- Audio CD (Oct 23 2001)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Bar/None
- ASIN: B00005Q6NP
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (76 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #27,788 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Venus and Mars/Rock Show (Paul McCartney & Wings) |
| 2. Good Vibrations (The Beach Boys) |
| 3. God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) |
| 4. Space Oddity (David Bowie) |
| 5. The Long and Winding Road (The Beatles) |
| 6. Band On The Run (Paul McCartney & Wings) |
| 7. In My Room (The Beach Boys) |
| 8. I'm Into Something Good (Earl-Jean/Herman's Hermits) |
| 9. Saturday Night (Bay City Rollers) |
| 10. I Get Around (The Beach Boys) |
| 11. Mandy (Barry Manilow) |
| 12. Help Me, Rhonda (The Beach Boys) |
| 13. Desperado (The Eagles) |
| 14. You're So Good To Me (The Beach Boys) |
| 15. Sweet Caroline (Neil Diamond) |
| 16. To Know Him Is To Love Him (Teddy Bears) |
| 17. Rhiannon (Fleetwood Mac) |
| 18. Wildfire (Michael Martin Murphy) |
| 19. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (The Recognized Anthem of World Contact Day) (Klaatu/The Carpenters) |
Product Description
From Amazon.com
In the mid-1970s, Hans Fenger taught music in the Langley, British Columbia, school district, using an experimental method inspired equally by Brian Wilson and Carl Orff. Occasionally he would record his students in the school gymnasium--elaborate affairs involving more than 60 kids per session. The result is this compelling collection of semi-accidental genius. Picture the Shaggs and Danielson presiding over an elementary school assembly for shy kids, and you begin to understand how sweet, sincere, and slightly unsettling these recordings are. The Langley students perform their favorite 1960s and 1970s hits as if they never heard the originals; they turn "Mandy" into the kind of lo-fi pop song that Neutral Milk Hotel would perfect 20 years later, and sing "Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft" like a delegation of extraterrestrial children on a friendship mission to Earth. Fenger's arrangements are spacious but elaborate, with prominent Orff percussion instruments that coat everything with a glimmering otherworldliness. The Langley students must've been proud just to hear themselves on tape, but for those of us encountering these artifacts for the first time, it's impossible to come away unmoved. (The photographs are precious, too.) --Mike Appelstein
Chronique amazon.fr
Innocence & Despair est un disque étonnant dont la distribution désormais normale devrait lui permettre de toucher un public plus large, au-delà des accros du cultissime. L'idée est simple. Un professeur de musique de la Colombie britannique, après avoir appris à ses élèves les rudiments harmoniques, les invite à enregistrer en 1974 une étrange chorale, piochant son répertoire dans les standards de la pop la plus classieuse. Précédé par la rumeur (David Bowie et le saxophoniste new-yorkais John Zorn ont adoré), cet album titille la curiosité. Et pour cause. Les voix sont belles, angéliques et simplement bouleversantes, amplifiées par l'écho du gymnase où eut lieu cette véritable performance. Parmi les classiques retenus, on ne trouve que du sur-mesure comme le "Space Oddity" de Bowie ou "Good Vibrations" des Beach Boys. À ce petit jeu, même les Eagles sortent grandis ! À découvrir. --Hervé Comte
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a lovely little CD,
By J. -d'souza "none" (, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Innocence & Despair (Audio CD)
I am glad I heard it played on CBC's Vinyl Cafe. I ordered it right away and really enjoy hearing the children sing these "rock songs" from the past...when I was a kid... Yes, they are out of tune occasionally but who cares, when the children sing with such enthusiasm, banging drums and bottles... I love "Saturday Night" what raucous fun/great noise. I plan to loan it to my daughter's school music teacher as this is an inspiration to anyone and shows what you can do with work and imagination.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A small triumph for Gen X,
By A Customer
This review is from: Innocence & Despair (Audio CD)
I heard an interview with one of the girls who actually performed on this album. She said it's very melancholy for her to listen to, because so many of us at that time came from troubled homes.This recording is the sound of children fending for themselves with equal parts bravery, hope and despair. This is the sound of kids who have only themselves to believe in, because their parents are basically letting them run wild. This is the sound I've always heard in the back of my head, but never really knew what it was. Yes, it's a bit creepy. Yes, it's a bit kitschy. But kudos to these kids for taking the trash they were being fed and turning it into something transcendent.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Come on people,
By A Customer
This review is from: Innocence & Despair (Audio CD)
I was a bit surprised at the reviews that I just read complaining about the quality of this recording. It was never intended to be released at all, except for a small pressing for the participants. It was a school/class project. So get over yourselves. For what it's worth, the version of Desperado is the best I have ever heard. It should be illegal for a 9-year-old to sing that song. It is just too heartbreaking to feel that kind of despair from a child. In a good way, I mean.
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