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Music CD - Regina Spektor: Soviet Kitsch
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Music CD: Soviet Kitsch
Artist: Regina Spektor
List Price: $9.98
Our Price: $6.53
Your Save: $ 3.45 ( 35% )
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Manufacturer: Sire
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Tracks:
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1. Ode To Divorce
2. Poor Little Rich Boy
3. Carbon Monoxide
4. The Flowers
5. Us
6. Sailor Song
7. ***
8. Your Honor
9. Ghost Of Corporate Future
10. Chemo Limo
11. Somedays
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624889021
Label: Sire
Manufacturer: Sire
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sire
Release Date: 2004-09-21
Studio: Sire
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Better than a Cold War
Comment: This is wonderful. "Us" is a perfect song. One that you hear 20 years later and realize that it is a classic. But there are other great songs too. "Ghost of Corporate Futures" and "Poor little rich Boy" are my favorites.
She captures something real in "Carbon Monoxide" and "Chemo Limo". Buy everything you can find from Regina.
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Summary: definitely wort buying
Comment: Thank god for tori amos... otherwise we would not have those wacky offbeat artists like REGINA SPEKTOR. the album is good worth buying. Us is her best song on the album. Give it try buy it used in case you hate it you did not lose that much money.
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Summary: almost too beautiful for words....
Comment: You know if there's something I've seen/read/listened to/eaten that almost defies the words I would (normally) use to describe it that this is indicative of something exceptional. This is the case with SOVIET KITSCH, Russian-born and Bronx-bred Regina Spektor's third musical release. We can hear the influences that this passionate and prolific (Spektor claims to have written over 700 songs, at the tender age of 28) musician draws from. They include the Yiddish klezmer music of her Russian-Jewish heritage, "drunken sailor" songs (an example of this being the rowdy "Sailor Song" that sounds like a composition written at 3:00 AM in a smoky bar somewhere), soulful ballads ("Somedays") and much more. Though, for some, Spektor's unbridled and very distinctive vocals might prove to be too much, for me, they work brilliantly with her wildly eclectic tunes. She has been compared to everyone from Bjork to Tori Amos. Though, her vocals are soft, at times, and screeching at others, I really think Regina Spektor has a truly unusual and captivating sound comparable to none. And yes, she does play the piano and sing about quirky and unexpected topics, not unlike Amos, but Spektor is as far from a copy cat as you can get. How many copy cats have you heard of who can successfully meld together blues, r&b, gospel, folk and classical influences, all the while singing about topics like divorce, carbon monoxide and chemotherapy? Personally, I can't think of one. Buy this album today and draw your own conclusions about this marvelous young artist.
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Summary: A True Original
Comment: Regina Spector is a true original, a post-punker who sings cabaret in a sweet voice limited in range, augmented by the frailest falsetto. But it works. Her lyrics, like the best of the cabaret singers, are interesting. The tunes grab one's attention, and her spare piano accompaniment provides a setting for her haunting, often despairing, often angry lyrics. I love, love, love her!
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Summary: Not ready for prime time
Comment: Although her voice is lovely and there is promise there, these riff's are rife with potential only. Poor production and a lousy choice of tunage disappoints.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Imagine a female singer-songwriter- pianist for The Strokes generation. Imagine Regina Spektor,who has not only opened for The Strokes but whose major label debut album, Soviet Kitsch, was co-produced by one of that band's producers (Gordon Raphael).Imagine a driven, complex and endearing new artist with a sense of pop melody and clever songwriting,and with charisma to spare. Imagine no more.
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