Candy From a Stranger

Soul Asylum | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia Records
• ASIN: B000006O7F
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MiniDisc  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,562 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Spin

Candy from a Stranger has a sleek, well-crafted, "classic alternative" sound, and it features some gently sculpted textures--a winsome mandolin in "Close," a slippery Morricone guitarscape in "Cradle Chain." But even when Candy’s rocking hard, it’s tasteful and nearly toothless. Soul Asylum just sound hopelessly, if pleasantly, retrograde.

Entertainment Weekly

Acoustic guitars, heart-on-sleeve lyrics, world-weary singing--six years after their big commercial breakthrough, these mellowed-out punks ... should be ingested sparingly.

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Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You don't know Soul..., March 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Candy From a Stranger (Audio CD)

Anyone who decided to slack Soul Asylum for not putting out as good an album as Grave Dancers Union shouldn't be a SA fan anyways. They've been tearing it up since 1980, and deserve a little more respect than that. This is a great album, but no, they did not re-record Runaway Train. If you're looking for that, I heard that Matchbox 20 has a new disk out...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This album is very very good!, May 1, 1999

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Mosta McKracken (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Candy From a Stranger (Audio CD)

Now whats wrong if soul asylum are mellower than before? it surely is no crime. Dave seems so melancholy and I feel it when he sings"there's still so many things i want to be" in NY blackout which is just one of the killer 11 songs on the album, other highlights are "the game" it's incomprhensible to me how can anybody sing the way he sings on that song. "see you later" rocks and is very nice indeed. I am sure their next album will even be better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!!, March 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Candy From a Stranger (Audio CD)

I don't know why everybody says this album sux, because I think it rocks just as much as Grave Dancers Union and Let Your Dim Light Shine. My favourite song on this CD is "Close". I guess people need to listen to it a couple of times before they can really appreciate it, coz it wasn't exactly what I was expecting either.