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The Art of Falling Apart [Remaster]
(CD, 1999)
Primary Artist: Soft Cell
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$11.98
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Format: CD
Feb 1999
Record Label: Mercury
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 731451029622 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. Forever the Same
2. Where the Heart Is
3. Numbers
4. Heat
5. Kitchen Sink Drama
6. Baby Doll
7. Loving You Hating Me
8. Art of Falling Apart, The
9. Martin - (bonus track)
10. Hendrix Medley: Bonus Track: Hey Joe / Purple Haze / Voodoo Chile
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Full title: The Art Of Falling Apart.
This 1999 reissue contains bonus tracks not included on the original release.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
The title is more than a clever rhyme. The unexpected success of 1982's "Tainted Love" took the duo of singer Marc Almond and keyboardist Dave Ball off guard and seemingly unprepared for its consequences, and while it's perhaps dangerous to read too much into these songs, it's easy to hear that the duo is in the process of disintegrating and would split within the year. Almond's vocals are much more querulous and melodramatic than before, and as Ball's synthesizers move further into cold abstraction, the tension adds a slightly disturbing edge to the music. The sentimental "Where the Heart Is" and "Kitchen Sink Drama" are highlights, but the two bonus tracks, originally included on a bonus 12-inch, are mistakes. The 10-minute "Martin" is repetitive and droning, but it's a masterpiece compared to an excruciating 11-minute medley of Hendrix covers (!!!) that's so godawful it becomes perversely fascinating. What WERE they thinking?
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