Comments for Aztec Camera, High Land, Hard Rain

I could go on for pages describing the excellence of this album - the emotion, the warmth, the anger, the innocence, the hard experience, the outsider looking in, and most of all the sublime songwriting and musicianship. Roddy Frame and crew have created a unique, yet totally accessible synthesis of acoustic pop, with strong melodicism, a touch of flamenco guitar playing, and incisive lyricism. These songs will stamp themselves indelibly into your memory. Released in 1983, Roddy Frame (among many other t

An excelant album, especially when you realize Roddy Frame was so young at the time he wrote this. I baught the tape when I was still living in England about seven years ago and it does not include the last three tracks listed, so I do not know how good they are

The last three tracks aren''t on the original release, but are on the CD reissue. Orchid Girl was the ''b'' side of the original Rough Trade release of ''Oblivious'' one of my personal all-time favourites. My copy of this was a prize for raising sponsor money from school, and has all my sponsors signatures, so as well as being an excellent album in its own right, it also brings back some excellent memories.

I wish they had never lost this sound! Acoustic rock withsome really unanticipated chord changes. "Oblivious" isthe song that stands out from the rest.