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Paper Scissors Stone

~ Catatonia
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Audio CD (6 Aug 2001)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Blanco Y Negro
  • ASIN: B00005MHU7
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,260 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Godspeed
2. Immediate Circle
3. Fuel
4. What It Is
5. Stone By Stone
6. The Mother Of Misogyny
7. Is Everybody Here On Drugs?
8. Imaginary Friend
9. Shore Leave
10. Apple Core
11. Beautiful Loser
12. Blues Song
13. Village Idiot
14. Arabian Derby

Product Description

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What a welcome surprise. Paper Scissors Stone represents a major rebirth for Catatonia. Two years previously, the Welsh band's outlook appeared bleak. Sales of their 1999 album, Equally Cursed and Blessed, foundered at 300,000, less than one-third the sales of its predecessor, International Velvet. A UK tour was cancelled among whispers of alcohol abuse and breakdown s; Britpop's demise looked to have claimed another victim, which is why this startling return to form is so heartening. Catatonia have never sounded better. From the opening "Godspeed", a lush, orchestral lament for a dying love, Paper Scissors Stone is a vivacious and flamboyant suite of music. Cerys Matthews is in tremendous voice, her husky, litling Valleys tones lending quavering humour and pathos to "The Mother of Misogyny" and "Blues Song". Truly, nobody else sings like this. Yet Cerys' idiosyncratic rasp resonates only because her ex-beau, guitarist and songwriter Mark Roberts pens such strong and expressive songs. She must surely find it claustrophobic to sing bitter love songs written by a former partner, but it works, compellingly. "Imaginary Friend" and "Village Idiots" are luscious and lovely, yet the stand-out track is the raucous "Is Everybody Here on Drugs?" Roberts claims it's an anti-Prozac anthem but, face facts, it'll be a defiant sing-along anthem at every Catatonia gig for years. --Ian Gittins

CD Description
Fourth album for Welsh indie-pop stars. Described by singerCerys Matthews as "stronger, more avant-garde, more focusedand impassioned" than their previous album, 2000's 'EquallyCursed And Blessed'. Recorded with veteran Madness/Elvis Costello producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, it in- cludes the single 'Stone By Stone'.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Album To Date, Completely Against Expectations, 15 Aug 2001
By A Customer
I wasn't a great fan of Stone By Stone when I first heard it and the title 'Paper Scissors Stone' sounds like a title by a band who are on the verge of selling out. The very disapointing Equally Cursed And Blessed gave this album little hope. I thought this was going to be a poor effort...

Oh how I was wrong! This is the strongest, and simply the best album by Catatonia to date. Every song on the album is superb. They've mixed melencholy with anthemic, upbeat songs, perhaps more of the first. Immediate Circle is immidiately catchy and will get you head banging at live gigs, as will Village Idiots. What It Is is a branch into new teritory: dance - and one could easily be forgiven for thinking they've been making dance records all their lives.

After several listens you'll be singing every song. The best songs in my opinion are: Immidiate Circle, Fuel, What It Is, Imaginary Friend, Village Idiots and Beautiful Loser

Finally, the lyrics are very thought provoking and dressed up in their usual wit and irony.

Buy this album, it is definately the best ever by Catatonia

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning, unexpectedly mature and passionate, 23 Oct 2001
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It's a shame Catatonia split - this is their best album yet - unexpectedly mature with intricate melodies such as Godspeed and Blues Songs and intiguing lyrics.

Buy this and listen to it, it songs will keep you engrossed far longer than Roadrage and their like.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars return to form, 14 Aug 2001
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There are great songs on this album, the sort that need a few listens to, before they creep up on you and find you can't get them out of your head. Songs like Blues Song and Village Idiot would be #1 singles in a sane world. What It Is leaves you wanting more, the lead off single, Stone by Stone builds up nicely to the anthemic Catatonia we all love. Shore Leave is very popular amongst the fans for good reason - cos its a corker. Obviously not an album for the less discerning greenday fan, but if you like good guitar music, sung with passion, charisma and charm, you'll do geat with this album.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the four
Wasn't expecting much from this album based on the reviews here, but to my lasting delight it turned out to be comfortably Catatonias best album. Read more
Published on 30 April 2007 by Simon Brown

3.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointment
I am a huge Catatonia fan and having all their previous releases I could not wait for the release of this,unknown at the time, last album. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2002 by GOR

3.0 out of 5 stars Dissapointment
I am a huge Catatonia fan and having all their previous releases I could not wait for the release of this,unknown at the time, last album. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2002

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than expected
I must admit that I only bought this album because I'd bought the others. I hadn't heard the single and reviews were complimentary if not glowing. Read more
Published on 16 Aug 2001 by gavcb

5.0 out of 5 stars Catatonia return with their BEST album!!
I have to admit I was a little weary of buying Paper Scissors Stone after Catatonia's last album. But I'm so glad I did. This album has everything! Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent come back!!!!
This sees the return of catatonia with an excellent album and far better than the previous 1999 album (equally cursed and blessed). Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars A new beggining
A rather different approach to their music from the good ship Catatonia. This surly isn't a collection for the fan of their early work. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars boring
this is the only word to describe this album! the only good songs are STONE BY STONE and IMMEDIATE CIRCLE. Read more
Published on 8 Aug 2001 by green@greenday-fan.co.uk

5.0 out of 5 stars Catatonia ARE good, believe me.
Who'd have thought it? Several times over their 9 year history have they come close to self-destruction, but when the fruit of turmoil within the band is an album like this, it... Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars More musical genius from the Welsh Wonders!
After Catatonia made "Equally Cursed and Blessed" there was a fear that the band would dissappear into obscurity. Read more
Published on 17 Jul 2001

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