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Title: Criminally overlooked
Review: This 2CD set does an adequate job of introducing Verlaine's genius. The live CD is just ferocious, as compelling as Television's "The Blow Up" but tighter. Just great. Amazing guitar work from both Verlaine and compatriot Jimmy Ripp, solid backing by Fred Smith and Jay Dee Daugherty.The retrospective CD is good, though I wish they had chosen fewer tracks from "Cover" and more from the brilliant "Dreamtime" and "Flash Light". But since "Cover" is the only album Verlaine recorded for Virgin (the label behind this release) that's probably to be expected. Big plus - the inclusion of the wonderful Verlaine/Richard Lloyd "Call Mr. Lee," with Lloyd's Stratocaster moving sideways over the chorus like an angry crab.Completists will complain but the uninitiated will enjoy this.
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