*European pressing containing
a different track order.
Contains 12 total.
Country: U.S.A.Genre: Alternative Rock
Label Number: 31454 0561 2
AllMusic Review by Aaron Schatz
☠: Selected by Lass
© 1995 A&M RecordsAllMusic Review by Aaron Schatz
What should have been a hit album during the
alternative rock boom of the mid-'90s became a forgotten record after Chick Graning's brain hemorrhage and Scarce's subsequent disbanding. Nonetheless, Deadsexy
is full of great, catchy rock songs that show off Graning's sense of
melody and his uniquely expressive voice -- intense, scratchy, and
soothing all at once with an astonishing range. His sense of drama
evokes David Bowie, while the band's guitar textures and the dynamic between Graning and bassist Joyce Raskin
recalls the seminal New England alternative rock band the Pixies.
"Honeysimple" and "Glamourizing Cigarettes" are short and memorable,
while "Freakshadow" is a great example of the loud-soft dynamics that
typified alternative rock at the time. The album closer "Obviously
Midnight" is strangely prescient given Graning's medical problems after
the album was originally recorded (the lyric states "I know I'm alive, I
feel like I've died"). Raskin, however, is de-emphasized on this
record, and the production is a bit too smooth and clear for this ragged
crew, as can be heard in two songs redone from the band's Red EP ("All
Sideways" and "Days Like This").
( Prior to Graning's brain hemorrhage, the album was originally released in the United Kingdom with a different track order, a different drummer, and four different songs. The main difference is that while the U.K. version features a better Raskin song ("So, Thrill Me" instead of "Summertime"), the U.S. version features the live favorite "Crimea River," the roots rocker "Rains of Kansas," and the unexciting but thankfully short "Salvador Sammy.")
( Prior to Graning's brain hemorrhage, the album was originally released in the United Kingdom with a different track order, a different drummer, and four different songs. The main difference is that while the U.K. version features a better Raskin song ("So, Thrill Me" instead of "Summertime"), the U.S. version features the live favorite "Crimea River," the roots rocker "Rains of Kansas," and the unexciting but thankfully short "Salvador Sammy.")
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