Melt

Melt Artist: Artificial Joy Club
Label: Interscope Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 606949012526
EAN: 0606949012526
ASIN: B000001Y44


Release Date: 1997-07-01

Melt


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Tracks:

  1. Psychic Man
  2. Skywriting
  3. Sick & Beautiful
  4. Spaceman
  5. No Shame
  6. I Say
  7. You're Too Good To Me
  8. Crawl
  9. Cheeky Monkey
  10. Garbage Cans

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars still waiting.......2004-05-28

Every year I make a point of digging around to see if this team of musicians has made any noise.... still nothing. This album is truly one of those great treasures, long overlooked, but loved dearly by those that have discovered it.

5 out of 5 stars Unique Talent.......2002-12-22

Artificial Joy Club is possibly the most talented group I've ever heard. No one can fully appreciate or even begin to grasp some of the stuff reached in their songs unless they listen to the cd at least 10 times. I'm a fan of good lyrics over good music. Both are supplied, but the lyrics aren't just good, they're incredible. They're supported with strong music, but not so as to distract you from the words. The only thing Artificial Joy Club is missing is another album.

5 out of 5 stars Different, Wonderful, and full of Passion.......2000-10-04

I have listened to the CD a least 25 times and seen them live and I must say, this group is fantastic. They are entertaining as well as hip, humorous, and have a wonderful sound. Many of their songs I believe the new generation can relate to and to us old people (in our 30's)as well. I truly believe that it is hard to find a CD these days that has more than one song on it that is any good. This one has many! 5 stars!

3 out of 5 stars Good, but Howe and Reny have done better........2000-08-28

Artificial Joy Club is a reincarnation of the Ottawa pop duo One 2 One, which was one of those extremely talented acts that never quite made it to the major leagues. But guitarist Leslie Howe is a multi-instrumental virtuoso of sorts with a great ear for arrangement, and partner Louise Reny has a great voice with a flair for vibrato that predated Gwen Stefani's vocal style by nearly a decade, and did it with much more style. The duo debuted in 1985 with Forward Your Emotions, which yielded the Top 40 hit "Angel in My Pocket", and another single, "There Was a Time", which were '80s New Wave at its best, insanely catchy dance anthems with smarts and beguiling vocal-harmony work.

After One 2 One's excellent Imagine It album in 1992 (get it if you can -- it's been deleted, but it contains a tiny hit in "Peace of Mind (Love Goes On)", an infectious acoustic-guitar-based rock anthem) Reny acquired a new nickname, "Sal Gibson", and she and Howe went into Artificial Joy Club. Unfortunately some of the magic of One 2 One got lost in the process. Arrangements are more complicated but less catchy, the songwriting not quite Howe and Reny's prime, and the marketing for this album nonexistent. Reny's trademark anthemic voice is still there, but the sentiments expressed in the lyrics here don't quite reach the universals that, somehow, One 2 One was able to effortlessly express, not just verbally but musically.

Overall, just less of a sense of joie-de-vivre. Which is too bad, because Imagine It remains one of my favourite albums. It's just that its creators don't seem to hold my attention as well anymore. But that's merely because I have such high expectations of the Howe/Reny team. compared to the factory-manufactured pop music that makes up most of the pop-music scene today, Melt and Artificial Joy Club are still well above par.

4 out of 5 stars

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