Suburban Voodoo [Import, Original recording remastered]

Paul Carrack | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Acadia Records
• ASIN: B000FGFU18
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #374,652 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lesson in Love

2. Always Better with You

3. I Need You

4. I'm in Love

5. Don't Give My Heart a Break

6. A Little Unkind

7. Out of Touch

8. What a Way to Go

9. So Right, So Wrong

10. From Now On

11. Call Me Tonight

12. I Found Love

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars outstanding, March 10, 2007

By 

John R. Chaney (Carmel, Indiana) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suburban Voodoo (Audio CD)

If you liked One Good Reason, or any of the other stuff you've heard PC do, then you will probably like this album. There are no samples here, which makes it a leap of faith for the listener. Well, I took that plunge, and it was a soft landing. The best way I can describe SV is that it is kind of like Reason in that the brilliance of PC's vocals are 100% here, but SV is a lot more blusier and guitar oriented than Reason. Reason was more into the keyboards and electronic sound. SV actually sounds like a rock band is playing instrurments, and maybe even live. Also SV is a lot more roots-ier, but at the same time, just as hook-laden and catchy as Reason. Any fan of blue-eyed soul should find this album a must. I'm shocked that it never got any airplay, at least in the US. I could go into more detail about the songs, but since you can't get the samples, there's no point. By the way, this album isn't on iTunes, so don't bother looking there. Maybe you will find it somewhere else on the net, but you can't beat the price here. Good luck. Highly recommended.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars accessible pop, February 19, 2004

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Dan Hewitt (Attica, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suburban Voodoo (Audio CD)

Carrack, a journeyman of the rock and roll sorts, finds a temporary niche with producer Nick Lowe at the helm.
Suburban Voodoo is a forgettable album in the sense no one needs to own it, but for those who want a pure piece of 80's pop without replaying the same overheard radio tunes, or hits if you will, with a very recognizable voice coming through the speakers, this album is for you.
Fun, pop, British and hit-ready, Carrack leads his band through tunes that are jumpy, catchy, lyrically intact, and well, just plain fun.
Like Lowe? Rockpile? Brinsley Schwartz? Carrack's Suburban Voodoo will cast its spell on you.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb Sheffield Soul, September 21, 2007

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thegnuewe (Boynton Beach, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Suburban Voodoo (Audio CD)

Carrack is one of the last of the British Blue Eyed Soul stirrers. With the passing of Paul Young(y) and Robert Palmer there are very few left (Paul Rodgers - although rock - shares exactly the same influences as Carrack) This album is a melding of blues, motown, R&B, power pop/new wave and fifties rock mixed into a gumbo so good you would be damned if you didn't listen to it. Nick Lowe's production is superb and the hooks and melodies here are irresistable. There are no overbearing synths and the production is not glossy like the latter 80's stuff. Every song here shines brilliance but some of the stand out tracks are "I need you" and "A little unkind" Carrack is supremely underrated and this album should have catapulted his career post-Squeeze. If he comes to your town, don't miss him!