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Medicine 4 My Pain

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I've had this album for well over 2 years....and i'll still playin it to death! Lynden David Hall's vocals are so damn soulful, sung over some cool mellow grooves. If you're into D'angelo or Maxwell or Erykah Badu, I highly recommend you add this cd to your collection!

Stunning. A stunning peice of magic.
Its currently 2003, and about to into 2004 and i'm reviewing this album which was released in 1997.

The voice, the music, the lyrics... just 100% top stuff.

Track 1
Do I Qualify
This sold me the album and it was just the first track. One of the album's corkers if not the best track. Just cool, and funky. The lyrics are great "I may be ugly as sin and he may look like a king"
Excellent. 10

Track 2
Sexy Cinderella
My David Hall's biggest hit. Should be familiar to the more educated music listeners. Its timeless and you won't get bored of this. The voice is once again just so soulful. The beat just goes with the heart. Superb. 10

Track 3
Crescent Moon
"Hold up baby, Hold Up Girl"... are the first words .. and it instantly grips you. The tune is again fantastic. The lyrics are beautiful and honest. Its another great track. 9

Track 4
There Goes My Sanity
How many times have a guy said or thought this. When a girl leaves you with no explination is the theme here. Its the first example of how Lynden sees women as mean and cruel beings, yet us men can't live without them.
"I'm in love and its killing me baby" 8

Track 5
One Hundred Heart Attacks
"I pity the man that loves you, you ain't gonna love him right back, only a fool would need you, like a hundred heart attacks"
That is powerful stuff. Its a track about a woman who you love so much but really is just messing you about. Its a fantastic song. 9

Track 6
Livin' The Lie
Once the tune starts up, I instantly fell in love with this song. Its a song about life and how every day is hard. But faith in god can stop you from livin the lie. Its just a great song. Lyden David Hall is producing such fantastic music. 9

Track 7
The Jimmy Lee Story
Different sounding track but another top top notch one. This song is a story ...which I think you can work out! But its once again about how loving a woman comes at a cost. 10

Track 8
Yellow In Blue
Another beautiful track. The first line is Lynden once again giving his take on relationships, and how shaky starts can strengthen hearts. Its such a cool song. 9

Track 9
I Wish I Knew
A tale of a girl doing us guys wrong. Lynden is wondering how they've lasted this long even though the girl is treating him so wrong and shes knows she is. More powerful stuff. 9

Track 10
Jennifer Smiles
Its a good track but i've been used to fantastic tracks on this album. Its a nice song but not as good as some of the others. 7

Track 11
The title track is a kind of acoustic number. Its such a brillient and emotive song. Its one of those you just stop doing anything and just listen to the words. Its a sad song but so soulful.

Track 12
Do Angels Cry
The best song on the album.
I've got many many many albums and have heard many many many songs in my lifetime... but this may be the most beautiful. The lyrics are just some of the best I have heard. Its simply an acoustic song but just out of this world. Lynden's voice is mesmerizing, and theres almost a sense of sadness about the song.
Its beautiful 10 +

Track 13
There Goes My Sanity [Full Crew Mix}
Not that much different to the original. Nothing particular special.

Track 14
Sexy Cinderella [CandJ Remix]
Cant beat the orginal... they shouldn't have tried!

Overall
One of my favourite albums of all time.
Soulful, beautiful and just damn right fantastic.

Lynden is a really talented guy, what has happened to him? after the 2nd album he just seemed to disappear, he was briefly in the film love actually, and hopefully now he will be coming back with a new album. As the UK needs him as there arent enough Uk artists like him.
if anyone knows whether he is releasing a new album or not let me know. ps sexy cinderella is still Lyndens best track, but hopefully there will be more to come.

With a slew of profound artists coming out of the UK, is it really a surprise to anyone that Mr. Hall is as nice as he is? C'mon now! UK soul has always been at the forefront of the music scene. (Please don't get me started!) Although it is safe to make comparisons to D'Angelo, Maxwell, or whoever is dubbed Crown Prince of Soul at the time, Hall shines on his own. The songwriting on this album is brilliant. Check the messages instilled with the music. Personally, I like track six "Livin' The Lie" cause it tackles age old concerns of a pernicious evil called racism. There is something here for everyone though. Whether you're in love, cold chillin' or just wanting to vibe to something original yet funky! Give this an ear--for real!

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In this day and age, there are not too many album where by you can let play, and whilst every track might not be a winner, the album itself is just SOOOO good.Thsi is such an album. I intially brought this Album on the strength of the first single,'Sexy Cinderella'. And to be honest I didn't like this CD on first hearing. But it's a grower. I would recommend that you give yourself a week or two to listen to this. It is worth the time and effort.Also thwe subject matter varies from a weird love triangle(The Jimmy Lee story,), social injustice(Livin the Lie). My favourites cuts are, the afore mentioned Sexy Cinderella, I wish I knew,and Yellow in Blue, which is a beautiful song. Enjoy!

UK soul star Lynden David Hall made a big impact with this, his debut LP. Drawing comparisons to D'Angelo (who had himself just emerged two years previous) and clearly influenced by the likes of Prince, Sly Stone and Curtis Mayfield it was clear Lynden was ready to challenge the pre-conceptions of British "R&B"...

Mainstream acclaim was close at hand due to the major success of singles "Sexy Cinderella" (Still Lynden's signature tune) and "Do I Qualify?". Both are catchy, chilled, mid-tempo anthems which compliment each other well as the opening pair of the album.

The other singles "Crescent Moon" and the title track are equally worthy, the former being melodic yet slightly hampered by an up-in-the-mix bongo drum throughout. "Medicine 4 The Pain" is a beautiful ode to his father in which the artist sings with open heart.

All being said there isn't a weak moment to be found on this retro-styled, organically instrumented effort and it's definitely worth checking out. I do feel however, that Lynden took it up a level with his "The Other Side" set three years later. In production, songcraft and artistry the improvement was marked. "Medicine 4 My Pain" proved a precursor of what was to come from a talent in full ascension though, there's no doubt about it...

Just to add to everybody elses comments and say that this album is absolutely brilliant. The one song that does it for me has to be track 4, 'There goes my sanity'. I don't know what it is about that song but it gets me everytime.

I have been listening to the CD for the last 6 months and still I can't take it out of my CD player. I want to know who Lynden (or his fans) is listening to right now.

Lynden David Hall (7 May 1974 - 14 February 2006) was a singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. Born in Wandsworth, South London, he won the 'best newcomer' accolade at the 1998 MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards.

In 1999, he was the first UK performer ever voted "Best Male Artist" by the readers of Britain's Blues & Soul magazine. His debut album, Medicine For My Pain, plus the singles Do I Qualify and Sexy Cinderella, had an instant appeal to soul fans in the UK and elsewhere, but it wasn't until his work got the remix treatment that he got his major breakthrough.

Hall appeared in the hit film Love Actually in 2003, where he sang at the wedding of the characters played by Keira Knightley and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Two years later, he released his third studio album In Between Jobs on the independent label Random Records.

In 2004, Hall was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma. He passed away on St. Valentine's Day, 2006, after having lost his battle with the disease at the age of 31.

I bought this CD while living in England in 1999. I found it the other day and have been playing it endlessly,, I just did a Google search on him because it sounds like him singing in Chico DeBarge's song "Oh No" ... Imagine my shock and grief when I learned he passed in 2006.

Great artist ... Gone to soon!