Your Saving Grace

Track Listings

1. Little Girl

2. Just a Passin' Fancy in a Midnite Dream

3. Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around

4. Baby's House

5. Motherless Children

6. Last Wombat in Mecca

7. Feel So Glad

8. Your Saving Grace

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Limited edition mid-priced 1990 reissue on Capitol of their top 40 1969 album for the label. Features the original coverart & all eight of the original cuts, each of which has been digitally remastered.

Tracks:

Stockholm Syndrome
Map Of Your Head
Time Is Running Out
Muscle Museum
In Your World
Showbiz
The Small Print
Sunburn'
New Born
Bliss
Sing For Absolution
Saving Grace

Product Description

1. Stockholm Syndrome
2. Map Of Your Head
3. Time Is Running Out
4. Muscle Museum
5. In Your World
6. Showbiz
7. The Small Print
8. Sunburn
9. New Born
10. Bliss
11. Sing For Absolution
12. Saving Grace (Original Composition)

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

A Beautifully Written Piece of Art.......2007-06-29

Based on a purely classical mind set, this is one of the most beautiful string tribute albums there are. Granted, Muse fans who usually don't listen to string albums probably won't appreciate it, but for the classical lover, this is the tribute album to start with. The String Tribute to Muse is an absolute masterpiece amongst tributes.

Good, but not for the casual fan.......2007-05-19

I agree very much with Brian Allen; you should only spend the money on this one if you happen to be either a big fan or strings or a big fan of Muse, and I fall very much into the latter. As far as the songs themselves, some sound beautiful. "Bliss" nearly breaks your heart as an all-string tribute. But other songs are hard-core alternative rock, like "Stockholm Syndrome" so songs like that sound awkward at best. If you like a song by Muse here and there, only have one or two of their CDs, and think, "Oh, they're alright," don't bother purchasing it. However for big Muse fans, it's a nice treat.

Review from a classical musician.......2006-02-05

I play cello in a string quartet and am a huge Muse fan as well. As far as this compilation of, perhaps, some of Muse's greatest hits, a string quartet version just doesn't depict the kind of emotional response that I get from listening to the orignal trio. I listened to some of these tracks and thought I was listening to my buddies playing Muse songs by ear and just messing around. Save your money, or better yet, for the same price go out and treat yourself to the original albums that these songs derived from (Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry and Absolution)!

Doesn't do them justice........2006-02-04

Well, before I say anything about this tribute album, let me state clearly for the record that I am a HUGE Muse fan, and always will be. I'm also very fond of classical music, so I thought this album would be incredible. Unfortunately, that assumption was way off. To me, this was basically like a bunch of recordings of people humming Muse songs. The original tracks have so much power and emotion, but these versions seem cheap and empty. If they would have had a full orchistra it would have been awesome. The string quartet just doesn't cut it, at least not for me. Of course, this is all in my humble opinion.

Good, but not great.......2005-12-06

I'll do an actual review later, but here are some of my thoughts on this album, since only one other person rated it so far. The songs all sound great, but they hardly differ from the original versions, and none of them are really that much different. Most of them sound note for note the same, but just played on the strings. This is ok because Muse has a lot of classical influence in their songs, but I wish the makers would have put more effort into this. If you're a casual fan you can skip, but if you really like string tributes or Muse you should get it. Some better string tributes, which are less basic, are the ones for Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, and A Perfect Circle.

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Saving Grace
Cool Your Jets
Manufacturer: Tragic Hero Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000P46ML2
Release Date: 2007-05-08

Tracks:

Saving Grace
Summer of 98
For a Friend
Chopped Liver

Album Description

Hailing from Salt Lake City, Utah, a hardcore scene made famous in the mid 90's by the media for its violence, we have Cool Your Jets, ready to challenge every negative notion they presented about this incredible hardcore scene and city. Formed from the ashes of Aftermath of a Trainwreck (New Age Records), these five kids are bringing what is definitely missed in today's commercialized hardcore scene. In this time where hardcore is more about marketing plans, hollow posturing, and big business, Cool Your Jets are here to remind us that it is still about the music, passion and integrity of the underground hardcore scene. Cool Your Jets is something from the heart, five individuals brought together to show that hardcore can still be positive and fun. With their passion for straightedge and traditional hardcore music, Cool Your Jets is here to unite hardcore kids together, one show at a time. With a sound and energy reminiscent of an older style of hardcore, Ala Gorilla Biscuits, Bold, and Youth Of Today, Cool Your Jets builds on the road these bands paved while adding one element they were always lacking, sincerity. Now that you have a little bit of insight to what Cool Your Jets is all about, get ready to witness the REAL rebirth of hardcore pride!

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Your Saving Grace
Steve Band Miller
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000TLYFSI
Release Date: 2007-09-17

Tracks:

Little Girl
Just a Passin' Fancy in a Midnite Dream
Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
Baby's House
Motherless Children
Last Wombat in Mecca
Feel So Glad
Your Saving Grace

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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Saving Grace

Manufacturer: Arrow Communications, LLC
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAJZEA
Release Date: 2003-07-01

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Your Saving Grace

Manufacturer: Allumination Filmworks/Allumin
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000P46PDW
Release Date: 2007-06-26

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Why is this still out of print!?
Steve & his band enter a truly brave new world on here
Just plain good music
Miller's overlooked art

Your Saving Grace
Steve Miller Band
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008IH0
Release Date: 1994-08-23

Tracks:

Little Girl
Just a Passin' Fancy in a Midnite Dream
Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
Baby's House
Motherless Children
Last Wombat in Mecca
Feel So Glad
Your Saving Grace

Album Description

Limited edition mid-priced 1990 reissue on Capitol of their top 40 1969 album for the label. Features the original coverart & all eight of the original cuts, each of which has been digitally remastered.

Customer Reviews:

Why is this still out of print!? .......2007-02-01

This is Steve's magnum opus of space rock and soul. Feel so Glad and Baby's House are among his best ever. Tim Davis performs his best song, the title song.
Why why why is it still out of print and there is a reason why it sells used for $94, it's that good.

Steve & his band enter a truly brave new world on here.......2005-01-10

For his first three albums, Steve Miller & his band provided some of the most psychedelic (yet least druggy) blues-rock of the time without making so much as a dent into the mainstream. After 1968's SAILOR though, the band went through the first of what would be many personnel changes with guitarist Boz Scaggs departing to go solo (and thus leaving most of the guitar work to Steve himself), and taking keyboardist Jim Peterman with him. Peterman had to have been rather aghast to see himself replaced by, not one, but two keyboard players in the form of another future soloist Ben Sidran and legendary sessionman Nicky Hopkins.

The latter two made their debut on 1969's BRAVE NEW WORLD, which was just as trippy as its two predecessors, but by now, the psychedelia was bordering on parody, and thus indicative that perhaps the blues-happy Boz knew when to abandon a potentially sinking ship. Maybe Steve recognized this as well, and decided to make his second album of the year YOUR SAVING GRACE a little more earthbound and bluesy. For the most part, it succeeds, but does not quite match the rarefied greatness of 1968's CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE and SAILOR.

"Little Girl" continues the tradition of Steve Miller album openers that could have made it as singles in a more perfect music world. Power pop had not been officially invented per se, but this song was as close to perfect both in melody and lyric as one could get. Again, if Capitol Records had taken a short break from promoting the Beatles in this era, they could have devoted some elbow grease towards Steve & his group, with this being their true breakthrough.

"Just A Passin' Fancy In A Midnite Dream" is a little inscrutable, but perhaps that can be attributed to the fact that it is co-written by Ben Sidran, who was more influenced by Van Morrison and Mose Allison, especially by their idiosyncratic songwriting styles. Maybe one can call this psychedelia without the phasers and Leslie cabinets, but that does not make the song any less hallucinogenic, if not as trippy as, say, the side one suite of CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE.

"Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around" is another song that could have helped get Steve some long overdue commercial attention, but it would take 5 more years of grunt work for that to happen. As for the song, it is his attempt at creating a Delta blues tune for the modern era, for it sounds like it is coming straight out of the South, but its subject (speaking out against racism and inequality) is one that still haunted the region & continues to this day. The fact that the song comes from a White musician makes it even more potent.

"Baby's House" closes out side one with a 9-minute trip to dreamland that is again rather light on the psychedelics, but has enough of them in smaller doses to give the listener a relaxing, woozy feeling. Co-written by Nicky Hopkins, his fingerprints are all over this song with him inserting some subtle classical measures into his piano work. He may have preferred the comforts of the studio to the stage, but I can guess that songs like this made fellow San Franciscans Quicksilver Messenger Service want to snare Hopkins up for their band, and they did.

"Motherless Children" is a return to traditional blues standards after an absence of them on BRAVE NEW WORLD. After 9 minutes of music that kept the listener occupied, the subsequent 6 minutes of near-flatlining stripped-down blues actually borders on the somnambulant. Eric Clapton would tackle this song 5 years later, and give it a much-needed dose of testosterone. Until then, Steve slipped up by giving his version an overdose of Dramamine.

"The Last Wombat In Mecca" brings things back to life slightly with bassist Lonnie Turner's second volume in his combination of acoustic blues with psychedelic lyrical imagery. Sounding like it was recorded live in the studio in one take (listen to the studio chatter at the beginning), it is mindless fun if anything else, although maybe someone other than Steve could have handled the vocals (it was Lonnie's song after all).

"Feel So Glad" is another blues- and jazz-soaked slow-burn with more excellent piano playing by Hopkins (a session musician who deserved to go headliner, if ever there was one). It is amazing that on this album the original material with a blues bent was more successful than the one that came straight from the source (an anonymous one). But that just indicates how good Steve was at appropriating blues influences and tailoring them to his own ideas, rather than become a slave to them like most other musicians of the time did.

It all closes out with the title track that comes from drummer Tim Davis, who tends to be the lowest-key member of the band in this time. After the slightly pedestrian "Can't You Hear Your Daddy's Heartbeat" on BRAVE NEW WORLD, Davis had improved as a writer to be allowed the title track on the band's next album, and although it may be just me, I hear a small bit of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" in the arrangment of this sociopolitical song (or at least, the sound of what was to come). One can wonder if Marvin had indeed given this song a listen while creating that magnum opus. He would depart shortly after this album's follow-up, but it is clear that Davis was the rare sign of stability for Steve early on as his band went through more personnel shuffles than a fast-food chain.

It was perhaps inevitable that after two wonderful first albums, Steve Miller would hit a rough patch on the next two. Even with a master producer like Glyn Johns at the helm, BRAVE NEW WORLD and YOUR SAVING GRACE cannot be considered as finely-crafted and timeless (even while remaining of its time) as CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE and SAILOR. It could be because of the game of musical band members or the fact that psychedelia was on the way out in a post-Woodstock world. Nevertheless, YOUR SAVING GRACE has its own place in Steve Miller's catalog as both a time-marker and an instance that, when the right occasion arose, they could scale back the hallucinogens and simply rock out as best they could.

Just plain good music.......2003-10-31

Gave this album to an associate who was familiar with Fly Like an Eagle, and he was really surprised that it sounded so different, and that it was good "I mean, REALLY GOOD!" This band was putting out something like two or three albums a year at this time, yet the writing is really good. A really solid album.

Miller's overlooked art.......2000-10-02

Steve Miller is probably the world's most underated guitarist. He is also very underated as an artist. Your Saving Grace is no exception. The title track is heavy with emotion and while not writen by Miller, shows off the talent of Tim Davis who was the backbone of the early stuff. The forcefull lovesong "Little Girl" and the civil rights motif "Don't you let nobody" are solid rock tracks with a hint of blues and a lot of attitude. "Baby's House" shows off the piano skills of Nicky Hopkins as well as Miller's strength as a vocalist. If you have Miller's box set you are missing out on the full version of this awesome song. "Motherless Children" has a blues twing and a solid emotional base that makes it a classic. While the album is short, it is a good buy. For the Miller enthusist it is well worth it. If not, you might want to start off his early stuff with Antholgy.

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Your Saving Grace
Steve Miller Band
Manufacturer: Toshiba EMI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000FPX0JS
Release Date: 1991-04-15

Tracks:

Little Girl
Just a Passin' Fancy in a Midnite Dream
Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
Baby's House
Motherless Children
Last Wombat in Mecca
Feel So Glad
Your Saving Grace

Album Description

Exclusive Japanese Limited Edition reissue of this 1969 album packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Virgin. 2006.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

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1. Little Girl
2. Just a Passin' Fancy in a Midnite Dream
3. Don't Let Nobody Turn You Around
4. Baby's House
5. Motherless Children
6. Last Wombat in Mecca
7. Feel So Glad
8. Your Saving Grace