Robyn Hitchcock / I Often Dream of Trains in New York

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Artist

Robyn Hitchcock

Album Title:

I Often Dream of Trains in New York

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Primary Genre

Alternative

Format

CD (1) DVD (1)

Released

11/10/2009

Label

Yep Roc Records

Catalog No

YEP 2217

Bar Code No

none

Packaging

Special Art Thang

Tracks

1.	Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl (Cassette Fragment) (1:40)
2.	Nocturne (3:08)
3.	Flavour of Night (3:01)
4.	Cathedral (4:26)
5.	Sounds Great When You're Dead (3:58)
6.	Uncorrected Personality Traits (3:01)
7.	I Used to Say I Love You (5:34)
8.	Winter Love (4:38)
9.	This Could Be the Day (3:42)
10.	Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus (4:43)
11.	Trams of Old London (4:17)
12.	My Favourite Buildings (3:08)
13.	That's Fantastic, Mother Church (2:59)
14.	Heart Full of Leaves (2:44)
15.	Autumn is Your Last Chance (4:27)
16.	I Often Dream of Trains (3:47)
17.	America (6:01)
18.	Up to Our Nex (4:12)
19.	Goodnight I Say (4:14)

Date Acquired

03/01/2010

Personal Rating

Acquired from

Yep Roc Records

Purchase Price

30.00

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Reviews

All Music Guide Review:

Review by James Christopher Monger
Recorded live at Symphony Space in New York City, I Often Dream of Trains in New York features Robyn Hitchcock and multi-instrumentalists Tim Keegan and Terry Edwards re-creating the willfully eccentric Englishman's seminal 1983 post-Soft Boys solo outing I Often Dream of Trains in its entirety. In typical "Hitchcockian" fashion, the singer enters the stage to the tinny crackle of a hand-held tape recorder playing "Sometimes I Wish I Was a Pretty Girl," sits down at the piano, comically slows the pitch and begins playing the moody instrumental "Nocturne." What follows is a surprisingly deft and poignant retelling of his most beloved album, peppered with the usual Dada banter about tomatoes, microorganisms, and detectives. The two-disc set includes a DVD of the performance, as well as a surreal short film that features extended footage from the original video shoot for the title track backed by random bursts of disconnected music and dialogue.

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