Morphine - Cure for Pain
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Artist: MorphineEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1993-09-14
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
- Dawna
- Buena
- I'm Free Now
- All Wrong
- Candy
- A Head With Wings
- In Spite Of Me
- Thursday
- Cure For Pain
- Mary Won't You Call My Name?
- Let's Take A Trip Together
- Sheila
- Miles Davis' Funeral
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Free Music Review: My Cure For Pain...
Hit: 5 Stars
I have owned this disc since it came out and it never gets old. Admittedly it doesn't make its way into the player quite as much any more, but when it does these tunes always hit the spot. Morphine was a power trio of a different sort, a two string bass, a sax player, and a drummer. As a guitarist, not the type of band I would normally be interested in, but with a sound so bass heavy I couldn't resist. Songs like "Buena" and "Thursday" practically blew me out of the room when I first heard them, proving that Morphine could utilize elements of jazz and still rock hard in the age of grunge. Not to mention the haunting opening of "Dawna" and closing of "Miles Davis' Funeral" that bookend this disc. The clincher though was "In Spite Of Me", a totally atypical Morphine song steeped in reverb drenched mandolins and echo chamber vocals from vocalist Mark Sandman. I first heard this song while watching the darkly hilarious and excellent independent film "Spanking The Monkey", which turned me on to Morphine in the first place. I personally want this song played at my funeral: love the lyrics, love Sandman's voice, love the whole vibe. To me, it stands as one of the most perfect songs ever written. Mark Sandman's passing only makes the lyrics that much more poignant. I also love "Let's Take A Trip Together", a song that I doubt by its arrangement could have been about anything other than LSD. Overall, a wild, eclectic ride that I can't do without.
Cure for Pain Poster
Cure for Pain is a most unlikely artistic breakthrough from a thoroughly unlikely band. Fronted by saxophone and two-string slide bass guitar, Morphine earned a modicum of critical praise for their prior recording, Good, but Cure for Pain has a harder edge and a distinctly bigger sound. "Buena" urges the listener, with singer and bassist Mark Sandman's best come-hither baritone voice, "closer to the front of the stage," and then "Candy" tells a love-lost story that could come right out of Tom Waits's book. But for all the strange possibilities inherent in a guitarless band that plays off their singer's wry lyrics, Morphine's sophomore effort shows their versatility, their ability to be a rock band in a very unrock, rolling-baritone-saxophone way. Alas, singer Mark Sandman perished in action on an Italian stage on July 3, 1999. --Andrew BartlettAlternative Rock Music CDs
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