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Lydia Lunch | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 13, 1999)
• Original Release Date: July 13, 1999
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Pilot
• ASIN: B00000IN48
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #411,684 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Death Valley '69

2. Endless Fall

3. Why Don't We Do It in the Road?

4. Some Velvet Morning

5. Four Cornered Room [#]

6. Suicide Ocean

7. No Excuse

8. A Short History of Decay, Pts. 1 & 2

9. Escape

10. A Quiet Night of Murder in Greenwich, Connecticut

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Twisted

2. Past Glas

3. Done Dun

4. Lock Your Door

5. Diddy Wah Diddy

6. Run Through the Jungle

7. Orphans

8. Son of Stink

9. Still Burning

10. Tornado Warnings

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two Discs of brilliance, September 1, 2000

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Daniel Dorfsman "ASinisterWaltz" (Hollywood, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Widowspeak (Audio CD)

This album is perfect. The music complements Lunch's dark anger perfectly without drowning in pretention. Filled to the brim with variety but arranged in a way where you hardly notice! It amazes me that Suicide Ocean isn't more of a classic. Endless fall is a solid and passionate song. Some of the tracks highlight Lunch's Poetry, others are all about the music. What pleases me most is that this doens't fall into the trap of many spoken word artists gone song. Some of those efforts come out simply as attempts to make bad poetry more interesting. But Lydia Lunch puts in the effort and hits both ends. There is every emotion on this disc, the most prominant being disturbing. This is not happy go lucky, this is never funny. But unlike many night crawlers, Lydia is all human, never a novelty or cartoon. Never pretentious or exhausting. This is a writer who knows what she's doing and evidently her collaborators do to. This album as everything one could want, it's a great retrospective of this historic writer. Buy it and you won't have to buy another CD for months and months!

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal, November 16, 2009

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AmberColouredAuras "AmberColouredAuras" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Widowspeak (Audio CD)

Haunting melodies and impassioned poetry. A phenomenal work of art. Suicide Oceans (my personal favorite and the reason I bought this album to begin with) is an explosion of the depressive state, bringing to bleeding clarity an engulfing indifference, and the sense of true freedom, sweet release, and carefree abandon that can be experienced within it. At times tragic, at times wistful, this song explores the multifaceted dynamics of that beautiful and fearful and embracing thing that is depression. And if this track weren't enough, imagine my great surprise and joy at discovering that many of the other tracks on this album are just as well developed and intriguing as this one! Wonder of wonders! This is truly an unsurpassed collection in the realm of Lydia Lunch!

And it's not all morose, fantastical musings spilling off of the bloodgutters of deaths miraculous sword, as is Suicide Oceans. Rather, this album runs the gamut of human emotion and experience, leaving a little something for everyone! You will not be disappointed with this album, it is worth every penny paid.