Customer Reviews

James

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This is their first album (as far as I know) with the expanded version of the band....7 members. This disc contains my favorite song of the band's entire repertoire, "You Can't Tell How Much Suffering (On a Face That's Always Smiling)" The lyrics written by Tim Booth are so true to life and poetic to the soul. I give this album 10 stars!!

My James collection started with Seven, a much beloved disc for many years. Just recently tried this recording and it satisfies considerably. Great tunes, challenging lyrics, I enjoy Booth's voice immensely. Start here or start with another, but listen to James.

Two of the strangest songs ever written appear on James' daisy album. "Walking The Ghost," a 7-minute encounter song between the singer and the female ghost that wanders his abode, is chilling enough to be put on your Halloween CD Mix. "Gold Mother" captures the point of view of the fetus as it becomes a baby through its mother's birth canal. The shouts and percussive cacauphony accompaning this journey are hysterical, while still mananing to be poppy! Amazing....

I knew what I expected from James when this album came out, mainly because I listened to gold mother. But this album spoke to me. The reality of Sit Down, and out to get you, blew me away. Tim Booth and the rest of the band, take controversy and make it into something great! Five stars all the way

Clearly despite all the hype, I never really expected James to release a great album. I would have been satisfied with a couple of good songs, but alas! The gods were against it all along! Not only is this CD forgettable faster than Don Johnson album, it fails to satisfy even the most forgiving listener. James had their 15 minutes of fame and overstayed it. The cover is attractive, too bad their music is not. Good thing they are no longer around and no one's ever heard from them ever since, except for some college bums too stoned off their rockers to tell the difference.

I have a couple of corrections to make. First I put out to get you, what I meant to put was Loose Control (I was listening to Out to Get you at the Time), and not only did it speak to me, it moved, got deep inside my soul and let me feel what the band was feeling. I mean the music was just so amazing, it felt as if I was right there making the album. Sure Gold Mother was a bit better (mainly because of Crescendo), but this album had two of their greatest hits (added on). God blessed James with incredible talent, and I hope that their new album is even better than this one.