Buried Treasure 06 February 2006 |
Announcement straight from the harbour where the ship with the precious freight has just arrived to share it with all of you out there... So come on down to the docks...
X marks the spot... Found at last! "Buried Treasure" A
38-track Double CD Golden anthology Gold, diamonds and precious pearls from over 30 years of recording - a truly fascinating insight into the birth, evolution and development of SAILOR over the years. This collection contains all of the hits from the original and later line-ups plus many previously unreleased gems and classics from the private archives of one of the most original and incomparable bands of all time SAILOR! Belerion Records are proud to present the COMPLETE ANTHOLOGY COLLECTION "BURIED TREASURE" - A 38-TRACK DOUBLE CD PACKAGE WITH 20-PAGE COLOUR BOOKLET, BAND COMMENTARY, ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPHS AND BIOGRAPHY. How to order:
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"Buried Treasure" - further information about the songs: CD 1
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"Buried Treasure" reviews from fans...
Mandy Phelps - UK:
Dear SAILOR, I would just like to say how wonderful the long
awaited Buried Treasure collection is. I have been waiting
for this for a long time, but it has been well worth it! It's
fantastic to hear some 'new' tracks, especially Pete's 'Guns and
Guitars' track. It's also great to hear different lead vocals.
Well done guys, you've done a brilliant job putting it all
together. My copy arrived on Valentine's Day - what more could I
ask! Keep up the good work,
and I can't wait to see you again soon.
Ken Knight - UK:
At long las the "booty" has arrived,and the SAILORs
have done us proud! Long overdue, but very, very welcome! Well
done SAILOR.
Jim Scott:
I have followed SAILOR for 30 years and have attended as
many as possible UK gigs in the last 3 years, so I thought I had
heard just about all there was to hear from them. How wrong I
was! This album is like listening to 4 or 5 different bands! Can
there be a more adaptable or talented band still going today?
I have the CDs in the car and have played them over and over
again. In the words of a famous burger company - I'm lovin' it!
Let's hear a few more of these great songs live.
Well worth waiting for.
Let's see at least one performance in the UK this summer -
PLEASE.
Well done Phil.
John S. Watson:
Received my copy of Buried Treasure from Belerion Records
yesterday - Many Thanks. Just a note to congratulate all involved
in the production from the music (still to play alot of it) but
especially the concept sleeve, design and notebook. Well Done!
Uli Neumann - Germany:
Yesterday I found the BT in my letterbox. First I was a little
disapointed, because the CD was not packed in a jewel case. At
the secound look, I saw that there is a reason for that, it is a
very interesting card cover and it was good, that SAILOR spend
the money in a wonderful booklet with interesting information but
not in a more expensive jewel case. The only information I miss,
is the appearcene of the musician for every title.
I heard the CDs on high end audio equipment of the famous
manufaturer DUAL (Receiver CR5950RC, CD-Player CD5150RC
(manufactured in collaboration with Rotel) CLX9200 Speaker
Sytems), so many details I remember, listeners using consumer
quality equipment would't even notice.
Especially the songs taken from TV recording have of course a
30-year old (perhaps monoraul) master. So I can imagine waht hard
work it was in the studio to make them sound good. As I wrote,
listeners using "normal" audio equipment would not
notice that treble end deep bass is missing a little bit an that
voice and intruments tend to roam between the speaker systems. Of
course these tracks of SAILOR's early years belong in an album
like BT, well done SAILOR and well done Abbey Road studio.
Some tracks I already know from the "legacy" album, but
this album was only released in Denmark. A lot of fans will be
glad to hear them now.
Very interesting are of course the early recordings, I love that
version of traffic jam, it sounds even more authentic like the
version released on the first SAILOR album.
If I listen to the album carefully and imagine, how many
right-owners there are, I can imagine what hard work it was and
how much money it took to release this unique anthology, thank
you very much SAILOR.
Listening to BT is a great pleasure, you can here the differences
beetween the different aeras and, I must say that, a 12-String
can never be replaced by an electric guitar with sound processor
and the sound of the acoustic honky-tonk piano of the original
nickelodeon can not be reproduced by the syntesizer piano.
I really looking forward to the release of the checkpoint CD and
of course the third part of the BT anthology. Which songs I
expect on it?
- The Pimps Brigade
- The Harbour Bar Bell
- Copacapana (original, NOT the legacy version)
- Harbour (original)
- Single version Down By The Docks
- It's Chrismas Again.
These songs were only released on 7" vinyl, on a christmas
sampler or were only played on concerts.
So I hope to see SAILOR in northern gemany (here are the harbours
an sailors an the girls they sing about.)
Buried treasure, a "must have" for every SAILOR fan,
order now, don't wait until it is sold out, you will never
forgive youself.
Geoff Brown - Australia:
After playing BT for the past
week these are my impressions.
The booklet with the CD is beautifully done!
The live versions from the 70s are just brilliant!
"Traffic Jam" demo version is superb. I liked
"Perfect Time & Heart of the Matter" the very first
time I heard them both .
"Farewll to Berlin" is almost like 3 different songs in
1 and is one of those songs I keep finding myself humming in my
head. The more I hear it the more I like it.
"Whatever's in your Heart" and "Chained to the
wheel" are two of the real surprise gems on the album.
Phil's vocals on these two are just perfect.
Some of the songs from the "Legacy" album I have never
heard before so what might be "old" to many SAILOR fans
are actually "new" to me. I enjoyed the
"Legacy" tracks immensely.
"Stay the Night" (great song) sung by Henry I liked
immediately. "Stiletto Heels" is close to my favorite
track on the album. I like the slightly different Legacy version
of "The Secretary"! I enjoy both Peter's & Georg's
versions of it .
Its my favorite song on SAILORs DVD . I think its such a great
pop song that no matter what way SAILOR do it, it just sounds
great to me.
"Nickelodeon Nights" is marvellous! I think the 2002
live version of "Sailor" finishes off the part1 Cd
perfectly!
The version of "Karma Chameleon" on BT is outstanding
in my opinion. I always have liked Culture Club's version but I
think SAILOR do it much better!
Buried Treasure is most definately a musical journey with so many
different sounding songs that all come together so well. The
versatility of SAILOR amazes me.
Markus Sauer - Germany:
"Buried Treasure" - of course, a real SAILOR fan puts
the spade away, pushes the sailor's cap a little further to the
back and uses the end of his neckerchief to wipe the sweat off
his forehead, feeling like raising a treasure when he opens the
envelope that has just arrived from England. A treasure chest
full of sparkling, glittering jewles of pop music - long awaited
and now here at last.
But is "Buried Treasure" really just a treasure chest?
No! I have been the proud owner of this double-CD for a week now
and this comparison is not enought. For me there is a lot more
than the contents of a rotten wooden box. "Buried
Treasure" is a book full of new colourful stories about life
in its whole variety, a new formula for the explanation of the
world, a panorama-painting using the complete colour palette, or,
to return to the nautical topic: the discovery of a new
continent, a huge and wild new ocean!
The adventurous journey at main sea starts with "Open Up The
Door" a live version from the 70s (with extra screams
- by Henry, as far as I can hear - and an extra instrumental
extro). One almost feels some kind of melancholy listenting to
these old live recordings. Later there's more of these,
"Panama", "The Street", "Blame It On The
Soft Spot" and of course "Champagne" and
"Girls". I wish I could have been there! The recordings
have an astonishingly good quality, close to the album versions,
but there are still little differences - for example when Georg
stresses some sentences differently than usual at the lead vocals
("the cops try to keep the order" for example sounds a
lot more indignant than on the LP) or when the end of "The
Old Nickelodeon Sound has a lengthened Nickelodeon solo.
But the second song already leads you into a whole new area:
"Changes" from Georg and Phil reminds of Flower Power,
overgrown beard-faces and Ho-Ho-Ho-Chi-Minh-shouts on the double.
One is probably only able to make music like this wearing a
flower-shirt or with some more or less legal smoking expansion of
one's consciousness. The same counts for "My Parachute"
on the second CD. How long ago is this!
"Heart Of The Matter" represents another piece of
pop-history: the plastic-sound of the 80s or SAILOR with
blow-dried curls! No, seriously: they have also managed to use
this style of music - you can tell I'm not the biggest 80s fan -
much much better than others. "Heart Of The Matter" has
charme and is really SAILOResque. Brilliant! As well as
"Stereotype" a little later.
An incredibly nice piece with the potential of becoming an
"earworm" (German expression ;-)) from the Caribou days
is "Chained To The Wheel". I especially like the
intelligent vocal arrangements. The same counts for "TV
Land" - the demand "Switch on...switch on...switch
on..." symbolises the potential for addiction of the remote
controll for the channel-hoppers very accurately. Also because of
the typical sound coming from Ginny's backing vocals: "TV
Land" is a chance that the world of pop music has missed at
that time!
"Karma Chameleon" - we know several versions of it. But
this one is certainly the best one! It is British-cool, slightly
Afro-American, tricky-silent and cheerful - all at the same time.
Brilliantly done - and with the well-known history, Judd Lander
at the harmonica and the Gospel choire in the background - a
piece of world-music. That one alone is worth getting
"Buried Treasure!"
The second CD opens with "Perfect Time" - one can
forsee the sounds of the "Sailor" CD from 1991. An
absolutely wonderful song, and with the backing vocals including
Henry in the real SAILOR-sound.
Sometimes the uncomplicated melodies and simple harmonies are the
ones that creep into your brain: "Office Hours", a song
by Peter and Phil written in the Beatles-style - as mentioned in
the booklet, but what does that tell us: the vocals really sound
striking like Lennon and McCartney, and the e-guitar in the
old-fashioned style paints the picture of the disdained boyfriend
who is standing in the rain with flowers, waiting for his adored
girl.
"Hat Check Girl" - the version sung by Phil alone. One
of my favourite songs for quite a while! But I think the joke
when the hat check girl turns out to be a guy - with "My
real name is Reginald" a lot cleverer than "I felt
another man" and the invitation sung by Ginny "Won't
you come in - I'll fix a drink..." crackles a lot more (even
for the listeners who are no "Reginald"s
themselves...). The booklet tells the story about the song - I
wonder: Why do these embarrassing things never happen to the
people who tell them but always to a "friend of a
friend"?? Admit it now, Phil!
Then we get highlight after highlight: A real discovery for me is
the warm and calm song "Natureman" from Phil's early
days.
I can't mention all the songs: there'd be too much to say, for
example about future visits of SAILOR fans to Berlin to feel the
"Farewell"-feeling, or the Flamenco lessons that become
a duty when listening to "Estepona".
"Buried Treasure" ends - correctly - with the two
biggest hits from Georg: "A Glass of Champagne" and
"Girls Girls Girls". The booklet expresses the hope
that these songs are still well-known after 30 years. Don't be
this modest, boys!
Can one already make a conclusion just a few weeks after the
release? I'll try it: "Buried Treasure" is - of course
- a real "must-have" for all SAILOR fan, no doubt. But
in addition to that everybody who is interested in the history of
pop music or likes listening to good handmade pop music should
have "Buried Treasure". The guitar.era at the beginning
of the 70s, the unique SAILOR sound that went around the world in
the middle of the 70s, it's advancements in 1980 and then again
around 1990 and all the side lines on which the ship sailed - all
these things are included on "Buried Treasure" with
many little new and always surprising details. If I am to
criticise something I could say that I miss something from
"Checkpoint" which is one of the "Old" SAILOR
LPs for me and traces the beginning of the "disco" era.
Well, I was lucky enough to raise the treasure, and I can only
recommend this to everbody: go out and search for it! As
mentioned before, there is a lot more to discover than what is
promised. You will not just be sailors trying to open a wooden
box - no, you will at least feel like Bartolomeu Diaz at the Cape
of Good Hope, Vasco da Gama as he reached India, Fernando
Magellan at the circumnavigation of Tierra del Fuego and at the
same time Willem Barents in the straits of Jugorski and Amundsen
as he crossed the the North-West-Passage! (I hope I didn't forget
any important sailors now).
"Buried Treasure" - it's your own fault if you miss it!
Thank you, SAILOR!