Cinerama â Torino

Cinerama | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: MANIFESTO RECORDS
• ASIN: B000068R1G
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #249,891 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. And When She Was Bad

2. Two Girls

3. Estrella

4. Cat Girl Tights

5. Airborne

6. Quick, Before It Melts

7. Tie Me Up

8. Careless

9. Close Up

10. Starry Eyed

11. Get Up And Go

12. Get Smart

13. Health And Effiency

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sign of new life in alt-pop?, November 6, 2002

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L. C. Murtaugh (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinerama â Torino (Audio CD)

Cinerama still don't have the sort of following that they deserve, and I consider it an amazingly fortunate accident that I know about them at all. I've given their CDs to several people, and no one has failed to like them. Their latest is their best, an absolute triumph of pop-rock. Bandleader/singer/songwriter David Gedge specializes in songs about what you might call "lying in bed," and here, under the characteristically-tender touch of producer Steve Albini, he marries his sardonic, bitter humor to the sort of gale-force guitarwork that it's been craving all along. The music, in other words, aurally enacts the very emotions that underpin the lyrics.

And what lyrics! Gedge takes the basic rhyming couplet as far as any rock songwriter before him. From "Estrella," in which he begs his girlfriend to take note of his cheating, and make it easy by breaking up with him: "Oh, yes believe me, yes, you should leave me/You're making it too hard/How can you disregard/What I'm doing, who I've been screwing?" From the ironically-titled "Get Smart," imploring his adulterous wife to be a bit more discreet: "No don't flip, here's a tip: all it needs is a little thought/This will surprise you, but I don't want you to get caught/That's a price that I'll pay to stop you going away/Keep telling your lies, I won't criticise if it means you will stay."

The album winds up on a much more tender note, "Health and Efficiency," in which Gedge looks back wistfully on a youthful love affair. As he notes, "This is such a cliche but/You don't appreciate the joy until you lose it." As true of the passing of early-90s alt rock as of anything else. Here's to the possible signs of a new spring.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pleasantly Addictive, March 7, 2007

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Jeanne Mehallo "JeanneMe" (Sacramento, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinerama â Torino (Audio CD)

I came across this album when Tower had its "fire sale," and I have to say it is my absolute favorite. The lyrics are very emotive and the songs are quirky enough just to catch you and get your attention. I love this CD and find that I like it more and more every time I listen.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars STELLAR! DAVID GEDGE IS BETTER THAN GOD!, February 27, 2005

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Kevin Golden - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cinerama â Torino (Audio CD)

Witty, catchy, breathtaking. A new favorite. David Gedge can have my baby, or babies. We're still talking it over.