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Shine: The Best of the Early Years
This is not the first collection of David Gray's "pre-success" recordings, but it is the best one. Unlike many such collections of early works by noted artists, you're not seeing the artist's abilities in their infant state--each of these 15 songs is already great. The Mancunian musician's performing abilities were well developed by the time he first recorded in the early '90s; one might even argue that they sound best in the often stripped-down, more raw state on display here. The songs themselves, however, have definitely matured since Gray hit the alt-adult-contemporary big time with the electronica-tinged White Ladder in 2000; such songs as "Wisdom" and "Birds Without Wings" do show the marks of other singer-songers (notably Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan). These days, of course, David Gray is himself often used as an adjective, to describe all the other scruffy-bearded blue-eyed songsters reaching for the sensitive crooner's crown. --Mike McGonigal
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Tracks| 1 | Shine | | 2 | Late Night Radio | | 3 | Coming Down | | 4 | Birds Without Wings | | 5 | The Light | | 6 | Everytime | | 7 | A Century Ends | | 8 | Lullaby | | 9 | Faster, Sooner, Now | | 10 | Wisdom | | 11 | Falling Free | | 12 | Sell, Sell, Sell | | 13 | Debauchery | | 14 | Flesh | | 15 | Hold On To Nothing |
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