''Pointing the Finger'' is a studio
album
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by the
rock
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artist
Kevin Coyne
Kevin Coyne (27 January 1944 – 2 December 2004) was an English musician, singer, composer, film-maker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. The "anti-star" was born in Derby, Derbyshire, England, and died in his adopted home of Nurember ...
, released in 1981.
Critical reception
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The Globe and Mail
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'' wrote that "Coyne, like
Van Morrison
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As a teenager in t ...
, can be repetitious and his emotional range seems limited at times—but, when it comes to anguish, he has few peers."
The album was described by Mark Cordery of the ''
New Musical Express
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'':
:"''The themes of this LP are generally the hoary old ones of 'Alienation'; the difficulty (and in many cases the tacitly accepted impossibility) of communication, and the insubstantiality and hence inadequacy of 'Religion'. Dealt with here in the 'soul-baring' 60's singer-songwriter style; mostly stripped of imagery, and completely of metaphor, it's a bleak but uncompelling vision. Not to say a narrow one.''"
The title track dates from 1977 and Coyne's musical "England, England", and is described by him on the sleeve notes as covering "some of my ambivalent feelings about England and its vanished Empire."
[''Pointing the Finger'', ]Cherry Red Records
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: BRED23, 1981, sleeve notes
Track listing
Source:
# "There She Goes" – 5.02
# "As I Recall" – 4.27
# "Children of the Deaf" – 1.06
# "One Little Moment" – 6.30
# "Let Love Reside" – 3.28
# "Sleeping-Waking" – 4.17
# "Pointing the Finger" – 4.07
# "You Can't Do That" – 3.58
# "Song of the Womb" – 2.36
# "Old Lady" – 4.00
Personnel
Source:
* Kevin Coyne – vocals, guitar
*
Brian Godding
Brian Godding (born 19 August 1945, Monmouth, South Wales) is a pop music, pop, rock music, rock and jazz rock guitarist.
Reviews
Regarding his 1988 solo album ''Slaughter on Shaftesbury Avenue'', Dave Wayne in the ''New Gibraltar Encyclopedia ...
– electric guitars
* Dave Sheen – drums, backing vocals on "Old Lady"
* Steve Lamb – bass guitar
* Steve Bull – keyboards, synthesizer
;Technical
* Producers: Kevin Coyne and Brian Godding with G.L.S. (Godding, Lamb, Sheen) at Alvic Studios,
West Kensington
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* Engineer: Mike Gregovich
* Cover artwork: Kevin Coyne
References
Kevin Coyne albums
1981 albums
Cherry Red Records albums
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