Nothing Can Stop Us (1981)
| Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us
Artist.....: Robert Wyatt
Title......: Nothing Can Stop Us
Label......: Domino
Store Date.: Oct-27-2008
Genre......: Rock
Encoder....: Lame 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Size.......: 48,8 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Born Again Cretin 03:11
02 - At Last I Am Free 04:18
03 - Caimanera 05:23
04 - Grass 02:40
05 - Stalin Wasn't Stallin' 03:24
06 - Red Flag 03:10
07 - Strange Fruit 03:38
08 - Arauco 04:35
09 - Trade Union 03:47
10 - Stalingrad 05:49
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39:55 min
Signing to Rough Trade in the early 80s, on the understanding from
his former label Virgin that he wouldn’t release any LPs for a
while, Wyatt released a series of singles of cover versions. The
set was recorded with a straight, simple, beauty informed by the
experience of geopolitics just as the term was being invented.
‘Arauco’ drew on the street ‘mass songs’ of a Chile protesting at
the imminent arrival of Pinochet. ‘Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’” was a
playful resurrection of a barbershop quartet that sincerely, and
unbelievably, aligned the USA with the Soviet Union. Most
startling of all was Wyatt’s version of Chic’s ‘At Last I Am
Free’. Breathless and hymnal it gave pause for thought for anyone
who liked to use the words personal and political in the same
sentence. Ensuring the UK was represented in his survey of the New
World Order, Wyatt paired a version of his old friend Ivor
Cutler’s ‘Grass’ alongside a collaboration with the Bengali group
Dishari that encouraged Bengali workers to join a trade union.
Whilst his beard and directly to the left stance suggested
agitprop and protest, these tracks highlighted his incredible gift
as an interpreter of
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