Unrepeatable

Track Listings
 
1. Qe le Den Candela
2. Bembelequa
3. Limon y Menta
4. Mario Ague
5. Drume Negrita
6. Caballero y Dama
7. Enamorada de Ti
8. Guagua
9. Cuando Cuba Se Acabe de Liberar

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Unrepeatable

Unrepeatable
The Juliet Letters
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • The definition of Musical Genius
  • Epistolary reflections on Costellian themes...
  • Beauty? Truth? You Can't Handle Either!!
  • Deep and moving music from Elvis Costello.
  • Give it a Try
 The Juliet Letters

Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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  1. For the Stars
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ASIN: B000002MI4
Release Date: 1993-01-19

Tracks:

  1. Deliver Us
  2. For Other Eyes
  3. Swine
  4. Expert Rites
  5. Dead Letter
  6. I Almost Had A Weakness
  7. Why?
  8. Who Do You Think You Are?
  9. Taking My Life In Your Hands
  10. This Offer Is Unrepeatable
  11. Dear Sweet Filthy World
  12. The Letter Home
  13. Jacksons, Monk And Rowe
  14. This Sad Burlesque
  15. Romeo's Seance
  16. I Thought I'd Write To Juliet
  17. Last Post
  18. The First To Leave
  19. Damnation's Cellar
  20. The Birds Will Still Be Singing

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Good on Elvis for risking the ridicule of a blinkered pop world with this unprecedented (for him, certainly, and most anyone short of Kurt Weill) and quite lovely album of bitchy, wise, and funny art songs accompanied by strings. His freshest, most evolved work in years. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The definition of Musical Genius.......2007-05-22

If/when this ever is reprinted you MUST purchase it. It is beautiful in ways that I can't describe. For a writer/musician who is known for writing some amazing pieces, this is his pinnacle.

You will sob. You will laugh. You will rage. You will be haunted.

From a purely musical perspective, when you listen to this CD you are in the presence of great genius.

Listen to it alone, at least at first. Listen in the dark and let the imagery flow over you like fog.

4 out of 5 stars Epistolary reflections on Costellian themes..........2006-01-16

Elvis Costello (Declan MacManus) has done his fair share of collaborations in the past decade. From the Grammy-award winning project with Burt Bacharach in 1998 to 2001's subdued "For the Stars" with Anne-Sophie von Otter Costello has branched out from his rock roots in diverse directions. "The Juliet Letters" from 1993 was the first in a long line of such collaborations. Costello and the Brodsky Quartet were brought together by mutual appreciation (Costello went to Brodsky Quartet concerts while the Brodsky Quartet attended Costello concerts). And Costello's now ex-wife Cait O'Riordan provided the epistolary theme for the project. She spotted a newspaper article about a professor that responded to letters addressed to "Juliet Capulet". Costello then presented the article to the quartet for inspiration. The group of five ended up writing all of the music and words (though much of the music is credited to "MacManus"). The results fall somewhere between classical song cycles and Beatle-inspired "string rock" (a la "Yesterday" and "Eleanor Rigby"). Feelings of melancholy and anger pervade most of the songs. The strings punctuate these feelings perfectly. Fans of Costello's rock music probably won't find much to appreciate here. But the album contains many of the same classic Costello themes and vocal styles utilized in his rock.

Like a Richardson novel, letters provide the basis for the project. Failed and frustrated relationships abound. "Thank you for the flowers / I threw them on the fire / And I burned the photographs that you had enclosed / GOD they were ugly children" Costello sings venemously on the driving "I Almost Had a Weakness". After all, nothing seeps loneliness more than an unanswered love letter. But more than love gets the treatment here. Other songs include a suicide note ("Dear Sweet Filthy World"), a letter from a soldier to a stranger ("I Thought I'd Write to Juliet"), a bizarre experiment in selective exhumation ("Damnation's Cellar"), a reflection on separation ("Why?"), and a letter full of hope in the face of despair ("The Birds Will Still Be Singing"). Many songs explore the sad one-sided nature of letter writing. And no song responds to any other song. This fills the songs that deal with ineffable questions with an almost desparing isolation. But not everything is doom and gloom. "This Offer is Unrepeatable" picks up the mood with a humorously exaggerated letter from a scam artist (and it more than a little resembles the Tom Waits' classic "Step Right Up"). The final song injects some hope into the stark themes in the manner of "Old Man River": "Banish all dismay / Extinguish every sorrow / If I'm lost or I'm forgiven / The birds will still be singing". So in the end, things aren't as bad as they seem. The world goes on regardless of our ephemeral concerns. And as long as the world goes on hope exists.

This CD contains a lot of very beautiful and moving music. Two violins, a viola, a violincello, and voice provide all of the instrumentation. Costello branched out into something very different here. And not all of his fans appreciated it. Regardless, in retrospect "The Juliet Letters" pointed to the future. This year Costello will tour orchestra halls. Not only that, he also wrote a full orchestral score ("Il Sogno"). Strings appear more frequently in his recent music. And year by year he seems to embrace "classical" music more intensely. Still, he hasn't abandoned rock and pop (as "When I Was Cruel" and "The Delivery Man" testify). Though this early collaboration remains somewhat underappreciated, it nonetheless fully showcases Elvis Costello's diverse, adaptable, and broad musical scope. Costello will doubtless appear somewhere on the list of accomplished twentieth and twenty-first century musicians.

5 out of 5 stars Beauty? Truth? You Can't Handle Either!!.......2006-01-06

The reason the Costello/Brodsky collaboration "Juliet Letters" is such a difficult listen is also why its the MOST SINGULARLY BRILLIANT ALBUM IN THE ENTIRE ELVIS COSTELLO DISCOGRAPHY! And this declaration is coming from a man who could write a thesis on "Armed Forces" and "Imperial Bedroom" in his sleep! The idea of setting "letters" to music has certainly been done before, but Costello sticks his neck out, both as a composer and singer in ways he'd never done before. Accompanying yourself with just a string quartet (no snarling guitars or euphonious keyboard filigrees,) is the surest way to test your mettle as a vocalist. And sure, sometimes Costello's voice isn't exactly the strongest, but like say, Billie Holliday it always seems to occur precisely when the lyric calls for it: check out "Who Do You Think You Are?" or "The Birds Will Still Be Singing" and you'll hear exactly what I mean. Even his ode to a chain letter, "This Offer Is Unrepeatable" serves up a cheeky bit of satire worthy of "Three Penny Opera." Of course, you can only experience this album sporadically - could anyone watch "Death Of A Saleman" or "Long Day's Journey Into Night" repeatedly without losing one's mind? Emotionally-wrought exercises like "Letters" take a lot out of you, even when you're merely the observer (or listener,) rather than the participant. But that's what makes the journey, however bittersweet, one worth taking.

5 out of 5 stars Deep and moving music from Elvis Costello........2005-06-18

The Juliet Letters is a moving colaboration from Elvis Costello and the Brodsky String Quartet. His deep vocals are complemented by the string quartet. This album is
neither fish nor fowl (classical or pop) it's just a musical
exercise. The strings are some of my favorite compositions,
(viola, cello and violin). Elvis Costello not only got the Brodsky Quartet a bigger audience but he inspired them to
write their own music (a third of the songs are composed by the Quartet).

While it might not be everyones cup of tea, the music is brilliant and Elvis reaches octave levels I thought I would never imagine he could ever attain. Maybe sometime in the near future he'll work with them again. I applaud him for taking such a bold step in making a non-commercial album.

Highly recommended.

3 out of 5 stars Give it a Try.......2004-03-03

I've been listening to a lot of Philip Glass and Steve Reich lately,and its caused me to go back to this album to give it another go.Previously I thought that it was an interesting experiment which hadn't worked out very well.Now I think that it is a good album for rockers and classical music lovers to use to stretch their ears a little.So called crossover albums are usually horrifying-does anyone else remember that album that Procol Harum did with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra? Elvis flatly denounces the concept in the liner notes.And not everything on this album works.It isn't the brilliant work that some of the other reviewers seem to think that it is.But it is a worthwhile experiment and a work that should be given a fair chance.Rockers and classical music lovers tend to be snobbish and dismissive of one another.This is a good work for them to live with for a while.When Elvis and the Brodsky's click-on "Jackson Monk and Rowe" or "Romeos Seance"-the results are as beautiful and valid as anything either of them have ever done.
Three stars because some of this simply doesn't work. But this is a work anyone who likes Elvis or the Brodsky's should have in their collection.
Unrepeatable/Definite Article
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Brilliant
  • Oh my God!
  • Classic Eddie!!
  • VERY FUNNY
  • Earlier Izzard Ages Well: "I'm Still Not Happy With My Wash"
 Unrepeatable/Definite Article
Eddie Izzard
Manufacturer: Laughing Stock
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000050BAR
Release Date: 2003-12-23

Tracks:

  1. Advertising/Are You Happy With Your Wash
  2. Attacking the Prince/Secret Service
  3. Question Time/Afghanistan
  4. Holland/Shouting
  5. Cats and Dogs
  6. Transvestite
  7. More Shouting/Bloke in a Dress
  8. Bookshops/Does He Eat Crisps?
  9. Religion
  10. Great Escape
  11. Birds
  12. Fish and Goats/Swimming
  13. Bees and Wasps
  14. Horror Movies
  15. Starship Enterprise

Tracks:

  1. Shaftesbury Theatre
  2. Thimbles/Animals
  3. Supermarkets
  4. Old Ladies
  5. Dog Food
  6. Supermarkets/Vegetables: Vegetarians/Vegetables/Bread/Queues
  7. Shoplifting
  8. Poetry/Mice
  9. Suffering Fools
  10. Latin & French
  11. France/Exchange Trip
  12. Being European
  13. Romans
  14. Hannibal
  15. Handshakes
  16. Being Cool
  17. Parrots
  18. Beachy Head/Suicide
  19. James Bond
  20. Chemistry
  21. Einstein/Science
  22. Pavlov's Dog/Cats
  23. Encore/Salmon/Sex

Album Description

UK compilation combines the acclaimed gender bending comic's first two albums, 'Unrepeatable' (1995) and 'Definite Article' together in one package. Two standard jewel cases with individual artwork, housed together in a slipcase.

Album Details

UK Comic's First Two Releases, Packaged in Two Standard Jewelcases Housed in a Slipcase.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Brilliant.......2006-03-04

Eddie Izzard is an absolute genius! You will be laughing all the way through this album.

5 out of 5 stars Oh my God!.......2004-10-06

Wow, okay so I was lucky enough to find this at Tower the other day being the Circle and Dress to Kill fan that I am. Dude, the CDs get better and better everytime you listen. There's always something you missed that lats time you listened to it. Izzard is simply the best comic around with his difficult and very intellectual humor. He's a vivid storyteller that you'll love to listen and laugh to. Heck, I've even learned a few things from him. Buy this, you will not be dissapointed. Definte Article and Unrepeatable are classics.

3 out of 5 stars Classic Eddie!!.......2003-08-12

Obviously there is not a single bad thing to be said about Eddie Izzard as he is the single funniest person to come from the UK. However as any true Eddie Izzard fan would understand, he must be seen as well as heard. Although you can picture him as you listent to this CD, you really need to see his mannerisms. Still very funny but not as highly recommended as his DVD's are.

5 out of 5 stars VERY FUNNY.......2003-06-13

A great set of comedy CD's. His obesrvations on life are great, and truthfull, which makes it even more funny.

I would love to see some of the skits live, because you miss some of the faces and jesters he makes while actually preforming them.

But all in all it is a great collection :)

4 out of 5 stars Earlier Izzard Ages Well: "I'm Still Not Happy With My Wash".......2003-03-12

My wife's not used to 'listening' to comedians. Me, I grew up on record albums like "Steve Martin: a Wild and Crazy Guy". Richard Pryor's "Mudbone", Robin WIlliams and Eddie Murphy. I enjoy watching HBO specials sometimes, but I like being able to hear the monologue without visual distractions moreso.

Mr. Izzard's recorded performances in England might require some to listen to more than once to get the references or keep up with the patter, but who says that's a bad thing? Occasionally, the switch to French or German is a bit annoying (seeing as how those of us unfortunate enough to have been raised in the U.S. had 4th grade Spanish at best...forget French or German classes), but the intent is honest.

The usual sharp observations about life, religion and England's place in the world are all here. Sometimes, it manages to sound familiar...but not too much so. There's nothing here you'll remember from 'Dress to Kill', but you'll notice how some of his later skits grew out of these, which were recorded over 8 years ago (!).

Stiil and all, Mr. Izzard's good is better than most of today's comedians best. So there.
Unrepeatable
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • Mostly repeatable
 Unrepeatable
Eddie Izzard
Manufacturer: Anti
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00068CVW6
Release Date: 2004-11-09

Tracks:

  1. Are You Happy With Your Wash?
  2. Bunch Of Flowers
  3. Afghanistan
  4. Shouting In English
  5. Cats And Dogs
  6. Transvestite
  7. Bloke In A Dress
  8. Does He Eat Crisps?
  9. Religion
  10. Great Escape
  11. Birds
  12. Fish & Goats & Swimming
  13. Bees And Wasps
  14. Horror Movies
  15. Starship Enterprise

Album Description

Recorded at the Albery Theatre in March of 1994 for a limited sold-out engagement of seven weeks. To be simultaneously released with the DVD counterpart. "...When he pulls up in mid-flow there is the same sense you get with Robin Williams sometimes, of the audience racing to catch up with a mind that moves too quickly for them"--The Independent, UK.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Mostly repeatable.......2006-06-17

This recording was my introduction to Eddie Izzard, the fast-talking, quick-witted English comic with a penchant for transvestism. Despite the promise of the title, "Unrepeatable," I found most of his subject matter, such as laundry and "Star Trek," pretty tame, even if it is peppered with the occassional four-letter word. Izzard's enthusiastic, rapid-fire delivery often sells a joke, even when the gag itself is not that funny.
Unrepeatable
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Unrepeatable
    Eddie Izzard
    Manufacturer: Laughing Stock
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B00003INJI
    Release Date: 1995-01-01

    Tracks:

    1. Advertising/Are You Happy With Your Wash
    2. Bunch of Flowers
    3. Question Time/Afghanistan
    4. Shouting in English
    5. Cats and Dogs
    6. Transvestite
    7. More Shouting/Bloke in a Dress
    8. Bookshops/Does He Eat Crisps?
    9. Religion
    10. Great Escape
    11. Birds
    12. Fish & Goats & Swimming
    13. Bees and Wasps
    14. Horror Movies
    15. Starship Enterprise
    Unrepeatable Life
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Unrepeatable Life

      Manufacturer: James Gordon Williams
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Blues | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000CAJI6U
      Release Date: 2004-11-02
      Unrepeatable
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Unrepeatable
        Eddie Izzard
        Manufacturer: 303 Recordings
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        GeneralGeneral | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
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        ASIN: B00008J2TK
        Release Date: 2003-02-11

        Tracks:

        1. Advertising/Are You Happy With Your Wash
        2. Bunch of Flowers
        3. Question Time/Afghanistan
        4. Shouting in English
        5. Cats and Dogs
        6. Transvestite
        7. More Shouting/Bloke in a Dress
        8. Bookshops/Does He Eat Crisps?
        9. Religion
        10. Great Escape
        11. Birds
        12. Fish & Goats & Swimming
        13. Bees and Wasps
        14. Horror Movies
        15. Starship Enterprise
        Unrepeatable
        Average customer rating: Not rated
          		Unrepeatable
          Celia Cruz
          Manufacturer: Rmm Records
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          ASIN: B00006GO7W
          Release Date: 2002-08-20

          Tracks:

          1. Qe le Den Candela
          2. Bembelequa
          3. Limon y Menta
          4. Mario Ague
          5. Drume Negrita
          6. Caballero y Dama
          7. Enamorada de Ti
          8. Guagua
          9. Cuando Cuba Se Acabe de Liberar
          Unrepeatable
          Average customer rating: Not rated
            		Unrepeatable
            Eddie Izzard
            Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

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            GeneralGeneral | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
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            ASIN: B0000DET1D
            Release Date: 2003-07-03

            Tracks:

            1. Advertising/Are You Happy With Your Wash
            2. Bunch of Flowers
            3. Question Time/Afghanistan
            4. Shouting in English
            5. Cats and Dogs
            6. Transvestite
            7. More Shouting/Bloke in a Dress
            8. Bookshops/Does He Eat Crisps?
            9. Religion
            10. Great Escape
            11. Birds
            12. Fish & Goats & Swimming
            13. Bees and Wasps
            14. Horror Movies
            15. Starship Enterprise
            Unrepeatable/Definite Article
            Average customer rating: Not rated
              		Unrepeatable/Definite Article
              Eddie Izzard
              Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

              GeneralGeneral | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
              GeneralGeneral | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
              Country ComedyCountry Comedy | Comedy | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music
              ASIN: B0000DET1H
              Release Date: 2003-07-03

              Tracks:

              1. Advertising/Are You Happy With Your Wash
              2. Attacking the Prince/Secret Service
              3. Question Time/Afghanistan
              4. Holland/Shouting
              5. Cats and Dogs
              6. Transvestite
              7. More Shouting/Bloke in a Dress
              8. Bookshops/Does He Eat Crisps?
              9. Religion
              10. Great Escape
              11. Birds
              12. Fish and Goats/Swimming
              13. Bees and Wasps
              14. Horror Movies
              15. Starship Enterprise

              Tracks:

              1. Shaftesbury Theatre
              2. Thimbles/Animals
              3. Supermarkets
              4. Old Ladies
              5. Dog Food
              6. Supermarkets/Vegetables: Vegetarians/Vegetables/Bread/Queues
              7. Shoplifting
              8. Poetry/Mice
              9. Suffering Fools
              10. Latin & French
              11. France/Exchange Trip
              12. Being European
              13. Romans
              14. Hannibal
              15. Handshakes
              16. Being Cool
              17. Parrots
              18. Beachy Head/Suicide
              19. James Bond
              20. Chemistry
              21. Einstein/Science
              22. Pavlov's Dog/Cats
              23. Encore/Salmon/Sex

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