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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Problably my favourite Magnetic Fields album, it really knocked me out when I first heard it. It's full of wonderful pop songs (I mean psycheldelic bubblegum pop, not chart music). And Steve Merritt's voice is just gorgeous, he doesn't rate himself as a singer but his voice is really special. It's unusual because he has a deep voice and in most modern bands singers have a mid to high voice (so there's hope for me then with the stuff I'm making).
If you do like the Magnetic Fields I reccommemnd you hear this. Stand out tracks are ... oh I like so many it's hard to choose, but Strange Powers and the Flowers She Sent are just lovely. I'm playing Torn Green Velvet Eyes right now and it has the most gorgeous chorus with it's childlike piano/keyboards backing. It's an electronic/ electric guitar album so it's not like some of his more acoustic stuff. It can be a bit intense, though, and might not suit everybody. I would have liked it to have Claudia Gonson on backing vocals to lighten it up slightly. I was tempted to give it 4 stars but in the end I went for 5, Take Ecstasy With Me has just come on which is one of my favourites.
If you do like the Magnetic Fields I reccommemnd you hear this. Stand out tracks are ... oh I like so many it's hard to choose, but Strange Powers and the Flowers She Sent are just lovely. I'm playing Torn Green Velvet Eyes right now and it has the most gorgeous chorus with it's childlike piano/keyboards backing. It's an electronic/ electric guitar album so it's not like some of his more acoustic stuff. It can be a bit intense, though, and might not suit everybody. I would have liked it to have Claudia Gonson on backing vocals to lighten it up slightly. I was tempted to give it 4 stars but in the end I went for 5, Take Ecstasy With Me has just come on which is one of my favourites.
5 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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...but alright none-the-less. Holiday has the same witty lyrics and fresh uncommercial style, but just doesn't have the same impact as a lot of Merritt's other work. Claudia Gonson's voice doesn't feature on this album, which is a shame in itself, and I just don't find myself coming bask to this album or singing the songs in the shower because I can't get them out my head. My previous experience of Stephin was with Hyacinths and Thistles and 69 love songs, which are much better (in my opinion). I'd recommend Holiday if you're a fan, but I wouldn't start a non-believer on this if I wanted to convince them of Merritt's genuis.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Dry, morose, bittersweet pop for the discerning palate.
30 Dec 1998
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Mastermind Stephin Merritt has become a cult figure--and his lugubrious voice, his deadpan wit, and his sparkling arrangements make each of his bands' efforts distinctive and worthwhile. The lyrics are simple, literate, and evocative; the instrumentation lush and careful. Holiday is among Merritt's happier albums, but of course the requisite dark side lurks in every couplet. Sounds like practically nothing else except other Magnetic Fields, or Merritt's other projects: the 6ths, the Gothic Archies, and the Future Bible Heroes. "The flowers she sent / and the flowers she said she sent / are all equally dead / you don't care any more, she said / and the books she read / and the books that she said she read / are all spread on the floor / you don't get out of bed any more."
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Their Second Wonderful album....
27 Sep 2003
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and arguably the best of the early ones (if not the best of all of his). Holiday is a wonderful synth pop album which ranks up there with 69 Love Songs as their best. This opened my ears to alot of synth pop music.
The album starts of with the 22 second long intro, which has a sixties-meets-synth sound to it (i think) and is followed by 13 brilliant tracks. All You Ever Do Is Walk Away is one of the best vocal performance from Stephin Merritt and also ranks as one of his best songs. Other highlights are Trouble I've Been looking For and Take Ecstacy With Me.
Buy this and 69 Love Songs for the perfect grasp of the best of this band.
The album starts of with the 22 second long intro, which has a sixties-meets-synth sound to it (i think) and is followed by 13 brilliant tracks. All You Ever Do Is Walk Away is one of the best vocal performance from Stephin Merritt and also ranks as one of his best songs. Other highlights are Trouble I've Been looking For and Take Ecstacy With Me.
Buy this and 69 Love Songs for the perfect grasp of the best of this band.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A casio classic
5 Mar 2004
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I prefer this version of MF to the more pretentious incarnations of recent times. Put together a great melody, a funny/depressing/poetic lyric, over a casio sounding arrangement that sounds like the entertainment guy at the old folks home put it together, and what do you have? Brilliance. Absolute brilliance. So many great moments on this album.
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