|| LARRY NORMAN (2000-2006) ||
Autor: Alessandro | Publicado: 2016-12-31T20:54:00-02:00














320Kbps - Larry Norman - Safecracking (2006)



&nbsp;Tracklist&nbsp;

01.Don't Wanna Be Like You

02.Down To The Water

03.Endless Life Of Dreams

04.Waves Of Grace

05.A Woman Of God (long, "Rastafarian" version)

06.Stranger Won't You Change

07.Perfect World

08.Butterfly

09.Everybody Work

10.I Want It All

11.Near

12.Jesus Is God



Reviewed by Ian Hayter

http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Larry_Norman/Safecracking/22552/

When Larry and Charles Norman recorded the seven albums that were to form the Essential collection awhile back, a number of "bonus" tracks were not heard by everyone. An internet pirate decided to put these songs on a bootleg album and release it to the wider public. Larry decided to counter this by releasing (on the Solid Rock label) his own version of the bootleg album and here we have a dozen great tracks which are all you'd expect from the master of Christian rock. They showcase all the old energy and innovation of the big blond pioneer, within classic rock idioms. The set begins with "Don't Wanna Be Like You", written about a self-centred music industry narcissus, and contains anthemic songs such as "Waves Of Grace" and "Down To The Water". There's a song that was originally intended for the early 'So Long Ago The Garden' album ("Butterfly") and a live version of "Everybody Work". If you're a Larry Norman fan you certainly won't be disappointed, either by the quality of the songwriting or by the standard of the performance. And if you buy it, you'll be joining in the fight against musical piracy (the album's subtitle is 'Illegal Noise 2006') and making a welcome contribution to the fund for Larry's medical treatment.













320Kbps - Larry Norman - Live At The Elsinore (2005)





&nbsp;Tracklist&nbsp;



01.The Great American Novel 



02.Song For A Small Circle Of Friends 



03.Reader's Digest 



04.Let The Rain Fall Down 



05.U.F.O. 



06.Six Sixty Six/God Part III 



07.I Wish We'd All Been Ready 



08.Maggie/Beatles Montage/Drinking Gourd 



09.The Outlaw 



10.African Gospel Acappella/Lay Your Hand On Me Jesus 



11.Little Wabbit 



12.Few Days With You 



13.The Moon's A Harsh Mistress/One Way/I Am A Servant 



14.Standing Here Today 



15.Song For My Piano 



16.Dance Before The Throne/Train/Can't Get 



17.Why Don't You Look Into Jesus 



18.Watch What You're Doing 



19.Twelve Good Men 



20.Last Time 



21.Why Should The Devil



Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Larry_Norman/Live_At_The_Elsinore/13320/



Larry Norman's health problems have dogged him for a decade now and as he approaches his 60th birthday, he has continued despite his health to try to work on his music. The truth that his life is really about ministry continues to come more sharply into focus as his ability as an artist is weakened. Those who saw his only British date in the summer of 2005 will want to get hold of this as it'll bring back memories. On the first CD Larry plays a solo set, singing songs and chatting at length to the audience who had travelled to the gig from all over the world. His British gig could be the last he ever plays. Listening to this, he sounds vocally frail and sometimes distracted but his spirit is still strong. Larry chats and introduces his sisters who sing with him and the African Acapella Choir who perform one of their songs. On the second CD Larry plays piano so you get to hear some rarer songs like "One Way", "I Am Servant" and even a show tune and Larry gets nostalgic about his past, his family and his music. The final segment of the show features a band including blues guitarist Mark Lemhouse accompanying Larry and singing his own song. The CD was recorded straight to disc from the concert and given to those who attended. That explains why the concert rambles at times and why the sound quality in the final 20 minutes is so poor while the band perform "Why Don't You Look Into Jesus", "Twelve Good Men" and other songs. Again this is not the best quality live Larry Norman CD but it could be the last time a live gig is recorded. For that reason, it takes on a historical significance. Listening as a vocally weak Larry fights like a warrior to finish the gig is a moving experience but even here there's a bit of humour as he sings the Stones' song "The Last Time". Going out with a riotous version of "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music" seems like a good way to bow out. It's a treasured memento for fans who were there and a good reminder of a similar gig for those who made it to Portsmouth a month later. Don't know whether we'll see him on these shores playing live again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dT2EpQiN6w















320Kbps - Larry Norman - 4 Track Motorola (2005)



&nbsp;Tracklist&nbsp;

01.Telephone - Think (Written by Lowman Pauling) 

02.Looking Good 

03.Spirits (This is "Baroquen Spirits") 

04.Sweetheart (Groupie Evasion Strategy #86) (This is "Hey Sweetheart" from "Both Sides of People.") 

05.Blow In My Ear (Alternately titled "Laugh-In" in the linear notes) 

06.Clean Lennon 

07.Now Is The Time 

08.Dancer (This is "She's A Dancer") 

09.Rita Rita - Sigrid (This is "Sigrid Jane") 

10.Let My Love Go 

11.Killing The Dragon (This is from "The Epic") 

12.Hungarian Rhaps #2 

13.Idowanna Lose U (This is "I Don't Want To Lose You") 

14.Child 

15.Wake Up To Me 

16.All My Dreams 

17.Lonely Theme 

18.Drive Me 

19.Salt Of The Earth 

20.Reap What You Sow 

21.Best Friend 

22.With A Ribbon



Reviewed by Mike Rimmer

http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Larry_Norman/Four_Track_Motorola_66_Corolla/13326/



In the '60s Larry Norman's first forays into music were as part of the band People! where he was one of two vocalists. These recordings were demos, masters and experiments made by the band in the '60s that Larry recorded onto four-track tape to listen to in his car to help ferment production and writing ideas. Recently he rediscovered them and decided to put them together onto a CD. It's good to actually get a CD from Larry which features mostly unreleased music to check out. These give an insight into Larry's musical life in the '60s, although some of the better tracks here feature the other singers from People! doing the lead vocals. There are shorter bursts of music like "Spirits", "Dancer" and "Rita Rita Sigrid" which all turned up later in his career as finished different songs. A selection of short bits and pieces close the album which are simple songwriting demos. There are curious pieces like "Blow In My Ear", "Clean Lennon" and plenty of west coast '60s style rock jams that fit perfectly into the time. Favourites have got to be the rockers "Looking Good" and "Think" which open the CD. If you like the People! album 'I Love You' then it's worth digging into these '60s curios.









320-Larry Norman &amp; Randy Stonehill - The Cottage Tapes Book Two (2004)



&nbsp;Tracklist&nbsp;

01.What Goes Through Your Mind

02.Why Don't You Look Into Jesus?

03.I've Searched All Around The World

04.Sigrid Jane

05.She's A Dancer

06.Taking My Time

07.Six Sixty Six

08.Blue Shoes White

09.Even If You Don't Believe

10.Without Love You Are Nothing

11.With A Love Like Yours

12.Peacepollutionrevolution

13.Song For A Small Circle Of Friends

Bonus Tracks Live

14.Dabbles / Pardon Me

15.Why Don't You Look Into Jesus

16.Lonely By Myself

17.I Am A Servant

18.Norman's Kitchen

19.Upside Down Outside My Mind

20.Talking Intro

21.Blue Shoes White

22.Forget Your Hexagram



Reviewed by Dougie Adam

http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Larry_Norman__Randy_Stonehill/The_Cottage_Tapes_Book_Two/12501/



If truth be told when I saw the track listing for this CD I was disappointed. But then I played the disc. Many of Larry's tracks had featured on the first book or volume of 'The Cottage Tapes'. However on this I really liked the way the tracks had been assembled and fitted together. Larry's songs are taken from the 'Street Level' and 'Bootleg' albums. Many of the tracks sound like demos, rougher, looser and edgier than their more polished later incarnations. The band numbers sound more or less live in studio and in a few cases I prefer some of these recordings to the well produced wonderfully arranged but slightly more sedate versions that would appear later on some of the trilogy albums. When the band are dropped and Larry is on his own for "Six Sixty Six" on guitar or "Even If You Don't Believe" on piano these solo acoustic performances carry great weight and power contrasting nicely with the fun, energy and wild abandon of the band recordings. A few of the tracks have never been on CD before (eg, the live version of "Blue Shoes White"). This release will also be of interest to Stonehill fans as the final seven tracks are the live songs from the ultra rare 'Judgement Day At Speedee Mart' album appearing on CD for the first time. For the most part they find Randy covering Larry's songs as well as engaging in some humour with the audience and playing around with his own Jesus music classic "Norman's Kitchen". The release is also notable for its 20 page CD booklet with previously unpublished photos of the duo and further reminiscences from Larry on the Jesus Movement era. There are still several great songs from 'Bootleg' and 'Street Level' which have yet to be officially released on CD, so who knows if a Book 3 may appear in future. the first two instalments have certainly been enjoyable so here's hoping!













320-Larry Norman - Rock, Scissors et Papier (2003)



&nbsp;Tracklist&nbsp;

01.The Troubles

02.Be Careful What You Sign

03.Lounge Lizard Sings Raindrops

04.Children Of Lugoj

05.Rubie 

06.Centre Of My Heart 

07.In The Garden

08.Rock That Doesnt Roll

09.Camel In A Needles Eye

10.Whats Wrong With This Body

11.Near 

12.Positively Like A Servant

13.Positively 4th Street 

14.Soul On Fire 

15.Rachel And Me

16.I Love You

17.Unborn Child





Reviewed by Dougie Adam http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Larry_Norman/Rock_Scissors_Et_Papier/8391/



Potentially this could have been a clunker! Another compilation (cue weary Normaniacs groaning) with a few aims in mind (the project initially started life as a single volume ‘best-of-Belfast-Bootlegs’-with-new-previously-unreleased-bonus tracks - cue further groans from jaded collectors - and transmuted into a collection of rare tracks from different eras). The good news is that despite this unpromising background ‘Rock Scissors Et Papier’ hangs together pretty well and features eight tracks making their debut on CD and there is hardly a weak track on here. The selections from the Belfast Bootlegs are all choice cuts: studio versions of “The Troubles”, “Lugoj” and “Centre Of My Heart” plus the stunning live performance of the beautiful and heart breaking “Near”. No complaints there. Slightly more dubious are the inclusions of “Rubie” (which turns out to be the same alternate short version of “My Feet Are On The Rock” which was issued on ‘Sticks And Stones’) – ditto “Soul And Fire”, “Camel Through A Needle’s Eye” and “Lounge Lizard Sings Raindrops” all of which were released on CD in 2000 on some bootleg style compilations (‘Sticks And Stones’ and ‘Blarney Stone’). Why these tracks have been re-compiled again escapes me, especially the improvised and amusing “Lounge Lizard Sings Raindrops” which works well on the live video from which it’s taken but doesn’t really bear repeated listening (or being officially released twice). It’s not that these are bad songs or performances and more of a case that they are using up space which could have been given to other great performances circulating among traders and copied for Larry (eg, tracks from the Dutch radio broadcast in 1977 with Alwyn Wall and Norman Barratt – anyone want to hear a rare band performance of “Deep Blue” recorded with the help of a 24 track mobile truck?) or some of the unreleased treasures in Larry’s own archives. Anyway, these moans aside there are some great songs and performances making their first appearance on an official CD release like two songs from the fondly remembered BBC Rock Gospel Show appearances; a duet with Cliff Richard on “The Rock That Doesn’t Roll” and the London Community Gospel Choir joining Larry for a new and scintillating soulful reading of “What’s Wrong With This Body”. Few listeners will fail to be charmed or amused by the delightful rendition of “Rachael And Me” and there is a great live band version of the People hit “I Love You” from a concert in May 2000. Another live rarity is a cover of Dylan’s “In The Garden” dating from Holland in 1988. This time Larry’s duet partner is Andy Pratt and they are backed by a few gospel singers – an enjoyable performance marred only slightly by one or two points where Larry forgets it’s his turn to start the verse! Perhaps the greatest gems are the unreleased studio recordings of “Positively Like A Servant” (performed perhaps only once, solo at Greenbelt 1980), another stinging Dylan cover in the guise of “Positively Fourth Street” and “Unborn Child”, a poem recited by Larry with a band doodling away to gorgeous effect behind him. The two “Positively” tracks were recorded at Chapel Lane in the early ‘80s with the Barratt Band and the Dylan cover in particular is delivered with bite and ranks amongst one of Larry’s best cover versions yet.











320-Larry Norman - Agitator The Essential (2002)



Tracklist

01.Sweet Song Of Salvation

02.You Can't Take Away The Lord

03.I Wish We'd All Been Ready

04.What Goes Through Your Mind

05.Even If You Don't Believe

06.Taking My Time

07.Lonely By Myself

08.Righteous Rocker

09.Song For A Small Circle Of Friends

10.Why Don't You Look Into Jesus

11.Diamonds

12.One Way

13.PeacePollutionRevolution

14.UFO

15.I've Searched All Around

16.Six Sixty Six

17.Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music

18.The Great American Novel

19.Reader's Digest

20.Be Careful What You Sign

21.Nightmare

22.Sweet Silver Angels

23.God, Part 2



24.People In My Past



Reviewed by Tony Cummings

http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/products/Larry_Norman/Agitator_The_Essential/7087/





When we published Dougie Adams’ groundbreaking annotated Larry Norman discography in CR62 and CR63 it must have become clear to all our readers just how mind-bogglingly complex is the recorded history of Larry Norman. The undeniable inventor of Christian rock music has treated his vast recorded output with flamboyant eccentricity forever reshuffling tracks, finding new ones in the archive and remixing and overdubbing with a seeming disregard for the sanity of that clique of LN collectors determined to assemble everything the great man has committed to tape. But now even the most hard bitten of Norman anoraks are unlikely to resent the latest batch of albums which sees some never-before-released items put out with old classics which they’ll already have (some on many, many other releases). For Larry is very, very ill and the sales of these albums will go directly towards covering the pioneer’s huge hospital bills. The three tracks the hardcore collectors will want here are “Sweet Silver Angels”, an undocumented recording; “God Part 2”, the original 1971 version; and the original recording of “People In My Past”. But it’s the 21 other tracks here which will hopefully pull in new music enthusiasts to one of the great songwriters of the 20th century. His ‘60s and ‘70s versions of “I Wish We’d All Been Ready”, “Righteous Rocker”, “Why Don’t You Look Into Jesus”, “Six Sixty Six”, “Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?”, “The Great American Novel” and “Reader’s Digest” are as good as Christian music gets. If you’ve yet to discover the man who pioneered the music you love, this is the album to kick you off.