Sally Oldfield's "Water Bearer": Classic or Dud?

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I find myself playing this one more than any other album over the last few months...have people here heard it, and what do you think? Classic: A bountiful catch of beautiful folky songs (particularly "Wampum Song" and "Land in the Sun") which flow together quite well, and even some fairly crafty thematic development. Duds: 1) The Tolkien lyrics, made marginally more bearable than usual due to the fact that it's a woman singing it for once (not Geddy Lee), and also because here they sound almost Hawaiian. 2) The ridiculous tenor male singer who pops up (mercifully briefly) on two of the tracks; a very solo-Rick-Wakeman move.

― Joe, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

two months pass...

Yep. Like it! Know where I can obtain a copy?

― Tony cleeton, Sunday, 25 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

six months pass...

Just a classic. i haven't find another album so beautiful and so perfect from other artists. try to listen WB when you go in a mountain or in a forest, lying in the grass.. watching the sun and the clouds...

― Andrea, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"when you go in a mountain"? andrea are you a kobold?

― mark s, Sunday, 26 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

ahahahahha no no sorry on a mountain... of course! i'm not a kobold! greetings

― andrea the kobold :), Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does it have "Mirrors" on it? That's the only song I know by her (one of Terry Wogan's "Pollyanna records").

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 6 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

I heard this album (Sally Olfield's "Water bearer" for the first time about 20 years ago. I used to ride on my motorcycle to a little town in the mountains on summer listenning to it. One time I lost it and have been looking for it ever since. If I could get a hold of this album I will buy a motorcycly and transport myself back to that era again. Can anyone help me?

Jose.

― Jose Carrera, Sunday, 26 January 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Bumped coz there was some talk on the Studio thread about her track Hide and Seek which was included on a mix by Studio.

Hide and Seek comes from her second LP which I haven't got my hands on yet* but I got her first "Water Bearer" and it's great; like a Angloid Linda Perhacs mixed with an Italian horror soundtrack (not suprisingly since they copped a lot've moves from her bro Mike, who I'm guessing produced this). There's some good proto-Balearic bongo action and some quasi-disco synth.

Recommeded for noise boarders and balearic/beardo thread posters.

*coz hardly anyone on slsk has it compared to her other LPs--maybe a good sign?

― Raw Patrick, Monday, 21 April 2008 11:51 (seventeen years ago)

her second LP, Easy, is well, easy to find on the blogs. i listened to it this morning and didn't love it. "Hide & Seek" is pretty great, but the rest is kinda eh. a bit too elfish folky. her voice kinda reminds me of early Kate Bush, and some of the music is sorta tropical Shuggie Otis. it's produced really nicely, and the guitar solos on it are great, but i dunno, just wasn't my thing.

― jaxon, Monday, 21 April 2008 18:58 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

I got this so I could listen to "Mirrors" on a loop. Shd probly check out the rest of it eventually.

― Death to False Meta (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 November 2009 18:07 (sixteen years ago)

nine months pass...

The rest of it is phenomenal, forward-looking and beautiful and a ton of fun as long as you can tune out the Tolkein lyrics.

― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

Nah fuck it the piskies are part of the charm I guess.

― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 September 2010 16:05 (fifteen years ago)

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