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Children
~The Mission (Artist)
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Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - May 16, 1990 |
A
music fan, Alva, Scotland, April 30, 2003
Classic Mission
Children was and still is The Mission's best album to date not that any
are bad. This album's accessability is due to the crossover it makes
between the goth and rock music of the time. There is an underlying dark
side which is lightened by fine string arrangements and complex melodies
which,... |
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Disintegration
~The Cure (Artist)
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Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Fiction (Audio CD) - March 19, 2001 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Disintegration is a pop album realised on an epic scale. Most of
its 12 songs are long mood pieces that develop slowly around the
listener. Anchored by complex drum patterns, the layered guitars,
soaring bass lines and rich keyboards blend to create a lush, evocative
soundscape that captures the... |
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The Best of Siouxsie & the Banshees [LIMITED EDITION]
~Siouxsie and the
Banshees (Artist) |
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - September 30, 2002 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
This more selective Best Of collection effectively supplants the
previous and more comprehensive singles compilations Once Upon a Time
and Twice Upon a Time, and is a salient reminder that before the
advent of Siouxsie and the Banshees there was a time when words such as
"Goth" and "Gothic" only... |
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Staring at the Sea - The Singles
~The Cure (Artist)
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Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 weeks
Fiction (Audio CD) - December 31, 1993 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
Big and moody, Staring at the Sea compiles some hits and
near-misses of these excavators of the dark soul. Beginning with their
earliest hits--the sparse "Killing an Arab", the aptly tedious "10:15
Saturday Night" and the charming "Boys Don't Cry"--this collection stops
before the comparative... |
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All About Eve
~All About Eve
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Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Mercury (Audio CD) - April 16, 1991 |
Richard Kelly, Manchester United Kingdom, July 7, 2004
What kind of fool...?
This is All About Eve's first LP. They were bright eyed and lured by a
large record company into bringing their songs to to masses. The songs
originally had the kind of sound that only a 3 piece band with a drum
kit can produce, but once they sat down in a recording studio we had
lush production... |
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Tower of Strength
~The Mission (Artist)
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Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Spectrum (Audio CD) - February 28, 2000 |
A
music fan, Los Angeles, July 26, 2003
It's "Eskimo" - not "penguin"
Who needs another Greatest Hits/Best of compilation? If you've never
heard of the Mish, you probably aren't reading this anyway. If you are a
fan, you have all the albums so this is useless, especially since all
the songs are the ALBUM versions. Even if you find yourself enomoured
with the artwork,... |
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Scarlet and Other Stories
~All About Eve (Artist)
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Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - February 24, 2003 |
Richard Kelly, Manchester United Kingdom, June 28, 2004
Great Album
This is the second AAE album and the artistic tension that would
eventually blow the band apart show in the music. There are a mix of
tracks, some show off Julianne's subline voice, whilst other show off
Tim's glittering guitar work.
Overall the album works and fits together very well. There is a... |
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The Scream
~Siouxsie and the
Banshees (Artist) |
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - March 7, 1995 |
Stĺle
Tandberg, Sandefjord Norway, February 22, 2005
PURE PUNK!
Their first album.The Scream is the purest punk album from siouxsie and
the banshees.The opening track is called exactly that,"Pure",but that is
only an instrumental fade in opening. The real punk starts with the
second track "Jigsaw Feeling".The next one "Overground",starts calmly,
and is like a... |
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Floodland
~The Sisters of Mercy
(Artist) |
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Warner (Audio CD) - November 16, 1987 |
A
music fan, the UK, December 14, 2004
Buy This, And Buy It Now
This album absolutely owns. Admittedly, I wasn't a fan of what is
classed as "goth", but regardless, I love this album.
It's dark, yet not depressing. It's like little else, really.
Dominion/Mother Russia is a fantastic album opener, and quite possibly
the best track overall. Lucretia My Reflection... |
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First and Last and Always
~The Sisters of Mercy
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Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Merciful Release (Audio CD) - June 22, 1992 |
A
music fan, Essex - United Kingdom, March 22, 2005
Sisters of Mercy - First And Last And Always
This album, when I first heard it, comsumed me completely; it awoke in
me a feeling of awe, a feeling that I had never experienced before and
expect never to feel again. This album is, in so many ways, unique; the
only album the "True" Sisters Of Mercy released, the only album that
contains the... |
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Kaleidoscope
~Siouxsie and the
Banshees (Artist) |
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - March 7, 1995 |
A
music fan, United Kingdom, June 12, 2005
Buy this.............
As a big big Banshees fan, this album is one I return to time and time
again. It's a shame that this band so often get labled with the dreaded
'goth' tag, as the sound (as on so much of their other stuff)goes
unrivalled by their contemporaries.
Post punk, the Banshees slipped up a gear to knock out... |
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A Slight Case of Overbombing
~The Sisters of Mercy
(Artist) |
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Merciful Release (Audio CD) - October 1, 1999 |
A
music fan, London, November 25, 1999
Top quality compliation of later Sisters material
Overbombing covers a slightly patchy time in the Sister's career from
First And Last And Always through to Vision Thing and their newer
singles. This means that classics like Lucretia nestle alongside
promising newer material such as Under The Gun, but also the slightly
iffy Detonation Boulevard and... |
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A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
~Siouxsie and the
Banshees (Artist) |
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - March 7, 1995 |
A
music fan, United Kingdom, March 17, 2005
Makes me Melt!
A beautiful little 9-track gem of an album, sadly too often lost in
Siouxsie's backcatalogue. This is a floral and avante-garde sort of
album, mainly due to the use of string instruments, on which we hear
Siouxsie really discover her voice. Until you've heard this you've never
heard Siouxsie sing.... |
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God's Own Medicine [IMPORT]
~The Mission (Artist)
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Usually dispatched within 6 to 7 days
Mercury (Audio CD) - October 1, 1999 |
A
music fan, The Sinewave Plane, January 27, 2002
Damn Fine
Every song is a hummable, singable, memorable winner. Over a decade
later (scary to think!) I still find some of these tunes going round in
my head on the way to work. A damn fine record ... as long as you can
can overlook some of Wayne Hussey's more "flowery" lyrics...
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Ju Ju
~Siouxsie and the
Banshees (Artist) |
Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - March 7, 1995 |
A
music fan, Brighton, February 3, 2005
Simply the best
I have always loved Siouxsie and the Banshees, they were my favourite
band for a long time, but I had not played anything by them for many
years. So coming back to JuJu reminded me just how incredible they were
at the time and while it is 'of it's time', JuJu sounds as great now as
it did back in... |
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The Head on the Door
~The Cure (Artist)
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Polydor (Audio CD) - March 19, 2001 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
This is the Cure album to start with. Robert Smith and company's best
and most coherent statement, The Head on the Door is a
successful, if schizophrenic, synthesis of the best of 1980s rock,
boasting danceable Eurobeat anthems ("In Between Days"), world-music-flavored
exotica ("Kyoto Song", the.. |
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Taxidermy
~Queen Adreena (Artist)
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Blanco Y Negro (Audio CD) - April 10, 2000 |
Amazon.co.uk Review
While most of horror-rock's practitioners dabble only in blood and guts
schlock, Queen Adreena's Taxidermy casts its mind back to the
distilled gothic terror of German impressionist cinema--Nosferatu
or The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari, where terror is conveyed not
through visceral thrill, but through... |
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Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
~The Cure (Artist)
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Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Polydor (Audio CD) - March 19, 2001 |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Released in 1987, at the height of the compact-disc revolution, Kiss
Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me is the prototypical CD album. Cure architect
Robert Smith knew that the newly popular format could handle almost
twice as much music as LPs, and he wasn't about to waste the space.
Unfortunately, many of ... |
