Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane [Import]

Hooverphonic | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 23, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Columbia Europe
• ASIN: B00006IWLQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #170,413 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #65 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Belgium

Track Listings

1. Sometimes

2. One

3. Human Interest

4. Nirvana Blue

5. The World Is Mine

6. Jackie's Delrium

7. Sad Song

8. Day After Day

9. Shampoo

10. Other's Delight

11. Opium

12. The Last Supper

13. The Kiss of Death

Editorial Reviews

Standard edition of the Belgian trip-hop-pop act's fourth album. 13 tracks including the lead off single, 'The World Is Mine'. Sony/Belgium. 2002.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey Sony, what did you do with the new Hooverphonic album??, October 19, 2002

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David Parker (burlington, vermont United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane (Audio CD)

The latest album from Hooverphonic is mysteriously unavailable in most of the world at this point in time (October '02), with no American release in site. (Amazon U.K. doesn't even have a listing for it). Of course, SONY Music, the ones most likely behind the meatheaded decision to release the album only in non-English-speaking areas of Europe, has simply forced me to diligently find and download the entire album over the internet, whereas given the choice to simply buy the album, I would have done so. Well, at least I can report on the album. Hooverphonic continue to veer away from the cool, experimental trip-hop they forged on albums like "Blue Wonder Power Milk" (my favorite!) to the more pop-inflected, mass-appeal sound of their last release "The Magnificent Tree". "Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane" is a concept album of sorts, revolving around the fictional character of Jackie Cane, who actually first popped up in a self-titled song on "Tree". In fact, the album itself often sounds like a soundtrack to a movie, highly-orchestrated, and often bright and cheery (not exactly a hallmark of Hooverphonic past), as evidenced on the new single The World is Mine. Thankfully that song has turned out to be my least favorite on the album, and while this is not the direction I'd hoped they'd take with this new release, there's still enough of the "old Hoover" in songs like Shampoo and One that helps me to overcome the blandness of piano-and-vocal songs like The Kiss and Last Supper. Hooverphonic has had the ability to write some of the most unique and stirring music I've heard over the last several years (who else but Hooverphonic could write something like Renaissance Affair or This Strange Effect??), only to now aim for the dreaded "larger audience" as a way to success, and in the process, let their seamless blend of experimental melodic trip-hop become their footnote. A good album, by a band who could easily have done better.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! Has to grow on you though.., January 4, 2003

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Peter Cooper (Louth, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane (Audio CD)

For those of us who have been Hooverphonic fans from the word 'go', this album was hard to swallow. As ever though, it gets better over time.

'Human Interest' is classic Hooverphonic all-over, string laden trip-hop. It's 'Battersea' mixed with 'Eden', and is any bit as good as anything else they've done.

'The World is Mine' is not classic Hooverphonic at all, but in the context of this album it works extremely well. This is probably my favourite track on the album. If you can't get your head out of ye olde Hooverphonic mindset, you probably won't like this.. but then again, you probably don't like any band that experiments with their sound.

The album drags its feet in places, like in Nirvana Blue or Sad Song, but in both cases you're rewarded with an overall excellent song, even if it takes a while to get there. Sad Song shows Geike's voice at its peak, she sounds amazingly like Jewel.

In the end though, we have an amazing album here, and all listeners are rewarded with the amazing 'The Kiss' as the last track. Anyone with an ounce of nostalgia in their body could appreciate this.

My advice is to forget about who Hooverphonic were, and just enjoy this release in its own right. It's not another Blue Wonder Power Milk, but it's a beautiful Hooverphonic musical. And to all of those who think 'The World is Mine' is awful, just listen to how amazingly tight it is, how great the musicians are, and how well it's produced.

You might not like the style, but it reeks professionalism. A true hallmark of a Hooverphonic album.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Like a good wine, it gets better with age..., February 7, 2003

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F. Moeller (Arlington, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hooverphonic Presents Jackie Cane (Audio CD)

Hooverphonic are one of the few groups I make an effort to go and see when they tour. I have to admit I was originally very disheartened with Jackie Cane but now, after listening to it a few more times, my opinion has changed and I'm nowhere near as depressed with my purchase as I originally was.

For those of you who know their earlier work, I'm a "Battersea, Out of Sight, Eden, Vinegar and Salt, Mad about You" kinda-a-guy, and the tracks on the Jackie Cane CD are, like their previous CD's, very hit or miss. By far the best track on this CD is "Human Interest", and it is followed by "Nirvana", "The World is Mine" and "One". The rest of the CD is ho-hum and not nearly as good.

Hooverphonic try to experiment somewhat later in the CD and they get away from what I love them for. The Buddhist meditative track "Jackie's Delight" works fairly well. The Bjorkish "Sad Song", "Shampoo", "Others Delight", "Opium" and "The Last Supper" are really just inconsequential filler. I went straight to sleep. The CD wraps up with "The Kiss" with its piano and orchestra sounds like the theme song to some dreadfully soppy and forgettable TV movie.

The second CD has a couple of interesting remixes of "Eden" and "Out of Sight", and an interesting take of "Vinegar and Salt".

I absolutely hate buying CD's and getting one or two good songs. Although I was at first uninspired and somewhat disillusioned, this double-CD set, even as a higher-priced import, in the end passes as a good buy. There are four tracks definitely worth having, and a couple of decent remixes of some of my old favorites.