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~ Throwing Muses
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  • Audio CD (1 Nov 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: 4ad
  • ASIN: B000024768
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 48,500 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. Counting Backwards 3:15£0.79
Listen  2. Him Dancing 1:11£0.79
Listen  3. Red Shoes 3:33£0.79
Listen  4. Graffiti 2:37£0.79
Listen  5. Golden Thing 2:25£0.79
Listen  6. Ellen West 2:49£0.79
Listen  7. Dylan 1:41£0.79
Listen  8. Hook In Her Head 6:32£0.79
Listen  9. Not Too Soon 3:10£0.79
Listen10. Honeychain 4:24£0.79
Listen11. Say Goodbye 3:54£0.79
Listen12. Two Step 4:34£0.79

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"My mouth is full of demons / I swear to God," Kristin Hersh sings with escalating fury in the middle of "Ellen West." The image is apt. The Real Ramona marked a high point for the Throwing Muses, whose debut was the first-ever American recording issued on the hip British label 4AD. The quartet excels in two largely different veins, the first a glistening, poppy one with Hersh's unnervingly crisp voice edging the guitars, and the second a more frantic, revved-up version of the first, where the drums pound harder and the vocals veer into referential terrain that's almost sublimely opaque. The key to the Throwing Muses at any stage in their career is Hersh's emotional frankness and unflinching conveyance of her schizophrenia-tinged lyrics. She makes the band magnetically frenzied, even when they're being lovely. And with Ramona, Hersh and the Muses perfected their mix. This is their last recording with band cofounder Tanya Donelly, who continued on with the Breeders and Belly. --Andrew Bartlett


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Throwing Muses are among the finest and most overlooked indie-rock bands of the '80s and '90s. Spearheaded by the dark,original vision of Kristen Hersh (and supported by Tanya Donelly, Muses second-guitarist and Hersh's half-sister), the band's aggressive alt-pop burst onto the scene in the early '80s. The Muses favour a lucid guitar sound, oblique, poeticlyrics, and spiraling song structures that seem to unfold organically. By THE REAL RAMONA, the band's third full-lengthrelease, they had married their unique aesthetic to a more streamlined, rock-oriented sound.
Though more accessible than earlier work, RAMONA compromises none of the group's idiosyncratic appeal. In fact, this record's shimmering pop aura makes it one of the band's most outstanding offerings. From the blast-off power hooks of "Golden Thing" and Donelly's"Not Too Soon" through the gorgeous, rarefied guitar heavenof "Two Step", this collection is pure psychedelic pop heightened by outstanding songcraft. As usual, it is Hersh's more intense, mercurial, and slightly warped songs that are stand out. Here, top marks go to "Ellen West" and "Hook In Her Head. A tapestry of floating guitars, hard edges, melody, and meaning, THE REAL RAMONA is a perfect pop album.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Real Ramona, Really amazing, 22 Aug 2002
I bought this album, aged 17 and now, 12 years later still return to it periodically as the definition of trully amazing Indie music. There is so much in this albumn, layer upon layer of rythm, melody and haunting lyrics. Counting Backwards is astorming start to the albumn. "Not too Soon" is pop perfection and the type of track that changes your day(try it!). Two of the most haunting tracks of the generation are on this record, Ellen West and Two Steps- the finishing track that closes the albumn beatifully. Great drums. Incredible guitars and vocals - quality throughout. A standout albumn in anyone's collection. Tanya Donnelly and Kisten Hersh stars in their own right combined to make a genuinely novel, refreshing albumn that is a must.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Pop Joy, 23 Feb 2000
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Tanya Donnelly's last album with the Throwing Muses. A watershed album in many ways, signalling a move from the dark, disturbing sound of early Muses to the more poppy feel that Donelly would explore further with Belly. In many respects it sounds more like Belly than the Throwing Muses, from the power pop of Not Too Soon to the hauntingly beautiful melodies of Honeychain and Two Step. This is a forgotten classic and unquestionably one of the albums of the 90's.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Childhood's End, 3 Jan 2003
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A good way into the throwing muses, with the ability to preoccupy one's listening at first, and then remain a staple in the collection afterwards. It's difficult to see how a person could object to this album, with a please-all mixture of pop and indie.

But this doesn't make it middle-aged sludge, it's still fairly raw and edgy, with teenage vibes, and a whole lot more calmness than earlier muses.

On a negative note, the album gets off to a slightly shakey start, both in terms of recording, and the quality of the songs. This rectifies after the first two pieces, and can't dim what follows. The second (and minor) drawback is that the restraint applied seems too curtail some of the songs at mid evolutionary stage, maybe they just got bored with each one, perhaps the commercial sentiment set in; songs like "Ellen West" generate huge towers of rhythm, but topple at mid-build, even if cleverly juxtaposed with quiet melodies, there's a slight disappointment as time goes on.

Overall the atmos is much in with the zeitgeist, broken hearts, self discovery, suffering nobility, social conscience. This transitional feel, of its time, of the adolescence it can evoke, and of the band, is an evolving moment where things tip.

Listen to it by the sea.

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