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PALMER,AMANDA; NEIL GAINMAN - An Evening With Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer - Amazon.com Music
Electric Blanket (A Duet. Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley)
12
Psycho
13
Introduction to I Google You
14
I Google You
Disc: 3
1
I Want You, But I Don't Need You
2
Introduction to Dear Old House
3
Dear Old House
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Introduction to Gaga, Palmer, Madonna: A Polemic
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Gaga, Palmer, Madonna: A Polemic
6
Introduction to Judy Blume
7
Judy Blume
8
I Don't Care Much (With Lance Horne)
9
Map of Tasmania
10
Introduction to Do You Swear to Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth & Nothi
11
Do You Swear to Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth & Nothing But the Truth
12
Introduction to I Will Follow You Into the Dark
13
I Will Follow You Into the Dark (For Ashlie Gough)
14
Look Mummy, No Hands
15
Ukulele Anthem
Editorial Reviews
A three disc set culled from hours of live recordings from their Fall 2011 tour of the West Coast - international recording artist Amanda Palmer and New York Times Best-Selling Author Neil Gaiman bring you an intimate collection of songs, duets, covers and spoken word pieces that span their respective careers. Previously unreleased to the general public AN EVENING WITH NEIL GAIMAN & AMANDA PALMER includes such fan-favorites as "The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury", "Dear Old House", and "Judy Blume". Likewise, such show-stoppers as "Makin Whoopee" and "I Google You" provide a fun yet truly personal look at the artistic tension and incomparable love between this husband-and-wife power phenom.
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No
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English
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5 x 5.63 x 0.39 inches; 3.67 ounces
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As soon as I got this from UPS I popped it into my PC and listened, for over three hours, and just listened. If you love Neil Gaiman and/or Amanda Palmer, you do not need to read this. Because you already know how wonderful and awesome they are. If you are not familure with either of the two, then I think you should. They are both very creative and interesting. They inspire me to be the same.
I read everything that Neil Gaiman writes, so as soon as I saw this, I ordered it. It's a wonderful CD--quirky and fun and amazing! If you haven't experienced Neil Gaiman's writing, this is a good introduction to his universe.
Tired of searching for duets on YouTube ? Wish you had a more perfect marriage ? Enjoy three hours of happy, formerly inflectionable discoveries sure to inspire and entertain. Art has been put on an impromptu advisory.
Haven't listened to it yet, it was a present for my fiancee, but she loves it and it was a great value for the price (I didn't know it was three whole discs).
3CD: Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer, An Evening with Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer (8 ft. Records, 8FT015CD, 2013.) B.C.: 8 52831 00407 4 (NOTE: This 3-CD set is truly the most appallingly bad recording I have ever heard. It is disgustingly obscene, not on carnal or quasi-carnal grounds mind you (although this part is there and it doesn’t help), but because it is so dismally and reprehensibly bad. These recordings were done when the two artists (I mean, performers) were on a tour. The result? This CD set takes the prize for being the reigning paradigm of what a moral low-life recording is. But what is it a recording of?! Chatter, patter, pseudo-poetry, bits of worthy prose, feeble pandering to a puerile audience. Out of fairness I have to acknowledge that Neil Gaiman does have a touch of genius. Only a small touch, but it is there. His problem, on this tour and in the rest of his life, is that he hasn’t the courage to keep forging ahead without his needed dose of constant accolades—from an audience, from Amanda Palmer, from the media. The result is that Neil Gaiman has given the world a dose of chronic mediocrity which is so dull it contaminates the minds of his groveling audience and numbs the minds of unwitting bystanders. The punctuations of momentary genius which he graciously gives are appreciated, but he then quickly buries them beneath the offal of his dalliances which result from his craven need for instant gratification via audience approval. His piece “My Last Landlady” (the first on these recordings) is an example of this. It is unique, humorous, almost profound. It isn’t Poe, but it’s better than a lot that’s out there today. But he just can’t stay with this level of artistry. He immediately averts his attention to the audience because his need for instant gratification craves their approval, and he then quickly descends into a mire of mediocrity and from there into a morass of gibberish (or, to put it metaphorically) (or, to maybe not put it metaphorically) coprophilic finger-painting. As for his side-kick, his creature of ill-defined species and hybrid mentality, that garish Amanda Palmer doesn’t have even a touch of genius and her cranium would not recognize genius if it came knocking. Her only artistic inclination is toward hysteria, her only artistic aptitude is with gynocentric misanthropic rants, and her only means of expression involves dallying with and dabbling in the art of torturing any audience she can gain with displays of her ataxic body and her dysarthriatic verbiage which, when it runs short on expletives, makes liberal use of the f word and constantly clutches for random and lint-brained stereotypes, clichés, and falsehoods. Stereotypes? As in disc 3, tr. 9, where she says, “... idiot men”! (as if she isn’t the one who is an idiot?). On this CD 3, which was almost all Amanda only, we encounter “upside down triangle” (Could someone of AP’s IQ be made to understand that there is no such thing as an upside down, or right side up, triangle?) A triangle, by definition, is simply ... well Amanda, forget it. The many solecisms you spewed on this disc, the worst of the three, were execrably bad and numerous. Neil Gaiman’s errant cohort Amanda Palmer is a study in how someone “makes it” in show-biz on the basis of being nothing more than a braying exhibitionist and a study in odious ignorance with not a trace of redeeming probity. But maybe I should desist with describing her limitations. In her feeble-minded, anile state, her mental decrepitude is perhaps not entirely her fault since imbecility is sometimes not a choice but an unfortunate affliction. So I shall do my best to not criticize her for her mental deficiencies, although I still must hold her accountable for how tawdry and unimaginative are her many moral sins. On the subject of morals, as revealed by the two pseudo-artists here at issue, I am glad to concede that Neil Gaiman often does show true tenderness toward other human beings. This gives him a touch of authentic spiritual status—if not stature. However, Amanda Palmer evinces nothing in the way of a spiritual, much less virtuous, temperament. She cares only for herself, and since she doesn’t really have a self, this means she doesn’t care for anybody and never will except possibly for some uterine get which she might muster, motivated by the possibility of having opportunity for a narcissistic reiteration of herself (which, lest we forget, is a non-self). So why did I buy and listen to this drivel? Because there is one very, very good track on it which I heard years ago on the radio. It’s a work other artists have done, but Neil and Amanda (perhaps because they themselves are demented) are the only ones I have heard do it really well. It’s track #12 on the second disc and is called “Psycho.” This work was written by a blind C&W singer named Leon Payne in 1968. His career was minimalist, although he did have one Top-10 hit called “I Love You Because” in 1949 which would become Elvis Presley’s first recording in 1954. As for “Psycho,” it had a checkered existence as a recording, first was made popular by a singer named Jack Kittel and then butchered in a manic but wimpy live version by Elvis Costello in 1981. So thank you Neil Gaiman for giving me this version, and for bringing my search to an end. And thank you Amanda Palmer for ... well, I guess you deserve credit since you strummed a few chords in the background on your uke. The recording here at issue is an emotionally repulsive collection. Partly because it is so bad (and I was so compulsive as to believe I should listen to all of it). I did, however, have a good reason for listening to all of it. Now and then I believe I should learn something about modern culture, so I immerse myself this way and, though I end up debasing myself, I do learn a few things. The most amazing thing this time was that the audiences which Neil Gaimen and Amanda Palmer performed for seemed to love these two entertainers. That is disturbing, depressing, even shocking. And no, I am not envious.
Alle drei CDs sind durch und durch hörenswert. Neils Kurzgeschichten, Erzähungen und Gedichte sind nicht nur clever, lehrreich, witzig und berührend, sondern er trägt sie auch wunderschön vor. Amandas Lieder sind wie immer herrlich und unterhaltsam, aber regen auch regelmäßig zum Nachdenken an. Auch die Auswahl der Lieder finde ich fast perfekt, einzig In My Mind fehlt mir ein klein wenig. Die zweite CD, auf der Neil und Amanda zusammen sprechen und spielen, gefällt mir von allen dreien am wenigsten, da sie die meisten "Filler" beinhaltet, dennoch finde ich sehr viele "Titel" auf ihr schön und höre sie immer gerne, selbst wenn die beiden darauf nur etwas plaudern. Ich habe das Album bereits weiterempfohlen und es wurde gekauft und geliebt, somit bin ich sicher, dass jeder, der sich auf Musik abseits der Mainstream-Szene einlassen kann oder zumindest gerne Geschichten hört, mit diesem Album mehr als glücklich wäre -
auch die Aufmachung ist wunderschön, die CDs kommen in einem matten Pappumschlag, sind durch und durch mit dem großartigen Cover bestückt und sehen ganz hervorragend aus. Meine CD wurde im Paketumschlag leider etwas geknickt, sodass der CD-Rücken etwas schief ist, mittlerweile hat es sich aber fast in den richtigen Zustand zurückgebogen!
Alles in allem mehr als empfehlenswert, auch für Menschen, die mit Neil und Amanda noch nicht vertraut sind.
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