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Morphine - Good Audio CD

A fair review of the Morphine "Good" 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 Morphine reviews here, or go back to the Morphine tabs.

Morphine Band: Morphine
Title: Good
Rating:
Release Date: 1993-07-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Good 2: Saddest Song 3: Claire 4: Have a Lucky Day 5: You Speak My Language 6: You Look Like Rain 7: Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave 8: Lisa 9: Only One 10: Test-Tube Baby/Shoot'm Down 11: Other Side 12: I Know You (Pt. 1) 13: I Know You, Pt. 2

lasting goodness
I is an almost seamless obra. Good is my all time favourite Morphine album. Almost every song on it still haunts me with its resonance and elloquence. Claire, Look like Rain, etc. are still good songs. Yes the music was better live, but alas, that time is no more. .


Morphine's best album.

Mark Sandmand voice (not very unlike Jim Morrison) together with that brilliant baritone sax plays along from start to end. Without doubt the best product Morphine ever made. - My favourite track is no 7: "Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave".
In general a very good cd - recommended.


underrated...
Three masterpieces established them among the masters of the "noir" atmosphere. Boston was the home base of one of the greatest bands of the decade, Morphine, a guitar-less trio whose style borrowed heavily from blues and jazz but shared with the Pixies the same casual, detached approach to melody. Good (1992) highlighted their ability to turn ballads and rockers into metaphysical dialogues between bass and saxophone. The languid crooning of former Treat Her Right's bassist Mark Sandman, who chiseled one of the most evocative voices of the era, added another layer of meaning, a Tom Waits-like mourner and Nick Cave-like preacher floating inside the stark, unreal, heavy fog of the music. The trio contrived melodies that offered a quiet vivisection of post-industrial anxiety.


i wish there was a negative rating option......
i wouldn't recommend this album to my worst enemy, you probably have to be on heavy doses of "Morphine" just to consider this legit music.


Subtle Bliss
I've owned "Good" for 4 or 5 years and I keep going back and listening to it, finding new favorite parts or ideas in it. Morphine is a great band that sounded like nothing else. I don't write reviews (this is actually my first) but this is by far one of the best albums (CDs) that I own. The music is stripped bare with only the Sax, bass, and drums. In later albums Morphine experiments with adding some other instruments but on this album everything feels so pure. The songs are full of back-alley positivity, hauntingly sung by Mark Sandman. The production is subtle and offers the music in a form that feels real and at many times comfortable. "Good" is a masterpiece anyone who loves good music should own.


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