Ill Gotten Gains

Ill Gotten Gains Artist: Michael J. Sheehy
Label: Beggars Banquet Us
Category: Music


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


UPC: 607618022327
EAN: 0607618022327
ASIN: B00005JA3E


Release Date: 2001-09-04

Ill Gotten Gains


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Tracks:

  1. Sweet Blue Gene
  2. Mystery Train
  3. No One Recognised Him
  4. Some People Love to Get Hurt
  5. Michael JNR
  6. Love Insane
  7. Just a Word
  8. Tired Old Love Song
  9. Wha'cha Gonna Do?
  10. Black Hole Is Waiting (Baby Let's Go)
  11. Let It Be Love This Time

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  1. Sweet Blue Gene
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Ill Gotten Gains.......2003-11-29

Upon first listen Ill Gotten Gains conjures to mind ruined images of America's heartland: broken-down shacks on Route 66, tumbleweeds blowing across the Oklahoma plain. One of the most remarkable aspects to Michael J. Sheehy, who is from Ireland incidentally, is his voice; it's what Chris Isaak would sound like if he cavorted with normal people on beaches rather than supermodels. He sings like one of the lost early soul voices on Moby's Play, and his take on Elvis Presley's "Mystery Train" may very well have been influenced by the bald one himself. The fuzzy guitars and vocal distortions on "Michael JNR" and "Wha'cha Gonna Do?" play as if they were written for Shirley Manson and Garbage. Appropriately enough the album closes with "Let It Be Love This Time," a postmodern hymn of sorts where God has been replaced by sex and we pray to the light of love in hopes that it will give our lives meaning. Sheehy might not have yet found a new God but that doesn't mean Ill Gotten Gains is without soul. Fave tracks: "No One Recognised Him," "Mystery Train," "Let It Be Love This Time."

4 out of 5 stars kinda compelling..........2001-11-17

this cd takes singer-songwriters work to slightly somewhere else.
part of the time it sounds like chris isaak singing unknown tim buckley songs.. the other songs veer totally into pj harvey territory. by the end he is combining the two approaches. kinda compelling. and someone to watch..

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  2. Pathways and Dawns ~ Peter Ulrich
  3. Introducing Eddy & the Falcons ~ Roy Wood & Wizzard
  4. Let the Chicks Fall Where They May ~ Sprague Brothers
  5. Sultans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits ~ Dire Straits
  6. The Living Room - Live in NYC - Vol.2 ~ Joseph Arthur , Jesse Malin , Richard Julian , Julia Darling , Dayna Kurtz , and Spooky Ghost
  7. Wanted Dead or Alive ~ Warren Zevon
  8. We Love the City ~ Hefner
  9. Peel Sessions ~ The Bonzo Dog Band
  10. Stimulation Festival ~ Pain Teens

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Still Dreaming ~ Hakan Brostrom

Grandes Sucessos V.1 ~ Waldick Soriano

Folk ~ Suneohair

Millennium: Nara Leao ~ Nara Le%C3%A3o

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