Globe [Single]

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Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000DDTB
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #475,610 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic that transcends genre, February 25, 2002

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Eric Soyke (St. Petersburg, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Globe (Audio CD)

I bought this album shortly after it came out in 1990. Unfortunately, it disappeared from my collection years ago (most likely a victim of one of those 'permanent loans' to a friend). After picking it up again recently, I remember why it was one of my favorites. In an era short of any staying talent and long on one hit wonders, teen candy and quickly forgettable fads, The Globe stood apart from that crowd. The imagination and quality that went into this album is amazing, the proof of which lies in the fact that here I sit writing a review on it, nearly 12 years after it was released.

You will not be needing your CD player's fast forward button with this one, just pop it in and let the whole thing play. You might often find yourself rewinding to hear entire sections of songs again though. Many of the songs transend genre, being more a composition of vignettes, progressing from catchy rhythms to vocal samples to haunting chord changes and beyond. The mixture works, in spades. Quite definately an album you can put into your changer after not hearing it for years, and find yourself wondering why it had ever left.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One for the vault., March 10, 2003

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Anthony Whetzel (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Globe (Audio CD)

This is hands-down one of the best pop albums ever recorded and at the very least, one of the top 10 of the 90s. After being a little funk/sample heavy on Megatop Phoenix, they rebounded with what I will always consider to be one of the great pop masterpieces.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best recordings of the 1990's, February 18, 2002

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jason mccreight (Deer Park,TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Globe (Audio CD)

This is simply one of the best recordings of the 1990's. There is not a lot of music that was being produced in the early nineties that is standing up to the test of time, this one does. I still find myself wanting to put this disc into my player now over ten years after I bought it.
A cool aside, throughout the liner notes the photos display the band wearing a lot of Stussy gear, apparently they were running with Shawn Stussy in this era, and I believe this album was recorded on the Isle of Ibiza apparently some tie in with Stussy and Ibiza and great music(I think New Order recorded Republic in this time frame on Ibiza as well). Pretty neat that the photos capture the high point of that design houses' output along with the apex of this band's work as well.
A truly unique, creative offering from an era of otherwise cookie cutter pop/grunge garbage. Long live The Globe.