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Product Details:
Audio CD Release Date:
April 05, 2005
Studio:
Caroline
Number Of Discs:
1
Format:
Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
Average Customer Rating:
based on 6 reviews
Description:
British remastered reissue of 1989 album, scheduled to include 10 bonus tracks. EMI. 2005.
Track Listing:
1.
Innocence
2.
Free World
3.
Mother's Ruin
4.
Days - Kirsty MacColl, Davies, Ramond D.
5.
No Victims
6.
Fifteen Minutes
7.
Don't Come the Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim!
8.
Tread Lightly
9.
What Do Pretty Girls Do?
10.
Dancing in Limbo
11.
The End of a Perfect Day
12.
You and Me Baby
13.
You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby (She's Having a Baby) ... - Kirsty MacColl, Morissey
14.
Happy
15.
Am I Right?
16.
El Paso [*]
17.
La Foret de Mimosas
18.
Complainte Pour Ste Catherine - Kirsty MacColl, McGarrigle, Anna
19.
Free World
20.
Innocence
21.
No Victims
22.
The End of a Perfect Day
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amazing talentDec 16, 2008 This is the first Kirsty MacColl disc I ever bought and along with Tropical Brainstorm, it remains my favorite. These would be two of my "desert island" discs, without question. An awesomely talented singer and songwriter, Kirsty is sorely missed. If you are unfamiliar with her work, this is a great disc to start with. There is sort of a 60's pop feel to this one, and not a dud in the bunch. I cannot reccommend this disc highly enough.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
mixed emotionsJan 11, 2007 As a solo artist, she goes down the road of pop. Not my cup of tea but her collaborations with Johnny Marr definitely are good. She was never daring by herself as she was in picking(or being picked) those she did backup vocals for. The songs are enjoyable but get sappy rather quickly in tone if not lyrics. The latter is where you see a maverick side.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
The Late Great Kirsty MacCollFeb 25, 2006 Before the Internet, before sampling stations at the major record chains, the only way to judge a cd was either a recommendation or by judging a book by its cover and just buying it and listening to it. I bought this cd when it first came out just because I liked the cover, and boy what a find. This is a great pop cd by an extremely talented artist whom we lost too soon. Soaring pop, some pseudo-country ("Don't Come the Cowboy"), plaintive ballads. Highlights are "The End of a Perfect Day," "Free World" (which zooms by at a breathtaking pace), "Innocence," "Tread Lightly," "Don't Come The Cowboy With Me Sonny Jim." Excellent and highly recommended.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Soaring "Kite"Dec 19, 2005 The Album:
Some rock fans have tended to accuse their favorite artists of becoming insufferable softies in the wake of marriage and parenthood, as if any perceived decline in the quality of the artist's music is blamed on the artist losing his or her mysteriousness and "cool," instead of on the listener's own inability to identify with the artist's new mental state. That said, singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl made 1989's Kite -- only her second full-length album of all-new material to be released in her first 11 years as a recording artist -- after marrying record producer Steve Lillywhite in 1984 and then devoting the next few years to raising their two young sons... The former pub-rocker mostly works in Smiths-style Brit-pop here, except for detours into country (the weary-but-hopeful single "Don't Come the Cowboy With Me, Sonny Jim!") and jazz ("Fifteen Minutes"), and a sweet cover of the Kinks' "Days" (one of MacColl's biggest UK hits); HOWEVER, a look through the lyric sheet should assure you that becoming a wife and mum didn't turn Kirsty soft.
Kite kicks off with the 1-2 punch of "Innocence," a bouncy single packed with wickedly funny put-down lyrics ("Your pornographic priestess left you for another guy / You frighten little children and you always wonder why"), and the ferocious single "Free World," an attack on Margaret Thatcher's England. Other standouts include: "Fifteen Minutes," a wry comment on the crassness of fame ("In Sunday papers every week / The silly words you love to speak / The tacky photos and the phony smiles / Well, it's a bozo's world and you're a bozo's child ... Your 15 minutes start now"); its less-snide flip-side, the jangly "What Do Pretty Girls Do?", which ponders the plight of an It Girl once her 15 minutes are up and she can no longer coast on looks or popularity; "The End of a Perfect Day" (co-written with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr), on which MacColl advises us that good times can't last forever; and "Tread Lightly," on which she warns us that getting what we wish for may not be all it's cracked up to be. To audiences who prefer blander and more sugar-coated sentiments in their pop music, many of Kirsty's lyrics here may seem extremely cynical, but I consider them refreshingly honest.
The Extras:
Kite was the first of two albums MacColl released on the Virgin label; earlier this year, EMI/Virgin reissued both this album and 1991's Electric Landlady, expanding them with bonus tracks. One of the extras on Kite is a slightly cleaned-up radio edit of "Free World" (minus the epithet "shag"); the remaining 9 bonus tracks are B-sides, including a cover of the Smiths' "You Just Haven't Earned it Yet, Baby" (which she had recorded for the soundtrack of John Hughes' 1988 comedy She's Having A Baby), a lively cover of Anna McGarrigle's "Complainte Pour Ste. Catherine," the self-penned French number "La Foret De Mimosas," a cover of Marty Robbins' country hit "El Paso" (!), a pair of so-so remixes, and a demo of "End of a Perfect Day."
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