Songs of Mass Destruction Vinyl

Review by Damon Devine for Songs of Mass Destruction [Vinyl]Rating: on Amazon are alleged to be voted on by "WAS IT HELPFUL" in your determination to purchase. It isn`t really meant to be "I already own it and loved/hated it-so this inspection is bad/good." Having said this-some of the reviews I have read herein are real stunners. We cannot usually listen to something ONCE in a store music cubicle and save a survey or even work a decision.

I am a serious Annie Lennox fan and collector of 24 years(I take it ALL!and am also in a set to be surrounded by extraordinary music (I am the personal assistant of vocal legend Yma Sumac) and experience right from bad musically. And `Songs of Mass Destruction` does NOT disappoint.

Many Lennox fans or passing admirers are addicted to her early 80′s days of electro-pop (I adore it as well! but we must realize that we all grow (or should! and times change! And the artist changes!Lennox has NEVER made music for mass appeal or radio drama or to be popular. She is less interested (based on my decades of research)in making you DANCE, than she is in making you Look or place in some way.

SONGS OF MASS DESTRUCTION is one of those very rare albums where you can`t only select a few good songs as "the best". Each course has something considerably special about it. There are very upbeat tracks, some Delta blues kind of songs and some intensely sentimental slower tracks. Unlike many other singers (including opera singers) whose voices weaken by their 50′s, Annie`s has departed very often the former direction! That`s amazing! Her part is stronger and more clearly than ever on this CD. Her vocals SOAR with great force on `Through the Glass Darkly` and it should be celebrated that on this album she experiemnts with higher registers than ever before (namely on `Fingernail Moon` and the exceptional `Big Sky`). Everyone I know, is INSANE over `Ghosts in My Car` and I make not yet heard feedback on the bumping-pumping `Sing!` but I know it. The wild and fed-up "Love is Blind" (which is not really about love, as often as how damned hard life can be sometimes! is not for the generally jovial!I could go on and on, but you get the idea. There is so much offered on this CD!I do recommend it.

Now this NOT recommended for the "Gimme, Gimme More" Britney Spears listener, who wants "a good beat so you can DANCE to it!" Dumbed-down lyrics are not Lennox`s specialty! This is for people, perhaps a slight over 25, who have had a little more time toreally experience life`s up and downs (not to say that all ages can`t enjoy it or name in some way).I cannot help but feel that women and gay men will somehow feel nearer to this album.