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Hormonally Yours by: Shakespear's Sister

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Publisher: London
Release date: 12th April, 2006
Media: Audio CD

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Track List

• Goodbye Cruel World
• I Don't Care
• My 16th Apology
• Are We In Love Yet
• Emotional Thing
• Stay
• Black Sky
• Trouble With Andre
• Moonchild
• Catwoman
• Let Me Entertain You
• Hello (Turn Your Radio On)

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Rating: - Hormonally yours - Shakespears sister

quite simply a gem of an album from the early nineties that still cuts the mustard in amongst its modern day contemparies. Shakespears sister often get banded in with a lot of one hit wonders but their "one hit" stay is one of the albums weaker tracks. it probably doesn't help that you can't help but remember "the Mary Whitehouse Experiance" doing a brutal but funny parody of it!

Goodbye cruel world is a cracking opening track, and in kind, Hello (turn your radio on) is just about the most superb song to end an album with.

go on, buy it and reminice your heart out!

Rating: - A seminal classic but which version do you have?

I could go on at length about what a revelation this cd was in 1992 and how remarkable it was that something so different managed to top the charts. I could perhaps go on equally about how the album helped me along a path which changed my life forever. I could perhaps speak of how the music only represents half of the whole astonishing entity that Shakespears sister were in 92 with their live show being completely spectacular.

But I'm not going to. I really just wish to point out that there are two different versions of this cd. Early releases have different mixes of Goodbye Cruel World, Stay and I Don't Care. It was only after the two were slightly tweaked as single releases that they were changed on the album. My advice is to try to get hold of an early release to enjoy a much a sharper Goodbye Cruel World, a calmer I Don't Care and a more sparse Stay, then get hold of the singles. After all you'll get yourself some highly attractive single covers in with the bargain that way.

Whichever version you happen to have, you've got an album likely to live forever.

Rating: - 1992 class act!

'Shakespear's Sister' had to be the best act to come out of 1992 - though they had been around for some years.

The legendary single 'Stay' went to number one for what seemed like forever - certainly for most of the spring of that year. This album is packed with hits and some real 'classy' songs - 'Moonchild' being among the very best of the album material. Never have two voices complemented each other like those of these two ladies, and it was such a great disappointment that this great band should have split so soon, and at a time when they could have gone on to even greater achievements... At a time when pop music was in great decline - this was a particularly cruel blow...

The video that accompanied 'Stay' has to be one of the very last of the great 'traditional' videos to have accompanied pop songs of all time. When we are likely to see the video compilation 'Hormonally Yours' re-issued on DVD is anybody's guess - but it's long overdue... So please! Record company; if you are reading this - pleeeze make it sooon!

This now is real classic vintage stuff!

Rating: - Hormonally mine

I bought this album after hearing it at a friend's house. Since we tend to have the same taste in music, I bought it, and I saw that it was good.

This album seems to go through stages. The first three of four tracks seem to be very upbeat and synthetic, but with depressing lyrics in the most part. These include 'Goodbye Cruel World', 'I Don't Care', 'My 16th Apology', and 'Are We In Love Yet?'. The best of these, to me, is 'Goodbye Cruel World'. Very good.

Then we seem to slip into darker, more earthy and depressing tones from tracks five through nine. The best of these more depressing tracks are 'Emotional Thing', and the incredible 'The Trouble With Andre', which blew me away when I first heard it. It's VERY good.

We get back more into the pop-rock section at the end of this album, with 'Catwoman', 'Let Me Entertain You' (now you know where Robbie got the title from), and 'Hello (Turn Your Radio On)'. While I think this is a slightly strange way of laying an album out, I can't fault a single song.

So in conclusion:

Goodbye Cruel World - 8/10
I Don't Care - 7.5/10
My 16th Apology - 7/10
Are We In Love Yet? - 7.5/10
Emotional Thing - 9.5/10
Stay - 9/10
Black Sky - 8/10
The Trouble With Andre - 10/10!
Moonchild - 9/10
Catwoman - 7.5/10
Let Me Entertain You - 6.5/10
Hello (T.Y.R.O) - 8/10

Very good album, and since it was released during the 90's, it won't be expensive to acquite. Buy it, love it. Or don't. Up to you.

Rating: - Fantastic!!! A classic album

To think that Shakespears Sister could produce an absolute classic is perhaps not something I would have thought when Siobhan Fahey was in Bananarama. But she has, and this really is an extraordinary cd.
It's packed with hits (Goodbye cruel world, I don't care, My 16th apology, Hello (turn your radio on) and of course the massive No 1 Stay).
Everyone knows 'Stay' which was No1 in the Uk for 8 weeks, but it's important to realise that this is NOT indicative of the rest of the album. The rest is much more fast paced; excellent pop trax, but with a T-rex edge (never more evident than in Catwoman). All the trax have a wicked lyric, and the mix of Siobhans low and croaky vocal, mixed with Marcella's falsetto backing vocal works very well. (Marcella only leads on Stay).
This really is an great album.
If you like this, look out for the 3rd cd (called #3) which is currently only available on Siobhans website - it's without Marcella but rocks beyond belief.

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