Almost Cured of Sadness

Almost Cured of Sadness Artist: Stephen Jones
Label: Sanctuary Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 060768456921
EAN: 0060768456921
ASIN: B00008DCS6


Release Date: 2003-03-04

Almost Cured of Sadness


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Tracks:

  1. INTRO
  2. KEYS TO THE BRAIN
  3. UNDER THE RAINBOW
  4. GOOD DAY IN A BAD WORLD
  5. INTERLUDE I
  6. FRIEND
  7. CURED OF SADNESS
  8. AMERICAN DREAM
  9. YOUR TIME
  10. LITTLE THUG
  11. SITTING IN MY GRAVEYARD
  12. JESUS FREAKS AND CANDY ASSES
  13. INTERLUDE II
  14. RADIO'S BEEN THINKING AGAIN
  15. SOMEPLACE TOO FARAWAY
  16. QUAALUDES
  17. INTERLUDE III
  18. ALMOST CURED OF SADNESS
  19. MY GIRLFRIEND KILLED JESUS
  20. INTERLUDE IV
  21. SING A RAINBOW - Arthur Hamilton
  22. BEFORE I DIE

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars MAKES GOOD.......2004-12-31

Nice album, in fact one of the best ever, not like his old stuff which is also great, next

1 out of 5 stars stephen jones, why have you forsaken me?.......2003-09-25

i just loved about everything this guy has done. i was a huge baby bird fanatic, and little less a babybird fanatic, but nevertheless bugged keeps on finding its way to my cd-player on a more then regular basis.
however i'm not really a 'pop music' listener (i tend to like things that are a little bit more into the 'avantgarde' or 'experimental' zone), you always could wake me up in the middle of the night for jones' intimite 'bed room recordings'. i'd always thought jones couldn't go wrong.

but, he has. oh boy has he gone wrong. i wanted to give this cd zero stars, but apperantly that is not possible. i don't know what he wants to do on this one. maybe he wants to head into a new direction a little bit to eager. so he uses 'hip hop beats', or something. i really hate hiphop, but the beats on this cd aren't even worthy of being called hiphop beats. it's more like someone is testing out a really cheap casio in a shopping mall. and than the vocals! jones's sounding like something even the beegees would be ashamed of. that awful high singing of his!
this cd is nothing. it's not consoling, it's not beautiful, it's not intriging, it's not even funny! for all you people who liked jones for the greatness that once was baby bird: don't buy this cd! for all you people who want to be overcharged for a cheap, childish, moronic cd: go ahead.

2 out of 5 stars an uncertain step in a new direction?.......2003-07-31

I loved just about everything Stephen Jones did as Babybird, but this album leaves me cold. It's like an aural collage (with samples galore) layered with sometimes nasally child-like vocals over hip-hoppish beats. Not all tracks follow that formula but it's the general rule of the album. My musical tastes actually veer towards the experimental side of things - (I'm really not a huge pop fan - Babybird was a notable exception), but "Almost Cured of Sadness" simply isn't focused enough to work.

5 out of 5 stars something unique.......2003-04-20

Jones takes some familiar elements but assimilates them into a creative, experimental, idiosyncratic framework, yielding a CD that sounds like nothing else. It's full of catchy elements (melodies, rhythms, and interesting lyrics that are sometimes dark and often rather kooky), so it's not the kind of new sound that one has to work hard to appreciate. If you are looking for something new and different, this could be the disc for you. It has certainly gotten a lot of spins in my player.

3 out of 5 stars stephen jones is now cured of sadness.......2003-03-06

Stephen Jones, ex founder-leader of the english band Babybird (which had two big hits in 1996, "You're Gorgeous" and "Candy Girl"), left the band in 2000, 3 months later the release of their last album "Bugged", because, on his opinion,

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