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Tropical Brainstorm | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kirsty Maccoll
Label: V2
Category: Music
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 6458
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 667340445924
EAN: 0667340445924
ASIN: B00004NJMX
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New, despatched by a UK store
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| Tracks:
| • | Mambo de la luna | | • | In these shoes? | | • | Treachery | | • | Here comes that man again | | • | Autumngirlsoup | | • | Celestine | | • | England 2 Colombia 0 | | • | Nao esperando | | • | Alegria | | • | Us amazonians | | • | Wrong again | | • | Designer life | | • | Head |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Kirsty MacColl's third album in a disappointingly sporadic solo career is a homage to her infatuation with the music of South America and the Caribbean. The songs are decorated with sounds borrowed from the environments that inspired it: the rattling of marimbas, the yelpings of mariachi trumpets, the twittering of songbirds or, occasionally, what sounds like the squawkings of macaques. None of which is a problem in so far as MacColl's voice would still bestow a certain human warmth on an album of martial marches, but too much of Tropical Brainstorm nonetheless rings hollow. The problem with this sort of musical tourism is that the performer often concentrates too much on getting the details right and not enough imposing their own vision on proceedings. Here, MacColl has roped in capable musicians, but spends too much time lapsing into Spanishchoruses as if to remind us that she knows her stuff as well. It doesn't help that her own usually sure lyrical touch is somewhat lacking--songs that sneer at online onanists ("Here Comes That Man Again") and conspicuous consumers ("Designer Life") are not the sign of an imagination firing on all cylinders. Towards the end of the album, the unfussy, plaintive and ruthlessly direct he-done-me-wrong song "Wrong Again" is a suggestion of what might have been; tellingly, it's the least Cuban-sounding song on the record. --Andrew Mueller
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| Customer Reviews: Read 32 more reviews...
 I will never tire of listening to this! August 18, 2008
Lizzy D (Manchester UK)
I've always enjoyed Kirstys music, but Tropical Brainstorm? I LOVE!!! I love the lyrics (so funny & clever, I can't begin to pick a favorite), the style and rhythm makes you want to go out & learn to salsa - the BEST car music ever, but equally good, lying on the couch doing nothing!
I do hope someone has removed the thorn from the reviewers paw, and trust that on a second listen, he will hear the humour and fabulously catch tunes that everyone else seems to hear and love!
I will never tire of this CD, and recommend it as often as possible.
Amazing December 29, 2007
S. Haines (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I absolutely love this album - even though I was not a Kirsty fan particularly. I was given this CD as a gift and I love every single track, it's a fantastic, goey album which injects 'life' into my body !
overlooked gem May 28, 2007
Derek h (aylesbury, bucks United Kingdom)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are looking at this album in 2007 you are probably looking for a gem in the bargain category. Be convinced that this one: you have the cutting lyrics of early albums but an extra twist of the knife. Rather than mainly folky settings of early albums these have a strong Latin flavour. As mentioned in other reviews classic tracks are, Celestine, England 2 Columbia 0 and In These Shoes which stand comparison with the best pop songs out there.
It's a shame that she's not around to grow old even more disreputably.
To Kirsty - Love from Baz January 27, 2007
Baz (Manchester, England)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
If they haven't already, Amazon should immediately get rid of the dork who wrote the official review. Jeeze. I was in the barber's of all places when 'In These Shoes?' came on the radio and bought this album as soon as I got home and before I even took my coat off.
This album oozes life, sunshine and fun. But more than that, Kirsty was a rare talent, and I don't say that lightly. All superlatives apply and all are really redundant. The music and the lyrics speak for her. She's just stunning. If you miss out on listening to this album, your life will be so much the poorer. A classic album from a classy lady.
Kirsty MacColl, and her version of 'pearl' October 4, 2006
A. Memari (Peak District, UK)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When a well established British pop singer, producer and writer releases an album, mixing lyricaly strong songs with pop rhymes rumba, bossa nova, and salsa to name a few you know it is going to be interesting. Add all that to her pedigree, daughter of folk singer Ewan MacColl famous for his working class movement. And just the fact that this album tropical brain storm released in march 2000, turned out to be MacColls answer to Janis Joplins Pearl for just nine months later she was tragically killed in front of her children in a boating accident Mexico in Dec 2000.
You cant compare MacColl's last album Titanic days to this as it sounds like another artist. MacColl in her last years grew to love and to become inspired by Latin American music.
Stand out tracks are plenty on this album, for example the commercially successful, in these shoes which has since featured on films adverts and the TV comedy serious bbc2 Catherine tate show every body must know this song that she co wrote.
The opening track Mambo De La Luna left me scratching my head, was this woman really from Croydon. The album boasts some MacColls most clever, mature lyrics Autumngirlsoup is a world away from there's a guy works down the chip shop swears he is elvis ,but it is just as clever and touching lyrically and musically when you play autumngirlsoup read the lyrics from the inlay card, it is so heart wrenchingly brilliant. Other stand out tracks are England 2 Colombia 0, Treachery, and Celestine. This album is a must for anybody serious about harmony, lyrics and Britain's very own the late great Kirsty Maccoll.
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