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You can't go wrong with this CD. Or can you? I'm biased because I'm a hardcore fan of Sad Cafe'; so it's easy for me to say they're good. But what could I possibly say to make you buy a CD from a band you never heard of? I don't have to say anything, because you can sample the music here at Amazon. So go ahead and do it. However, I remember back in the day when Amazon didn't have song sampling. If you wanted to buy something you never heard before, you had to rely on reviews.

When I first discovered Sad Cafe' at the record store, I didn't even have a review to go on. I saw the album cover, read the song titles, and took a chance. I got lucky. It was their first album and it was great. Even though I bought it cheap because it was used, I liked them enough to pay regular price for future albums. Take me to the future, baby, cause these guys are good.

Until I got this Masters Cd, I didn't know the group had six hit singles in the UK. "Every Day Hurts" was number three on the charts. I'm not sure what position "Strange Little Girl" placed at but the song is based on a movie starring child actress Jody Foster. She lives with her dad, he dies and she gets a boy (actor, Robbie Benson) to help her keep it a secret so she won't have to leave home. She lets her basement trap door fall on the head of a woman who comes checking up on her. Now she has two bodies to keep hidden.

In some songs, lead singer Paul Young's voice makes you think of Mick Jagger; such as "Take Me To The Future," and "My Oh My." But Sad Cafe' do not sound like The Rolling Stones. Nor do they sound like Mike And The Mechanics, the band Paul later joined as lead singer.

"Every Day Hurts" may be a sad song but you won't feel that way after listening to the rest of these tunes. If you had to catagorize the sound of this band, it would fall somewhere inbetween Easy Listening and Hard Rock. I suppose it's Pop, but what the hell is that? Popular music? Popular with whom, the charts? Obviously they were popular in the United Kingdom, but so were The Sex Pistols. So the word "Pop" might be useless when descibing the sound of a band. Music is hard to put into words.