The Langley Schools Music Project - Innocence $ Dispair

Artist : Langley Schools Music Project

Album : Innocence & Despair

Source : Unknown

Year : 2001

Genre : Rock

Encoder : Unknown

Codec : Fraunhofer

Bitrate : 192K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo

ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3

Ripped By : NMR





Track Listing

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1. Venus and Mars/Rock Show (2:47)

2. Good Vibrations (4:02)

3. God Only Knows (3:05)

4. Space Oddity (5:26)

5. The Long and Winding Road (3:49)

6. Band on the Run (4:07)

7. I'm into Something Good (2:32)

8. In My Room (2:27)

9. Saturday Night (3:50)

10. I Get Around (1:49)

11. Mandy (2:40)

12. Help Me, Rhonda (2:14)

13. Desperado (3:34)

14. You're So Good to Me (2:49)

15. Sweet Caroline (2:58)

16. To Know Him Is to Love Him (1:49)

17. Rhiannon (3:52)

18. Wildfire (4:32)

19. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft (5:21)



Total Playing Time: 63:50 (min:sec)

Total Size : 88.5 MB (92,823,606 bytes)



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Amazon.com's Best of 2001

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