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World Party - Goodbye Jumbo

L. A. Miner | Essex, CT | 09/15/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I don't understand why this CD is limited for purchase. I believe Rolling Stone gave it "Best Album of the Year" around 1990. Great example of music of the time and a prelude of future styles of music. $50.00 for a "rare" CD of this music? Crazy. Get it on CD that is accessible so all can enjoy it. Uplifting and an easy flow throughout. A rarity now when most CD's are so choppy there is absolutely no continuity whatsoever."

"Is It Too Late?" to enjoy this classic

Kirk Steinle | 05/15/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"No! I can remember in the late eighties hearing "Ship Of Fools" on the college radio station and being absolutely floored. I'm not going to bash on the decade like many others do but this song floated up in an oasis of the musical landscape at that time. Never bought the CD in fact could not even find. But a couple of years later, a neighbor had a cassette of Goodbye Jumbo and after he loaned it to me, I was hooked. Karl Wallinger who is essentially World Party mixed up all of his late sixties and seventies influences into a giant pot and created this classic. Every song is a winner and sounds as fresh today as it did in the early nineties. If you are a fan of seventies rock, give this a try. I have never really heard anything like this but when I heard You Get What You Give by the New Radicals, I actually thought World Party had released a new Cd. The rest of that Cd is not as good but I still strongly recommend that too."