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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
If I ever get the chance to stage a Broadway musical based around a James Bond adventure then this album would for the basis for the whole show. I can just picture it;
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No Mr Bond. I expect you to sing!!!"
Neil Hannon has produced one of my top 5 albums with this gem. I can't think of any albums that could possibly combine dramatic and tender film-like scores, whilst dealing with the subjects of; what a nice country Sweden is, the end of the world, a girl at the train station, addrenalin junkies, gardening and Northern Ireland. There are themes, for heroes and villains, the big opening to the movie and the climatic ending. Songs of dispair, to the final walk into the sunset and the optimistic ending.
Maybe it's just the images that this album conjures up in my mind, or the fact that my friends listen to these tracks in my car and ask incredulously "Was that song about retiring to Sweden?".
I love it.
"Do you expect me to talk?"
"No Mr Bond. I expect you to sing!!!"
Neil Hannon has produced one of my top 5 albums with this gem. I can't think of any albums that could possibly combine dramatic and tender film-like scores, whilst dealing with the subjects of; what a nice country Sweden is, the end of the world, a girl at the train station, addrenalin junkies, gardening and Northern Ireland. There are themes, for heroes and villains, the big opening to the movie and the climatic ending. Songs of dispair, to the final walk into the sunset and the optimistic ending.
Maybe it's just the images that this album conjures up in my mind, or the fact that my friends listen to these tracks in my car and ask incredulously "Was that song about retiring to Sweden?".
I love it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Tabloid hell, falling in love on public transport, apocalypse-obsessions and chaos theories - this is the new blonde and blue-eyed millenium. Just as the themes crave for the future but are dragged back by the past - the Romans, Northern Ireland - the music combines rich orchestration with an energy and lust for modern Thrillseeking. Rife with postmodernism, haunted by the past but snowballing into the new century - this is Fin de Siecle and this is where we are. And just when you think it might be getting too much, too terrifying even, you are struck by Sunrise - a deeply personal, heart-stoppingly powerful ode to Northern Ireland's troubled past and brighter future - Fin de Siecle is a remarkable achievement.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Perhaps I am one of the lonely and only fans of the Divine Comedy in Germany, but surely one of the biggest in the world (even if it's quite hard to be a fan of the Divine Comedy in Germany, hard to get the cds and almost impossible to enjoy them live). When I first listened to "Fin de siècle" I felt like - even if that may sound rather pathetic - coming home. This was the cd I always wanted to listen to. There I was standing in a record shop in my home town, big smile on my face, tears in my eyes, while the other people around where staring on their fingernails while listening to their hip-hop thing ("Jedem das seine, mir das meine" - don't know how to translate it). Thanks for GENERATION SEX, HERE COMES THE FLOOD and especially for SUNRISE.
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Neil Hannon's weakest album ?
Except perhaps 'Fanfare for the Comic Muse' the band's very first album which I have only heard about without having heard it actually, this 'Fin de Siècle' may be... Read more
Published 6 months ago by herman
My favourite Divine Comedy CD
This is Tom's review. Tom is my 8-year-old son and he likes Divine Comedy a lot.
I would give this CD six out of five stars if I could. Read more
I would give this CD six out of five stars if I could. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Tom and Daddy
Keep on spinning the wheel
Neil Hannon is a national treasure and his music should be mandatory teaching in schools across the land as master classes in perfectly crafted songs. Read more
Published on 1 Sep 2009 by DARREN "Big Nose" WALKER
Gloomy pop masterpiece from the end of the century.
Fin De Siécle was something of a late break-through for The Divine Comedy, with the hit single National Express building on the sound of previous singles like Something for... Read more
Published on 9 April 2005 by Jonathan James Romley
A rich tapestry of varying quality
It pains me to give an album as rich as this a mere three stars, but you have to understand that I am judging it by The Divine Comedy's own high standards. Read more
Published on 30 July 2004 by riteofspring
Excellent, but not mainstream pop.
There are only two tracks on this album that I don't particularly like and one of those was quite a successful single that made it to a respectably high position in the charts. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2003 by N. K. Harris
The best album ever - to end the century
Wow, this is the album that converted me to Divine Comedy, as well as the rest of my family. And what a classic way to listen to it - on vinyl! Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2001
Hmmmm
The thing about this album is that some of the songs are AMAZING (Thrillseeker, Sunrise) and you could listen to them over and over again. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2001 by Laura Jane
opereatic rock at its best with some novelty
neil hannon is a sure genius with songs that sum up the moment in time its realsed. The spoken track with one of the stars of lock stock and 2 barrels dextor fletcher is brillant . Read more
Published on 2 Jan 2000
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