Beautiful Light
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| Released | 1994 | |||
| Genre | Garage rock | |||
| Label | Naked Language[1] | |||
| Producer | Peter Buck | |||
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Beautiful Light is an album by the American band the Fleshtones, released in 1994.[2][3] It was regarded as a comeback album.[4]
Beautiful Light was issued in France as Forever Fleshtones, with a different track listing.[5]
Production
[edit | edit source]Recorded in Athens, Georgia, the album was produced by Peter Buck.[6][7] Buck had wanted to produce the band since 1986.[8] He played guitar on the album; Mike Mills played organ.[9] "Whistling Past the Grave" was cowritten by Michael Stipe.[10]
Critical reception
[edit | edit source]| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [10] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [11] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B+[12] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide | [13] |
| Orlando Sentinel | [9] |
| The Tampa Tribune |  [14] |
Entertainment Weekly wrote that the band, "with the help of lean, rootsy production by R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, crafted their most earnest release."[12] Trouser Press noted that "'Mushroom Cloud' reconnects the band to the organ-powered psychedelia that has served it well in the past."[15] The Vancouver Sun panned Buck's "thin and even" production work.[16]
Stereo Review determined that "the Fleshtones rise to the occasion with a hunka-hunka burning blues/psych originals and enough garage-bred mustiness to keep things honest."[17] Rolling Stone concluded that, "when the Fleshtones resist the archness that sometimes infects their artful trash, they deliver grins."[18] The Tampa Tribune lamented the "somber mood" of Beautiful Light.[14]
AllMusic called the album "a solid record," writing that "Pickin' Pickin'" "features a fast, scale-climbing bass guitar rounded out by a slick horn section and barroom piano."[10] MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide deemed it "a pure pop record."[13]
Track listing
[edit | edit source]| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Mushroom Cloud" | |
| 2. | "Take a Walk with the Fleshtones" | |
| 3. | "Beautiful Light" | |
| 4. | "Big Heart" | |
| 5. | "Not Everybody's Jesus" | |
| 6. | "Whistling Past the Grave" | |
| 7. | "Outcast" | |
| 8. | "D.T. Shadows" | |
| 9. | "Pickin' Pickin'" | |
| 10. | "Pocketful of Change" | |
| 11. | "Push on Thru'" | |
| 12. | "Worried Boy Blues" |
References
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