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Angelfish

Angelfish Audio CD
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1. Dog's In A Cage
2. Suffocate Me
3. You Can Love Her
4. King Of The World
5. Sleep With Me
6. Heartbreak To Hate
7. The Sun Won't Shine
8. Mummy Can't Drive
9. Tomorrow Forever
10. The End

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Shirley Manson (now of Garbage) could be the perkier kid sister of Siouxsie Sioux on, "Suffocate Me," then masquerade as vintage Deborah Harry on, "King of the World." Producers (and Talking Heads alumni) Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth are along for extra period authenticity. --Jeff Bateman

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a surprise!!!! Mar 15 2006
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Format:Audio CD
Bought this Cd on spec after reading a few other reviews and it's fantastic!!!! Much darker, less polished and more sparse than anything Garbage have done.

It's always interesting (and usually disappointing!!) to hear what your favourite artists have done previous to you discovering them and this CD tells you that Shirley and the rest of the Angelfish guys were obviously destined to do good things....Shirley with Garbage and the rest of the band with Isa & the Filthy Tongues.

If you like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Blondie, the Banshees (and Garbage obvioulsy...) then buy this!!!!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great album July 14 2004
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Angelfish sounds alot like Garbage (actually, Garbage sounds like Angelfish, right?), however is doesn't have a massive production upon it. This is exactly what makes it great. The songs are simple and very melodious. Besides the obvious hit "Suffocate Me", the best songs in my opinion are "Sun Won't Shine" and "Sleep With Me" -- beautiful and subtle. Since I'm a huge Garbage fan, I recommend this CD for everyone.
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When one singer leaves their original band to join another & wind up having much larger success than before, it can leave that previous group in the dust to be forgotten for all time. But in the case of Garbage lead singer Shirley Manson, her old band Angelfish had just as much potential and talent to make it on their own before Garbage's future members saw the band's video on MTV, and at last found their frontwoman. As Shirley went on to multiplatinum glories with Garbage, Angelfish's self-titled 1993 debut (and only album) still stands alone as its own singularly fine work.

Stylistically, ANGELFISH leans more towards Garbage's 1995 self-titled debut with its more guitar-based rock textures than the highly-polished techno flourishes of 1998's VERSION 2.0 & 2001's BEAUTIFULGARBAGE. This is mostly thanks to the producership of husband-and-wife duo Chris Frantz & Tina Weymouth (both formerly of Talking Heads). In fact, ANGELFISH could be in the vein of the Heads' first album from before Brian Eno was brought into commercialize them. In any event, ANGELFISH is a rocking good time displaying all the qualities that would help make Shirley's work with Garbage such a rousing success.

Charging out of the gates at the beginning is the sexy, glam-rock come-on of "Dogs In A Cage". David Bowie would have given his eyeteeth for a song like this in his DIAMOND DOGS days, but Shirley is just as alluring in her come-on. Who knew that such a dark, yet strangely inviting Scottish lass like Shirley could be so seductive?

The rock continues on a cover of Holly & The Italians' "You Can Love Her" (love that drum intro), "King Of The World" (who said a female singer has to use "queen" in the title), and "Mummy Can't Drive" (this is a woman you may not want to bring home to the parents). While Shirley may have been the obvious breakout star of the group, Angelfish the band are given ample opportunities to shine on these revved-up ditties. Frantz & Weymouth must have told the group to just play live & not let overdubs get in the way, hence the raw, ballsy performance they give to these tunes.

However, ANGELFISH is mostly an album somber in mood & slinky in its instrumentation. "Suffocate Me" is another song that is so flat-out sexy, it's a wonder that it can come off that way in the cool & detached (but no so much to forsake all emotion) voice of Shirley. "Heartbreak To Hate", "Tomorrow Forever" & "The End" have her & Angelfish turning out goodbye ballads that even at their most Bic-lighter-waving moments have enough volume to place them above sappiness. On the other hand, my favorite song off the album "Sleep With Me" follows that method of slow-and-steady-wins-the-race, but with a much happier outcome in the end. Deep down inside, Shirley just might look an ice queen on the outside, but it doesn't take much to melt her facade to get to the heart of gold.

ANGELFISH may not have set the charts on fire with its release, but it apparently did well enough for a video to reach MTV & catch the eyes of the members of Garbage, in need of an eyecatching frontperson to take them to the top. Better yet, while most famous musicians' pre-fame groups may worth mentioning for curiosity issues, Shirley Manson & Angelfish happily turned out an album that had all the potential to being a breakout success in itself.

Hopefully, those music fans who have been won over by Garbage's body of work will seek out Angelfish's lone album to see that Shirley Manson not only had talent to spare beforehand, but with a group that could best be described as Garbage with an extra dose of testosterone (apologies to Shirley). A liberal amount of production gloss may have boosted Garbage into the stratosphere, but Angelfish shows it could have succeeded on its raw talent alone had the public had wider-open ears.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Not Garbage....
Like many who have already reviewed this album, I too was interested in this album due to Shirley Manson's part in it. Read more
Published on Feb 26 2004 by M. Granados
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best!
I love Garbage and one day I came acrross this cd because Shirley Manson from Garbag was in Angelfish. At first it wasn't my favorite but now i LOVE it! Read more
Published on Feb 3 2004 by he@rt4$@le
5.0 out of 5 stars great album
like most people, i came to this album a few years after its release because of the shirley manson / garbage connection. I LOVE IT. Read more
Published on Aug 24 2003 by rusty rocket
5.0 out of 5 stars NOT POP!!!!!!
I don't get why people are calling this a POP album. Shirley Manson and Angelfish are not pop. They are rock. Anybody can tell that...
Anyways, this is an amazing album!! Read more
Published on Aug 19 2003 by Maralis
4.0 out of 5 stars Shirley is just amazing
I like this cd, but i dont love it. I was Garbage fan long before I bought this cd, so of course I bought it because of Shirley Manson. She's amazing no matter what she does. Read more
Published on Aug 16 2003 by silence
3.0 out of 5 stars Precursor to a superstar icon!
I was already a huge Garbage fan when I got this album for Christmas in 1999, so naturally I was excited to see how Shirley's former band compared to the popular and critically... Read more
Published on July 22 2003 by C. Nika
2.0 out of 5 stars Flashes of greatness
But little else. This is not a preview of the vocal craft that Shirley Manson would develop as a result of Garbageman Vig's and (the boys') excellent arrangments and production. Read more
Published on Mar 25 2003 by J. Diamond
5.0 out of 5 stars Great vintage Shirley
I was poking through the "goth" section of Amazon[.com] looking for something interesting, and I came across this album. Read more
Published on Feb 22 2003 by "seventhe"
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding
I absolutely love each and every song on this CD. Personal favorite is the opening track. I found out about it from being a Garbage fan. If you remotley like Garbage pick this up. Read more
Published on May 11 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a GREAT CD!
I came across this album listing while looking for other CDs.

When I saw that Shirley Manson was the lead singer of this band, I knew that I had to listen to a few tracks. Read more

Published on Sep 29 2001 by Beyle
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