Curtains

Tindersticks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 1997)
• Original Release Date: June 24, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: London / Umgd
• ASIN: B000003TSK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,084 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Another Night In

2. Rented Rooms

3. Don't Look Down

4. Dicks Slow Song

5. Fast One

6. Ballad Of The Tindersticks

7. Dancing

8. Let's Pretend

9. Desperate Man

10. Buried Bones

11. Bearsuit

12. Are You Trying to Fall In Love Again (Tonight)

13. I Was Your Man

14. Bathtime

15. Walking

16. A Marriage Made In Heaven

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You can't miss with this album. "10", January 5, 2000

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Justin Ratcliff "egovirus" (S.Pasadena, Ca.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Curtains (Audio CD)

Okay, Isabella Rosselinni Sings a duet on this album. And thats not even it's pinacle! This disk is pure bliss no matter what track you started from. It's like putting Barry White, James Bond, The London Symphony, and a case of Stoli in a blender, and running it till it's smoother than Tom Waits eating pudding in a '79 jaguar.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Greatest album of the nineties?, January 31, 2002

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Hanna Eliasson (GBG, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Curtains (Audio CD)

This album would easily make it into my all-time top-ten record and is Tindersticks perhaps finest moment.
Some say that singer Stuart A Staples voice is one to eigher love or hate but I have troubles understanding how anyone can do other than love it. The songs, instrumentation, production, moods are all exellent but it is Staples voice that gives this record that special feeling.
Anyone into melancholic, moodfull, dreamy, bittersweet or passionate music should give tindersticks a try immediately. Among similar artist Nick Cave, Lee Hazlewood and 70's soul singers as Curtis Mayfield can be mentioned.
There are no weak songs on this album but absolute highlights are:"Bathtime", "Let's Pretend", "Rented Rooms", "Dancing" and "Are you trying to fall in love again".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pinnacle of Perfection, February 22, 2005

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Kurt Harding "bon vivant" (Boerne TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Curtains (Bonus CD) (Audio CD)

In my opinion, Curtains stands tall as the overall best CD issued by Tindersticks to date. In my review of that CD, I gave it a high recommendation. However, if you don't mind spending a few dollars more, then I recommend that you get this re-mastered edition instead as the bonus CD is certainly worth the extra money. Not only that, the remastering has vastly improved the sound quality of the original.

The highlights on Disc 1 are Another Night In, Rented Rooms, Don't Look Down, Let's Pretend, Buried Bones, (Tonight) Are You Trying To Fall In Love Again?, and Bathtime. Stuart Staples is at his apex as a singer on Curtains and the lyrics reflect the dark, brooding and cynical worldview fans have come to expect of Tindersticks.

Disc 2's best features are a gritty rendition of Bathtime, a Lee Hazlewood-esqe tale of forbidden love in Shadow, a pair of excellent instrumentals with Paco's Theme and Mannlow, two excellent alternative versions of the jaded Rented Rooms (one of which really swings), Make Believe, the sexy duet A Marriage Made In Heaven, and the regretful For Those...In short, the entire disc is worthwhile.

If you are a serious Tindersticks fan, but on a tight budget, then you might want to buy this through one of amazon's partners. I got mine that way at roughly half the list price and was entirely pleased with the speed with which my order was filled. The remastered edition of Curtains finds Tindersticks at the pinnacle of perfection, so don't miss out on this!