Melody

Artist: Joy Electric
Label: Tooth & Nail Records
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 026297102029
EAN: 0026297102029
ASIN: B000003ZDU

Release Date: 1996-06-07

Melody

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Tracks:

Drum Machine Joy
The Electric Joy Toy Company
Candy Cane Carriage
Analog Grand Diary
Every Boy And Girl Falls In Love
The Girl From Rosewood Lane
Sweet Sweet Charity
The Melody Book
Life Guardian Twenty
In Love In Midsummer
Never Be A Star
Old At This Young
Of Stories And Love
Happiness And Love
Lily Pad The Forest Our Home
Be Hoping
The Dark Ages
Buttercup Fairy Jamboree

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Customer Reviews:

The best synth band since the 80's.......2006-08-04

For those of you who say J.E. is totally different and original obviously didn't grow up in the 80's. If you had, you'd have been exposed on a deeper level to wonderful bands such as OMD, Camouflage, Fad Gadget, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Erasure and New Order, all of which Joy Electric draws influences from. As far as modern synth rock goes, most of it doesn't hit the mark with me. Erasure has done some fine work as of recent, especially with Nightbird, and Depeche Mode's Playing the Angel isn't bad, but there are thousands of other bands coming out of the woodwork claiming to be synth pop that are just horrible. There are two ends of the synth rock spectrum over-populated by garbage: On one end, you have the wussy, Savage Garden-esque bands like Neuropa and Intuition, and on the other, overly mechanical and robotically cold bands like Assemblage 23 and Covenant. There seems to be little in the middle. That's where Joy Electric comes in. I guarantee no matter what type of synth music you're into, Joy Electric has something for you. I've always been a huge fan of melodies, and Melody has them in bundles. This is probably my favorite Joy Electric album aside from Robot Rock and Christiansongs. Everything works so very well together on this album from Martin's breathy vocals, to the blatantly Nintendo-like melodies and the fairytale lyrics. This is very wholesome music, after all Martin is a Christian.(finally, a Christian band that doesn't suck!!) If you have the Art and Craft of Popular Music, and are interested in hearing more older J.E., this is the album to have. Though it is out of print and fairly difficult to come by, it is well worth the money. They should have included songs like The Girl From Rosewood Lane, The Melody Book, The Electric Joy Toy Company and Buttercup Fairy Jamboree on the Art and Craft double disc, those are some of Joy Elec's best songs ever. If you love slow, melancholy synth drenched songs about love and fairytales, and played a ton of Nintendo as a kid, get this album!

just like heaven.......2001-09-27

This debut album is just like heaven. I totally recommend
this cd to everyone in the whole entire world. It contains
songs of sheer delight and pure bliss. The musical melodies
combined with Ronnie's sweet voice bring happiness to anyone
listening. Please I encourage you to get this for people
of all ages and even children.

A little too Moog-happy for my taste, and then some..........2000-02-05

I was attracted to this album mainly because JE's label (Tooth & Nail Records) had advertised it as sounding like Erasure and New Order: I'm an Erasure fan and a huge New Order fan, so why not? When I finally bought it and listened to it, it sounded more like older Erasure without the drum machines. Ronny Martin does NOT sing like Andy Bell does. And the New Order influence? I could only really find it in the melodies of "Sweet Charity", and that's it. It's as if I said Primus' Les Claypool's bass lines are reminiscent of Bootsy Collins!

Don't get me wrong, there's a nostalgic quality of the blips and pings of all these analog synth tracks, but it feels to me like there are too many artists out there who use either too much of the analog sound or too much of the digital synthesis in their tracks, and never a balance of both. Vocally, it sounds like Ronny's struggling a bit in his tenor range, but a lot of popular and not-as-popular artists get away with it, which also made me shy away from keeping this CD at frequent listening.

If you're into very sweet analog synthesizer pop music or if you're just nostalgic of Moog keyboard sounds, you'll dig this album. If you're into more of the common electronica or synth-pop of current times, this may disappoint you.

THE BEST.......1999-04-16

Ronnie Martin takes Christian music to a whole new level. He makes it listenable. His analog synths are old, but he uses them to make something very new that gives a person chills. His original sounding vocals combined with his synths and talent make him the greatest musician to date. Because it is christian music, he doesn't get the recognition deserved. on melody, everysong has a different feel to it, and each makes a person feel it. they are very easy to relate to. after listening to this album, you'll have to own every je album.

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