Audio CD review:
Electronic - Twisted Tenderness: Deluxe

Electronic - Twisted Tenderness: Deluxe

Band: Electronic Title: Twisted Tenderness: Deluxe Rating: Release Date: 2001-10-09 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Make It Happen 2: Haze 3: Vivid 4: Breakdown 5: Can't Find My Way Home 6: Twisted Tenderness 7: Like No Other 8: Late At Night 9: Prodigal Son 10: When She's Gone 11: Flicker 12: King For A Day 13: Warning Sign 14: Make It Happen (remix) 15: Haze (alternative mix) 16: Prodigal Son (Star In Your Mind mix) 17: Radiation 18: Prodigal Son (Touched By The Hand Of Inch) 19: Prodigal Son (Two Lone Swordsmen) 20: Prodigal Son (Harvey's Greatly Deluded mix) 21: Come Down (Cevin Fisher mix)

A must have This album sounds more rockish than the previous work. As a long time fan of the Smiths and New Order and of course Electronic, in my opinion this is the best Marr and Sumner's Electronic album to date. Excellent guitar work in songs like Flicker, Late at Night, Haze and Vivid and great Techno in Twisted Tenderness. Also you don't want to miss the great song (should have been an A-Side!) Warning Sign. . Deluxe okay but not great. I consider the first three tracks on Disk 2 to be actually part of the end of Disk 1. Unless you get a good deal the deluxe version isn't worth getting as the only track that I listen to all the way through is Prodigal Son (Star In Your Mind mix) even though, ironically, it is the longest track. The best songs by far are the title track, Prodigal Son, Haze, Vivid, Make It Happen, King for a Day, and the first couple of minutes of Like No Other. I tend to skip over the remaining tracks. Great collaboration where the New Order influence dominates Does this collaboration work?. Electronic's latest album is full of guitar courtesy of the Smith's Johnny Marr, and great lyrics, songs, and the New Order sound courtesy of Bernard Sumner. . . . Totally! I purchased this cd prior to New Order's latest album "Get Ready". I have to say that musically and lyrically that I feel "Get Ready" is the better album. However, "Twisted Tenderness" is very strong. Most of the songs have guitar, synth, and big beats. I feel that Bernard Sumner probably wrote not only the lyrics, but the music also. The songs are very cohesive and sound like they were made by a seasoned musician who has mastered the art of making danceable rock songs. I have not heard a lot of New Order's older albums, but I would catorigize this album as a mix between "Republic's" dance songs and "Get Ready's" more guitar oriented songs. The mix works good. Anyway I highly recommend this album. The disk 2 offers I think two new songs and about 6 remixes of disk 1. So I think just buying "Twisted Tenderness" without the deluxe part would be good, unless you like remixes or as in my case they only had the Deluxe cd in stock. Best of its genre The obsessively tidy Sumner did a fantastic job making this album work cohesively and smoothly. A wonderful album. . . yet with a rough edge. I am a New Order/Electronic fan to the hilt and this is one of the best albums of that genre. I stick with disc one for the most part. Okay, but superfluous if you have the original. " After I listened to it I found myself wishing it had been "Raise the Pressure Deluxe. I was very excited when I first heard about "Twisted Tenderness Deluxe. " Yes, I love "Twisted Tenderness. " It's a mighty recording. "Haze" and "Vivid" absolutely blow my socks off! But I was expecting more. More like the outtakes from "Raise the Pressure" which wound up on the B-sides of singles like "Forbidden City" and "For You. " Songs like "All That I Need," "I Feel Allright," "A New Religion" etc. These were tracks that made me scratch my head and wonder "Why weren't they on the album?" Well, there's none of that here. Disc One is "T. T. " in its entirety, which is the only reason I give this four stars. Disc Two is just a compilation of gay bar dub mixes and there are no surprises and it is quite tedious. I was "Disappointed," you get it, title of their single from "Cool World" with Neil Tennant on lead vocals. I'm an original Joy Division/ New Order/ Electronic/ Other Two, you get the idea, fan and would pretty much gladly go out and buy anything that these people record. But in this case, I felt like all I got was some glossy new packaging. Give me the original version with Rasputin on the cover anyday. Save yourself some money and don't bother. You can see a complete list of all Electronic discography, or go back to the Electronic tabs