Alter Ego [Import]

Amanda Lear | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 31, 2010)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Dv More
• ASIN: B000007W6Z
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,098,824 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Alter Ego

2. Angel Love

3. Love Me, Love Me Blue

4. Muscle Man

5. This Man (D'ali's Song)

6. Peep!

7. Everytime You Touch Me

8. On The Air Tonight

9. Rien Ne Va Plus

10. Go Go Boy (When I Say Go)

11. Dance Around The Room

12. I'll Miss You

13. Alter Ego - Pt. 2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, witty, and highly recommended, December 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Alter Ego (Audio CD)

Amanda Lear is one of the most talented lyricists and under rated artists to emerge during the late 70's disco era. Unlike her contemporaries there was always evidence of a higher intelligence at play in her work. And while all those wailing one note disco queens have long gone - Amanda remains around recording wonderful (albeit rarely) albums such as this. Sure some of the songs are instantly disposable (Angel Love, Muscle Man) but they remain the minority. Its clever, its witty, and its danceable - Highly recommended. Now if only a major record company would recognise the genius of Lear and get her to record more frequently....

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Kitsch disco rules!, November 19, 1998

By 

Mr. Rupert J. B. Smith "rupertsmith2" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alter Ego (Audio CD)

Amanda Lear has produced some of the most hilarious disco tracks of the last 20 years, and this is a real return to form. The music is typical Euro-cheese, and La Lear delivers the vocals in such a world-weary tone that it sounds, sometimes, as if she couldn't even be bothered to turn up at the studio and just phoned her performance in from an airport waiting loung. Don't let this put you off! It's weirdly effective. Some of the songs are low-camp gay disco, lyrics about go-go boys & muscle queens; others strive for seriousness. There's even a love song to Amanda's mentor, Salvador Dali. All this and a marvellous self-portrait on the cover. Amanda: you rule.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent dance album! Definite camp must-have!, November 3, 2002

By 

Søren Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alter Ego (Audio CD)

Overnight sensations have come and gone, but Amanda Lear has had an amazing and well-deserved staying power that she only boosted with the incredible underground dance album "Cadavrexquis" featuring the fabulous hit single "Fantasy" in 1993. She followed it up with "Alter Ego" which was a lighter, more straight-forward europop album ... and it's great fun from beginning to end! The opening single "Every Time You Touch Me", despite being a sultry dance track, didn't catch as much attention as the hi-NRG dance tracks "Angel Love" and "Peep!" that followed as singles. Amanda's lyrics are just as great as on her classic 70s disco albums, her praise of "Muscle Man" and "Go Go Boy" (When I say go, you must take it off!) are obviously aimed for her huge gay fans - they're pure fun! Other great moments are her song for Salvador Dalí who was her muse since 1965 - Amanda is an acclaimed painter (Unfortunately her original self-portrait wasn't used for this re-issue!), the tear-jerkin' "I Miss You", and "Rien Ne Va Plus" which is another of those great dance tracks. A hat-full of stars to Amanda for this album ...