Bim Sherman - The Need To Live '2001

Tracks list

       This is one of several retrospective collections planned in the wake of
Bim Sherman's unexpected death from cancer in 2000. The Need to Live focuses on
hard-to-find, alternative, and previously unreleased versions of singles and
album tracks that Sherman recorded with producer Adrian Sherwood for the
latter's On-U Sound label throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Though many of the
song titles on this program will be familiar to fans of the singer and his label
— "Can't Take It Easy," "Haunting Ground," and "Run Them Away" are among
the perennial favorites — the arrangements featured here are surprising
in many cases. "Be My Lighthouse" is a vocal cut on a rhythm originally recorded
by Lee "Scratch" Perry with Dub Syndicate for his Time Boom X de Devil Dead
album, while several other performances (notably the lovely "No Longer") are
presented in acoustic settings without the benefit of drums, and this version of
"Man Next Door" comes bolstered with sturdy, Tackhead-flavored accompaniment
courtesy of Skip McDonald and Doug Wimbish. Sherman had much to recommend him as
a singer, but his voice was not always reliable, a failing highlighted on a
couple of this album's songs, most notably the gratingly out-of-tune "Memories."
Overall, though, this album will fill in the cracks nicely for fans and offer a
good introduction to newcomers. ~ Rick Anderson

Tracklist:
1.01 - Bim Sherman - Be My Lighthouse (3:36)
1.02 - Bim Sherman - To Be Free (3:19)
1.03 - Bim Sherman - More Is Insane (3:24)
1.04 - Bim Sherman - Run Them Away (3:39)
1.05 - Bim Sherman - Use Your Head (5:22)
1.06 - Bim Sherman - Devious Woman and Man (3:20)
1.07 - Bim Sherman - Memories (3:47)
1.08 - Bim Sherman - Vice Of My Enemy (4:01)
1.09 - Bim Sherman - Man Next Door (3:41)
1.10 - Bim Sherman - No Longer (3:53)
1.11 - Bim Sherman - Purify Your Heart (4:09)
1.12 - Bim Sherman - Haunting Ground (3:44)
1.13 - Bim Sherman - The Need To Live (2:35)
1.14 - Bim Sherman - Can't Take It Easy (3:39) 

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