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Morphine - Best of 1992-1995 Audio CD

A fair review of the Morphine "Best of 1992-1995" 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: Best of 1992-1995
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Release Date: 2003-02-18
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Buena 2: Honey White 3: You Speak My Language 4: Cure For Pain 5: Candy 6: Have A Lucky Day 7: I'm Free Now 8: Thursday 9: Super Sex 10: Whisper 11: Radar 12: You Look Like Rain 13: Jack And Tina 14: Pretty Face 15: Shame [video enhanced] 16: Sexy Baby Christmas Mine

Morphine is Great!
It always cheers me up and make me feel good!. This is really the best Morphine I have had yet.


I dig it ...but will you?
I am a fan of their recorded work and a bigger fan of their live shows. Morphine is an acquired taste.

Their music is different from anybody. . . this is low, low, low music. There's no highs just lots of bass and baritone.

They were a trio. . . drums ( a simple drum kit) 2 string slide bass and saxaphones (the player would often blow 2 at the same time). Mark Sandman, the singer sang in a real low, baritone voice. There was a lot of space between the instruments.

Now, I personally think that the set up is cool and it created an interesting, driving sound. On the other hand, there is no getting around that when you limit the instrumentation you can only get so many sounds. An issue with Morphine is that many of the songs sound alike. If you can appreciate the unique nature of this group then you will become a fan of their unique sound.

"Cure for Pain" was their best cd. I am not sure how well a greatest hits compilation will work because they did not have hits. Probably, every fan has their own tunes that they are into.

On this cd, I like the song "Buena". It acts as a nice introduction to the band concept since each instrument is individually brought into the mix. It then gets all chaotic and thrashing. "Cure for pain" showcases Mark Sandman's voice and I especially like how it somewhat harmonizes with the saxophone. "I'm Free Now" has a cool beatnick vibe and offers cool time changes within the song. "Super Sex" is a throbbing, charging tune where all 3 instruments are locked in a groove.

The musicianship is excellent.

A friend of mine remarked how he likes songs with saxophone and I offered him this. He became a big fan of the group. Fans of horn driven songs, bass players, jazz fans and lo fi people with appreciate this.

Of interesting note, bass player/vocalist Mark Sandman died on stage of a heart attack (in the 90's?) so if you like this, enjoy, there is not much out there.

I would buy "Cure for Pain" before a get a compilation.


Morphine is GREAT...this album is a hack job. Buy a different one.
Do yourself a favor and buy another release by Morphine. I have to agree with Xenophile "Eric". I think it does a terrible disservice to the memory of Mark Sandman to release this piece of garbage. These releases are readily availble (even in the same chunks) on other releases, but there are a few sprinklings that you're not going to get anywhere else, which makes this release a lure to "true fans". Note the whopping price? That's because those of us who have the entire library are going to scratch our heads in wonderment, thinking, "But how else will I hear these song?"


I'm with "Eric". I'll find a way and keep my $20, thanks.

EDIT: And now that we have iTunes, I shall go find "Pretty Face", thanks to the reviewer below me. I think that's the way to go here. Morphine is not to be missed, just don't bother with this particular compilation when there are better ones out there. But please, please, please do yourself the favor of checking out Morphine if you've never done so, before.


Just buy Cure For Pain
Corporate issued greatest hits always require a couple "bonus tracks" to scam the true fans that already own the entire artist's library, and Morphine is no different. For anyone who is a newcomer to Morphine, Cure For Pain is their finest effort and a more proper introduction to the band than this hacked up greatest hits album. For those of us who already invested hundreds of dollars in Morphine recordings, b-sides, and live recordings, as wells as seeing them in concert, it puts us in bit of a moral conundrum. (. . . ) This Morphine fan doesn't think so, and will find an alternative means to hear these songs.


could be much better
everyone reacts to morphine a bit differently, so i recomend you doing the same thing, just go through the samples and pick out the songs you like the most then download them and put it on your own CD, it will be much better than this half-effort. i love morphine, but not all of their stuff so i made a 'greatest hits' of my own and, without trying to sound too egotistical, its way, way better than this one.


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