Antony and the Johnsons

Artist: Antony and the Johnsons
Label: Secretly Canadian
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 656605010427
EAN: 0656605010427
ASIN: B0002BO0HG

Release Date: 2004-07-20

Antony and the Johnsons

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Tracks:

Twilight
Cripple And The Starfish
Hitler In My Heart
The Atrocities
River Of Sorrow
Rapture
Deeper Then Love
Divine
Blue Angel

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Album Description

"Every emotion in the planet is in that gorgeous voice" - Diamanda Galas <P>Antony and the Johnsons is the self-titled debut release from the virtuosic English-born singer on David Tibet's DURTRO label through World Serpent Distribution in London.

Customer Reviews:

The Lotus Opens.......2007-03-25

Most exotic, most intimate, most real -- this extraordinary artist is hard to define. If you opened the petals of an lotus and stared into the heart of the flower it would approximate this experience - synesthesia unleased. Anthony and the Johnson's first release is a must before delving into his subsequent perfect offerings. Oh rapture.

long live Antony.......2007-03-14

I consider my self lucky enough to get to know Antony's music, specialy this album reminded me the feeling of something powerful, something that stays in your mind forever like The Wall-pink floyd or Grace-jeff buckley or led zeppelin III(list goes on). this album is na instant calssic-if you are open minded toward music you should get this one.

Antony.......2007-01-25

I saw Antony on Dave Letterman & was taken by his strange appearance that is so contary to his music which is heartbreakingly beautiful.

like the "Hope there's someone".......2007-01-09

I love them, but the "Hope There's Someone" has much more intensity and truth in the ballads...less instruments, less interference.
still love them though.

so let down.......2006-11-14

I normally don't write reviews that are negative on amazon because they usually get nothing but negative feedback/unhelpful votes or whatever. So I shall try to be as fair as possible. I got Leonard Cohen's compilation "i'm your man" and there is this amazing, incredible rendition of "if it be your will" that Antony does. It was my favorite track on this record and the whole Leonard Cohen tribute concert in general, 'come so far for beauty' is really good. "If It be your will" was performed with such a soulful voice and i loved how it built inself until the end with the background vocals wailing and him stating the title words over and over. So I went to the library and waited a month to borrow this debut record by Antony; it was always checked out or on reserve. Yes, it was the same voice, and yes, I will say, Antony does have a very interesting and even somewhat beautiful voice. The album's sleeve put me off at first (and continued to do so). I am someone who often puts music together with its cover art (check out This Mortal Coil's 'song to the siren' with that perfect 23 envelope sleeve, for example). So I listened to this album a few times and was put off by the silly lyrics that actually made me grimace and cringe. "mr muscles forcing bursting stingy little thingy into me . . ." or "i am so very happy, so please hit me" or "river of sorrow, don't swallow" or the breathy way he says the word "twilight" don't know, it just made a little uncomfortable. So it seemed I didn't like the record.

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