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| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. El Diablo En El Ojo | |||
| 2. A Night In | |||
| 3. My Sister | |||
| 4. Tiny Tears | |||
| 5. Snowy In F# Minor | |||
| 6. Seaweed | |||
| 7. Vertrauen 2 | |||
| 8. Talk To Me | |||
| 9. No More Affairs | |||
| 10. Singing | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. El Diablo En El Ojo | |||
| 2. A Night In | |||
| 3. Talk To Me | |||
| 4. She's Gone | |||
| 5. No More Affairs | |||
| 6. City Sickness | |||
| 7. Vertrauen 2 | |||
| 8. Sleepy Song | |||
| 9. Jism | |||
| 10. Drunk Tank | |||
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Product Description
2CD Disc 2 = Live At Bloomsbury Theatre 12/3/95
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Oscillator
Format:Audio CD
The first two Tindersticks album are both confusingly called Tindersticks. For anybody who doesn't know this is the second one. Such eponymous shenanigans aside this is another thrilling ride through the darkness with the band. You get the Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra inspired 'Travelling Light' with Carla Torgerson of the Walkabouts in the Sinatra role. Then there's the dark balladry of 'Tiny Tears'. 'My sister' is a blackly humorous spoken recital reminiscent of the Velvet Underground's 'The Gift' . This is tremendous stuff. The orchestrations are a step up from their debut album with Terry Edwards supplying trumpet, saxophone and french horn. This is the probably the best value package of the recent reissues as the 'Live At The Bloomsbury Theatre 12.3.95' bonus disc was previously released in it's own right, albeit in limited numbers. It features accomplished versions, with strings attached, of most of the second album with several songs ('City Sickness', 'Jism', 'Drunk Tank', 'Rain Drops' ) from the first album also featured. Assuming the album is actually sequenced in the same order as the performance, after warming up with 'El Diablo En El Ojo' and 'A Night In' , the band hit their stride with an urgent version of 'Talk To Me'. The version of 'City Sickness' is blistering. Rapid fire drumming and brass squeals underpin 'Vertrauen 2'. In a live context some of these songs sound less claustrophic, but sometimes more frantic, than they do on the studio albums. Stuart Staples is in fine voice (well, fine gravelly voice) throughout. Essential.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Mervyn Dacre
Format:Audio CD
I find this album even more rewarding than Tindersticks' first album and 'Curtains', although I rate both very highly. The mood of this, the second eponymous album, is haunting and tender, and unlike one of the other reviewers I find the quality of the songs extremely impressive throughout. Tindersticks' lyrical sophistication and subtlety is here combined with darkly gorgeous melodies in songs full of wistful, remorseful longings; these songs only become more valuable to me as I know them better.
'My Sister' is as drily funny, macabre and startling as anything I've ever heard. 'Tiny Tears' manages to be so moving that one can take the title seriously, which is as high praise as I know how to give. 'Seaweed' and 'A Night In' are songs which drift sweetly into the mind again and again. 'No More Affairs' is delightful, wry and melancholic. 'Cherry Blossoms' is achingly, yearningly lovely, and 'Sleepy Song' elegiac and inexplicably harrowing. 'Mistakes' is soaring, heart-rending and all the more powerful for the elliptical simplicity of the lyrics. These are just some personal favourites.
The extra disc featuring a live performance is also excellent: thrilling, beautiful and touching. This is a treat for grown-ups, but a richly pleasurable treat all the same.
'My Sister' is as drily funny, macabre and startling as anything I've ever heard. 'Tiny Tears' manages to be so moving that one can take the title seriously, which is as high praise as I know how to give. 'Seaweed' and 'A Night In' are songs which drift sweetly into the mind again and again. 'No More Affairs' is delightful, wry and melancholic. 'Cherry Blossoms' is achingly, yearningly lovely, and 'Sleepy Song' elegiac and inexplicably harrowing. 'Mistakes' is soaring, heart-rending and all the more powerful for the elliptical simplicity of the lyrics. These are just some personal favourites.
The extra disc featuring a live performance is also excellent: thrilling, beautiful and touching. This is a treat for grown-ups, but a richly pleasurable treat all the same.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
It,s so confusing . After releasing their debut called imaginatively Tindersticks the band released their follow up album in 1995 . A double album it too was called even less imaginatively Tindersticks , though it is referred to as The Second album by fans. Like i say it,s a tad confusing but i,m willing to forgive the band just about anything for The Second album is the finest thing they have ever done....a ravishing collection of consummate songs performed with the bands requisite scuffed majesty .
If anything this album saw the band expand their trademark sound from their debut . There is the usual array of guitars, violin, trumpet, vibraphone, glockenspiel , bassoon , organ, clarinet etc but the sound was considerably fleshed out with lush and dramatic string arrangements courtesy of then band member Dickon James Hinchcliffe.
While these are a key element in making this album so special what really elevates The Second Album into the truly extraordinary is the quality of the song writing . There are half a dozen songs on this album that see this terrific band right at the height of their fulsome powers.
Though the album has the epic dark comedy of "My Sister", sprightly instrumental interludes, the wistful regret of "No More Affairs" and the burnished waltz of "She,s Gone" the real joy comes from a series of monumental ballads. "Travelling Light" is a duet featuring Carla Torgensen of the excellent Walkabouts. The vocal interplay between her slightly weary textured voice and Stuart Staples nicotine stained mumble is superb and the stately strings give the song a portentous weight. "Mistakes" builds ominously with Staples intoning regretfully about "Mistakes i,ve made , like the one, you know the one" and how "I,ve had my strings cut" before a gut wrenching crescendo.... Read more ›
If anything this album saw the band expand their trademark sound from their debut . There is the usual array of guitars, violin, trumpet, vibraphone, glockenspiel , bassoon , organ, clarinet etc but the sound was considerably fleshed out with lush and dramatic string arrangements courtesy of then band member Dickon James Hinchcliffe.
While these are a key element in making this album so special what really elevates The Second Album into the truly extraordinary is the quality of the song writing . There are half a dozen songs on this album that see this terrific band right at the height of their fulsome powers.
Though the album has the epic dark comedy of "My Sister", sprightly instrumental interludes, the wistful regret of "No More Affairs" and the burnished waltz of "She,s Gone" the real joy comes from a series of monumental ballads. "Travelling Light" is a duet featuring Carla Torgensen of the excellent Walkabouts. The vocal interplay between her slightly weary textured voice and Stuart Staples nicotine stained mumble is superb and the stately strings give the song a portentous weight. "Mistakes" builds ominously with Staples intoning regretfully about "Mistakes i,ve made , like the one, you know the one" and how "I,ve had my strings cut" before a gut wrenching crescendo.... Read more ›
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Good as they are, none of the Tindersticks' other LPs come close to matching this stunning effort. Quite simply, every track is a winner - something of an achievement given that there's sixteen in total - but the standouts are the black comedy of My Sister, Tiny Tears and possibly their best song, Travelling Light.
Not to everyone's taste, sure, but not everyone has such good taste as Tindersticks fans...
Not to everyone's taste, sure, but not everyone has such good taste as Tindersticks fans...
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
This is an album that'll lift you up and break your heart at the same time - the perfect late night listening. I couldn't imagine life without these songs, especially Travelling Light and Mistakes. No exaggeration, every last note of this is wonderful.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Album at a great price
Tindersticks at their majestic best, CD was in good quality and was an excellent acquisition. If you ar new to the Tindersticks start by getting this album. A Classic
Published 4 months ago by RBC
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful pop music
Give me an armchair and a tumbler of whisky and Im happy. Give me the Tindersticks II on play and I am exceedingly happy. Unabashed indulgence.
Published 13 months ago by Rob
5.0 out of 5 stars
Further perfection
Probably the second best late night album ever made, I have just listened to this and it's predecessor again and they are both as fresh and just downright magnificent as they were... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Mr. R. J. Newton
4.0 out of 5 stars
My sister
tindersticks 2nd album and their second best one too. Get the first album...but then again you probably have.
Anyway about my sister.....
Anyway about my sister.....
Published on 27 July 2010 by frazzle
4.0 out of 5 stars
Second best Tindersticks album
The fragile voice of Stuart Staples and the exquisite combination of the Tindersticks mini-orchestra return for their second album; and whilst it’s not as accomplished as its... Read more
Published on 14 Nov 2005 by J. T. Brennan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gloomy, brooding masterpiece
This second Tindersticks album is a lengthy exploration of many melancholy moods, lifted in places by exquisite orchestral arrangements and inspiring melodies. Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2003 by Pieter Uys
5.0 out of 5 stars
fantastic
I cannot believe no one else has reviewed this albem. That no one has taken the opportunity to share with others what a great find this is. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2001 by Ben Skyrme
5.0 out of 5 stars
best album ever
truly amazing.if you can, buy it.They deserve to be so much bigger, alas i doubt they will be.If you can, buy this record, especially-as i had when i discovered it-if you feel... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2000
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