18-09-2013, 10:10
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IMELDA MAY "mayhem" cd, 2010.
album chart placings: #1 UK, #46 AU, #108 US.
singles chart placings:
"johnny got a boom boom"...#88 UK.
"psycho"............................no chart placings.
"kentish town waltz"............#25 UK.
"mayhem"..........................#24 UK.
"inside out"........................no chart placings.
"sneaky freak"....................no chart placings.
Irish born Imelda's third album...wasnt sure whether to put this here or in the jazz/big band threads as theres a lot of that going on here, along with dixieland, rockabilly, and a touch of what you'd call alternative...
to describe her vocals i'd say...somewhere between Adele and Amy Winehouse, in fact the sticker on the album quotes "mojo" magazine and states a genuinely great voice that revs like a hotrod at the start line!...and that just about sums her up IMO also...
all the songs on here were either written by Imelda or mambers of her band except one...and that is a cover of the Soft Cell classic Tainted Love in which Imelda mixes jazz and rockabilly to update it and it works quite well, well, better than the Marilyn Manson version a few years ago anyway...
pretty hard to pick a favourite off this one from the three love tracks but im going for the beautiful ballad this time round...
album scores a respectable 2.2 from me, here's a couple of links starting with my favourite track "kentish town waltz"
from the album:
kentish town waltz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEYZx7Wc7E live
"johnny got a boom boom"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om9p0NUNlSk live
"all for you"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4bSReiy6U audio
"BTO....Bachman,Turner,Overweight
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.
They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.