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Working For The Man [Box set]

Tindersticks Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (12 April 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Commercial Marketing
  • ASIN: B0001GNKRI
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 14,692 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  2. Marbles 4:30£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Patchwork (Album Version) 4:40£0.69  Buy MP3 
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Listen  5. Travelling Light 4:40£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Tiny Tears 5:26£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Bathtime 3:56£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Another Night In 4:57£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Can We Start Again 3:48£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen10. I Know That Loving 5:45£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. For Those... (Orchestral Version) 4:55£0.69  Buy MP3 


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Listen  2. Milky Teeth 3:07£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Joe Stumble 4:35£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. For Those... (Original 7" version) 4:50£0.69  Buy MP3 
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Listen  7. Untitled 3:03£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. The Bull Ring 2:07£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Kathleen 5:41£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Summat Moon 3:29£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. A Sweet Sweet Man 5:57£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. E Type Joe 1:48£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Plus De Liaisons 3:46£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Waiting 'Round You 2:56£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen15. I've Been Loving You Too Long 4:57£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen16. Here 4:24£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen17. Harry's Dilemma 5:54£0.69  Buy MP3 


Product Description

BBC Review

This is the history of a band losing its way. At their melancholic, melodious best the Tindersticks sound gorgeous. Lead singer Stuart Staples mumbles about romantic betrayal, bedroom angst and the inevitability of separation to an accompaniment of ever-descending piano and stirring cellos. Sadly this retrospective double album also includes many clamorous and forgettable songs.

Between 1993 and 1995 Ry Cooder singalike Staples and his Notts-based quintet furrowed a dark groove of intimate, inspired pop. The gift for sweet tunes evident in their brilliant '92 debut, Patchwork, was honed to produce polished pop poems like "Marbles", "Tiny Tears" and "Travelling Light", the latter a lush duet with the Walkabouts' Carla Torgeson. Happily, all these get onto Disk 1 of this release.

They won acclaim for their collaborations with orchestras big and small. They realised the plangent potential of lilting string arrangements and the melodramatic force of isolating Staples' lonely voice against a massive symphonic background.

Critics often reduce the Tindersticks to their influences. As well as Cooder there are traces of Nick Cave, Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, The Jesus and Mary Chain's glam fuzz and the Joy Division of Unknown Pleasures. This sort of comparison points out two things: one, the Tinders are a rich mix of rock and pop echoes (you'll hear whoever you like best) and secondly the band always had a foot in the Goth grave of the 80s.

Disk 2 is unfortunately a drawn-out collection of earnest, soul-searching songs. With the exception of "For Those" and "Here" the band's cabaret fetishism gets the better of its natural talents, and here the Tindersticks fall apart. The four fairly tiresome tracks on the Kurt Weill inspired 'Kathleen EP' are included on the second disc as 'rarities'; they should have been left where they were. Trying too hard to be deep, the result is merely grim and humourless.

Patchy as the pretentiously sad stuff makes the back catalogue seem, it's sadder still that the alt-country aspirations of the band seem unconcluded, its ambitions unfulfilled. But it comes with the territory - a band that declares its ethos in "Let's Pretend" was doomed to be profoundly imperfect and prone to faking it. On the upside, when the Tindersticks get it right they are as underrated for the 90s as the headlining bands were overrated.

So if you missed the Tindersticks first time round, ignore the experimental stuff, dim the lights and luxuriate in a half dozen minor masterpieces from the dark woods of provincial Britpop. --Chris Moss

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars plus de liasons-YEAH 15 May 2006
Format:Audio CD
I purchased this 'best of' because it was on special offer in a record shop that shall remain nameless. I didn't really need it but as I'm a would be tindersticks completionist, had to have it and was not dissapointed. The tracks are compiled perfectly, tweaking the ambience up or down a notch (not that there are so many up's, as any one who's ever heard them will know)to transport you to that dark, comforting place as only Staples and the boys can.

Bonuses include tracks that i had not heard before, such as the french language version of no more affairs, plus de liasons, which is so emotive and i think would be even if you had never heard the origional version in english, staples's voice seeps in to those long forgotten corners of your mind with that sweet, rich, melancholy and regret in any language.

The alternative version of 'her' i didn't love so much, i felt it lacked some of the intensity of the origional, but on the whole this has every thing i seek in a tindersticks album, nerve tinglingly beautiful songs that are so dark yet so uplifting. A very special album made up of their finest moments, a must for any one who is new to the 'sticks and some songs that long time fans may not have heard.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars cool! 2 Sep 2010
By Existentialist. VINE™ VOICE
Format:Audio CD
Leonard Cohen, the grocer of despair, likes this group, so you know what type of music it is. If you like L.C. you'll like this fine group.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great! 12 Dec 2011
By bara
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
CD arrived fine without any problems and very quickly after my order been placed. Music is excellent! Highly recommended to all.
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