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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
How would today's young audience find this? And the audience before that? Do you get what Toyah is about? Were you a fan? What do you think now? Enough of the questions. Give this a listen, in todays multi re-packaged, re-sampled music market. This was and is original, groundbreaking, insipring. She did her 'own thing' in her 'own way' and love it or hate it, you couldn't ignore it. As all the other reviews say ,this album was Toyah at her best, if you ignore the over commercial 'I wanna be free' and lesser so 'It's a mystery', which fans are fond of (mostly) as it gave Toyah success. Even so, listen to the poetry and melody of 'Jungles of Jupiter' and rhythms of 'Masai boy'. How about 'We are' -well what are we about today? Toyah was and is all about being your own person, your own identity, individual expression of your look,your thoughts, your fashion, your way! It was and is fun! Reach for the CD, touch the play and dye your hair! It's fun!!!!!
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Toyah's music sways between being great pop songs with rich melodies and art experiments tinged with adolescent fantasies of rebellion. You get it all here and Anthem is mostly a delight. There's hot and cold running pop songs (the dynamic "Demolition Men" and "We Are"), atmospheric, mellow numbers ("Jungles of Jupiter" and "I Am"), the big chart hits ("I Want To Be Free" and "It's A Mystery") and the annoyingly bizarre ("Elocution Lesson").
Toyah sings of aliens, the supernatural, androids, Orwellian societies, suburban boredom and everything in between all resolutely encased in her rich, esoteric imagery. I loved it as a rebellious 15 year old and now as a more settled 34 year old I'm loving it only slightly less. Toyah held the spirit of post-punk 1980's in her florid word play, fantastic universes, sometimes nihilistic prophecies and daring individualism.
On this CD you get some great extra tracks including For You (previously only available on a flexi-disc with Flexipop magazine) and Alien which she originally recorded as 9 To 5 and credited to The Maneaters in Derek Jarman's film 'Jubilee'. As it is the new millenium you also get a video of the Godley & Crème clip to I Want To Be Free to play on your computer. Anthem represents a time and mood, and as such, succeeds completely.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Having listened to this album consistently since its release I do not see it as a trip down memory lane as some appear to, but much more as a classic album.
The songs themselves owe little to punk sensibilities other than the hit single "I want to be free" or the deliberately shocking "Elocution lesson". Most would be better described as some sort of new wave/prog rock fusion almost turning it into a concept album with a Sci-Fi/Fantasy theme.
With this version you get seven extra tracks at the end. These only serve to weaken the disk as a whole and as such I have pretty much ignored them in this review.
I realise I will be in a minority of one but Toyah's suprisingly strong vocals and multiple personas (often in the same song) are utterly captivating. Add to this a fantastic backing band and you not only have Toyah's best album by a country mile but also one of my favourite female artist albums of all time.
PS the others at the moment (they change) are Joni Mitchell's Blue, Carole King's Tapestry, Alanis Morrisette's Jagged little pill and Kate Bush's Hounds of love (which is probably the closest in content and style to Anthem)
The songs themselves owe little to punk sensibilities other than the hit single "I want to be free" or the deliberately shocking "Elocution lesson". Most would be better described as some sort of new wave/prog rock fusion almost turning it into a concept album with a Sci-Fi/Fantasy theme.
With this version you get seven extra tracks at the end. These only serve to weaken the disk as a whole and as such I have pretty much ignored them in this review.
I realise I will be in a minority of one but Toyah's suprisingly strong vocals and multiple personas (often in the same song) are utterly captivating. Add to this a fantastic backing band and you not only have Toyah's best album by a country mile but also one of my favourite female artist albums of all time.
PS the others at the moment (they change) are Joni Mitchell's Blue, Carole King's Tapestry, Alanis Morrisette's Jagged little pill and Kate Bush's Hounds of love (which is probably the closest in content and style to Anthem)
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Toyahs' Most Commercial Album
I bought this album originally when it was released in 1981,and spent the entire summer holidays playing it to death and learning the lyrics verbatum. Read more
Published 14 months ago by L. D. Campbell
draven1620
every bit as good as when it was first released. lost all in fire am now trying to rebuild collection. think Toyan yp there with Maddona e.t.c
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Published on 20 July 2009 by Mrs. C. EJ Coutts
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Published on 5 Jun 2003 by Boshuda
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Published on 6 Nov 2002 by Michelle Palmer
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Published on 6 Mar 2002
a bloody good album!
This album is still great all these years later. It is a shame that it took so long to be released on c.d. With lyrics like "The door is a whore.... Read more
Published on 13 Sep 2001 by James haslam
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