all packed into a couple minutes. quiet and beautiful one minute, with a soaring and majestic finale....diving right into 'rodney king' this cd goes with me everywhere cuz i never know when i'm gonna want someone to listen to a track or two.
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