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Rating: - More great Gomez

A mixed, but mainly excellent, bag. How 'Buena Vista' did not make it onto a pukka studio album I do not know but thank goodness Gomez have a healthy method of releasing 'B' sides and outtakes at reasonable prices so that such tracks can get a wider audience. The mellotron version of 'We Haven't Turned Around' is a dark cousin of 'Strawberry Fields' and 'High On Liquid Skin' is downright unsettling.

Rating: - getting better all the time

Believe it or not, Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline was the first Gomez album I bought. Yes, now I look back at it I laugh, and I imagine other Gomez fans who've heard this album to raise a smile at such a choice for a first time listener also.
In all honesty I hated it! After a brief listen it swiftly journeyed to the bottom of a somewhat 'thin on the ground' CD collection, to be later discovered and stolen by a sibling. But in hindsight I'm not surprised I disliked it at first. The album is definately a listen. A perfect representation of Gomez' highly sophisticated 'beyond their years' sound that so many critics went on about. Its fair to say that the bluesy, atmospheric, experimental features such an album contains weren't particularly appealing to someone not used to the Gomez sound. Oh yeah, not forgetting my age at the time. (I'm sure it was released earlier than 2002!) But like all Gomez albums, and like the finest of aingle malts it got better with age. A few more listens (after retrieving it from the sibling some months, if not years after) rendered the album a great listen. Something that fuelled my admiration for this truly unique slice of British music. Unfortunately i've lost the CD, but it still remains as one of my favourites, although to all those non familiar with Gomez, listen before you buy. And then listen to it again, and again, and...again!

Rating: - The best album I own

This is a reworking of Gomez's work and as such you may feel that you do not need this recording. You would be very wrong! It is simply outstanding and my most listened to album. Buy it.

Rating: - gets better with age...

being a big gomez fan a few years ago i recently revisited their albums and funnily enough having initially been not keen on this album i found that it hasn't aged in quite the same way as the albums proper. to be honest the first two, "liquid skin" and "bring it on" sound just a little dated in 2004, with the rise of the coral and the "new rock revolution" (whatever). this cd has an interesting mix of bits and pieces from mock-country to a beatles cover and worth buying as an introduction to gomez, ironic as it was marketed as a gap filler for die-hard fans.

Rating: - Gomez rock

They keep on coming up with great albums and this is no exception. It keeps all the things I liked about the other albums but moves on artistically to a new level.

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