Comments, Reviews, Requests and Thanks at the Bottom... Easy to trim off if you want to keep
the technical info but dispense with any of my self opinionated rambling and bullshit ;-)
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Artist : The Divine Comedy
Title : Casanova
Year : 1996
Label : Setanta
Genre : Indie
Ripped By : dogbowl on 09/12/2006
Post Date : dogbowl on 10/12/2006
Groups :
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1990s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie
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Technical:
Source : CD
Encoder : Exact Audio Copy 0.95b4 (Secure mode)
Codec : LAME 3.97b2
ACLO : -V 2 --vbr-new
Bitrate : VBR ~237K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3
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Track Listing:
1. Something For The Weekend (4:19)
2. Becoming More Like Alfie (2:59)
3. Middle-Class Heroes (5:26)
4. In & Out Of Paris & London (3:27)
5. Charge (5:27)
6. Songs Of Love (3:26)
7. The Frog Princess (5:13)
8. A Woman Of The World (4:12)
9. Through A Long & Sleepless Night (6:12)
10. Theme From Casanova (5:52)
11. The Dogs & The Horses (5:14)
Total Playing Time: 51:51 (min:sec)
Total Size : 76.2 MB (79,911,832 bytes)
As Standard : .nfo / .sfv / .m3u
Extras (if any):
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Comments (if any):
Considered to be The Divine Comedy's breakthrough album this one sold stacks on the
novelty strength of Something For The Weekend... However... further investigation would reveal
this to be a great album full of pop gems. I particularly enjoy the last note Neil sings
at the end of Long And Sleepless Night that starts at 5.45 and ends at 6.06... There are
not many pop singers that can hold a note lasting 21 seconds (apart from Morten Harket from
A-ha who, surprisingly, holds the record for the longest note in a pop record... how the feck
I know that I don't know)
Standout Track/s (if any):
Long And Sleepless Night, Woman Of The World, In And Out Of Paris And London, Something, Alfie,
Charge
What's been and gone and still to come:
Fanfare For The Comic Muse <---Posted 09 December
Liberation <---Posted 09 December
Promenade <---Posted 10 December
Casanova <---Posted 10 December
A Short Album About Love
Fin De Siècle
A Secret History
Regeneration
Absent Friends
Victory For The Comic Muse
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Review / Notes (if any):
Turning back to a slightly more straightforward rock/pop format turned out to be
advantageous for Hannon; Casanova turned into a smash hit in the U.K., while the singles
"Something for the Weekend" (at once soaring, cheeky, leering, and truly weird, with
lyrics detailing a guy led astray by his lover and attacked by her secret thug companions)
and "Becoming More Like Alfie" (a sly '60s acoustic pop number with solid percussion,
sampling the Michael Caine movie in question and reflecting on how all the wrong people
in life seem to get the girls) became Top Ten charters. Recruiting the equivalent of a
full orchestra didn't hurt either, fleshing out the classical/art rock/pop Divine Comedy
fusion to even more expansive ranges than before, while drummer Allison and Hannon
continued overseeing and co-producing everything, again demonstrating their careful
collective ear for the proceedings. Hannon's lyrical music fires on all cylinders as
well, from the cockeyed vision of romance in "The Frog Princess" (with more than one
low-key French reference in both lyrics and sweeping music) to the wickedly funny and
elegant "Songs of Love," detailing how boys and girls seem to be in heat everywhere
while all the songwriters are stuck alone writing the title objects in question. In
the meantime, there are great one-off moments scattered throughout Casanova. For instance,
Hannon's impersonation of a modern dandy as fortune teller at the start of "Middle-Class
Heroes" is to die for. He also does one of the best Barry White takeoffs yet recorded in
the mid-song break of "Charge," packed with Tennyson references and army commands amidst
swirling strings and an increasingly loud beat. After topping that off with "Theme From
Casanova," a slightly tongue-in-cheek number detailing all the basic credits and
inspiration for the album, the result is a massive project that hits the jackpot with
smiles all around.
Links (if any):
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Requests:
Hot Hands compilation (Throwing Muses and Kristin Covers...)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Dis
Anthony Burr & Skuli Sverrisson - A Thousand Incidents Arise
Skuli Sverrisson - Seremonie
HI-FI SKY - Music for Synchronized Swimming in Space
Delaney And Bonnie - Home
Justice For Jimbob - My Fathers Handbag Tattoo
Bitch Sniffer - Take Off Your Suicide Shorts
Acetone High - A Fascination With Elbow Licking (My Own)
Various Artists - Like A Daydream (The Story Of Shoegazing)
Various Artists - They'll Have To Catch Us First (Domino records Compilation)
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Majestic Grill
The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Mud, The Blood & The Beer
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Cherry Red Jukebox
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Thanks To:
Never Lose That Feeling - cheers elboweyes and thenovelty
+/- - cheers mineral
The usual suspects posting good stuff and being nice....
and people with beards...
and Father Christmas...
and Kristin Hersh...
