Mark Wirtz - A Teenage Opera (The Original Soundtrack Recording) (CD)

"A Teenage Opera," like the Beach Boys' infinitely more celebrated Smile, was never truly completed as such; collectors have always wondered, however, if the project exists as a "lost" album of sorts. This 23-track sequence of tracks by Keith West, Tomorrow, Wirtz, Kippington Lodge, the Sweetshop, Zion de Gallier, and Steve Flynn (some previously unissued), is as close an approximation as can be delivered. The psychedelically-influenced baroque rock-cum-easy listening arrangements are interesting, but really this is too twee and precious to qualify as anything like a lost masterpiece. Nor is it much of an orchestral pop suite; it's more a grouping of songs with a similar sunny fairyland vibe, sounding like an in-progress version of a children's rock record. You're far better off hearing "Teenage Opera," "Sam," and the Tomorrow cuts -- which are the gutsiest and most durable selections here by a wide margin -- on RPM's The Complete Keith West compilation, or the original (and only) Tomorrow album. ~ Richie Unterberger

General

Label:	RPM Press
Release date:	September 2003
Originally released:	September 1999
Contributors:	Mark Wirtz • Various Artists
Dimensions:	125 x 142 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:
Running time:	1 hour, 8 minutes
Categories:	Music > Soundtracks
LSN:	XVQ-S4E-RKE-4
Barcode:	5022911311650

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Disk 1

1	Theme from a Teenage Opera
2	Festival of Kings
3	Grocer Jack
4	The Paranoiac Woodcutter #1
5	Mr Rainbow
6	Glory's Theme (All Aboard)
7	On a Saturday
8	Possum's Dance
9	Auntie Mary's Dress Shop
10	Love & Occasional Rain
11	Grocer Jack (Reprise)
12	Sam
13	Farewell to a Broken Doll
14	(He's Our Dear Old) Weatherman
15	Shy Boy
16	Grocer Jack's Dream
17	Barefoot & Tiptoe
18	Knickerbocker Glory
19	Dream Dream Dream
20	Colonel Brown
21	Cellophane Mary-Jane
22	Paranoiac Woodcutter #2
23	Theme from a Teenage Opera (End Titles)

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