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Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine (Deluxe)

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Download links and information about Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine (Deluxe) by Cosmic Rough Riders. This album was released in 2000 and it belongs to Country, Alternative Country, Alternative genres. It contains 40 tracks with total duration of 01:57:29 minutes.

Artist: Cosmic Rough Riders
Release date: 2000
Genre: Country, Alternative Country, Alternative
Tracks: 40
Duration: 01:57:29
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Brothers Gather Round 1:12
2. The Gun Isn't Loaded 2:51
3. Glastonbury Revisited 2:47
4. Baby, You're So Free 3:45
5. Value of Life 2:38
6. Revolution (In the Summertime?) 3:21
7. Have You Heard the News Today? 2:51
8. Sometime 3:31
9. Melanie 3:23
10. The Pain Inside 3:23
11. The Charm 2:04
12. The Loser 2:25
13. You've Got Me 3:10
14. Emily Darling 2:48
15. Morning Sun 0:57
16. Ungrateful 3:36
17. Rape Seed Children 2:19
18. Patience 5:05
19. What's Your Sign? 3:14
20. Country Life 3:15
21. Still a Mother's Son 2:53
22. Brand New Car 3:02
23. Here Comes My Train 1:08
24. Lady in the Lake 2:18
25. Garden of Eden 2:34
26. New Day Dawning 3:44
27. Afterglow 4:39
28. I Call Her Name 2:46
29. Can't Get Any Closer 2:50
30. To Be Someone 3:06
31. Back Home Again 2:52
32. Annie 3:56
33. Laura Nyro 1:54
34. I Got Over You 3:50
35. Camera Shy 3:26
36. Nothing to Lose 2:50
37. River Runs Dry 2:27
38. The Sound of Windchimes 2:23
39. Your Eyes 2:17
40. Stay My Friend 3:59

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The third album from the Cosmic Rough Riders in just over a year is the band's first album not released independently and its first to get the royal treatment courtesy of outstanding neophyte British label Poptones. So it is understandable that Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine includes a healthy portion of songs from the Rough Riders' first two musical forays, especially the previous album Panorama. In fact, with no less than nine of Panorama's 14 songs present, Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine could almost be seen as a repackaged version of that album. Three tracks from the band's debut, Deliverance, are also revisited, two of which are vastly improved upon (although they were pretty sensational in their original incarnations as well). A few more songs from that first album could easily have been included, but then this really isn't meant to be a compilation, although it functions as such to a certain degree. Rather, Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine can be considered as an EP of new recordings extended to full-length by the addition of some (but certainly not all) of the better songs from Panorama. The result is a record that displays, perhaps better than either of the Cosmic Rough Riders' first two albums, the immense talents of the duo at the core of the band.

The new versions of the Deliverance songs are near revelations. "Glastonbury Revisited" shifts from a loping, Irish-tinged jig over occasionally plodding hip-hop beats borrowed from countrymen the Beta Band into a transcendent Irish dirge with Middle Eastern inflections and a psychedelic heft. Both this and the Deliverence version bow out with a sunny landscape of a coda, but the version here — with its unbearably beautiful weaving harmonies and countermelodies fading to appreciative (or amazed) applause — points to how far the band has progressed in so short a time, growing even more complex and wonderful. The revamped "Emily Darling" beats the original version — which itself was perhaps the finest performance on the first album. "Emily Darling" evokes not just the hungover hippie spirituality of Crosby, Stills & Nash as it did on Deliverance, but also the progressive folkies of late-'60s Britain and (with its scat-like wordless vocals) even jazz to a certain extent. That leaves three new songs, "Sometime," "Melanie," and the album closer "Morning Sun," all substantial additions to the band's oeuvre.

For those listeners who know and love the previous albums, Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine might seem slightly less cohesive; the different song sequence, particularly where songs from the flawless Panorama are concerned, can be a bit jarring to hear at first. But before long, the logic and bolstered strength of the new sequence take hold. Regardless, every song — old, new, and re-recorded alike — is an unequivocally brilliant example of folk-rock songwriting at its peak, as good as anything by the Byrds. [The Japanese release adds two bonus tracks: "Annie" and "Universal Thing"]