Sophisticated Boom Boom

Dead Or Alive

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Original Release Date: 1984
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000025Z7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #250,079 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
Japanese only paper sleeve pressing features all new 2009 remastering. Sony. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sexy Sex, (...), November 11, 2001

By	"octavadies" (Valley Stream, NY United States) - See all my reviews

For Dead or Alive's first album, Zeus B. Held (the producer) helped the band create a VERY primal disco-funk fusion. Pete Burns' voice was at its rawest and sexiest here, sometimes roaring, sometimes purring some uproariously sick nympho/numbskull lyrics -- with, mind you, tongue planted firmly in cheek (although this album will certainly make you wonder, erm, *whose* cheek(s)!).

From a panting cover of KC's That's the Way to a swoony self-love ode (Far Too Hard), Sophisticated Boom Boom proves Dead or Alive never set out to make their music (overly) ponderous. The urge for sex (ie: You Make Me Wanna) and its sublimation on dance floors (ie: Wish You Were Here) are what drive this album, and in that very basic context, this is arguably DOA's finest hour.

The one exception to all the simplicity is the hypnotic tug of Misty Circles, a track DOA wrote and played live well before being signed to a major label (most folks aren't aware of Pete Burns' gothic indy phase). If you can decipher the lyrics, you'll get an idea of what Pete Burns was up to before he decided he wanted to sound like a Divine-doing-Donna-Summer record.

Having written all that, this is an all-or-nothing album: you'll either love it to pieces or want to cleave in two it with an axe!! Either way, you cannot ignore it once that bass starts slappin' and those horns start blarin'. Them there echo-chamber drums will give you one last chance before The Voice just kicks it out to cement your dooooom!!!

You stand duly warned!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YOU MAKE ME WANNA SIT ON IT - OOH, OOH!, December 29, 2005

By	G. Mitchell "greggmitch" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Any album featuring a song with the chorus that bellows "You make me wanna sit on it, sit on it, ooh, ooh!" is a keeper. There is only one Pete Burns, and there is only one SOPHISTICATED BOOM BOOM - and boom boom it is, mining rough, raw Euro-disco trash like Bobby O. meets Divine meets Moroder and Cerrone in a blender with Burns' roaring Gothic howl over the top - and don't get me started on the bargain basement videos for THAT'S THE WAY and I'D DO ANYTHING, etc. - genius on a budget! You really owe it to yourself to drop bank on SBB - it was DOA's cult breakthrough and sowed the seeds for future hits to come...but here is where DOA was at its most primal, sexy, and truly dangerous.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Breakthrough album, November 8, 2005

By	C. J. Clontz "Cult film fan" (Orlando, Florida United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Sophisticated Boom Boom (Audio CD)

Sophisticated Boom Boom was an absolute hit with the dance crowds especially in the hey day of New wave, punk and underground dance clubs of the 80s...Petes booming vocals and the brass horns and dance beats are like nothing else out there and probably wont ever be copied as he is an original and so is his music...this album is by far one of the best and darkest sounding of his career...the biggest hit being KC and Sunshine bands remake "Thats The Way I like it" but by no means the best song on the album!! Others such as "Id Do anything" "Misty Circles" and "You Make Me Wanna" and "Sit on It" are all extraodinary and unforgetfull...this is a must have that will never be outdated and never be matched even by Pete himself. The follow up CD to this titled "Youthquake" spawining his number one hit "You spin me round" as well as "In Too Deep" "Lover Come Back" "Big Daddy of the Rhythm" and "Cake and Eat it" was a move in a slightly lighter sound and more ready for the dance floor but the thing about both of these is that they are both the type of ablums that an artist releases that every single song is fantastic!! Its hard to release an album and have every song on the entire album be this good...Dead or Alive accomplished this with both of these and even the one after ...Mad Bad and Dangerous to know...get them all now!