Strawberry Switchblade [Extra tracks, Import]

Strawberry Switchblade | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 28, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Extra tracks, Import
• Label: Wea International
• ASIN: B000005S3Z
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #486,320 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Since Yesterday

2. Deep Water

3. Another Day

4. Little River

5. James Orr Street

6. Let Her Go

7. Knows What Love Is?

8. Go Away

9. Secrets

10. Who Knows What Love Is?

11. Being Cold

12. Beautiful End

13. Poor Hearts

14. Ecstacy (Apple Of My Eye)

15. Jolene

16. Black Taxi

17. Trees And Flowers (Extended Mix)

18. Michael Who Walks By Night

19. Since Yesterday (Extended Mix)

20. I Can Feel

Editorial Reviews

1997 Japanese reissue of the female new wave duo's sole 1985album with nine hidden bonus tracks: 'Beautiful End', 'PoorHearts', 'Ecstasy (Apple Of My Eye)', 'Jolene', 'BlackTaxi', 'Trees And Flowers' (Extended Mix), 'Michael WhoWalks By Night', 'Since Yesterday' (Extended Mix) and 'I CanFeel'. 20 tracks total, also featuring the hits 'SinceYesterday' and 'Let Her Go'. A Korova/ WEA Internationalrelease.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Album from a unique band, June 27, 2003

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Keith Faulkner (London, Middlesex United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strawberry Switchblade (Audio CD)

Back in 1985 when this came out I played this album continually and now I have the CD nothing's changed!
Every track is a favourite for me - Rose McDowall's vocals always move me and Jill contributed just as much to the bands sound.
Of the extra tracks I especially like the extended mix of Who Knows What Love Is? and their cover of Jolene.
Play this album and I promise you will play it again. Strawberry Switchblade made one album - its beautiful and perfect and stands out from its contempories as much as the girls did from theirs.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I would give it 10 STARS if I could..., November 19, 2001

By 

Frederick Goldston "gehennan_scientist" (Co. Springs, Co. United States) - See all my reviews
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My only critism of this CD, is that it did not include the original version of 'Go away'. Then again, maybe that one should have been include on the 12" CD release. The recording quality is second to none. They used the original cover of the first released vynil, so none of the bonus tracks are on the back cover track listings. This is made up by the pull out bilingual sleeve and includes lyrics too! These songs are just as fresh today as they were in 1985. A testiment to the timelessness of the quality of Rose McDowall and Jill Bryson's superb musical skill and insights. Most would catagorize this "PopGothic", but it is more than just an inane label. It's ART and it sould be comtemplated and pondered upon as such. My favorite tracks? All of them and the album should be listened to as one set piece and judged as such.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Essential collection of wonderful pop, October 11, 2000

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Todd Pierce (Arden, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strawberry Switchblade (Audio CD)

I listened to a lot of "new wave" in the early 1980s but Strawberry Switchblade is the only group I still listen to now - their mix of wistful, sometimes melancholy pop still sounds fresh 15 years later. The sound is mostly keyboards/synths with drums, but also with nice touches from horns, strings, and woodwinds. This collection has their entire debut album plus various B-sides and later singles; it only seems to be missing the B-sides "By the Sea" and "Sunday Morning". And the liner notes have all the lyrics (in both English and Japanese)!!