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  • Audio CD (31 Dec 1993)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: 4ad
  • ASIN: B000024766
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 34,723 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Colder 3:23£0.79
Listen  2. Mexican Women 2:47£0.79
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Listen  8. Drive 3:26£0.79
Listen  9. Downtown 4:06£0.79
Listen10. Giant 3:54£0.79
Listen11. Walking In The Dark 4:41£0.79
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Listen13. Pools In Eyes 3:20£0.79
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Throwing Muses' sophomore album HOUSE TORNADO builds on andfocuses the wild, mercurial energy of their exceptional debut. Though the band's a bit more streamlined here, the music--given Kristen Hersh's unpredictable songs and part-angel/part-devil voice--still sounds like nothing else before or since. Jagged, shimmering, paranoid, and possessed of a hallucinatory beauty, Hersh's songs have a sorcerer's effect; listening to them feels like being wrapped in gauze, scratched with glass, and dropped into a particle accelerator all at once.
Though the band's sound would become heavier and morerock-oriented on later albums, on HOUSE TORNADO they still favor a clean, shimmering guitar sound that contrasts deliciously with thundering drums and Tanya Donelly's burbling bass. "Juno" almost sounds like a pop song, but the dreamy intensity of "Colder" and "Marriage Tree", or the surreal piano ballad "Walking In The Dark" attest to the Muses' defiantly individual standing. All told, this is an indie classic fromone of the best and most underappreciated rock bands of the1980s.

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5.0 out of 5 stars 1987's classic album with bonus mini-LP., 17 Feb 2003
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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House Tornado was the strongest release of the early part of Throwing Muses career- advancing on the brilliant eponymous debut. As with the CD-version of The Pixies Surfer Rosa, this cd issue comes with a bonus mini-LP- in the form of The Fat Skier.

Tanya Donelly is advancing as a songwriter here- River is as good as the brilliant Green from the debut & her other track Giant sounds like the Go Betweens playing a Belly song. Kristin Hersh dominates for the most part- Juno, Colder, Drive, Mexican Woman & Walking in the Dark as good as it gets. This is an album to get lost in- & was not topped by the following releases, which contained some great songs- but were more commercial (see Hunkpapa, The Real Ramona). The Fat Skier bonus tracks are as great as the Chains Changed ep (also of this era, sadly not included)- Garoux Des Lames sounding like an avant garde Blondie, though it is Pools in Eyes & ballad A Feeling that stand out.

This CD is excellent value at this budget price, definitely one for deep dark nighttime- Walking in the Dark being the key song- Hersh's subtle piano motif underpinning something between alt-country & the avant garde (such as the frequent shifts in rhythm, which recall The Slits). Certainly one of the key albums of the late 80s & easily up there with such releases as Liberty Belle & the Black Diamond Express, Fables of the Reconstruction & Mary Margaret O'Hara's only album...

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5.0 out of 5 stars The high-point of Throwing Muses, which is saying a lot..., 3 Jan 2000
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This album is virtually perfect. The beauty of some of the textual and melodic structures is frequently physically staggering. The vocals of Kristin Hersh on this record are halfway between compassion and sarcasm, and that twilight emotional hue is the essence of the political and musical ground we're treading here. This is barely a 'pop' record at all, being as it is so thoroughly loaded with artistic density. The rhythms and phrase-proportions lend a structural originality and irregularity only normally found in modernist composers such as Nono or Gerald Barry. The language is American politeness refined to perfection, at once smilingly clever and direct in its expression of pure abstract intensity. Buy this remarkable record if you love classical music, art-poetry or the finest artistic achievements of American underground pop. This is one to cherish as much as your deepest, most painfully permanent love.
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