Bluebeard

1993 single

Title

Time

Comment

My Rating
Bluebeard

3.57

 see Four-Calendar Café

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Three Swept 3.38 A subtle song, with gentle instrumentation and vocals. Nothing stands out, it is all very pleasant and soft. * * *
Ice-pulse 3.47 Much like Three Swept. The same kind of vocals and mood. * *
Bluebeard (acoustic Version) 3.08 see Four-Calendar Café * * * *
Very different from the regular plugged version. It is much softer with less emphasis on the refrain, and the attention directed towards Fraser's vocals that sound  like silverbells in the foreground and like a sleepwalker somehow in the background. The live versions of Bluebeard from the videocompilation (see Links) are very experimentally sung, with Elizabeth Fraser playing with her voice in every impossible way, making the song difficult to recognize. The acoustic version sounds nothing like that. So you could say there are three completely different versions of this song: album, acoustic and live.
The single is remarkably like a conventional single, with two new songs sounding like they could have been on the album, and an acoustic version of the title track. Maybe that is part of the Bluebeard concept, a kind of hit and single thing. Anyway the single is quite hard to find now, as it is not part of the box set. Try Gemm if you like though. e-mail me Back To Atlas