Sex Age & Death [Extra tracks]

Bob Geldof | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 24, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks
• Label: Koch Records
• ASIN: B000066RNI
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,369 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. . One For Me

2. $6,000,000 Loser

3. Pale White Girls

4. The New Routine

5. Mudslide

6. Mind in Pocket

7. My Birthday Suit

8. Scream in Vain

9. Inside Your Head

10. 10:15

11. Cool Blue & Easy - (bonus track)

12. Voodoo Child - (bonus track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Devastating. A powerful work of art., January 20, 2002

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RS Wayment "rswayment" (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sex Age & Death (Audio CD)

I can't stop listening to this album! Since the second Boomtown Rats album, there have been hints that Geldof was capable of making records this powerful and honest--but who would have guessed that he would actually do it! It contains so much rage, beauty, fragility, and love that it is hard for me to write about it without gushing. It is unlike anything Geldof has done before. In fact, the only record I can really compare it to is John Lennon's "Plastic Ono Band." "Sex, Age, & Death" has the same fearlessness to it, the same emotional nakedness. In fact, there is an achingly beautiful song on the album called "My Birthday Suit" (which might have been a better title for whole album).

And, like Lennon, Geldof names names. He casts aside the embarrassment of being human and goes for it. There's no worry of what we might think of him. He gives us the pure, crack-cocaine emotion. And if that emotion is bitterness, so be it. If, on another song, that emotion is grateful, worshipful love, so be it. And if, on another, it is an inability to understand why someone would take his own life when he had a beautiful little baby daughter who needed him in this world, well that comes out too. Geldof asks "What the **** is going on inside your head?!" But all one has to do is listen to the CD to know what the **** is going on in Geldof's.

All of the songs sound organic--like they were pieced together out of his consciousness--rather than trying to sound like any music which was already out there. A good example of this is the song $6,000,000 Looser. It doesn't make any logical sense at all. But it makes emotional sense. And it is almost imposible to get it out of your head for days after you hear it.

"Sex, Age, & Death" is not always an easy album to listen to, but it rewards close and repeated listenings. It sticks to your ribs. With so much lightweight crapola out there, it is nourishing to hear an album with these kinds of emotional heights and depths. Whether this album sells millions or not, I hope Geldof himself realizes what he has achieved here and carries on making music from his heart. For me, he has proven that, whatever other accomplishments can be credited to his name, this is truly what he does best. This is what he was born to do.

And, on a more personal note, I feel that this album actually helped me in my own life. It shows man incapacitated with sorrow and bitterness clawing his way back to happiness. You're right there with him. And it feels good. By the time you hear the very personal, very beautiful song 10:15 at the end of the album, you can't help but be moved. Someone else knows how it feels!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars incredibly good record, May 9, 2002

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Ein zufaelliger Leser (Prag) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sex Age & Death (Audio CD)

I liked some of the old boomtown rats stuff. Never really thought much about Geldof's solo stuff. This record, however, is incredibly good. Powerful. Emotional. The guy is singing his guts out. I have listened to this cd at least 30 - 40 times since I bought it a couple of weeks ago. Even if you don't understand the lyrics completely, this record won't leave you untouched. Enough said. Get it or miss out.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece!, November 17, 2001

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Doc Petersen (Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sex Age & Death (Audio CD)

The new Bob Geldof Album "Sex, Age & Death" is a masterpiece. It impresses with innovative music and profound lyrics. "One For Me" and "Inside Your Head" sounds like the songs from the previous Bob Geldof albums with the "Vegetarians of Love" and "The Happy Clubsters". But most of the songs of the new album appear in a new, progressive style. "Mudslide" and "Mind In Pocket" invoke the young Peter Gabriel. "Scream In Vain" is reminiscent of the "Happy Mondays" and "10.15" cite Leonard Cohen. "Pale White Girls" and "A New Routine" are strongly suggestive of David Bowie in his "Sound and Vision"-phase, when he recorded "Hereos" and "Low" in Berlin. "Sex, Age & Death" is a milestone for the pop music in the 21th century.