12" Singles - Reviews by Magic Marmalade

12" Singles - Reviews by Magic Marmalade

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Magic Marmalade 31st Aug 2020		12" Single Natasha - Iko Iko (1982)	Review Don't be fooled by appearances here... ...Looks like a pretty standard 80s bimb-exploitation disc, like many a young poplet of the time might be coerced / "nudged" into producing - on the face of it, the pictures look like those "Top Of The Pops" albums which have become now, strangely collectible.... ... but actually, once you play this disc, there are more than a couple of surprises in store... ...Firstly, not knowing what this was, and only buying because: a) it was cheap, and: b) it was a picture disc (I'm strangely ompelled to buy them if I see them, no matter what it might be), ...I had no idea it was a very famous version of a very famous song, which has quite a history in and of itself: Iko Iko (Wikipedia)> "Oooh... I know that one!" :) And so, also realising that this was not some (to me) obscure German starlet, but a Scottish pop star of some little renown, I also, through listening to these other tracks here, realised she has actually a fair talent for writing songs too! ... But this leads to the major surpise: This disc sounds incredible! My innate distrust of any vinyl other than straight up black vinyl has been blown out of the water by this... (Usually, I don't buy coloured vinyl of pic discs for sound quality - "If it ain't black, it stays in the rack!" :) ... Albeit the songs themselves won't reinvent the wheel, with what they are, the production team has made them sound amazing... This is seriously good production and pressing, proper audiophile stuff! Just goes to show, it's worth taking a punt every now and then. (Makes up for all the times I've got burned buying an unknown disc on spec :) [YouTube Video] [YouTube Video] 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Magic Marmalade 12th Jun 2016		12" Single Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky (1987)	Review Inspired by Shakespeare's: Hamlet... Ms Kylie Mini-gogue here regales us with the inner turmoil and frustration of the Erstwhile Hamlet's unrequited love Ophelia. Indeed, contrary to the prevarications and legendary ambivalence which thwarts the object of her affection (Titular Mr Sir Denmark Esquire)... in her imagination, there is no complication... ... they walk together hand in hand. A palpable sense of outwardly unspoken beseeching and urgency propels the music of the opening verses as Kylie/Ophelia makes her case to the dithering Dane... "I'm Dreaming" Says she. "You fell in love with me.... like I'm in Love with you" To Quoth. ...Until, at last, her consternation doth conclude thus: "But dreaming's all I do..." Prefiguring the approaching choral alleviation of her now growing unheeded obsession... - yet - "... If only they'd come true!" Before interjecting an unexpected dose of perspective: "I should be so lucky!" Stoic. "Lucky..." Less so. "Lucky....." We begin to doubt her "Stoicism" "Lucky........" This is beginning to get awkward now. "...I should be so lucky in love!" Yikes. Verily. We then return to the mire of obsessiveness and dark sticky goo building in Kylie's soul (Sat switching light on and off.... thy bunny in the pot, etc.) An unsettling impression which the several repetitions of this formula of alternating Obsession and apparent, if temporary, stoicism does nothing to dispel. Hamlet too is back and forth, back and forth (moody sod), as OpheKyllie watches on... maybe they are not so different after all. eh?!! Cast yerself in the river if I'm wrong! A masterpiece. That we should see the like of this pop-tastic interpretation of a timeless literary classic again, is less certain.... Indeed: We should all be so lucky.... lucky.... lucky... lucky. :) 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?