Chris Isaak Album: “Speak of the Devil [Bonus Track]”
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Release Date:1999-08-02
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Pop, Adult Alternative, Greatest Pop Ballads
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Explicit Lyrics:Yes
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UPC:9325583003691
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Review - :
{^Speak of the Devil} explores the same moody terrain as {$Chris Isaak}'s previous records, though the songs are fleshed out with more contemporary touches. The leadoff track, {&"Please,"} is unusually hard-hitting, with its acoustic/electric/soft/loud structure, Mellotron, and soundbite lyrics. {&"I'm Not Sleepy"} is a {\roots rock} rave-up (wherein {$Isaak} lyrically quotes {$John Lennon}'s {&"Oh Yoko"}: "In the middle of the night I cry your name"); the title cut is an eerie celebration of love lost and found; {&"Talkin' 'Bout a Home"} is the album's tour de force. Yet, some of the loungy vocal touches in {&"Flying"} and the fine instrumental track, {&"Super Magic 2000,"} would be right at home on an {\indie rock} record. And of course there's plenty of that thing {$Isaak} does best: quintessential love's-gone-wrong-'n'-let's-make-it-right songs, as on the loping, {\country}-tinged {&"This Time"} and the teary {&"Walk Slow."} [This edition contains one bonus track.] ~ Denise Sullivan, All Music Guide
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