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Kirsty MacColl, Tropical Brainstorm

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1195480

Disk length: 49m 20s (13 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2000

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Mambo De La Luna 4:38
2. In These Shoes? 3:39
3. Treachery 3:51
4. Here Comes That Man Again 4:49
5. AutumnGirlSoup 3:54
6. Celestine 3:35
7. England 2 Colombia 0 3:45
8. Nao Esperando 4:04
9. Alegria 2:01
10. Us Amazonians 4:09
11. Wrong Again 4:16
12. Designer Life 2:35
13. Head 3:55

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Review

"I know an island where the people are kind / And the rest of the world seems far away / Maybe it's only in the back of my mind / But I know when I go that's where I'll stay." One could not wish a better end result for the late Kirsty MacColl, whose last album opens with this prediction. Tropical Brainstorm serves as a sunny and joyous bookend on a career cut tragically short. Musically, it is a bit of a departure, favoring vibrant Latin-flavored flourishes over the slightly darker jangle of earlier material. There is, however, no mistaking the album's creator from a lyrical perspective. "Treachery" giddily turns the star-fan scenario on its head, imagining MacColl stalking a fan who has abandoned her for the musical flavor of the month. "Here Comes That Man Again" is a decidedly naughty and wise survey of cyberculture's impact on modern romance. In "Us Amazonians," a hearty romp that's easily as good as anything off of Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saints, the narrator punches out her true love to show him what's truly important in life. These are not your ordinary pop songs, and that's a fitting way for things to end, if they had to. MacColl always held a singular place in Anglo-pop. She was equal parts Morrissey as a less self-obsessed heterosexual woman and Flannery O'Connor as pop star. In other words, unique, and an incredibly precious resource for music to lose. --Bob Michaels

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Tropical Brainstorm

Tracks: 13, Disk length: 49m 18s (-1m 58s)

Tropical Brainstorm

Tracks: 16 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 59m 54s (+10m 34s)

Tropical Brainstorm

Tracks: 17 (+4 tracks), Disk length: 1h 9m 10s (+19m 50s)

Tropical Brainstorm

Tracks: 5 (-8 tracks), Disk length: 20m 20s (-29m)

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