Shakespears Sister - Long Live the Queens!
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Artist: Shakespears SisterEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2005-12-12
Music Label: Warner Platinum
Soundtracks:
- You're History [Maximised Version]
- Pretty Boy
- Break My Heart (You Really) [Extended Version]
- Heroine (Heavenly)
- Run Silent [Revolution Mix]
- Mr Wrong
- Dirty Mind [1990 Version]
- Goodbye Cruel World [Bto Remix]
- Black Sky [the Black Widow Mix]
- I Don't Care [Henley Board Mix]
- Remember My Name
- Stay [Acoustic Version]
- Prehistoric Daze
- Suddenly
- Opportunity Knockers
- I Can Drive [Pull Down Your Pants Mix]
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Free Music Review: Long live the queens indeed!
Hit: 5 Stars
Shakespear's Sister is one of the world's most successful UK girl band duos. They were armed with real "girl power", an incredibly dramatic flair for some really quirky, fun theatrical songs and visually stunning videos. They had a knack mixing up electro beats and rock music with flawless ease and a unique sound all of their own. Comprised of dark seductress Siobhan Fahey (fresh from her departure with Bananarama at the time of the band's formation) and the Aretha Franklin-like pipes of Marcella Detroit, they personified "alternative music" complimenting each other very well with their distinct voices.
Following a string of top 10 hits worldwide in the early nineties the band unfortunately disbanded and Siobhan went on to record a solo glam rock record under the name of Shakespear's Sister titled 3, that unfortunately hadn't seen the light of day from the record company until extensive legal wrangling and exhaustive efforts on Siobhan's part to get the record released after she got the rights to fully do so in 2005 (after her long hiatus from the music business) - "Opportunity Knockers" a track from that album is featured here as a little extra. Siobhan has also been hard at work preparing a solo electro-clash/rock/alternative album and released 3 singles with remixes under her own name and SF record label, plus a Shakespear's Sister Best Of CD/ DVD combo. From all these releases seeing the light of day, we finally now get a Platinum Edition by Warner, a Best of album of sorts, remixed, with B-sides & extras titled cheekily enough Long Live the Queens.
The collection starts off with extended remixes of the band's early big hits, as well as hard to find early B-sides. B-side "Pretty Boy" is a typical 80s ditty, "Mr. Wrong" has a distinct Mexican-pop-meets-wild-west feel to it and "Remember My Name" is a very smooth pop number with a cabaret flair. The early songs match well the dance sounds of late 80s and are nicely re-mastered for this collection. "Suddenly" is an excellent B-side from Siobhan's sessions in 1996, with a slight dark industrial marching rock sound and a fun catchy sing-along chorus (the music resembling a watered down rock version of Goldfrapp's "Train"), it would make a great single even if it was released today.
We get many more varied songs as well thanks to the band's later songs, starting with the very sunny and laid back "Prehistoric Daze", a surprising reggae/rap track, a successfully humorous collaboration with The Holy Ghost band for The Flinstones movie soundtrack that suits Siobhan's voice and gives newly rastafarian Sinead O'Connor a run for her money. The acoustic version of "Stay" is stunning to hear in its ballad entirety and "Black Sky" just floats away only with epic instrumentals and loose melodies. The 1990 version of "Dirty Mind" is now more complex, dramatic and full of chaotic energy that makes you want to get up and start dancing with its party mood, similarly the BTO remix of "Goodbye Cruel World" is transformed by from the epic rock song we know to a rave version with hypnotic techno beats.
This is not your typical "best of" collection but then again Shakespear's Sister was never a typical pop band. If you are fans of the original songs and if you do or don't own the Best Of CD, I think you'd still be interested to hear these alternative versions and satisfy your ears with this eclectic collection before we finally get the new anticipated full solo album by Siobhan Fahey.
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Shakespears Sister was a band consisting of Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit. The band formed in 1988, the same year that Fahey left Bananarama, and are named after a song by The Smiths, though the term "Shakespeare's Sister" predates the song. 16 track Platinum Collection consists of their best - most in remixed form - from the Warner/Elektra music archives. 2005.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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