The Boo Radleys – Wake Up!

One of my favorite albums of the nineties. This record see the band incorporating tons of sixties influences to great effect.

Mine has a defect on the first few seconds of side A, which is quite irritating... Apart from that, the sound's quite fine. Not very bassy but clear and without surface noise.

This pressing sounds really good - clear, dynamic, and punchy. Maybe a little light on the low end, but nothing that a slight tweak of my receiver’s bass knob can’t improve.

Can anyone tell me how this MOV reissue sounds? Thanks!

Can anyone tell me how this MOV reissue sounds? Thanks!

As with all the Creation original pressings from The Boo Radleys this one sounds very nice. A bit of an overlooked record this, as it was kind of derided due to the obvious hit song approach of Wake Up Boo!. Still it contains some very nice tunes indeed. Boo Forever!

Keep On Sleeping
When I read some scornful reviews of Wake Up! I feel perplexed, while it's true that Giant Steps and C'mon Kids are much stronger albums, so many acclaimed and lauded bands, take, for example, Oasis or Coldplay, neither of them could ever rise aesthetically even as high as Wake Up!. Richly arranged, rhythm changing songs, sorrowful vocals have an ostensible nostalgic feeling about them and are full of precise and delicate observations: "It's easy to hide behind a smile, behind an ugly grace. It's easy to talk behind the back, it's harder to the face" or "You'll never touch the magic if you don't reach far enough". Loneliness and small town boredom: "Bills and heartburn, pills and soap, and flicking through the books you've read before", - it's like being stuck on amber and there's no light ahead: "Where are you going with your suit of armour on and your back turned to the sun", - and there's no medication: "What is this poison that you carry like a curse? I'm your lover not your nurse". The Boo Radleys diagnose, they don't cure.