Tindersticks

Tindersticks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 17, 1995)
• Original Release Date: April 25, 1994
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bar/None Records
• ASIN: B0000048DV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,993 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nectar

2. Tyed

3. Sweet, Sweet Man Pt. 1

4. Whiskey and Water

5. Blood

6. City Sickness

7. Patchwork

8. Marbles

9. The Walt Blues

10. Milky Teeth

11. Pt. Two

12. Jism

13. Piano Song

14. Tie-Dye

15. Raindrops

16. Pt. Three

17. Her

18. Tea Stain

19. Drunk Tank

20. Paco de Renaldo's Dream

See all 21 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The deeper I get, the further I fall..., March 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Tindersticks (Audio CD)

The Tindersticks' first album is an eccentric, mournful, off-kilter, but marvellously original masterpiece. Stuart Staples' Vic Reeves impression may not be to everybody's tastes, but the chances are that if you don't hate it on first listen, you will grow to love that strange, melancholy baritone that imparts so much feeling into the Tindersticks' brilliant music.

The album gets off to a stuttering start, but when the first abortive bars of Blood kick in around track five, it begins to blossom into a beautifully wistful, brooding and slightly twisted work of art. As Staples croons "There's an ugly crowd inside me that specialise in violation", you begin to wonder just what it is he is singing about. City Sickness is one of the stand out tracks on an oustanding album, another slightly disturbing, but infectiously brilliant window into Stuart Staples' world. Patchwork is another gorgeous song, the heart of its melancholy beating in the line "I tried love, it never looked that hard", while Marbles is sheer brilliance, the band weaving a marvellously weird tapestry of sound, while Staples mutters about love being "a series of complicated dance steps, once learned, never forgotten". Later on, Jism sounds like The Gipsy Kings on acid, a dark, twisted tale of jealousy and revenge, the denouement coming when Staples asks "Is there anyone else? I'll understand - and kill them". The album's high point, however, comes with Raindrops, an unutterably bleak, hauntingly beautiful ode to dying love. As the violins swoon and the piano murmurs, and Staples whispers "We sit and watch the divide widen, we sit and listen to our hearts crumble" if you don't feel a lump in your throat, you are not human.

As the final bars of The Not Knowing fade into the ether, you seem to awaken from a sad, beautiful dream, with the feeling that you've lost a part of yourself, and will never be able to find it again. Embrace it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Where it all begins, September 29, 2003

By 

N. Clark "arnuphis" (Sacramento, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tindersticks (Audio CD)

Tindersticks (I) is a landmark debut. I fell in love with this album upon first listening. It's a 70 minute journey into late night drunken stories of loss, love and revenge.

On first play, the vocals just sound like a mumbling and morose man drawing his last breath, but then you walk away and cannot stop thinking about that voice. Stuart Staples is probably one of the finest male vocalists since Scott Walker.

And it's to Mr Walker's canon that the Tindersticks belong. Their songs are epics. Dense and complicated. Full of treasures to be unearthed with each listen. You can liken them to Nick Cave as well, although I feel they are vastly superior.

One of the greatest debuts ever. Buy it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Probably my favorite chamber pop debut album of all, May 18, 2003

By 

doug (Rocky River, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tindersticks (Audio CD)

If you like any bands like Cousteau or mid 80's Tom Waits or anything at all like that you should own this record. Tindersticks simply do this music better than mostly anyone. The only people that may have ever topped them in this kind of sound would be their influences like Scott Walker and such, but they are simply the best at it by today's standards. As stated in a previous review, this album isn't for all times, but for late night listening it just doesn't get any better. They are probably the most important non-Britpop non-electronic british band of the 90's to be honest. Their body of work will probably hold up forever due to the great songwriting and this album simply has so much of that. The songs Patchwork and Blood are just two of the many amazing highlights on this record that are really worth hearing. Truly an essential listen.