- Audio CD (1 Dec 2008)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Sony Music
- ASIN: B001J0PMDK
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Vinyl | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 114,318 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Strip |
| 2. "Baby, Let Me Scream At You" |
| 3. Libertine |
| 4. Spanish Games |
| 5. Vanity |
| 6. Puss 'n Boots |
| 7. Playboy |
| 8. Montreal |
| 9. Navel To Neck |
| 10. Amazon |
| 11. Strip |
| 12. Dirty Harry |
| 13. Horse You Rode In On |
| 14. She Wins Zulus |
| 15. Puss 'n Boots |
| 16. Playboy |
| 17. Navel To Neck |
| 18. Strip |
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I have to say I hated this Album when it came out first. Apart from the two singles Strip and Puss n Boots I thought the rest was utter rubbish. I even gave away my first copy.
However after recently going to see Adam on his recent come back tour I decided to purchase the Album again and give another listen.
This time around, after a couple of listens it actually grew on me and its not so bad after all.
However after recently going to see Adam on his recent come back tour I decided to purchase the Album again and give another listen.
This time around, after a couple of listens it actually grew on me and its not so bad after all.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Despite the cold hard fact that with 'Strip' the much derided Mr Ant has made one of the great pop albums, it's a staggering fact that he is still disregarded as novelty; still associated with quirk and bugs.
This is partly self-inflicted; the fully-fledged Ant-psyche took a while to emerge, and the lactic gimmickry he employed to get him noticed, then stuck to him like cancer. Some of his early followers weren't happy with the progression, while others considered that the brazen foppishness was masculinity threatening. Whatever the reason, Mr Ant's credibility nose-dived faster than his nose dived; just the circumstance for true talent to re-invent itself and come firing back on all cylinders.
'Strip' is a significant, mature improvement on the excellent 'Friend or Foe.' Lush, adult pop with friction. Ant's gone from self-analysis Captain Morgan to push-the-envelope Casanova in one fell swoop. He's OBSESSED with rumpy on 'Strip.' Not one sweet, ravishing shanty goes by without twinkling Ant chancing his arm with a floozy. Kind of Jacques Brel doing 'Come On Eileen' or, even better, a risqué, lewd 'Rumours' (The similarities with the latter - both structurally and melodically - are firmly undeniable).
He's cowing and fawning for all he's worth; wooing and enticing with his unique brand of thrusting-limbed breathlessness.
The title track, for example, instructs us in no uncertain terms that sensual people have been 'doing it' tumbling down the centuries - and that is the only reason we need to be doing it right now ! At one stage, he describes himself as "an octopus with big X-Ray eyes..," revealing the true spirit and directives of 'Strip': making lasciviousness and sexual predation unashamed and attractive.
Other songs ram his point to the hilt: 'Playboy' and the subsequent 'Montreal' are 'Strip's climactic core. Melodic to the point of making you faint, and lyrically vigorous: '"What d'you like to hold?" -- "My breath" she said.' and even: 'Beautiful, his Bardot. Though he's spoiled, she likes him so.' With Marco Pirroni in playful production mood, Ant is simply set free to roll up his puff-sleeves, strap on a mouse mask, and INDULGE.
Of course, with his disgusting handsomeness and cheeky line in chat, Ant is a complete expert on women's bits and bobs. Smoother than praline, and with more hooks than a Japanese whaler, the fairer sex are helpless at his feet. 'Strip' is partly a celebration of that, and partly of what can be achieved when everyone else thinks you've gone down the hole for the final time.
'Strip' is fabulous entertainment; the orchestral arrangements are inspiring, the playfulness is refreshing, the lack of po-faced 80's pretension is glorious. In fact, it has great slabs of Carry-On style humour running through it, almost as ballast, opposite Ant's cocky dissolution, and his obvious acute reverence for both (Henry) Fielding's 'Lock Up Your Daughters' and Rinse Dream's 'Cafe Flesh.'
This is partly self-inflicted; the fully-fledged Ant-psyche took a while to emerge, and the lactic gimmickry he employed to get him noticed, then stuck to him like cancer. Some of his early followers weren't happy with the progression, while others considered that the brazen foppishness was masculinity threatening. Whatever the reason, Mr Ant's credibility nose-dived faster than his nose dived; just the circumstance for true talent to re-invent itself and come firing back on all cylinders.
'Strip' is a significant, mature improvement on the excellent 'Friend or Foe.' Lush, adult pop with friction. Ant's gone from self-analysis Captain Morgan to push-the-envelope Casanova in one fell swoop. He's OBSESSED with rumpy on 'Strip.' Not one sweet, ravishing shanty goes by without twinkling Ant chancing his arm with a floozy. Kind of Jacques Brel doing 'Come On Eileen' or, even better, a risqué, lewd 'Rumours' (The similarities with the latter - both structurally and melodically - are firmly undeniable).
He's cowing and fawning for all he's worth; wooing and enticing with his unique brand of thrusting-limbed breathlessness.
The title track, for example, instructs us in no uncertain terms that sensual people have been 'doing it' tumbling down the centuries - and that is the only reason we need to be doing it right now ! At one stage, he describes himself as "an octopus with big X-Ray eyes..," revealing the true spirit and directives of 'Strip': making lasciviousness and sexual predation unashamed and attractive.
Other songs ram his point to the hilt: 'Playboy' and the subsequent 'Montreal' are 'Strip's climactic core. Melodic to the point of making you faint, and lyrically vigorous: '"What d'you like to hold?" -- "My breath" she said.' and even: 'Beautiful, his Bardot. Though he's spoiled, she likes him so.' With Marco Pirroni in playful production mood, Ant is simply set free to roll up his puff-sleeves, strap on a mouse mask, and INDULGE.
Of course, with his disgusting handsomeness and cheeky line in chat, Ant is a complete expert on women's bits and bobs. Smoother than praline, and with more hooks than a Japanese whaler, the fairer sex are helpless at his feet. 'Strip' is partly a celebration of that, and partly of what can be achieved when everyone else thinks you've gone down the hole for the final time.
'Strip' is fabulous entertainment; the orchestral arrangements are inspiring, the playfulness is refreshing, the lack of po-faced 80's pretension is glorious. In fact, it has great slabs of Carry-On style humour running through it, almost as ballast, opposite Ant's cocky dissolution, and his obvious acute reverence for both (Henry) Fielding's 'Lock Up Your Daughters' and Rinse Dream's 'Cafe Flesh.'
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Be careful with this one - it's rather a weak album. The two singles, Puss'n'Boots and Strip, are pretty strong, and there's one further great song, called Spanish Games. Everything else sounds sketchy - the production is glossy but the songs underneath are barely-there at all. I suspect the muse had temporarily flown. Kings of the Wild Frontier, Friend or Foe and Dirk Wears White Sox are far stronger albums.
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