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Zinthra CD Reviews
Zeromancer and PJ Harvey

 

Artist : Zeromancer

Album : eurotrash

Date Released : 2002

Type Of Music : alternative, pop, keyboards…it of Cleopatra records

 

Track Listing :

1.      doctor online

2.      eurotrash

3.      need you like a drug

4.      chromebitch

5.      wannabe

6.      neo geish

7.      cupola

8.      send me an angel

9.      plasmatic

10.  raising hell

11.   philharmonic

12.  germany


Review :  Ok I have had this cd for a year now and still only like about 4 tracks off it. They include the opening track, just because it has this British women that pretends that she is an online phone recording that gives you options how  you can kill your self. This is kind of  like a play of  help lines, gone horribly wrong. Then eurotrash mainly for the clip (sample) that they use, once again. I don’t know most of the lyrics of it are something Orgy would have written on a bad day. And we all know what brilliant lyrics they all come up with.

  This is the kind of cd that you would put in if you are feeling immature and silly…with an new wave 80’s pop feel. There songs have a simple beat and defiantly are danceable, especially if you are a drunken  collage girl looking for attention on the dance floor.

 

Rating : **1/2 


By
: Zinthra

 

Web Site : www.zeromancer.com


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Artist : PJ Harvey

Album : uh huh her

Date Released : 2004

Type Of Music : alternative, soulful girl-full

 

Track Listing :

1.      the life and death of bad …

2.      shame

3.      who the fuck?

4.      pocket knife

5.      the letter

6.      the slow drug

7.      no child of mine

8.      cat on the wall

9.      the radio

10.  you come through

11.   it’s you

12.  the end

13.  the desperate kingdom of love

14.  the darker days of him


Review : This cd came out about a month and a half ago, and of course I bought it right away being the girly girl that I am, however I could not decide what I felt about it until now. In some aspects this is kind of like a sampler cd of all the different type of music that she has made through out her career. With songs like “Who the fxxk” remind me of more of her “punk” days. If she ever had any. Then “pocket knife” is a classic eerie tale that sound like Patti Smith and  talks about how she can't where a wedding dress because it will stain….then she obscurely says “how did you feel when you were young? Because I feel like I’ve just been born, even though I’m getting old”. This is interesting to me because this is the first time in any of her songs where she has said that she’s getting old. She will always be 25 or 27 to me.

As I stated before, I felt that this cd was a over view of all her cd’s, yet for the most part it does flow together quite nicely. It is not all blotchy and overly time edited. Another thing that I wanted to mention about this cd was the art work for it. On the cover you see Polly looking stern at the camera while in a car…I’m am figuring that she took the picture her self just like the rest of the pictures in side the cd. It is a history of her life basically with pictures that she has taken of her self over the years. In some of them she looks lost, unhappy, despite, shy, rock star-ish, most of all in all of them she looks completely different. It’s like her facial structure has changed over the years..yet you know its her, her lips are different, her hair is different, make-up, eye brows…but it is still her under her skin.

           

Rating : ***1/2 

 

By : Zinthra

 

Web Site : www.pjharvey.net



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