Morphine - Cure for Pain
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Free Music Review: Very good
Hit: 4 Stars
This item took some time before i got it. However... i live in north norway. Free Music Review: you need a cure for pain after listening to this.....
Hit: 1 Stars
i felt sick to my stomach after hearing this album, you may want to purchase it just for kicks to hear some of the worst lyrics ever written.Free Music Review: With apologies to Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Hit: 5 Stars
...what we have here is "a little VERY LATE night music".
This is the CD you put in when the smoke already hangs thick in the air over a felt table and you're breaking the seal over your second bottle of Black Label Jack while playing poker/shooting pool with only your friends of more nefarious (and infinitely more enjoyable) means.
Less was never more than when the lights dimmed and the impossibly dark Mark Sandman slung a three (later two)-string bass over his shoulder and led a drummer and saxophonist and a conspicuously absent guitarist into the consciousness of all who dared to believe that a mutated jazz trio could rock as hard as any guitar-slinging grunge band of the era yet still retain the degree of untouchable hipster cool that acts like the Ben Folds Five could only begin to imagine for themselves.
Mark Sandman was the Bill Hicks of music; an antiestablishment innovator whose very existence challenged one's beliefs and dared the listener to question all that had previously been assumed as writ; that he died well before his time is all the more tragic, but there is no denying the genius of the artist and the power with which that genius comes across in this, one of the finest albums of the decade.
At just over 37 minutes in length (including two sub-two minute instrumentals which serve as intro and closing pieces), this CD seems to parallele Sandman's life; amazingly achieved and far too short. With tunes ranging from the semi-ambient ("In Spite Of Me", "I'm Free Now", "Let's Take Trip Together") to the raging aggressive ("Buena", "Thursday", "Mary Won't You Call My name") to all shades of night in-between ("All Wrong", "Candy", "Sheila"), there really isn't a weak link to be found. While the CD itself runs short, the songs are at the perfect length; most clock in at 3-3.5 minutes so that you are able to sufficiently groove with them before they become tiresome and repititious. This is songwriting craftsmanship and musical innovation at its highest form, definitely a must-have for any musical collection and the best direction I can recommend for anyone who wants to add a little "something different, something cool" to their listening enjoyment.
Free Music Review: Music of mood
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the quintessential mood disc. It works at night, or on a rainy day. It works when I'm down, or when I'm just lounging and trying not to think too hard. I bought this disc the day I ended things with a girl, as a sort of consolation prize. It did its job. Track two especially. By the time it was over I still felt pretty bad, but somehow the music put it all in a context where the emotions made sense. I was able to go out that night and have a decent time. Of course this was on my car stereo.
This is innovative music, but I don't think of it in those terms. For me it is cathartic and electrifying. It would be that way even if a lot of bands had that sax-bass-drums lineup. It's the songs. They're classics and pack a punch.
Not music for a bright sunny day. Save it for the rain.
Free Music Review: Let's Take A Trip
Hit: 4 Stars
Jazzy, bluesy, noirish songs about sex, drugs, and romance. All sung in an ultra-seductive, ultra-cool manner. You really can't argue with that.