Clues [Import]

Robert Palmer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 15, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram Records
• Run Time: 31 minutes
• ASIN: B000001FSN
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #152,295 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Limited edition, deluxe vinyl-replica packaging. The meticulously crafted (13.5 cm) thick-cardboard package replicates the original vinyl LP while the CD is designed in the style of the vinyl itself (with its original label). 2011. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Robert Palmer's Best Album, February 18, 2007

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M. L. Whitlock (Germantown, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clues (Audio CD)

This 1980 Island Records release by the late Robert Palmer may be his best album. There are no bad cuts. You can put it on and enjoy it all the way through. The highlights are "Johnny and Mary," but it helps if your system has good bass response. "I Dream of Wires" is a Gary Numan technopop song. "Woke up Laughing" is a high energy, reggae infused comment on life with a sudden serious ending (just like life itself). "Not a Second Time" is an updated cover of a John Lennon song from the "Meet the Beatles" album. Finally there's "Found You Now," a enchanting love song. I miss Palmer's wonderful voice and influential rock music. This album was his best just before he hit it big on MTV.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Palmer moves to New Wave and makes his best album ever!, February 25, 2010

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Todd Bartholomew (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Clues (Audio CD)

"Clues" represented a major departure for Robert Palmer, shifting from his typically island-flavored rock towards harder edged New Wave/Electronica. At the time "Clues" was recorded Palmer was playing on the Talking Head's Remain in Light sessions and was heavily influenced by Gary Numan, and all of them wind up playing on the tracks here. Palmer's chameleonic voice was ideally suited for electronica, ranging from the low rumble demonstrated on "Johnny and Mary" to the falsetto on the title track. There still is a strong island flavor here and there, as on "Woke Up Laughing", but overall keyboards and drum machines dominate as on the Numan-penned track "I Dream of Wires", which rocks harder here than on Numan's original. The hard rock reworking of the Beatles' "Not A Second Time" is nothing short of astonishing; you'd hardly know it was the Beatles as it's stripped down so much and rocked so hard. Standout tracks abound and "Clues" was probably Palmer's best and most consistent album in his lengthy career. Although not thematically organized, the songs are largely about love and longing, and "Clues" is a rollercoaster ride of emotions from the sparse warmth of "Found You Now" to the icily detached couple in "Johnny and Mary", to the future-shock of "I Dream of Wires."

"Clues cemented Palmer's palce in New Wave and he would continue to explore that on 1982's Maybe It's Live and 1983's Pride. More importantly "Clues", like OMD's Architecture & Morality, showed that electronica didn't have to be emotionally distant and removed. Far from it, "Clues" is warm, funny, and very engaging!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ever!!, May 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Clues (Audio CD)

This was the one that got me listening to Roberts stuff back in 1979. Since then i've bought everything i can and apart from a couple of tracks i havent been too dissapointed. Looking for clues is a fantastic track with an even better Video