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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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There's plenty of variety on Nomi's second album, providing ample exposure for his impressive vocal range. Just as on his debut, the material is an interesting mix of catchy pop, like Just One Look and Falling In Love Again (sung partly in German) and classical pieces like Death, Return and From Beyond, the somber opening number. My favorite tracks include Rubberband Lazer, an addictive pop song with weird country infusions and brilliant bursts of synth, and the theatrical Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead with its singalong chorus. Klaus Nomi was part of the late 70s/early 80s synth explosion, but his embrace of classical music was unique (although OMD came close on Architecture and Morality), as were the operatic vocal styles he explored. This music remains highly original and inspiring.
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Klaus Nomi's second and final studio album before his untimely death. Although arguably it does not reach the heights of his first album, it still makes for very interesting listening with the full range of Nomi's voice coming into play. My personal favorite is Simple man where Nomi singing in the tenor version of his voice is mixed with his soprano high notes. Ding Dong is also great fun and outrageously camp. But really his voice is so interesting and varied that he would make the most mundane tune sparkle.
If you like his music - and you will either entranced by it or you will hate it - you may do better to buy the Klaus Nomi Essential album which has nine of the twelve tracks on this CD on it as well as nearly all of his first album. But do sample beforehand to make sure its to your taste. Its Five Star in my book and one thing is for sure, its nobody's idea of background or easy listening music!
If you like his music - and you will either entranced by it or you will hate it - you may do better to buy the Klaus Nomi Essential album which has nine of the twelve tracks on this CD on it as well as nearly all of his first album. But do sample beforehand to make sure its to your taste. Its Five Star in my book and one thing is for sure, its nobody's idea of background or easy listening music!
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Spectacular Synth-Popera
10 Jan 2003
Format:Audio CD
There's plenty of variety on Nomi's second album, providing ample exposure for his impressive vocal range. Just as on his debut, the material is an interesting mix of catchy pop, like Just One Look and Falling In Love Again (sung partly in German) and classical pieces like Death, Return and From Beyond, the somber opening number. My favorite tracks include Rubberband Lazer, an addictive pop song with weird country infusions and brilliant bursts of synth, and the theatrical Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead with its singalong chorus. Klaus Nomi was part of the late 70s/early 80s synth explosion, but his embrace of classical music was unique (although OMD came close on Architecture and Morality), as were the operatic vocal styles he explored. This music remains highly original and inspiring.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Mature
15 Jan 1999
Format:Audio CD
Another must-get CD. The seeds in Klaus Nomi's debut album are grown in this second album "Simple Man". The most typical Nomi style "After The Fall", a combination of rock and opera, is a production after "Total Eclipse" in his debut album. "Just One Look", another "Lightning Strikes". "Falling In Love Again", a more playful version. "Death", this aria should be called "When I am laid in Earth", Nomi reached the notes heroically! After all, it's a mature of Klaus Nomi, it's more new wave than his first album. It's really a pity that Nomi can't poplarize his style before his death of AIDS in 1983.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A UNIQUE STAR'S INDESCRIBABLE 2ND ALBUM
24 July 1999
Format:Audio CD
Not everyone can hear past the campy-seeming alien persona NOMI was notorious for... to our ears, his work holds up better than most '80s offerings! We saw Klaus's 'debut' at Irving Plaza in Manhattan circa 1979, and knew a star was being born, as he transfixed the packed auditorium with his rendition of a beautiful rare operatic aria for soprano, NAILED by this ghostly Martian! & then he was signed to RCA (Europe), released 2 striking albums, but suddenly croaked from AIDS... There is a Tiny Tim/Eden Ahbez/Liberace facet to the Nomi oeuvre...but also a surprising soulfulness, artistic inventiveness, & range of material you could call daring! Thank God for the Nomi's of the Music World! RIP, Klaus! I hear a domestic compilation is at last in the works...
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