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Ute Lemper - Punishing Kiss
by Ute Lemper
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4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Original Release Date: April 4, 2000
  • Format: MP3, 256 kbps — plays on iPod® and all MP3 players

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Song Title Time Price
listen  1. Little Water Song 3:59$0.99Buy Track
listen  2. The Case Continues 3:52$0.99Buy Track
listen  3. Passionate Fight (from the song cycle "Correspondence") 4:15$0.99Buy Track
listen  4. Die Dreigroschenoper - Tango Ballad 4:57$0.99Buy Track
listen  5. Couldn't You Keep That To Yourself 2:50$0.99Buy Track
listen  6. Streets of Berlin 4:02$0.99Buy Track
listen  7. The Part You Throw Away 4:42$0.99Buy Track
listen  8. Split 3:42$0.99Buy Track
listen  9. Punishing Kiss 4:35$0.99Buy Track
listen10. Purple Avenue 4:23$0.99Buy Track
listen11. You Were Meant For Me 5:12$0.99Buy Track
listen12. Scope J.10:56Album Only

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Product Details

  • Performers: Ute Lemper
  • Original Release Date: April 4, 2000
  • Release Date: April 4, 2000
  • Label: Decca
  • Copyright: (C) 2000 Decca Music Group Limited
  • Genres: Broadway & Vocalists/General, Pop/General, Jazz/General, Classical, International/General, Rock/General, Soundtracks/General, Classical/General
  • ASIN: B000V8CCK2
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,890 in MP3 Albums (See Bestsellers in MP3 Albums)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Divine Punishment, April 21, 2000
By A. Hickman (Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Punishing Kiss (Audio CD)
What do you say about an album whose tenderest moments are provided by Tom Waits? "Punishing Kiss" is such an album, and Ute Lemper's best yet. The songs were all written for and/or carefully tailored to her eerily detached vocals by such artists as Elvis Costello (in the title song and two others), Philip Glass, Neil Hannon, Nick Cave (in a wistful little murder ballad called "Little Water Song"), Scott Walker (at his most allusive and morose in "Scope J"), and the aforementioned Tom Waits. Lemper even reprises "The Tango Ballad" from "The Threepenny Opera," in a scathingly arch duet with Neil (The Divine Comedy) Hannon, that provides historical context for this uncompromisingly harsh look at contemporary sexual mores. It's hardly the kind of album aimed at distracting pre-teens from the current crop of boy-toy groups and pneumatic nymphets, yet it might yield a hit or two, if radio jocks can recover from their shock long enough to play one of the three hauntingly recherche collaborations with Hannon: "The Case Continues," "Split," or "You Were Meant for Me." If you've never before heard Ute Lemper, this is the album to start with. But you might want to make a trip to the barber and get your pigtails cut first.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Ms. Lemper understands the drama in these songs., April 7, 2000
By John A. Gregorio (Castalian Springs, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Punishing Kiss (Audio CD)
When Holly Cole did an cd of Tom Waits songs, the songs were smooth and beautifully sung. But, the life seemed to be drained from them. This is not the case in this work by Ms. Lemper. These songs demand to be sung not like a "lounge song" but in the style of musical theater. For these songs are stories that must be acted out. A great performance from a superb artist.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pop goes The Weimar, April 19, 2000
By david heimark (los angeles) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Punishing Kiss (Audio CD)
Thank god this is a cd and not vinyl for I surely would have worn out an lp by now. Late on the first night i obtained the new cd, I gave it a cursory pop into the cd player. I skimmed over the selections, replayed a couple that caught my attention and went to bed glad to have this new release.

Now, less than two weeks since that night, I've played the cd dozens of times and can say I am nowhere near being tired of listening to this collection of music.

Intriguing, Frightening, Melancholic, Lazy, Gorgeous, Beautiful, Mysterious, Witty, Light, Gay, Dramatic, Tormented, Demented, Heady, Intelligent, Ironic, Obvious. The terms and superlatives are too vast to convey the wide range of feeling this cd can and does elicit from this listener.

To use an overwrought expression, I feel this yet another Ute Lemper tour de force.

Do not look for descriptions of the "kind" of songs on this release from me. As Louis Armstrong said: "There's two kinds of music, good music and bad music".

"Punishing Kiss" is good music of the highest caliber.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Pop goes the Ute
Perfectly reasonable cd, but for those of us who just love her German cabaret, this may disappoint.
Published 19 months ago by Marcus Aurelius

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Published on July 26, 2000 by darkcoffee

5.0 out of 5 stars Full of Unexpected Drama!!
I wonder why this kind of music will not be accepted in my country, Japan. I feel as if Ute Lemper and Neil Hannon stand in front of me and sing all these dramatic numbers... Read more
Published on July 14, 2000 by amazonavi

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth EVERY penny!
Wow... "Little Water Song" is worth the price of this album! I bought PUNISHING KISS only because it has "Streets of Berlin" on it (you should hear Mick... Read more
Published on July 7, 2000 by jonofoz

5.0 out of 5 stars Love is a punishment
That's what Marguerite Yourcenar said: We are punished for not being able to remain alone. This wonderful album by Ute Lemper seems to be supported by this thought. Read more
Published on June 21, 2000 by Ignacio Rodriguez

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