I loved the first Gomez album, Bring It On, despite the abscence of my favourite track, Bring It On. I kinda liked the second album, Liquid Skin. It retained the true essence of Gomez in most of the tracks on the album, like Rythym & Blues Alibi and Blue Moon Rising...however, Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline left me feeling like I had just wasted £12. It contains a couple of rehashed tracks from Bring It On and only a couple of tracks that I actually liked...the rest were just filling in the horrendous gaps and not very well.
If you are a completist, then you have to get the album anyway, but if you are just tempted to get a Gomez CD and don't have either of the first two, get Bring It On or Liquid Skin instead of this one...
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Fair enough, but in my humblest, I was not happy shelling out £14 for what I thought was a substandard set of songs from one of my fave bands.
Let's hope that the next album isn't far away then!
shorty 14.12.2000 17:20
This album is actually *sold* as a collection of rarities and B-sides and was supposed to fill the gap until the next album. I really like it, myself. If you thought it sounded like a collection of B-sides, that's the reason!!
One thing's for sure, Gomez have always sounded far older than their tender years would ... more
seem to suggest, and as a consequence they've pretty much managed to corner the ever growing too-old-to-rock-and-roll-too-young-to-knit domestic market. Comforted b...
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Advantages: Some fantastic songs, great alternative versions, slightly less inhibited due to the fact its a mixed bag Disadvantages: Patchy - I doubt many people will like all of it
Advantages: Some fantastic songs, great alternative versions, slightly less inhibited due to the fact its a mixed bag Disadvantages: Patchy - I doubt many people will like all of it
Dec 5th, 2000
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