Seven Year Itch [Import]

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"dizzy" is the Last Recording Made by the Banshees in 1997, after their Split. It Sits Comfortably Amongst the Household Classics that Structured their Career Even Though it was Recorded Nearly 20 Years after their First Album "Scream". Includes a 32 Page Mini Booklet with CD and Poster. One Track Only.

Tracks:

I Got The Will
Jump Into My Fire
Shakey Ground
Come To Mama
Damn Your Eyes
Breaking Up Somebody's Home
Jealous Kind
How Strong Is A Woman
It Ain't Always What You Do
One Night

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The three albums Etta James made for Island Records in the late 1980s are quirky productions, but this compilation culled from those recordings is a winning alternative. The beauty and righteous anger she evokes in "Damn Your Eyes" is alone worth the price. Her romantic side gets tapped for "A Lover Is Forever" and "Out of the Rain." But the best numbers flex her raw vocal muscle. "Beware," "Feel Like Breakin' Up Somebody's Home," and her redo of "Come to Mama" are all fire-breathing performances, worthy of the still-reigning queen of rhythm & blues. --Ted Drozdowski

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One of her best.......2007-03-01

I have seen Etta James live twice and both times it was amazing. One of the reasons I love this album so much is because it captures the live feel of her shows. As a live performer she's raw, strong, and powerful. Of the five or so Etta James albums I own, I always come back to this one. "Damn Your Eyes" is one of my all time favorite songs. Last time I had a chance to see her, she performed it as a medley with Besame Mucho and she tore down the place. This album, in my opinion, has the best collection of songs on any album she has done.

Etta is Great.......2006-11-05

This is a Tough Etta Record , the band is hot and features many R&B greats. The production may leave some people [pretty picky people] a little cold as it has that 80's kind of sound , mainly due to the use of a fairlight computer always well masked mind you and also because it was made in the 80's.! It contains most of my favorite Etta James moments, and is a damm classic that shouldn't be missed.

Etta does it again.......2006-07-14

The first song I ever heard Etta sing was "Damn Your Eyes" on Johnny Carson. I was instantly hooked, and bought my first Etta James cassette (yes, cassette...) the next day. Since then, I have purchased much of her music, and saw her live, in LA. What a performer, if you get a chance, see her live, she will make performers half her age look sick and talentless. This CD is my favorite I have(so far).

old fan.......2005-11-20

Etta James sings, quite simply, the way these songs should be sung. She delivers the precise amount of emotion and emphasis to each note and pause. It's what sets her apart.

Damn Your Eyes.......2005-08-07

Etta is great when she gets hold of a good song. Damn Your Eyes is one of those songs.

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If it itches....SCRATCH IT!!!
siouxsie - chopped and screwed.,
truly magnificent
A different kind of live album
Seven Year Itch: Unfaithful to a once-great band

The Seven Year Itch
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records
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ASIN: B0000A4GG4
Release Date: 2003-07-22

Tracks:

PURE
JIGSAW FEELING
METAL POSTCARD
RED LIGHT
LULLABY
LANDS END
I COULD BE AGAIN
ICON
NIGHT SHIFT
VOODOO DOLLY
BLUE JAY WAY
MONITOR
PEEK-A-BOO
Peek-A-Boo

Customer Reviews:

If it itches....SCRATCH IT!!!.......2006-09-23

I was going to write a review complaining about Sioux's voice and the head scratching decision that they left off my favorite song "Cities In Dust"....ok, well I'll still complain about that! But for the voice, one of the reviewers had written that it wasn't about bland precision of the vocals, but art. And he's right. Early Banshee recordings showcased Siouxs almost tone deaf screeches of an unexperienced punk singer. And it worked! Now, with time and a whole lot of cigarettes, Siouxsie's voice is lower and harsher, but still retains the passion of an up and comer. We were pretty spoiled with her 80s near perfect range, and really that was her best songwriting and singing era. But...it was still different from the melisma "let's sing loud and hold a note for 5 minutes to disguise no talent" like what's been going around now *coughamericanidolcoughcough*. It seems every Disney channel/Nickelodeon pre-teen has magically produced the ability to "sing"(i'll use that term lightly).
But getting back to the album. It's got more older album tracks to satisfy hardcore fans, plus a few well known ones ("Peek-A-Boo", "Spellbound" and the afore mentioned "Cities in Dust", which isn't on the cd for some reason), plus a cover of The Beatles' "Blue Jay Way", which was never heard before. The cd digs deep into the earlier years, opening with "Pure/Jigsaw Feeling" and "Metal Postcard" from 1978's The Scream. Plus, a big treat for myself, "Icon" from their 1979 album Join Hands. Then it goes into a great, sexy rendition of "Red Light", with amazing atmospheric guitars. "Christine" and the crowd jumper "Happy House" follows, all from 1980's Kaleidoscope. There also is one of their great b-sides "Lullaby" and "I could Be Again", and a heart stopping version of "lands end", from 1986's Tinderbox. But the album that gets the most play is Juju, and rightfully so, since many consider it their best work. A great version of "Nightshift" that goes hauntingly into their hypnotic, frenzy "Voodoo Dolly", and you swear that Siouxsie is possessed by this song. She's up there in age, but you'd never know it by watching that performance.Plus for the encore we get "Spellbound" and the upbeat (but not in subject) "Monitor". Once dissapointment though, was "Peek-A-Boo". They got those frog outfitted Japanese girls from their supporting act X-Girl to performe with them, and it all seemed to schlocky (note:if you seen the DVD, notice the "hand jive" from Mr.Severin. Cringe worthy). But overall, this is a priceless cd to have. They were always great live performers, and they never strayed too far away from their attitude by the barrelful live past.

siouxsie - chopped and screwed., .......2006-06-09

yup, she drops it all an octave and throws in some scratchin'.

gotta love it.

truly magnificent.......2005-06-23

i really agree that sioux voice is not the same like in the past
but that does not means that we have to rated with only one star
that is ridiculous. the sound of this gig is awesome..
incredible perdormance by everybody, knox chandler was incredible, also steve but the monster of mosnter of this concert was budgie..mama miaaaa.

please if you dont own the dvd please buy it.
i had my doubts to buy this cd and the DVD...but after i saw the concert on europa channel on sunday 19 jun at night iwas completely in shock...

please buy this cd..it is awesome, even though the sioux voice is not that bad after 7 years of abscence..please the real fans dont have to be so cruel about siouxsie voice.

please buy this cd...increedible concert ..

you will enjoy it for sure..

regards..Maurice from venezuela

A different kind of live album.......2004-11-09

You know those concerts where you go and watch an artist, especially one that's been around for a while, long enough to build up a catalogue of classics, and they go through the motions of playing all their hits by the numbers and not much else, maybe they play some songs from the new album if there is one, and while it's kind of cool to see a classic song played live, a part of you is bored because there aren't any surprises, and you feel like you could have stayed at home and played a greatest hits CD and saved yourself a lot of money?

This CD is pretty much the opposite of that kind of show.

One single. Two b-sides. One previously unrecorded cover song. And a lot of digging deep into the back catalogue for songs you probably haven't heard in a while.

If the recent "best of" compilation gave short shrift to their early work, this album makes up for it. The show opens with three tracks from the band's 1978 debut, then jumps ahead a couple years for the sinister "Red Light." The howling guitars in the background are almost frightening. "Lullaby," one of the Banshees' best b-sides is next, followed by "Lands End," another 'Tinderbox'-era cut. Then it's another jump ahead for the only relatively recent track, the "Fear" b-side "I Could Be Again." 'Juju,' arguably the band's best album, is rightfully represented by three cuts, including the disturbing future visions of "Monitor" and the incredibly creepy "Voodoo Dolly"...listen...LISTEN...

George Harrison's "Blue Jay Way" is given the Banshees treatment. The album finishes with the only song you'd have expected them to play, "Peek-a-Boo." Instead of the boys jumping in with vocals, there is a trio of female backing vocalists for the chorus, while some of the normally overlapping vocals are omitted. It still sounds like fun.

Knox Chandler (The Psychedelic Furs, The Golden Palominos) handles guitar here, as he did for their last regular tour. This show (actually a combination of two consecutive nights in London) has a much rawer sound than I heard when I saw them live for their last two albums, which is appropriate since they are playing mostly older material. Siouxsie's voice does indeed sound a bit off at times, but after I listened to the CD a few times I didn't notice it so much. It's all a part of the more primal nature of these particular performances. If you want to hear a concert album that isn't just a singles record set to audience noise, this is the one to pick up.

Seven Year Itch: Unfaithful to a once-great band.......2004-06-15

I used to have Siouxsie's name inscribed on my pencil-case. But after seeing her live in 83 in the Wellington Town Hall, with Robert Smith on guitar, I moved the inscription to my heart. (Mainly for the music, but there was also the way she nearly dented some particularly obnoxious audience members, shaven-headed boot-wearers who admired Hitler, with a deft swing of the microphone stand, which in those primitive days had a base made of concrete. All without missing a note: ahhh, Siouxsie...)

I'm a fan. I still list "Spellbound" somewhere in my top 20 songs, and I still have moods where only the thunder of the Banshees and Siouxsie in full cry will really do. I've even tried to persuade people that the Cure were the second best band that Robert Smith played guitar in. (I usually lose that argument, but win the fall-back position that the Banshees' _Nocturne_ is the best album he ever played on.)

So I bought the "Seven Year Itch" concert DVD the moment I saw it, expecting a nice dark romantic energy transfusion. And I got a serious disappointment instead.

The first five or so songs are performed in a sort of monotone muttering, not only by Siouxsie herself, who seems to have spent the last 10 years smoking and coughing, but also by the Banshees. But those first songs were never my favourites anyway, so my expectations lifted again when Siouxsie announced "Happy House". "Happy House" always had a nice line in obsessive incantatory power. But as performed by the new Siouxsie, it doesn't even have a tune any more, let alone any power. After that, "Christine" came and went without even conjuring up a ghost, a faded wisp, of the glorious song that it ought to be. More muttering from Siouxsie, more off-hand rumbling from the Banshees. And then I took the DVD off, since this was too damn depressing for words.

A few days later I tried "Spellbound", on the theory that the song is damn near indestructible, and surely it would galvanise even this batch of Banshees into some sort of life.
Tester's report: "Spellbound" not indestructible. Banshees still shambolical. Siouxsie still lost her voice.

So. As an irrationally passionate Siouxsie and the Banshees fan, I'm here to warn you that this hideous travesty is not only awful in its own right, but it can have a sort of reverse halo effect, seriously tarnishing the memory of some great music. The cure, after hearing as much of this as you can stand, is to play _Nocturne_, the Banshees' 1983 live album, which is all the proof you need that the Banshees were a brilliant live band with an awe-inspiring catalogue of songs.

Buy _Nocturne_ instead, if you don't already have it; it's virtually a best-of, up to 1983, with versions that often improve on the studio originals. But whatever you do, don't succumb to _the Seven Year Itch_.

Love Is a Many Splendored Thing/ Seven Year Itch/ Leave Her to Heaven [Soundtrack]
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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing/ Seven Year Itch/ Leave Her to Heaven [Soundtrack]

Manufacturer: Soundstage Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0007TL47C

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1. MAIN TITLE (from Love is a Many Splendored Thing) 2. NIGHTSCENE-FALLING IN LOVE 3. BEACH SCENE-SWIMMING ACROSS THE BAY 4. DEATH AND FINALE 5. MAIN TITLE (from The Seven Year Itch) 6. THE WOLVES OF MANHATTAN 7. THE TOMATOE UPSTAIRS 8. DINNER AND A MOVIE 9. THE KISS 10. DOWN THE STAIRS 11. WHAT A GIRLS REALLY WANTS 12. LEAVING FOR THE COUNTRY 13. END TITLE 14. MAIN TITLE (from Leave Her To Heaven) 15. TRAIN MUSIC 16. NIGHT SCENE-SPREADING THE ASHES 17. WARM SPRINGS-DANNY 18. NEWLYWEDS-FIRST DINNER 19. ELEEN AND DANNY ON THE LAKE 20. BAR HARBOR-DICK'S SUSPICIONS 21. WINDY DAY-JEALOUSY 22. ELEEN PLAN-FALL DOWN THE STAIRS 23. THE LETTER-POISON 24. FINALE

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Brings back memories
Casual Listiner Loved This CD
Ultra Cheesy 80s Pop Masterpieces
WITHOUT A DOUBT, PLATINUM BLONDE AT THEIR PLATINUM BEST
Blondes United!!

Seven Year Itch: 1982-1989
Platinum Blonde
Manufacturer: Sbme Import
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ASIN: B00002ZZMO
Release Date: 1999-09-07

Tracks:

It Doesn't Really Matter
Holy Water
Automatic Drive
Animal
Not In Love
Sad Sad Rain
Crying Over You
Contact
Chaperone Sally
Somebody, Somewhere
All Fall Down
Lost In Space
Situation Critical
Standing In The Dark
Hungry Eyes
Cinderella Story

Album Description

'Best Of' for Canadian pop-rock act. 16 tracks including 'It Doesn't Really Matter' and 'Holy Water'. Digitally remastered. 16 page booklet contains photos, liner notes and commentary from vocalist Mark Holmes. 1999 release. Standard jewel case.

Album Details

The Ground Breaking Hits as Well as Critical Tracks and Personal Band Selections. Complete with 16 Pages of Liner Notes, Rare Photos and Mark Holmes Intimate Recollections of the Band's Seven Year Career. Features 16 Newly Remastered Tracks.

Customer Reviews:

Brings back memories.......2006-01-22

I have all 3 albums on cassettes and was not able to listen to them. This CD is an excellent idea. I am glad I decided to search for PB CDs. The commentary Mark does for each song is great.

Casual Listiner Loved This CD.......2004-11-02

When I first herd them I thought they where good but I had herd there second album.But them I herd there first.Its great.And Some people may disagree but I say they where hair metal in there early years.Not In Love has a real Whitesnake metal balad feel.And in the video there pulling off a total metal stage act.The drummer spinnin his stix and there's a bit of coreography.I still say there pop metal.Not just pop.And a great band all in all.

Ultra Cheesy 80s Pop Masterpieces.......2003-04-19

Ok everyone, when you see the back cover of this cd you know you are in for an 80s cheese fest. But surprise, surprise, Platinum Blonde is one hell of an underrated band, in the same league as Honeymoon Suite or even Duran Duran, the blondes have made some of the best 80s pop ever. Songs like Situation Critical, Lost In Space and Standing in the Dark are just some of the greats includes on this cd.

So, If you love 80s cheese pop, you are in for a threat, if not beware...I warned you.

WITHOUT A DOUBT, PLATINUM BLONDE AT THEIR PLATINUM BEST.......2001-07-15

This great group from Toronto reminds any follower to be thankful for such considerable R'nR accomplishment (even if it was short-lived). Although many promotional shots taken of this band make them seem like glamour-boy pop icons, one listen to their music proves how wrongly they were portrayed. Any glitter rock or glossy image that found its way to the marketplace was due to the uncompromising sales-pitch techniques of Epic's label company and/or persuasive scheme motives of co-producer Eddy Offord. Hard-synthesized guitar combinations, solid drumming and a lot of true-grit emotion and energy confirms the truth combining this no-frills attached 80's rock dynamo.

Luckily, every song favorite packs itself into this compilation. No need to think, "Well, I'll buy this hit segment until their next `best of` anthology is released to fill any gaps." An all-round better value and group representation than having stacked one on top the other their three preceding album undertakings only filling up space up in your collection. As an option to the reader(s), my suggestion would likewise be (for instance) to put aside some old Loverboy hit's CD release and make room for this superior Canadian group chronology instead...

Blondes United!!.......2001-05-23

While not as gripping as their debut effort, this collection tracks the band through their seven year history. All the essential tracks are here, from gritty to glossy, this collection covers it. Definately a pre-cursor to their latest effort...no.9 I can taste the 80's now!!

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What's with Siouxsie's voice?
Sadly, Siouxsie can't sing in tune anymore.
So you don't think she has a pretty voice . . .
This is real bad...
Siouxsie still thrills!

The Seven Year Itch
Siouxsie and the Banshees
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ASIN: B0000793XW
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

Pure
Jigsaw Feeling
Metal Postcard
Red Light
Lullaby
Lands End
I Could Be Again
Icon
Night Shift
Voodoo Dolly
Trust in Me
Blue Jay Way
Monitor
Peek-A-Boo

Album Details

"dizzy" is the Last Recording Made by the Banshees in 1997, after their Split. It Sits Comfortably Amongst the Household Classics that Structured their Career Even Though it was Recorded Nearly 20 Years after their First Album "Scream". Includes a 32 Page Mini Booklet with CD and Poster. One Track Only.

Customer Reviews:

What's with Siouxsie's voice?.......2004-06-23

The big controversy concerning this CD is the quality of Siouxsie Sioux's voice. It sounds different to say the least. It's deeper and she seems to struggle to hit the notes. Was she sick or what?

On the other hand, why would she release this recording if she wasn't happy with the results? I think you can make the case that her voice sounds creepy and compliments the dark subject matter of most of these songs. Rock n' Roll isn't always about being pretty, after all.

The band sounds AWESOME and former Psychedelic Fur Knox Chandler fits right in, providing a gorgeously gothic guitar. But in all HONESTY, I'll be sticking with the original recordings that feature the Siouxsie voice I know and love.

Sadly, Siouxsie can't sing in tune anymore........2004-01-28

Let me first say that I am a MAJOR Siouxsie & The Banshees fan, and have been for many, many years. I didn't add this uncharacteristically awful album to my iTunes collection of the entire Siouxsie & the Banshees catalog, because the out-of-tune singing is unbearable. I can only wonder what Siouxsie herself thinks of this album. Maybe the monitors on stage were not supporting her the way she needed, but she very rarely comes close to hitting a note during the entire show. The band sounds a bit thin, with only Budgie turning in a performance that could be considered memorable. But the singing... ugh.

So you don't think she has a pretty voice . . ........2003-08-19

Well maybe you've missed what's most wonderful about her.

Remember first that the Banshees happened in the years of do-it-yourself music-making of the late 1970s. The point then wasn't to craft a polished presentation, but to figure out a few chords on the guitar and say what was on your mind. When it worked best, it was because a band had a point of view that resonated with the rest of us.

Over time, the Banshees' experiments with the technical requirements for presenting that point of view began to describe a truly new style. The rich layers of sound they created in the studio grew naturally out of the world view of their music and lyrics. But different media allow - or require - different means to communicate the thought and emotion at the heart of a work. If the recording studio lends itself to a careful assemblage of those baroque layers of sound, the stage offers an immediacy and connection with an audience that more than compensates for any lack of technical expertise.

Sioux doesn't sing pretty. She often can't hit a note with one strike. So she slides around it, sometimes missing it completely. But each pass of her voice conveys more art than all of Broadway's bland precision could muster in an entire season. Like other great chanteuses, when the technical accuracy of her voice fails her, she finds other ways to get to where she needs to be. She's a stylist and, in that regard, has more in common with Marlene Dietrich than with Doris Day. Now, would you rather listen to a personal and emotional expression in song or a marching band?

This album is noticeably devoid of most of the band's hits. It's a look back at their twenty-year career and gives us some perspective on how they got to this place.

Hearing the early tunes refracted through the prism of Sioux's more mature voice, we are transported. The sharp edges of those post-Punk endeavors sound more chipped and craggy now; they evoke the whole world of emotion and experience that has passed through her in the years between, waiting tightly coiled in the spaces and unfurling like a sea anemone as she slips her voice over each rough spot.

It's a great collection and includes the wonderful "Lullaby." This expression of tenderness for the innocent caught in a world rife with pain and desolation brings tears to my eyes each time I hear it.

Oh yeah, and the band sounds wonderful, too.

If you're a fan or you just want to know what all the fuss is about, buy this album. It's an important piece of performance. If you want a pretty voice, get a Sarah McLachlan disc.

This is real bad..........2003-07-08

I have followed this band from my teens to my adulthood, and have seen them at least a dozen times-they are my heros! Unfortunately, I have to give this one star-I am sorry but Siouxsies' voice is absolutely cringe-inducing, I saw this tour 3 times in 2002, and her voice was the same too. I kept hopeing it would get better-but it didn't. I am really surprised they put this out. Sioux is so off key, her range is shot-and the band isn't that great either. It's a shame; but hey-they do have some AMAZING studio albums!

Siouxsie still thrills!.......2003-06-04

Seven years apart has had little effect on Siouxsie and the Banshees. Her followers were out in full force on last years 7 year itch tour and judging from her cheering fans Siouxsie still has the ability to thrill. Their music seems even more relevant today considering most of the garbage on the radio these days. Siouxsie's voice is as icy and hoarse as ever from years of touring but we wouldn't have it any other way - her voice has always been part of their appeal. Listening to old screamfests like "Pure", "Voodoo Dolly" and "Monitor" sounds just as good as they did 20 years ago. Budgies drumming is excellent especially on "Land's End". Strangely enough, some of their biggest hits from the concerts like "Christine", "Happy House" and "Cities in Dust" are not included on this CD.

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The Seven Year Itch
Angelica
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