Torino

Artist: Cinerama
Label: Manifesto Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 767004240428
EAN: 0767004240428
ASIN: B000068R1G

Release Date: 2002-07-02

Torino

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Tracks:

And When She Was Bad
Two Girls
Estrella
Cat Girl Tights
Airborne
Quick, Before It Melts
Tie Me Up
Careless
Close Up
Starry Eyed
Get Up And Go
Get Smart
Health And Effiency

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Product Description

1. And When She Was Bad
2. Two Girls
3. Estrella
4. Cat Girl Tights
5. Airborne
6. Quick, Before It Melts
7. Tie Me Up
8. Careless
9. Close Up
10. Starry Eyed
11. Get Up And Go
12. Get Smart
13. Health And Efficiency

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Pleasantly Addictive.......2007-03-07

I came across this album when Tower had its "fire sale," and I have to say it is my absolute favorite. The lyrics are very emotive and the songs are quirky enough just to catch you and get your attention. I love this CD and find that I like it more and more every time I listen.

STELLAR! DAVID GEDGE IS BETTER THAN GOD!.......2005-02-28

Witty, catchy, breathtaking. A new favorite. David Gedge can have my baby, or babies. We're still talking it over.

A sign of new life in alt-pop?.......2002-11-07

Cinerama still don't have the sort of following that they deserve, and I consider it an amazingly fortunate accident that I know about them at all. I've given their CDs to several people, and no one has failed to like them. Their latest is their best, an absolute triumph of pop-rock. Bandleader/singer/songwriter David Gedge specializes in songs about what you might call "lying in bed," and here, under the characteristically-tender touch of producer Steve Albini, he marries his sardonic, bitter humor to the sort of gale-force guitarwork that it's been craving all along. The music, in other words, aurally enacts the very emotions that underpin the lyrics.

And what lyrics! Gedge takes the basic rhyming couplet as far as any rock songwriter before him. From "Estrella," in which he begs his girlfriend to take note of his cheating, and make it easy by breaking up with him: "Oh, yes believe me, yes, you should leave me/You're making it too hard/How can you disregard/What I'm doing, who I've been screwing?" From the ironically-titled "Get Smart," imploring his adulterous wife to be a bit more discreet: "No don't flip, here's a tip: all it needs is a little thought/This will surprise you, but I don't want you to get caught/That's a price that I'll pay to stop you going away/Keep telling your lies, I won't criticise if it means you will stay."

The album winds up on a much more tender note, "Health and Efficiency," in which Gedge looks back wistfully on a youthful love affair. As he notes, "This is such a cliche but/You don't appreciate the joy until you lose it." As true of the passing of early-90s alt rock as of anything else. Here's to the possible signs of a new spring.

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Straight Life ~ Art Pepper

Before the Dawn ~ Satoko Fujii Orchestra - East

Another World ~ Andy LaVerne

Happy Jazz of ~ Osie Johnson, Thad Jones

12 Miniatures ~ Thomas Stabenow

Main Streams 1958 ~ Wilber Harden, John Coltrane

Rhythm Fantasies ~ Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman

Sunny Surinam ~ Willy Baranda

Hommage à Joe Dassin (coll. Le temps des 45 Tours)

Caligula Freejack ~ Toni Platao