MID-EIGHTIES

WOW! Reviewers here are tough on this one, but I believe this is the best Wyatt purchase of his middle period. The entire Old Rottenhat LP is here accompanied by seven outstanding EP cuts at a very reasonable price - hell, I picked it up from a cut-out bin for three US dollars! I agree that some tracks sound like little more than a tape loop with scattered vocals, but upon a second and third spin these songs really stick in your head. Wyatt's quirky take on the world political scene circa 1985 set to his brand of airy jazz-pop is alone worth picking this disc up....the two Spanish language tracks that start the album are classic Wyatt and "Pigs" is a gas. True Wyatt fans already have this in their collection, but if you don't I highly recommend it. "Pigs? In there?"