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Title: Painful to listen to
Review: Ouch. This really hurts. Dead or Alive could have released their greatest hits as a CD single, and saved a bunch of album space.Yeah, "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is a great track. "Brand New Lover" has an incredibly catchy vocal hook, the kind that can get stuck in the head for days on end. The final two tracks, "In Too Deep" and "Hooked on Love" are passable...barely. The rest of the album sounds like overdone synthesizer noodling and screechy dancefloor gimmicks. The songs aren't particularly memorable, and, as a result of the overdone productions and general musical messing around, not even really fun to dance to.Unless you loved their albums in the '80s, and Dead or Alive is a proven quantity to you, don't bother with this.
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