Tenement Symphony [Import]

Marc Almond | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 12, 2002)
• Original Release Date: 2010
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Warner Spec. Mkt. UK
• ASIN: B000026HBO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,303 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Meet Me In My Dream

2. Beautiful Brutal Thing

3. I've Never Seen Your Face

4. Vaudeville And Burlesque

5. Champagne

6. Prelude

7. Jacky

8. What Is Love?

9. Trios Chansons De Bilitis - Extract

10. Days Of Pearly Spencer

11. My Hand Over My Heart

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pinnacle of rock opera of the 1990's, September 5, 2004

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Gary Selikow (Great Kush) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tenement Symphony (Audio CD)

Marc Almond is one of the great stars of rock opera. He presents a combination of the Pet Shop Boys and Tears for Fears with the Phantom of the Opera, with some fantastic, poetic lyrics cleverly taken from the that wonderful classic Jackie.
Other favorites of mine include the poetry of The Days of Pearly Spencer, the strong Beautiful Brutal Thing and What Is Love
Tenement Symphony , with the Tenement theme presented in The Days of Pearly Spencer presents an interesting idea.
Queen drummer Roger Taylor sung Tenement Funster in the 1974 Queen album Sheer Heart Attack, presenting the Tenement theme in rock, which Marc Almond took up.
Tenement Symphony was the pinnacle of rock opera of the 1990's, right up their with Webber and Rice, and with Queen of the 1970's.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Songs of love and many more, August 14, 2004

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Carlos Raul Molina (Durham, North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tenement Symphony (Audio CD)

Not enough words to praise this masterpiece. As someone has said here, 2 brilliant Ep's. Sometimes you would like the first, plenty of songs about love in a very "Almondesque" way, i.e. something illusory, the greatest feeling that can take you to the highest hights or the lowest low (listen to "Beautiful Brutal Thing" or "Champagne"). The second part ("Tenement Symphony") merges old Almond's cliches: flamenco music, Deutsche Gramophon (one Debussy's "Songs of Billitis", from poems of Pierre Louys), non-stop disco dancing programming (listen to "Jacky", originally "Jacques" by Jacques Brel). But the best comes at the end: "My hand Over my Head". If you've love sombody desperately, this is your song of worship. Thanks Marc for beautiful songs! (Recommended lecture: The Songs of Billits by Pierre Louys, lesbian poems from a fictional ancient harlot).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 2 great EP's on one disc?, January 2, 2004

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"apathyinmotion" (St. George, UT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tenement Symphony (Audio CD)

Tenement Symphony is one of Almonds top 3 solo albums, but it is also a great soft cell album really, as a few of the songs on the CD were penned with Soft Cell Partner Dave Ball and produced by Dave's side project "The Grid".
The CD though feels like to ep's on one disc,
Tracks 1-5 being one disc
and 6-11 the other. Very beautifully produced by Trevor Horn of Buggles/art of noise fame.
Highlights: Meet Me In My Dreams, Champagne, Jacky, the days of pearly Spencer, and the fantastic Hand Over My Heart. This album has a pet shop boys feel to it large string parts over rhythm machines. Highly Recommended