CD Album - Salad - Drink Me - Island Red Label

CD Album

Artist:	Salad
Title:	Drink Me
Label:	Island Red Label
Country:	UK
Date:	1995
Catalogue:	CIRD 1002 / 524 079-2
Barcode:	731452407924
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	Salad	Motorbike To Heaven	Kennedy	7.0 Rate
02	Salad	Drink The Elixir	Wakeman	7.0 Rate
03	Salad	Granite Statue	Kennedy	7.5 Rate
04	Salad	Machine Of Menace	Van Der Vlugt	7.5 Rate
05	Salad	Overhear Me	Wakeman	6.5 Rate
06	Salad	Shepherd's Isle	Kennedy	6.5 Rate
07	Salad	Muscleman	Van Der Vlugt	6.5 Rate
08	Salad	Your Ma	Van Der Vlugt	6.5 Rate
09	Salad	Warnth Of The Hearth	Kennedy	7.0 Rate
10	Salad	Gertrude Campbell	Kennedy	6.0 Rate
11	Salad	Nothing Happens	Kennedy	6.5 Rate
12	Salad	No.1's Cooking	Van Der Vlugt	6.0 Rate
13	Salad	A Man With A Box	Kennedy	7.0 Rate
14	Salad	Insomnia	Wakeman	7.0 Rate

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Standard Jewel Case.

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zabadak 15th Aug 2016		They were very good live... :wink:



Magic Marmalade 12th Aug 2016



Magic Marmalade 12th Aug 2016		Review Salad....? ... Nope... me neither! Not until I found what turns out to be their only two albums in the cheerity shop yesterday had I heard of them. (And I was there man!.... in the shit! - Well, existing in the nineties as an eager teen-angster at least) So how did these get past me I wondered? ...especially as they turn out to be brilliant, and are certainly my best discovery of the summer, and probably the year so far. The reason, it seems, is actually apparent across the two albums, and between them, offer a perfect case study in the dark side of the "Britpop" era, and an object lesson in how a cultural phenomenon can kill a potentially very strong career by steering the band in question down the wrong path. For this was released at a time before Britpop became "A Thing", and the rather constrictive definitions that developed began to take hold of popular music... ...This has a very "honest" sound, and production, and a kind of live in the studio feel, still with a bit of a grunge influence, and many other sounds and feels from the first half of the nineties well mixed in. It has as much in common with The Pixies and The Breeders as it does with a bit of P. J Harvey, Nirvana crunch at times, and even a bit of R.E.M for good measure. It's a very, VERY good album, filled with strong, and memorable tunes. ...Which brings me to the other album of theirs I've uploaded: Ice Cream. Released two years later in 1997, even the front cover tells you the band have been "co-opted" by the Britpop movement... they even have their own snazzy band logo on that, as any band that could be considered Britpop was promptly bought up, packaged and sold as such also had (Blur, Oasis etc.). And basically, that's done for this band, and have become a casualty of Britpop, as the more shiny, plastic-y overproduced Echobelly / Sleeper pop-ising of their sound kills the very thing that makes the band great here. They just didn't fit with it... ... and would have been better advised to stick with this sound. (It's quite telling that it seems easier to find this album on Amazon and ebay than the other, later album... so maybe it just flat out tanked, and they joined the list of other Britpop victims whose names we now forget: Gene... Anyone?.... Anyone?.... Beuler? .... Beuler?) But I'll be bold, and go as far as to say this album may very well be a lost nineties classic. It's absolutely excellent! 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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