Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music (2 CD & 1 DVD Set)

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	Richard Thompson - 1000 Years of Popular Music (2 CD & 1 DVD Set) Richard Thompson Cooking Vinyl, 2006 average customer review:based on 11 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Richard Thompson - guitar & vocals Michael Jerome - percussion Judith Owen - vocals The idea for this project came from Playboy Magazine - I was asked to submit a list, in late 1999, of the ten greatest songs of the Millenium. Hah! I thought, hypocrites - they don't mean millennium, they mean twenty years - I'll call their bluff and do a real thousand-year selection. My list was similar to the choices here on this CD, starting in about 1068, and winding slowly up to 2001. That they failed to print my list among others submitted by rock's luminaries, is but a slight wound - it gave me the idea for this show, which has been performed occasionally, and will hopefully receive a few more airings. The idea is that Popular Music comes in many forms, through many ages, and as older forms get superceded, sometimes the baby is thrown out with the bathwater - great ideas, tunes, rhythms, styles, get left in the dust of history, so let's have a look at what's back there, and see if still does the trick. I am unqualified to sing 98% of the material here, but me having a go could be considered part of the fun. Also, trying to render an Arthur Sullivan orchestration with acoustic guitar and snare drum is pretty desperate stuff, but may, at a stretch, be thought charming. What appears on this CD is a performance, rather than a chronological, distillation of several different shows - hence some gaps in the 17th and 18th centuries, and too much weight on Music Hall and Rock & Roll - we just felt that some performances weren't quite captured - perhaps on Part Two?

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Wow...hearing Thompson rock is worth the price alone

Along with his first LP, "Henry The Human Fly", which is an all-time favorite record of mine, this delicious collection is everything Thompson has come to represent.

He covers the last 1000 years with tasty examples of the some of the best music of all time. "Night And Day", "Blackleg Miner", "John Henry" (the last two were collected songs recorded by Steeleye Span), "Java Jive", "there Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Beast", and oh God! The Kinks' "See My Friends" and The Easybeats' "Friday On My Mind" are just plain wonderful.

On top of it all, Thompson takes the tacky Brittany Spears' "Oops!...I Did It Again" and stipped it down to what is really a clever little pop song. Lyrically, it's not unlike the kind of song that Thompson has written time and time again....cynical and with a sardonic wit.

Absolutely essential set to own.

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Great DVD

I really enjoyed this DVD. I had seen Richard perform this show at Joe's Pub a couple of years ago and am going again to Nokia to catch it again. It's nice to see the show memorialized. Some of the bootleg DVDs are so poorly shot, I get dizzy and nauseated. I just don't understand why he's not a HUGE star. He's enormously talented. Amazing Guitarist. Phenomenal songwriter. Great on stage banterer. With or without band, he's an enormously entertaining man.

Even When Richard Doesn't Write it, But Performs it. . .Fab!

Been an R.T. fan for almost 30 years now. Resisted buying his 1,000 year gig for awhile because I thought myself a "purist". I wanted to hear HIS music, not other's music performed by his majesty, the king of guitar and songwriting. Fellow members of the flock urged me to partake of this recording. I resisted. Then finally, having heard a cut or two online, I bought the whole deal. Sat back, listened to the first few cuts and said: "Oh, my god." Who else but Richard could appreciate, carefully select, and then gloriously reproduce music from the past ages? My teen daughter even smiled over the Brittany Spears cover. RT is all about integrity and respect for music -- even music we might not appreciate until he touches it!

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Richard Thompson Teaches Music Hisotry His Way

When Richard Thompson was asked to list the most significant songs of the last 1000 years no one expected this delightful romp through music history. The songs on this set and the imaginative DVD are an entertaining trip through the past and done with Richard's dry sense of humor. If your looking for your typical Richard Thompson music you will not find it here, but you will be entertained ( and slightly educated if you are not careful).

Interesting Choices and Covers

I couldn't believe when my local public radio station played one of the Richard Thompson covers from cd2. I had to call to ask which of his CD's featured the song and thus learned about this set of 1000 years of popular music. Some of the songs on the first CD are renaissance-type songs, but CD2 includes recognizable covers. Any fans of Richard Thompson's strong guitar skills and his rich voice will love it. You'll surprise your friends when you throw some of these tunes into your party music mix.

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