| Product Summary | | Label: Dancing Ferret Discs | | UPC: 00687132073623 | | Release Date: 7/18/2006 | | Buy.com Sku: 202703881 | | Item#: M2YHH3 | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 25332 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Coraline - (with Rasputina) ~ Neil Gaiman |  | | 2. When Everyone Forgets - (with Thoushaltnot) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 3. Trader Boy - (with Tapping The Vein) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 4. Raven Star - (with Lunascape) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 5. A Fish Called Prince - (with Deine Lakaien) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 6. Even Gods Do - (with Thea Gilmore) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 7. Coraline - (with Rose Berlin) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 8. Magda Treadgolds Marchen - (with Schandmaul) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 9. We Won't Go - (with Hungry Lucy) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 10. Come Sweet Death - (with Voltaire/The Oddz) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 11. Mr. Punch - (with Future Bible Heroes) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 12. Endless, The - (with Razed In Black) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 13. Wake the White Queen - (with The Cruxshadows) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 14. You Better Leave the Stars Alone - (with Ego Likeness) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 15. Cold Black Key, The - (with Azam Ali) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 16. Vandemar - (with Joachim Witt) ~ Neil Gaiman | | | 17. Sister Named Desire - (Remastered Version, with Tori Amos) ~ Neil Gaiman | |
| A unique collaboration between a collection of talented musicians and a best-selling author. Seventeen top international acts offer 17 exclusive songs inspired by the diverse work of Neil Gaiman. Includes a lavish 20 page booklet with extensive liner notes from Neil Gaiman about the project and each of the songs and an assortment of all new artwork from Dave McKean, as well as a foreword by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance. The songs on this disc are inspired by Gaiman stories including Coraline, American Gods, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, Stardust, The Goldfish Pool, Sandman, The Wolves in the Walls, Mr. Punch, Mirror Mask and Neverwhere.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Various Artists/Neil Gaiman: Rose Berlin, Schandmaul, The Oddz. | | Personnel: Thea Gilmore (vocals, acoustic guitar); Azam Ali (vocals, hammer dulcimer); Stephin Merritt, Claudia Gonson (vocals); Dean Garcia (guitar, drums, programming); Tommy Dark (guitar); Loga Ramin Torkian (electric guitar); Carmen Rizzo (keyboards, synthesizer, programming); Gregor MacKintosh (keyboards); Glenn Sorino (drums). | | Audio Mixers: Dean Garcia; Mark Hawley. | | Audio Remasterer: Jon Astley. | | Liner Note Authors: Patrick Rodgers; Neil Gaiman. | | Recording information: Mother West; Planet Grey Studios; Polar Mother. | | Author: Gerard Way. | | Illustrator: Dave McKean. | | Arranger: Matthias Richter. | | As concept albums go, Where's Neil When You Need Him? is stranger than most. Neil Gaiman is not a musician; he's a comic-book author and screenwriter. Although this album is credited to him, he appears only as a commentator in the liner notes. The actual music is provided by 17 bands and solo artists, all of whom are fans of his work and each of whom were invited to write a song about one of his stories or characters. Thus references to Sandman, Coraline, wolves, goldfish, and mirrors abound, and the songs themselves vary across quite a wide spectrum of styles, from Tori Amos' voice-and-piano minimalism to Schandmaul's Teutonic folk-rock, and from Azam Ali's Middle Eastern exoticism to Thea Gilmore's sturdy roots rock. As you might expect, it's something of a mixed bag, quality wise: Rasputina impresses with their industrial/orchestral "Coraline," and Gilmore's "Even Gods Do" is another powerful contribution. Less impressive are the icky "Come Sweet Death" by Voltaire (note to Voltaire: you need to ignore people who tell you that death is either cool or romantic), and Amos' contribution, which is overwrought and self-involved even by her own considerable standards. But overall, the album offers a fascinating array of musical interpretations of the work of one of America's more interesting graphic artists. ~ Rick Anderson |
Producer: Dean Garcia; Patrick Rodgers; Eric Fisher; Heather Thompson; Greg Mackintosh; Nigel Stonier; Romell Regulacion; Azam Ali; Tori Amos; Mike Cave |
Engineer: Chris Ewen; George Grant; Eric Fisher; Heather Thompson; Greg Mackintosh; Mark Hawley; Mike Cave; Charles Newman |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 2006 | | Original Release Date : 2006 | | Catalog ID : 20736 | | Label : Dancing Ferret Discs | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00687132073623 |
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