Goodbye

Artist: Dubstar
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio Cassette

UPC: 731453796140
EAN: 0731453796140
ASIN: B000002GNW

Release Date: 1997-09-23

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Tracks:

Stars
Inside
Cathedral Park
Just a Girl She Said
View from Here
It's Clear
No More Talk
Anywhere
Ghost
Can't Tell Me
I Will Be Your Girlfriend
Wearchest
St. Swithin's Day
Not So Manic Now
Stars [Motiv 8 Mix]
Not So Manic Now [Way Out West Mix]
Stars [Way Out West Mix]

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Customer Reviews:

If you like Saint Etienne, you will like this cd.......2004-02-16

I was digging around my cd collection when I came across Dubstar's "Goodbye" cd. I had bought this cd several years ago (when I lived in Milwaukee, WI). I think I bought it when I saw a review for it and the reviewer compared Dubstar to Saint Etienne. At the time I was a huge Saint Etienne fan. I decided to listen to this cd not too long ago for old times sake. For Lacuna Coil fans, the hard rock band does a version of "Stars" which can be found on their '90 album "Unleashed Memories". Personally I prefer Dubstar's version despite being a big Lacuna Coil fan. As I was listening to "Goodbye", I was easily reminded of the kitschy British pop band Saint Etienne. Sarah Blackwood had that cutesy quality in her singing that Saint Etienne's singer Sarah Cracknell possesses. The songs are equally catchy and infectious and has that '60s pop quality to the music that I hear in Saint Etienne's music. "Cathedral Park" is one of my personal favorite Dubstar songs. It is incredibly catchy and hard not to have the song stuck in your head. I also love "Just a Girl She Said". It reminded me of Lush, The Sundays, and The Cocteau Twins, with that familiar lush, shoegazer song. It is a beautiful song. All the songs on the album are great. I would have given the cd 5 stars had it not been for the remixes which unfortunately didn't do anything for me. If anything, they didn't give another dimension to the songs. "Goodbye" would have been better off without the remixes.

Leaves you wanting more...or maybe less.......2003-07-22

I wanted to like this album. The lead track "Stars" is great 90's Brit Pop, mixing dreamy synth and reverb with catchy sugar-coated lyrics. But like cotton candy, the first bite tastes the best. It's just too sweet, too bubbly. Even when the lyrics turn sour ("Talking is useless..."), Blackwell's incessently upbeat vocals lead you to believe that it's only because she'd rather be cuddling her teddy bear. Dubstar openly borrows from the shoegazer sound while forgoing the lyrical depth or introspection of the genre. It makes for an odd mix. Sort of Lush meets Swing Out Sister. To be fair, this is not a bad album. It is consistently listenable and gives the listener a fair idea of the music being made in the 90's. Better examples are The Sunday's "Reading, Writing & Arithmetic", Lush's "Spooky" and the Cocteau Twins' "Heaven or Las Vegas".

Amazing..........2003-06-26

I am always amazed at the cds that sell millions and those that appear to get pushed to the side. "Goodbye" by Dubstar, is one of my favorite cds that I own. Sarah Blackwood has the sexiest voice I have ever heard in music. The songs beautiful and it just clicks with me. If you are a fan of Dubstar's music then make sure to check our Sarah's new project "Client".

No better expression of the high point of a dead order.......2002-08-27

This CD is a seamless final addition to the body of work typified by the Cure's "Disintegration" cross-bred with "There is a light that never goes out" or "Please Please Please let me get what I want" from the Ever-Beloved Smiths. Fine, clean work that brings elements of the last two decades of electronica to the deserved fore while all the while sidestepping the worst excesses of the early 80s adolescent "I'm afraid of Girls" techo-pop as well as the equisitely ethereal, untouchable sounds as typified by the Cocteau twins, among other late contributors. This stands alongside "get lost" by Magnetic Fields as one of the ever-fewer holdouts for the glories of pure GlumPop. Excites and Depresses! Excellent.

A Secret.......2001-03-26

Dubstar are one of the biggest kept secrets in the music business. Goodbye is Dubstars best album and it contains the hit singles, No More Talk, I Will Be Your Girlfriend, Cathedral Park and Stars. This album is worth a listen even if you dont buy it

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