Cornershop - When I Was Born for the 7th Time
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Artist: CornershopEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-09-16
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Sleep On The Left Side
- Brimful Of Asha
- Butter The Soul
- Chocolat
- We're In Yr Corner
- Funky Days Are Back Again
- What Is Happening?
- When The Light Appears Boy
- Coming Up
- Good Shit
- Good To Be On The Road Back Home
- It's Indian Tobacco My Friend
- Candyman
- State Troopers (Part 1)
- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Free Music Notes for When I Was Born for the 7th Time
Free Music Review: Brimful of Asha on the 45
Hit: 3 Stars
Well, at least now I know what he was saying! I'd first heard that song years ago when it got some radio play, and could not for the life of me figure out what Mr. Singh was talking about. Then, I heard it again recently on XM, I think it was channel 75 and the title and name of the group finally got to me.
Frank Sinatra used to say if you've got one song that everyone loves and wants to hear, you've got yourself a career. Well, Cornershop has moved on with other recordings and I daresay they've got one. "Brimful of Asha" is an irresistable pop hook, two guitar chords and the sampling work somehow add up to a good song. Asha for those who don't know if apparently Singh's muse, a Bollywood actress (who may be the woman on the cover, but I am not sure).
Cornershop is a melding of Indian culture, music and rhythms with Brit-pop sensitivity, and while it's fine for one song I'm sorry to say there's not much here that really moves me. The production sounds like it was done in somebody's bedroom. In a way that is not bad, sounds a bit organic, but in any case most of the songs after "Asha" just don't work for me.
I think you could say this was a start at better things for Cornershop, and I certainly hope so. I have in fairness not heard any other recordings, so I am sure the art will improve with time. For now, this is OK, but I was hoping for a bit more stretching out.
When I Was Born for the 7th Time Poster
For all the talk of this record's blend of South Asian and northern English pop sounds, the music here sounds neither daringly cross-pollinated nor strangely juxtaposed. Rather it sounds like a rather conventional pop record, one that harkens back to the days when pop didn't have to be sonically conservative and genrespecific. Cornershop's willingness to make a pop record, rather than its desire to reconcile its leader's British and Indian heritage, is what makes this a great breakthrough album. --Roni SarigAlternative Rock Music CDs
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