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The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity Audio CD

A fair review of the The Cardigans "Super Extra Gravity" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Cardigans reviews here, or go back to the The Cardigans tabs.

The Cardigans Band: The Cardigans
Title: Super Extra Gravity
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Release Date: 2005-10-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Losing a Friend 2: Godspell 3: Drip Drop Teardrop 4: Overload 5: I Need Some Fine Wine and You, You Need to Be Nicer 6: Don't Blame Your Daughter (Diamonds) 7: Little Black Cloud 8: In the Round 9: Holy Love 10: Good Morning Joan 11: And Then You Kissed Me II

Oh my!
Each track was painful to get through. Im a big fan of the band but this cd sucked. If you really like The Cardigans, don't buy this. Every band has an off album in their catalog; this is theirs.


From a different angle...
The song is magnificent! It's loaded with range, texture and contains an epic feel(e. Just got through watching American Idol with Allison Iraheta being voted off and these thoughts come to mind: As when Adam Lambert renewed "Mad World" to the the viewing public, Allison could have brought us 'Godspell' from The Cardigans. g. Bohemian Rhapsody). And what's more, no one can yell "Karioke!" while she is revealing this beautiful song to the masses. Just a thought. . Oh yeah, Super Extra Gravity is absolutely wonderful.


Best Cardigan Album
The style of music that they chose for this album rocks. I love how the Cardigans evolve on each album, but for the first time the lead singer is using a tremendous amount of different vocals. .


Disappointing
I was shocked at how good their 2004 album, Long Gone Before Daylight was. I have listened to and enjoyed the Cardigans since I spent a year in Finland in 98 when Gran Turismo came out and was overplayed like crazy. And I was equally surprised at how much this album sucked. The annoying thing is that I can't put my finger on why. It is just boring, not well developed and uninteresting. The one exception is the song Good Morning Joan which is excellent and probably belongs on the Long Gone Before Daylight album. I was so excited to buy this album because of how good Long Gone Before Daylight was, damn what a disappointment.


feminism unbound
In every song, Persson crafts a kind of persona, a character that she either complicates from within or derides or sympathizes with from without, sometimes both. It's funny, but nobody ever talks about the brilliant lyrics that Nina Persson writes, and "Super Extra Gravity" is no exception. But you can see from songs like "Don't Blame Your Daughter" or "Good Morning Joan" that she has this keen psychological view of the experiences women go through: from their objectification as store goods to their idealization as keepers of the divine to their abasement as dogs or slaves. Persson takes these positions and turns them around, as one would a prism or sphere of the world in miniature, holding up certain facets to the light and casting the others in darkness. In arguing for the hope in despair and the desperation in success, she turns phrases in ordinary conversation into moments of ironic revelation, regret, longing, or empathy. Someone should write a book about her as a poet -- it's so under the radar, maybe because the music is also so good and maybe because she's pretty. But the complex emotions she is able to capture with her lyrics alone make this band the best kept secret in pop music, anywhere. Songs like "Little Black Cloud" paint in broad strokes a scene, an atmosphere, a character, and a feeling that everyone who has felt true joy will identify immediately ("I look pretty great tonight, oh yeah! Little black cloud / I don't want to go home / I'm not done yet").

I listen to a lot of music, but don't know a lot of songwriters who can evoke the same range, at least not today. Cheers to an ethereal talent and the amazing musicianship that surrounds her. .


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