Track Listing

1. Brothers Gather Round
2. Gun Isn't Loaded
3. Glastonbury Revisited
4. Baby You're So Free
5. Value Of Life
6. Revolution (In The Summertime)
7. Have You Heard The News Today
8. Sometime
9. Melanie
10. Pain Inside
11. Charm
12. Loser
13. You've Got Me
14. Emily Darling
15. Morning Sun

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13949 in Music
• Released on: 2000-11-06
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
The spectacle of young men from Glasgow bashing out albums of sunny, impeccably harmonised guitar pop in deep hock to The Byrds and Big Star is hardly a new one. Indeed, since Teenage Fanclub broke cover with "Everything Flows" back in 1990, spawning legions of imitators, it has often seemed that nobody male under the age of 30 is doing anything except idly strumming rewrites of "September Gurls" to themselves on their second-hand Rickenbackers. Cosmic Rough Riders are certainly heirs to this lineage, but they have created a truly exceptional debut album with Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine, marked out from the herd not just by its unfailingly gorgeous melodies, but by the incorporation of an English folk sensibility evocative of Fairport Convention or The Strawbs. This pastoral tendency is illustrated by "Brothers Gather Round" and "Glastonbury Revisited"; their credentials as masters of the guitar pop form are emphasised by "Melanie" and "The Pain Inside". Altogether marvellous. --Andrew Mueller

Customer Reviews

Brilliant
I'm late in finding this album. I bought it because I love Daniel Wylie's latest album 'The High Cost of Happiness' and 'Enjoy the Melodic Sunshine' is almost as great, but not quite. Even so, I've given it five stars as it's still an amazing album. I only just found out Wylie was in CRR and I'm now on a mission to get all the Wylie era CRR albums. The stand out songs on 'Enjoy' for me are 'Have You Heard The News Today', 'The Loser', 'The Pain Inside' and 'Sometime'. These songs are as good as the songs of 'The High Cost of Happiness'. Unfortunately I also bout the latest CRR album that Wylie isn't on and it's dismal. It sounds like Embrace and in my book, that's not a compliment.

A breath of fresh air!
The Cosmics are a breath of fresh air in the current climate of manufactured pop. You cannot help but smile and sing along to the songs on not only Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine, but also on Pure Escapism and Too Close To See Far. It's unfair to compare the Cosmics to The Byrds etc - they are a damn good band on their own, with their own style. This music is perfect for the summer - if you haven't discovered the Cosmic Rough Riders yet, what are you waiting for?!

Outstanding...
.. in every regard. If you could only have one Cosmics album, I guess this would have to be it, but Pure Escapism and Deliverance are wonderful in their own right. Albums since the split have been marginally less great, but I for one wouldn't want to be without any of them. The good news is we now get twice as much music from these guys.