Beautiful & the Damned [Import]

Lash (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Festival
• ASIN: B0000633GM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #730,064 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take Me Away

2. Don't Ever Make My Mind Up

3. Better Than You

4. Do It

5. Beauty Queen

6. Live Or Lie

7. Caged My Soul

8. In My Head

9. Dumb

10. Only To Heal

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This might sound weird...think Hilary Duff meets NIRVANA!!!, July 13, 2004

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Larry Davis "powerpoplarry" (NYC/Long Island, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beautiful & the Damned (Audio CD)

Yes, you read it right...Hilary Duff meets NIRVANA, I'm totally serious!! Like sharp-edged, grungy, noisy POWERPOP (Nirvana/Cheap Trick), done by 4 Australian girls who write AND PLAYED songs in a heavy sugary teenpop vein aka Hilary Duff...you could call it teengirlpop with a serious kick in the nutz!!!

The only band that comes close is defunct New York City girlband rubyblue...but LASH were much more raw and not at all polished...

I was first exposed to Lash from the Lindsay Lohan movie "Freaky Friday" ("Beauty Queen" is on the soundtrack, and so is Lindsay's/Christina Vidal's COVER of "Take Me Away", the song they perform in LL's garage right when her mom shuts the power off)...and my friend/reviewer "Metal Mike" Saunders, who is a HUGE fan, and he knows his teenpop!! From what I heard musically and from him, I was SERIOUSLY intrigued and decided to track down their only album (the band broke up)...and boy, am I glad I did!!! This is an overlooked rockin' gem that broke a LOT of rules and did it well!!!

All 10 songs are KILLER...they could appeal to Hilary Duff/TRL/teenpop fans, as well as modern rock/punk fans, powerpop aficianados and girlpop obsessors...there's not one dud in the bunch!!! These girls got the shaft!!! Not enough appreciators out there in the world!!!

Remember I said they break a lot of rules?? Well, Lash DO and DID!! In pop music, it seems you could only be one style (teenpop/powerpop/punk/girlpop), and not combine them without being ostracized...alas Lash took girlpop and noisy, sharp, RAW powerpop/punk and COMBINED these styles flawlessly and played them with verve and bundles of nervous energy on 10 GONZO-catchy tunes that won't leave your brain EVER!!!

Would teenpop fans accept Lash?? Perhaps. Would punk/modern rock fans accept Lash?? Highly doubtful as they never accept girlbands, except for Kittie who are not pop. Powerpop fans?? Maybe, as they might consider Lash too bubblegum despite their razorsharp edge...thing is, is it still bubblegum if it's sharp as a knife?? Discuss...like I said, Lash broke many rules and preconceived notions with their sound!! Girlband fans?? Definitely!!

I'll put my foot down and call Lash's lone album "The Beautiful And The Damned" one of the greatest albums of this decade, one of the best DEBUT albums ever made, and clearly, one of the most seminal albums ever released, they way they combined TRL teengirlpop and razorsharp powerpop/punk... Honestly?? I don't think there will ever be another band that would even DARE combine the two styles, let alone do it so well...

A masterpiece...Lash should be proud of their accomplishment, I'm serious!!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aussie Chix Rox!, October 14, 2002

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"snwbrdcrzy" (La Jolla, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beautiful & the Damned (Audio CD)

I actually first heard one of their songs on the the Female Snowboarding Video Feature "Hardly Angels."

It's definitely a good rocker album with some pretty melodic, poppy rock slow jibs.

If you're into Imports / Indie Punk / Indie Pop Rock, then this definitely hits the spot.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best dollar I ever spent..., October 3, 2005

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Masked Righter of Wrongs (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Beautiful & the Damned (Audio CD)

I bought this album in the bargain bin of a virgin megastore for $1. I figured it's got legs on the cover, why not. I tell you, it was the best dollar I ever spent on a cd. I don't know if I would spend the $22 import price on it, but if you're down with listening to kick ass poppy punk rock sung by girls that were probably the ones to beat your ass unconcious so they can get enough money out of your wallet to hit the CBGB's, then I highly recommend this album to all you mofos.