Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Jimmy Somerville Title: Manage the Damage Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Instinct Records Original Release Date: 1/11/2000 Release Date: 1/11/2000 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock Style: Dance Pop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 720841050025, 766485422125 |
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 | Jimmy Somerville Manage the Damage Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Working with cowriter and coproducer Sally Herbert, Somerville has crafted a fine dance-pop album. There aren't any big surprises lurking within these 11 tracks, just a batch of tasteful arrangements and nuanced production... more » |
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Amazon.com Working with cowriter and coproducer Sally Herbert, Somerville has crafted a fine dance-pop album. There aren't any big surprises lurking within these 11 tracks, just a batch of tasteful arrangements and nuanced production accompanying Somerville's unfaltering falsetto. "Something to Live For" opens with a pop-ballad intro, but soon shifts gears into an uptempo, affirmative dance track tinged with melancholy. The song's attitude and vibe recall '70s disco classics like Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." Manage the Damage's high point is the masterful pop gem "This Must Be Love," in which Somerville's relaxed singing is propelled by a trip-hop undertow and then a swooning bridge blossoms into a lovely chorus that's both dreamy and irresistibly catchy. The disc's last tune, "Rolling," features floating strings buoyed by a hypnotic bass line. The accompaniment nicely supports Somerville's vocals on this well-chosen closer. --Fred Cisterna Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsOne of the most unique voices in pop music Eric Wahl | Bozeman, MT, USA | 04/28/2000 (4 out of 5 stars) "I have to say I knew this album was out awhile before I bought it . . . cautiously. I really despised Sommerville's ultra-dull VH-1 on Nembutol last disc, but there's just no other voice like his, and I read good reviews of Manage the Damage, so I got it. Happily, it's made me entirely forget his last dud. This album is controlled and well-thought-out musically. Only one song is a bit overly-preachy (about physical abuse), but that's the only irritation (a lyrical one; the song sounds nice). The opening track reminds me of a catchier version of the song he recorded for the film Orlando--vaguely operatic/house/orientalist--very cool, and my favorite track on the disc. But what I like just as much as Sommerville's voice is that this album has the sound of something that won't grow immediately stale, and it's great finding a CD I can listen to all the way through without skipping tracks. Glad I bought it." Manages the Damage rather remarkably boy_with_the_thorn_in_his_side | Atlanta, GA United States | 03/04/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "Jimmy Somerville is an artist who incorporates the disco/70's style of music into the dance and EBM genre (like the lounge singer meets a modern Donna Summer). His voice flows with today's dance and electronica. A welcome soloist in the tradition of The Pet Shop Boys, but much more layered and enriched with his falsetto vocal ranges. Only the British could produce an operatic quality male singer as the "pushing 40"- but still with vision- Jimmy Somerville. A tenor with eurodisco in his blood, and even though eurodisco is getting a bad rap these days, Jimmy proves with all of these tracks that he's got "Something To Live For"... for "This Must Be Love". A beautiful man with unmatched vocals and talent." Brings out the Mary in me Big Tim | NYC, NY USA | 09/28/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "What can I say, he was the soundtrack of my youth and it's great having a new album of material. The tracks range from decent to great which is a better average then the recent Pet Shop Boys album or anything released by Boy George in the last decade. But Jimmy, hook up with better mixers! Get to New York and work with new blood! Stop being so English, would ya?!"
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