Billie Ray Martin - 18 Carat Garbage
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Artist: Billie Ray MartinEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-05-14
Music Label: Sonns Records
Soundtracks:
- Captain Drag
- Where Fools Rush In
- I've Never Been to Memphis
- Crime of Passion
- Anyone Will Do for a Heartache
- Eighteen Carat Garbage
- Hello, Hold On!
- Bring All the Peace (Interlude)
- Ten Minutes on a Tuesday Afternoon in Buffalo
- Systems of Silence
- Demons of Delirium
- Legends That Die
- Taking Out the Garbage (Outro)
Free Music Notes for 18 Carat Garbage
Free Music Review: Best album of 2001
Hit: 5 Stars
I understand (from BRM's own website) that prototype artwork for this album showed our heroine seated on a very industrial-looking lav, suggestive of something you might find in a psychiatric hospital. Not very Wal-Mart-friendly, perhaps, but, sadly, even a "safer" approach failed to help propel this masterwork to the massive commercial success it deserved.
Everything other reviewers have said about 18-Carat Garbage applies, and more. This woman is clearly a perfectionist, taking her music in more of a soulful direction than on Deadline For My Memories, but with arrangements which cross over from 60s-style R&B instrumentation to the cool electronica we're familiar with from Billie Ray. It's all great, but standout tracks include the title track, which has a deliciously understated horn section and holds up against anything you might hear at the House of Blues. It's a duet with the legendary Ann Peebles, who also pops up elsewhere in the album, notably the fine ballad Ten Minutes On Tuesday Afternoon In Buffalo. There's the obligatory touch of gospel revival on Legends That Die, while Anyone Will Do For A Heartache is a torch song showcasing BRM's ever-witty writing.
My copy also has a bonus track of Elton John's Mona Lisas And Mad Hatters. Different arrangement to anything else on the album (very true to the original), but it doesn't jar at all.
She's often compared to Aretha Franklin, and she can do similar things with her voice, but I'd suggest that, tonally, she's a very different singer and no less talented.
With this album, I thought Billie Ray Martin had reached the peak of her powers, surely, but then remixes of a truly innovative dance track like "Undisco Me" slip out (only on download as far as I know now, folks) and she surprises me yet again.
The latest is that, after a relatively quiet period (Billie Ray's been doing a lot of DJing, though) there are not one, but two new albums in the pipeline - one an electronic excursion as one half of a band, The Opiates. Roll on 2008!
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The German dance diva's long awaited sophomore album. 13 tracks including the first single, 'I've Never Been To Memphis'. 2001 release.Dance & DJ Music CDs
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