Splinter [Import]

Sneaker Pimps | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 7, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Import
• ASIN: B00002DFO2
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #344,340 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Half Life

2. Low Five

3. Lightning Field

4. Curl

5. Destroying Angel

6. Empathy

7. Superbug

8. Flowers & Silence

9. Cute Sushi Lunches

10. Ten To Twenty

11. Splinter

12. Wife By Two Thousand

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'll give them not just a low five, but a high five as well!, July 10, 2000

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Ian Beverly (Tallahassee, FL, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Splinter (Audio CD)

Kelli's gone. So what? With this album, it's hard to believe she even was with them. Besides, Chris, Liam, and journalist not in the band Ian Pickering wrote all the songs (Kelli wrote 3 or 4 b-sides). Chris was going to sing on Becoming X in the first place! This album starts out with Half Life, one of my favorite songs on this CD. It's a cross between Goth and Trip-Hop, and Chris' voice is dark and mysterious. Then comes Low Five, the lead single, which prompted me to get this album. This song got to the top 40 in the UK (for once a good song goes to the Top 40). It's an song about corporate anthems like high five, peace sign, and smiley face that can't pick him up, so he's like, "give me a 'low five.'" A cool, rockish song. Lightning Field has a cool drum beat (listen to the first interlude), a girl singing gospel-like backup vocals, and Chris pleading for someone to "strike me down". Curl is a depressed (most of the songs are), rockish type of song, that's good as well. Destroying Angel is another one of my faves, it's slower and mostly acoustic guitar, but you have to read the lyrics. It's an awesome song. Empathy is acoustics, samples from Kronos Quartet, and Chris singing. This song is very fragile and emotional. Beautiful. Superbug is the hardest rocking song on the CD, and one of my favorites (it's my anthem at this point in time). Very cool song. Then it slows down and gets more depressing with Flowers And Silence. It could make a few people cry. Cute Sushi Lunches is strange, but really cool and mysterious. The rhythm is tricky and hard to follow, and it'll throw you off. Ten to Twenty, the latest single, is another of my favorites, a very Becoming X like song, but with more guitars. Splinter is a cool song, mostly acoustic w/ drums, a bit strange in the chorus. Wife by Two Thousand is my favorite song on the CD, and my favorite song of all-time! Yeah, it doesn't have the darkness of Half Life, or the rockishness of Superbug, but read the lyrics. That's what makes this song special. It's slower, but beautiful. The girl on backup vocals has pretty voice, the song is kind of acoustic, and the chorus is beautiful. The beginning is interesting, I don't care if it's backwards, the girl on backups has a great voice! The coda is a strange, yet nice way to end the CD, with the people walking, and someone whistling the chorus. All in all, a splendid album, my favorite of all time in fact. Standout tracks: Half Life, Destroying Angel, Wife by Two Thousand.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best CD I Own, October 25, 2000

By 

Matthew Cazenave (Chalmette, La USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Splinter (Audio CD)

At first i thought that the band made a big mistake by getting rid of their female vocalist. I gave it a listen, and was not very impressed. On a whim i bought the album which is now by far the best album that i own. Every song on the album is good, no great. However, if i had to pick my favorites they would have to be Half-Life, Low Five, and Destroying Angel.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great songs... what happened to the vocals?, September 9, 2002

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J. C. Carmichael (Washington, D.C. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Splinter (Audio CD)

I don't know what to think. I am a big fan of 'Becoming X'. 'Splinter' is full of really good songs, but I really think the guy sounds like a victimized cry baby. Yes I know he wrote all the lyrics for "Becoming X", and I know that he is the musical genious behind the Sneaker Pimps, but his voice just doesn't do it for me. Can't they just get the girl back? I will probably listen to this CD from time to time because I'm sure I will one day learn to like it. Everybody else does.... right?