Pointing the Finger//Politicz [Import]

Kevin Coyne | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 31, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Cherry Red
• ASIN: B000007Y50
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #731,941 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. There She Goes

2. As I Recall

3. Children of the Deaf

4. One Little Moment

5. Let Love Reside

6. Sleeping - Waking

7. Pointing the Finger

8. You Can't Do That

9. Song of the Womb

10. Old Lady

11. Your Holiness

12. Liberation

13. Fun Flesh

14. Flashing Back

15. Tell the Truth

16. Banzai

17. Poisoning You

18. Magnolia Street

19. I've Got the Photographs

Customer Reviews

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3.0 out of 5 stars Obscure genius, January 10, 2003

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This review is from: Pointing the Finger//Politicz (Audio CD)

This CD ressue combines two of Coyne's very different albums from the early eighties.

Pointing The Finger (tracks 1 to 10) has the traditional Coyne rock sound with guitars, drums and keyboards and him sounding somewhat like an anguished early Van Morrison. Let Love Reside stands out with its gripping arrangement, as does the title track with its marching beat in which he expresses his ambivalent feelings about England. Song Of The Womb and Old Lady are very poignant songs too, but Pointing The Finger cannot be favorably compared to his great albums like Case History or Marjory Razorblade.

Politicz is his most experimental album. Songs like Your Holiness, Liberation and Fun Flesh are typical Coyne protest songs. Strangely, the drum machine takes over on Tell The Truth, Banzai, Poisoning You and Magnolia Street, giving us Coyne's social comment in a synth-pop setting, about suffocating relationships, empty pleasures and the smothered individual. Magnolia in fact reminds me a bit of Frank Zappa's disco send-up "Dancing Fool." It's back to guitar on the sad song Photographs with its beautiful melody and poetic lyric. An unusual musical detour for Coyne, Politicz is worthwhile and interesting.

For those who wish to investigate the best work of this obscure genius, I strongly recommend Marjory Razorblade, Dynamite Daze or the live album In Living Black & White.