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Oranges & Lemons

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Description: Oranges and Lemons, from 1989, is a fantastic record, a lucid, technicolor sprawl of modernized Beatleisms and airbrushed psych-pop confectionary. Commercially, it was such a shame Tears for Fears had exactly the same idea at exactly the same time. Appropriately, given its title, several of the songs on Oranges and Lemons deal with Andy Partridge's newly acquired parental status (the jazzy "Pink Thing" is a cunning double-entendre about fatherly pride and his penis) as well as wryly address the wider failings of the world into which our children are born. Yes, like some sherberty, fructose-flavored lozenge, Oranges and ... (more)
Manufacturer: Astralwerks
Release date: 14 May 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0724385068324 UPC: 724385068324
Tags: British (1), 1989 (1), Pop (1)
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Darth Brutus rated this 7/10 3 months, 2 weeks ago
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Curse of the Music Diary (2025) (1067 music items)

"1.3. As far as I'm concerned, this might be their best album. The key to success is simply to focus on rhythm and go all out on it. This is interesting to kind of art pop to listen to, even if everything beyond the rhythm parts is boring as balls."


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