Strawberry Switchblade [Import]

Strawberry Switchblade, David Motion | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 15, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Wea Japan
• ASIN: B000IJ7J2A
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #317,637 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Japanese pressing of the sole album from this female Pop/Goth duo, originally released in 1985, featuring nine bonus tracks: 'Beautiful End', 'Poor Hearts', 'Ecstasy (Apple Of My Eye)', 'Jolene', 'Black Taxi', 'Trees & Flowers' (Extended Mix), 'Michael Who Walks By Night', 'Since Yesterday' (Extended Mix) and 'I Can Feel'. Although the duo's origins were in Goth and darker musical textures, their album features layers of lush and commercial Pop production that appealed to fans of The Cure, Depeche Mode and other like-minded bands who weren't afraid to mix dark and light musical genres. WEA.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Happily depressing and sublimely devine......, January 10, 2008

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Nathan Christian (Pitcairn, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strawberry Switchblade (Audio CD)

If Switchblade Symphony was a distored mirror, Strawberry Switchblade would be the twisted reflection. Rose and Jill were a years ahead of SwitchBlade Symphony, but they shared the same musical ideas in an odd, different, and twisted way. While Symphony's music was dark and harrowing in a sinister way, Strawberry's was bright and beautiful with dark undertowings.

Both groups were sadly short lived. Both groups had 2 females as the core group.

The album starts out with "Yesterday" an bright, sunny song about...suicide!
The it's followed by "Deep Water" about the overwhelming feelings in a relationship...

All the songs have their own energy...but the lyrics are almost always gloomy, and suffering from loneliness, isolation, and despair. It's quite amusing how a peron wouldn't really realize just how sad this cd is without really listening to the words.

This import cd has the main album, plus tons or unreleased songs and b-sides...20 songs total!

Not all the songs work on this cd, but the base album is a devine masterpiece of hapilly gloomy dance pop from the 80's...