[2017-09-22] Benjamin Orr "The Lace" reissue (Notefornote)

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:45 pm

Description
Benjamin Orr has a long musical legacy. He began his music career in 1964 as a member of the Grasshoppers, an Ohio band that went on to release two singles on the Sunburst label. After meeting Ric Ocasek, and moving to Boston, the two formed Milkwood in the late 60s. Milkwood would go on to release their only album, How's The Weather in 1973. After the album failed to chart they formed a band that would be the precursor to The Cars and the rest is history. Orr wrote many of their songs and sang on three hits, Just What I Needed, Let's Go and Drive, their highest charting single ever. After the success of Heartbeat City, Ben decided to record a solo album, The Lace. He co-wrote the lyrics with long-time girlfriend Diane Grey Page. The first single, Stay The Night went top 40 on the pop charts as well as top 10 on the album rock charts. The follow up single, Too Hot To Stop was also a rock radio hit. Benjamin died in 2000 from pancreatic cancer at the age of fifty-three. Notefornote Music is proud to reissue The Lace so fans of The Cars, young and old, can enjoy this album once more.

Tracklist
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071GW4CP8/?tag=imwan-20

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

third time for this one...

the original on warner brothers

wounded bird re-did it

and now this.

*before the wounded bird one the original was selling for a lot of money.

richman666 · 15 Nov 2006

I love this album. I'm happy with my original CD pressing, purchased back in '86, so I don't think I'll need this reissue, but for anyone who's never heard it I highly recommend it.

I don't usually plug my blog here (other than when I'm plugging my blog posts in their own threads, of course), but last year I highlighted The Lace in my Thirty Year Thursday series and I wanted to share it in the hopes that it will convince at least one person to give this record a shot:

https://kamertunesblog.wordpress.com/20 ... -the-lace/

RackleNut · **Joined:** 07 Nov 2006 **Posts:** 1356

i own the original cd (and vinyl, for that matter) of this very nice collection.
i don't recall there existing any non-lp b-sides and/or other unreleased sessions material.
can anybody enlighten and/or affirm that recollection?

Tricky Kid · **Joined:** 23 Sep 2007 **Posts:** 8297

According to Rhino, Orr recorded a second solo album that remains unreleased. As for The Lace, there do not appear to be any b-sides or alternate versions of tracks.

kennynd · **Joined:** 27 Jul 2014 **Posts:** 13

Stay The Night is one of the best songs ever

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

Now I want the Milkwood album to be released on CD. Has anyone heard that one?

Linda · **Posted:** Sun Jun 25, 2017 7:44 pm

Jason Michael wrote:

Now I want the Milkwood album to be released on CD. Has anyone heard that one?

Geffen/Universal actually did a legit release of that album last year, but only digitally:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DOTQQ24/?tag=imwan-20

This would make a great Rhino CD. Maybe they'll consider licensing it to top off their Cars remastering programme.

Jason Michael · 30 May 2012

Linda wrote:

Jason Michael wrote:

Now I want the Milkwood album to be released on CD. Has anyone heard that one?

Geffen/Universal actually did a legit release of that album last year, but only digitally:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DOTQQ24/?tag=imwan-20

This would make a great Rhino CD. Maybe they'll consider licensing it to top off their Cars remastering programme.

Download sadly unavailable in Canada.

pobbard · 18 Jun 2007

Whoa, I've never heard Milkwood before! I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't this. Whoa.

[2017-09-22] Benjamin Orr "The Lace" reissue (Notefornote)

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