of sumptuous beauty and revolting decadence. Few directors polarise audiences in the same way as Peter Greenaway, a filmmaker as influenced by Jacobean revenge tragedy and 17th-century painting as by the French New Wave. A vile, gluttonous thief (Michael Gambon) spews hate and abuse at a restaurant run by a stoic French cook (Richard Bohringer), but under the thief's nose his wife (the ever-sensuous Helen Mirren) conducts an affair with a bookish lover (Alan Howard). Clothing (by avant-garde designer Jean-Paul Gaultier) changes colour as the characters move from room to room. Nudity, torture, rotting meat, and Tim Roth at his sleaziest all contribute the atmosphere of decay and excess. Not for everyone, but for some, essential.--Bret Fetzer
of sumptuous beauty and revolting decadence. Few directors polarise audiences in the same way as Peter Greenaway, a filmmaker as influenced by Jacobean revenge tragedy and 17th-century painting as by the French New Wave. A vile, gluttonous thief (Michael Gambon) spews hate and abuse at a restaurant run by a stoic French cook (Richard Bohringer), but under the thief's nose his wife (the ever-sensuous Helen Mirren) conducts an affair with a bookish lover (Alan Howard). Clothing (by avant-garde designer Jean-Paul Gaultier) changes colour as the characters move from room to room. Nudity, torture, rotting meat, and Tim Roth at his sleaziest all contribute the atmosphere of decay and excess. Not for everyone, but for some, essential.--Bret Fetzer
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Advantages: Almost abjectly gorgeous Disadvantages: To some, cleverness for its own sake
...Once upon a time (or "1989", as it's more commonly known), the diminutive son of a clergyman from Northern Ireland went to London to make his fortune. But his somewhat bog-standard indie guitar band, The Divine Comedy ("I wanted to be Mark Gardener out of Ride very badly indeed") didn't make anyone's fortune with their mini-album "Fanfare For The Comic Muse", so he had a rethink. Without his former bandmates, and with a new-found obsession with polyphonic harmony, chamber music and literary references, Neil Hannon's reborn Divine Comedy were a very different kettle of marine life. The old DC might have sounded deeply derivative, but the new one most certainly didn't, even if one wag did suggest it resembled "the Pet Shop Boys if they'd formed in 1916".
In 1993 Hannon released "Liberation", a record tackling such diverse and (cough...
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Advantages: Makes you think Disadvantages: some swearing
...children,
They were brave;
But that dirty little coward
That shot mr. howard
Has laid poor jesse in his grave."
Again, executed in a very punchy and catchy style, another foot tapper.
Full track listing ( The remastered versiion includes bonus tracks as listed)
1. Sick Bed of Cuchulainn
2. Old Main Drag
3. Wild Cats of Kilkenny
4. I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day
5. Pair of Brown Eyes
6. Sally Maclennane
7. Pistol for Paddy Garcia
8. Dirty Old Town
9. Jesse James
10. Navigator
11. Billy's Bones
12. Gentleman Soldier
13. Band Played Waltzing Matilda
14. A Pistol For Paddy Garcia (Bonus Track)
15. London Girl (Bonus Track)
16. Rainy Night In Soho (Bonus Track)
17. Body Of An American (Bonus Track)
18. Planxty Noel Hill (Bonus Track)
19. The Parting Glass (Bonus Track)
Overall I think this album is fantastic.The...
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Advantages: Unique example of early nineties Pop Disadvantages: Not enough of it!
...to neil tennant, it was "very pet shop boys" 8 years later, in 2001, the Pet Shop Boys rereleased Very, as a two CD remastered version, containing the original CD plus a further listening CD containing other works of the boys during the period 1992 - 1994. In this review I'm going to look at the original Very album CD, plus the bonus CD features on the remastered CD.
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CD ONE
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Can You forgive Her?
Can You forgive her was a single off the album and was used as the opening track to the album. It's an upbeat, camp and also quite comical song (if you listen to the lyrics in detail.) The song is written about a closet homosexual and its asking whether he can forgive hiswife/girlfreind for making a fool of him and realising that he was gay. He doesn't want to admit to himself his true sexuality, yet when his...
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