Pointing the Finger/Politicz: The Cherry Red Albums 1981-1982

Artist: Kevin Coyne Label: Cherry Red Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 740155764029 EAN: 0740155764029 ASIN: B000007Y50 Release Date: 2005-04-19

Tracks:

1. There She Goes
2. As I Recall
3. Children of the Deaf
4. One Little Moment
5. Let Love Reside
6. Sleeping - Waking
7. Pointing the Finger
8. You Can't Do That
9. Song of the Womb
10. Old Lady
11. Your Holiness
12. Liberation
13. Fun Flesh
14. Flashing Back
15. Tell the Truth
16. Banzai
17. Poisoning You
18. Magnolia Street
19. I've Got the Photographs

Customer Reviews:

Obscure genius.......2003-01-10

Pointing The Finger (tracks 1 to 10) has the traditional Coyne rock sound with guitars, drums and keyboards and him sounding somewhat like an anguished early Van Morrison. Let Love Reside stands out with its gripping arrangement, as does the title track with its marching beat in which he expresses his ambivalent feelings about England. Song Of The Womb and Old Lady are very poignant songs too, but Pointing The Finger cannot be favorably compared to his great albums like Case History or Marjory Razorblade.

Politicz is his most experimental album. Songs like Your Holiness, Liberation and Fun Flesh are typical Coyne protest songs. Strangely, the drum machine takes over on Tell The Truth, Banzai, Poisoning You and Magnolia Street, giving us Coyne's social comment in a synth-pop setting, about suffocating relationships, empty pleasures and the smothered individual. Magnolia in fact reminds me a bit of Frank Zappa's disco send-up "Dancing Fool." It's back to guitar on the sad song Photographs with its beautiful melody and poetic lyric. An unusual musical detour for Coyne, Politicz is worthwhile and interesting.

For those who wish to investigate the best work of this obscure genius, I strongly recommend Marjory Razorblade, Dynamite Daze or the live album In Living Black & White.

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2. So Much Beautiful
3. Mother's Spiritual ~ Laura Nyro
4. 7-Tease ~ Donovan
5. Jewish Sephardic Songs in Ladino ~ Eva Volitzer
6. Soy De Sangre, Quechua Y Aymara - Bolivia Folkloric ~ Fortaleza
7. In The Deep Heart's Core
8. When I Was on Horseback ~ Martin Simpson
9. Seka ~ Various Artists
10. As Fadas De Estrano Nome ~ Milladoiro

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Califuneral ~ Fat Tuesday

Mala ~ Dave Stringer

Chinese Traditional Zheng Music ~ Hong Ting, Zhuo Nan Jin, Chinese Traditional, Tiao-sheng Xu

Jetzt Erst Recht ~ Gitte Haenning

Scene 3 ~ Aska

I'm the Only One ~ Melissa Etheridge

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Silence ~ DJ Tomcraft