Go to the Sugar Altar

Kelley Deal 6000, Kelley Deal | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 10, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: New West Records
• ASIN: B000002RB5
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,972 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Canyon

2. How About Hero

3. Dammit

4. Sugar

5. A Hundred Tires

6. Head Of The Cult

7. Nice

8. Trixie Delicious

9. Marooned

10. Tick Tock

11. Mr. Goodnight

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Playful, pensive or mourning, Kelley Deal is a star in her own right..., December 17, 2005

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jon sieruga (Redlands, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go to the Sugar Altar (Audio CD)

This debut for Breeder Kelley Deal's sideband is full of wicked riffs, canny writing, beautifully reedy, husky vocals, and pop-rock hooks that show a playfulness of spirit and yet don't lean completely to a commercially-driven musical side. This CD is pure 1996, in all its alt-rock glory, sounding much like The Breeders at their best. "Canyon" kicks it off with wonderful percussion, "How About Hero" is wonderfully rambunctious, and the rocking "Dammit" (soft...soft, then LOUD) is affecting and amusing at once. My favorite track is the just-under-two-minute "Tick Tock", which has a catchy, fuzzed-out bubblegum flavor wrung through distorted guitars and vocals. In other words, it's glorious.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars From the Crypt to the Altar, May 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Go to the Sugar Altar (Audio CD)

When one completes a period of rehabilitation, a bizarre paradox is left. Either start again or continue where you left off. For Kelley Deal encountered this problem after leaving a drying out clinic in 1995. Her answer was "Go to the Sugar Altar", in which she took a third way, combining the old and the new. An interesting and innovative, if at times tiresome and irritating, approach. "Nice" is the track that stands out most, even if not the best achieved. It verges on the harmonic to the unlistenable as Deal's vocal scratches through the reverberated microphone. Nothing is quite as shocking as this track although the divesity in variety offered here can at times feel quite disorientating. The pure pop of "How About Hero", the funk of "Sugar", to the blues of the apt closer "Mr Goodnight" all show that this half of the Deal family is not totally about the late Eighties Boston rock sound which characterise her sisters projects. However the formula does exist in "Canyon", "Dammit", "Head of the Cult" and "A Hundred Tires". The best achieved song, which is not bettered by along way here, is "Trixie Delicious". Only on this track do the Kelley Deal 6000 achieve what they show promise of everywhere else. An album full of "Trixie Delicious"'s may be more repetative, but would have provided a more substantial end result.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The better Deal, August 12, 2007

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jonathingy (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Go to the Sugar Altar (Audio CD)

Say what you will about her chops, (and some have said quite a bit) Kelley Deal is by far, the better writer/composer of the Deal sisters. Go to the Sugar Altar, as well as Boom Boom Boom, are proof of that. More sarcastic and layered, and definitely consisting of more variety than any Breeders album, GTSA is always in my CD tray.