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Magic, Murder and the Weather [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

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  • Audio CD (19 Mar 2007)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Virgin
  • ASIN: B000LZ6DOG
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 42,724 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Listen  1. About The Weather (2007 Digital Remaster) 4:07£0.69
Listen  2. So Lucky (2007 Digital Remaster) 4:11£0.69
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4.0 out of 5 stars Final Magazine LP brilliant but flawed by production, 27 Aug 2007
By Mr. K. Egerton "Nu World 79" (Haydock, UK) - See all my reviews
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Having discovered this summer (2007) on Amazon that all Magazine's back catalogue has been re-issued on CD, I bought this to complete my collection.

This was Magazine's final album, originally released in 1981 just after the band split up. Howard Devoto had been increasingly frustrated at not achieving mainstream success and with the pre-album single release "About The Weather" failing to chart, he quit the group.

Most importantly though, this is no half-hearted effort. It is a strong album and the decision to split was made after recording. The biggest flaw with the record is Martin Hannett's production - sounds great musically but no emphasis on vocals. Howard's vocals sound much better than on previous LP's - but he seams to either whisper, or most of the time he is simply drowned out by the music. No lyrics in the CD booklet doesn't help either, although there are detailed notes about the band in the period working up to and beyond this LP.

It is an album which repays repeated listening. The first time I heard it was on my car CD where I couldn't deciper the words and the first track in particular 'About The Weather', (a Tamla Motown sound-alike) sounds too trebly.

Highlights of this CD are 'About The Weather', 'So Lucky' - which defines the typical Magazine sound - bass heavy, and 'Come Alive' - a more outgoing song with swirly synths that sounds like early Gary Numan.

I'd recommend buying this, but also get the Howard Devoto book of lyrics which I've just ordered from Black Spring Press Ltd.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Magazine - with no edge?, 5 Nov 2009
By J. Liston "BDF" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Its an odd one. Although it has a general feel of Magazine, and from a cold distant detached PoV it is interesting to hear Magazine Minus McGeoch in the studio, it lacks edge and mood. Feels strangely poppy (others have commented about the excess treble in the mix) without any threat or brooding intensity....actually at times it could have been a Two Tone ska record rather than Magazine. Its easy access (perhaps 'entry level') Magazine, but not definitive - perhaps more for completists.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars its not their best but its very good, 13 May 2009
Magazine are a brilliant post punk manchester band from the late 70s early 80s. I first heard them on John Peel's festive fifty. I hadn't listen for quite a while then I went to see their reunion gig in Oxford earlier this year and found it just as good as when I first heard them.

This album is good but also check out Real Life and Correct Use of Soap which in my opinion are better.

Best song; The Great Man's Secrets.
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