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Enjoy Yourself
販売元： Pwl
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Enjoy Yourself
販売元： Mushroom
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Essential Pet Shop Boys
販売元： EMI/Capitol
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Essentials
販売元： Rhino / Wea
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Every Time I
販売元： World
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Every Time I Fall
販売元： World
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Evita (Original London Cast)
販売元： MCA
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Evolution
販売元： Sony
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Dead or Aliveの初のベストアルバムということで、かなり期待していたが、Remix曲が多く、当時リアルタイムに楽しんでいた私には少し納得いかないものがある。以前にもベストに近いアルバム「Rip It Up」が発売されているが、ノンストップミックスになっていて、できれば、オリジナル曲のみで構成されているベストアルバムも出してほしい。彼らは自身の曲を毎回アップデートすることに喜びを感じているようだけど、やはりオリジナルが一番良いと思う。Remixはそれなりの時代を追っかけている印象で悪くはないけどね。
Evolution: The Hits
販売元： Sony International
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Evolution: The Hits
販売元： Epic/Legacy
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My previous review inexplicably vanished through the toilet bowl of Amazon jp. So here is another.
Dead or Alive (DOA) was very much part of the irrationally exuberant Japan of the 80s. The 80s basically passed me by, but I must have recognised out of my peripheral vision their massive popularity in that bubble land. That’s why, over the years, in my mind’s eye, DOA became inextricably enmeshed with the manic era of greed and swagger and hugely bad taste etc etc, and subsequently led me to be dismissive of their music. It took me twenty years to realise that I had missed out. They did indeed make great timeless pop music (Hi-NRG, whatever).
Maybe the 80s wasn’t as ugly as I now perceive. After all, hey, Mr. Pete Burns graced the era with his most sparkling incarnation didn’t he, that is, before he went wild with plastic surgery. And he was truly something to behold wasn’t he. I lament his surgical addiction not because he ruined his beauty (I don’t expect an Adonis of twenty-something to retain his looks well into his forties), but because he killed what his face was capable of.
His impressive vocal talent was always backed up by his fantastically expressive face which could communicate a lot more than his now celebrated quick tongue. Mr. Burns was a genuinely great performer and his face did a wonderful job of radiating his passion, temperament, conviction, sense of theatre, and of conveying every little lyrical nuance of his own songs. How superb an actor he was has to be seen to be believed. So just go and see his 80s videos to believe, particularly the incomparable “I’d do anything”.
His facial muscles which served him so well have since been killed by their master’s numerous surgical adventures. In his attempt to fight that mighty sculptor, time, Mr. Burns has lost his great asset. Now he looks as if he were wearing a rigid mask. The irony is that his now wrinkle-free, supposedly age-defying and eerily expressionless face is evidence that time has never stopped for him or anyone in the last twenty years.
The Pete Burns that he was in his entirety now seems to us new recruits like some kind of mythological creature that one glimpses in a deep forest of one’s Ruritanian imagination, and the vision of which one never recaptures anywhere in the real world, not even in Mr. Burns himself. It’s gone. Nevertheless, his music remains to remind us of what he once was. If you’re curious, buy this CD.