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Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline | 
 enlarge | Artist: Gomez
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 82473
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 724385026003
EAN: 0724385026003
ASIN: B00004YWVD
Release Date: October 10, 2000
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Condition: VERY GOOD CD & SLIM CASE ONLY! NO ARTWORK. FAST, FIRST CLASS SHIPPING!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Shitbag 9 | | • | Bring Your Lovin' Back Here | | • | Emergency Surgery | | • | Hit On The Head | | • | Flavors | | • | 78 Stone Shuffle | | • | We Haven't Turned Around (X-Ray) | | • | Buena Vista | | • | Shitbag | | • | Steve McCroski | | • | Wharf Me | | • | High On Liquid Skin | | • | Rosemary | | • | The Cowboy Song | | • | Getting Better |
Disc 2
| • | Machismo | | • | Do's And Don'ts | | • | Touchin' Up | | • | Waster | | • | The Dajon Song |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
England's critically acclaimed quintet Gomez create music steeped in rock, pop, blues, funk, soul, and just about anything else they can get their crafty hands on. The use of three lead singers never varies the sound by much--they mostly recall Eddie Vedder and Joe Cocker with a pinch of Tom Waits on the rough end. Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline is a compilation of oddball tracks that have been accumulating as import single B-sides and outtakes. "Shitbag 9," the opening track, is a spontaneous studio field holler, whereas "Buena Vista" is an atmospheric nine-minute psychedelic suite. Two BBC live recordings ("78 Stone Shuffle," "Steve McCroski") feature the band in a refreshingly loose groove, stumbling around with a sense of mischief and energy absent from their carefully considered studio productions. Perhaps, most intriguingly, the band's included their version of the Beatles' "Getting Better," (recorded by Gomez at Abbey Road Studios), which became familiar to most of us as part of Phillips Electronics ad campaign. --Rob O'Connor
Album Details
New 2000 Release from Lo Riders Gomez. A 15 Track Compilation featuring 12 Previously Unavailable Recordings, Including Seven Unreleased Songs, Three Radio Sessions and a Remix
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 gomez uncut December 4, 2003
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This album is surely one to remember. A scrapbook of unreleased tracks "Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline" is musically indirect, drifty and spacey. It entraps your mind and holds on the whole way through. Gomez in the raw is delivered here, giving a true sense of what they put into their music. it's avant garde rock, that discomforts the unexperienced listener but as with all worthwhile things is an aquired taste. The album includes the machismo e.p.; a five song addition with more purposely orchestrated tracks. a fine cut, the rocker "Waster" and the stoned "Dajon Song" stick out. Overall this release is an outstanding one, that should please any Gomez fan, and for newcomers think Radiohead + Miles Davis + the Beatles and you might start to get a feel for Gomez and their music.
diamond in the rough November 12, 2003
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
if only to hear buena vista alone, it is worth it to pick this album up. i would give it 5 stars, but i need to be realistic in that, sure, this album is meant for the fans in particular. the other reviewers who say they are "the hugest" fans and loved the first two albums but can't get a feel for this one... well, they really aren't such fans as they say, and that's all.so obviously you need more reasons than just buena vista to buy this, cuz you're skeptical enough to be reading this. ok, then listen for waster, flavors, getting better, bring your lovin back here, touchin' up, and machismo. and rosemary. simply amazing. the atmosphere that this song creates is simply astounding. each note sinks deep into your veins, and penetrates your senses. so buy it.
 hardcore fans only August 18, 2003
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nice to see where some ideas for songs orginated from but not worth purchasing. I'm a huge Gomez fan but I'm not crazy about this. The Machismo album is pretty good (and better) for early stuff. Hopefully we'll have a new album soon.
 I love the band, but not this August 31, 2001
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
There are a few jems here, but the rest is pure filler. There first two records, however, are some of the best stuff I have heard in years, especially their debut. I can't recommend either one strongly enough - and I mean it. Not this, though.
Scattered and rambling, but a must have for the Gomez fan June 18, 2001
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not quite sure Gomez has established themselves long enough to have a sort-of "lost songs" type of disc,but they put one out to tie us over. Collections tend to be jagged and not very smooth, and this is no exception. There are a good number of hits, but a few misses as well. If you're not familiar with Gomez, get their first two discs. It'll give you a better understanding of their style than this thrown together album.
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