Know Your Enemy

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Import edition of the Welsh alternative rock superstar's 2001 album, their first since the 1998 release, 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours'. 17 tracks including the singles, 'Found That Soul' and 'So Why So Sad'. Sony. * Out-of-print in the US.

Tracks:

Babes In Arms: 'My Funny Valentine'
Chee-Chee: 'I Must Love You'
Too Many Girls: 'I Didn't Know What Time It Was'
Chee-Chee: 'Moon Of My Delight'
I'd Rather Be Right: 'Ev'rybody Loves You'
Heads Up!: 'A Ship Without a Sail'
On Your Toes: 'Quiet Night'
A Connecticut Yankee (Revival): 'To Keep My Love Alive'
Too Many Girls: 'Love Never Went To College'
Too Many Girls (Film Version): 'You're Nearer'
Betsy: 'If I Were You'
Pal Joey: 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered'
Two Weeks With Pay: 'Now That I Know You'
Dearest Enemy: 'Bye And Bye'
Lido Lady: 'Atlantic Blues'
Babes In Arms: 'Where Or When'
The Boys From Syracuse: 'Falling in Love With Love'

Customer Reviews:

Truncated.......2007-02-19

I have only one objection to this album. She sings only 2 choruses of "To Keep My Love Alive" while the orchestra keeps playing the music over and over. A lyric like that, and they play just the music! There was plenty of time to put the whole lyric in. "If I Were You" (an imitated idea, most notably to my mind by Adams & Strouse in "All American") is a knock-out, and on this one she sings both verses (there is only one chorus). Highly recommended (if you can find it) anyway. "To Keep..." can be heard in it's entirety on other recordings, like on the revival cast recording of "Connecticut Yankee" by Vivienne Segal (on 2 releases!). Now if someone would just record the complete lyrics of "Mt. Greenery" and "Manhattan" - for a change!

a hidden classic.......2006-10-07

Von Stade is in very fine voice on this CD, and her rendition of "My Funny Valentine" is one of the best ever, with a rich, expressive delivery. Her voice has sometimes been considered too operatic for pop material but on this she's just right. Other standouts are "Moon Of My Delight" and the playful "To Keep My Love Alive" but the whole album is solid.

Wonderful record.......2002-11-11

A wonderful record !! Mrs. Von Stade's voice is perfect. I also raccomend this recond because all the arrengments are recreations from the original shows.

exquisite album.......2000-11-10

Contained in this CD are some of the most beautiful versions of the great timeless songs of Rogers and Hart. Coductor John McGlinn's orchestrations are flawless, as are Frederica's vocals. My favorites are 'I Didn't Know What Time It Was', 'My Funny Valentine', 'Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered', 'Atlantic Blues' and 'A Ship Without a Sail'. Every song is well done and everyone I have turned on to this album loves it.

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Know you're the enemy

Know Your Enemy
Manic Street Preachers
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

Britpop | British Alternative | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music

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ASIN: B00005ALJL
Release Date: 2001-03-05

Tracks:

Found That Soul
Ocean Spray
Intravenous Agnostic
So Why So Sad
Let Robeson Sing
The Year Of Purification
Wattsville Blues
Miss Europa Disco Dancer
Dead Martyrs
His Last Painting
My Guernica
The Convale Scent
Royal Correspondent
Epicentre
Baby Elian
Freedom Of Speech Won't Feed My Children

Album Description

Import edition of the Welsh alternative rock superstar's 2001 album, their first since the 1998 release, 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours'. 17 tracks including the singles, 'Found That Soul' and 'So Why So Sad'. Sony. * Out-of-print in the US.

Album Details

Britain's Best Band Returns after the Triumph of their '...truth' LP, which Made them the Rock Darlings of the UK. The Band Go Against the Grain with the Release of Two Singles at Once with 'so Why So Sad' and ' Found that Soul'.

Customer Reviews:

Know you're the enemy.......2001-04-16

The Manic Street Preachers might be the most aptly named band I've ever heard. They've always been a bit too smart for the States, and that might explain why "Know Your Enemy", their most American radio-friendly album to date, won't get much airplay here. Well, that, and the theme of the album, which is a wonderfully scathing indictment of the Americanization of the world.

The first two singles, "Found that Soul" and "So why So sad" make a nice introduction to the album - calling up the ghosts of Joe Strummer and Brian Wilson respectively. "Year of Purification" might be the best song REM never wrote.

Although I'd probably get smashed over the head with something if I ever mentioned it in front of the Manics, this album reminds me, above all else, of U2's "Achtung Baby". Not so much as the album sounds like U2, but that it seems like a radical re-working of a band, a new direction, embracing irony, maturity, and technology. Listening to "Miss Europa Disco Dancer" or "Wattsville Blues" makes me think of, well, "Zooropa" and "Numb".

The standouts, though, on the first few listenings of the album are the final two 'proper' tracks - "Baby Elian" and "Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children". It's strange to hear a perspective of the Elian debacle that so closely matches my own, considering that I actually live in Florida, and I don't think that these Brits have ever even visited the State that threw the election.

The Manics will probably never live up to the frenzied brilliance of "The Holy Bible", and they might never again capture the earnestness of "Everything Must Go", but "Know Your Enemy" is still better than 99% of the music you'll hear on the radio today.

Know Your Enemy (Import)
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Know Your Enemy (Import)
Gary Lucas , Defunkt , and False Virgins
Manufacturer: Enemy / Brake Out (Germany)
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0007XFCFS