When the Going Gets Touch [CD-single] [Import]

1. When the Going Gets Tough

2. What a Wonderful World

3. Love Can Build a Bridge [Documentary Track]

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
1999 single from the hit all-male British teen pop sensations, a charity release for Comic Relief. It's backed with Alison Moyet's rendition of 'What A Wonderful World' and the documentary track 'Love Can Build A Bridge'. Slimline jewel case.

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Average customer rating:

pleasing...3.5 stars
merely okay
From Darkness into Light
Just when you thought they hit rock bottom..

When the Going Gets Dark
Quasi
Manufacturer: Touch & Go Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000E6GC4I
Release Date: 2006-03-21

Tracks:

Alice the Goon
The Rhino
When the Going Gets Dark
I Dont Know You Anymore
Peace and Love
Beyond the Sky
Presto-Change-o
Poverty Sucks
Merry X-Mas
Death Culture Blues
Invisible Star

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The end of the world is nigh and Sam Coomes sounds really pissed about it, and also more than a bit confused. But mostly pissed. Indie-rock's greatest angry piano man--aided and abetted as always by drummer/ co-vocalist Janet Weiss--brings all of his tricks to the table on this loud and excellent album. It's the duo's best since their ground-breaking Featuring "Birds". The chaotic energy of his Blues Goblins persona is given the focus of Badfinger-y pop. And everywhere the menace of stomping, classic rock looms excellently; Coomes' guitar playing has never been so intense and focused. Anyone can look at the world and write "what the hell is wrong with the world?" music, especially today. But few can do it with equal amounts of humor and conviction. The title tune manages that and more. If only preaching to the converted always sounded so sweet. --Mike McGonigal

Album Description

Quasi captures sounds that are powerful, unrepeatable, and unmistakably psychedelic. Producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Sleater-Kinney) made the mixes powerful and unpredictable. He enhanced the swirling, layered, psyche feel. "When The Going Gets Dark" proves that all the blood, sweat, and tears were worthwhile.

Customer Reviews:

pleasing...3.5 stars.......2006-07-24

Sam Coomes has taken many a shot at the country's current administration in albums past, deserved shots I might add, but goes back into a meat and potatos mode and delivers (along with Janet Weiss) a rabid slab of noisey rock with just a sliver of delicate melody intertwined. "Alice the Goon" gets the effort off to a piano ponding start that moves easily into Coomes best vocal melody on the effort. Track 2, "The Rhino", keeps the calamity going until the simmering scream of the album's title track. Part of Coomes appeal to me is his and Weiss' ability to continually lead the listener almost too far into the void of their menagerie of sounds and rythm only to be brought back into sanity with Coomes unique chord changes struggling to be logical amid the chaos.... It may sound slap-dash at times to many, but it's a very clever approach to rock and roll, especially amid all the blues-based rock throughout rock's brief history. All in all just another very good Quasi effort, lots of noise, thundering rythms, and another clever batch of Coomes lyrics. It's my favorite release of the Spring '06.

merely okay.......2006-04-03

I had some slight expectations from this record, and they were not quite met. The entire album is simply messy, and intentionally so. There are melodies in here, and the loud, garish production (see Sleater-Kinney's "The Woods") is very well done and interesting, but I never feel like returning to it.

I'm not a fan of those who annoyingly whine for the past. In this case, it'd be someone pining for the "Featuring 'Birds'" era, a return to more obvious melodies and cleaner production, better lyrcism (the lyrics on "When the Going.." are occasionally embarrassing) and a more acidic sense of humor.

However, I would be lying if I claimed to not share those same feelings. "When the Going Gets Dark" is a good album, but nothing special, and not the greatest sign for those who liked the band before "Hot S***." It's more obvious than ever that the glory days are well over.

From Darkness into Light.......2006-03-23

Some fans of the 90's Quasi sound may find themselves truly left in the dark with WTGGD, but those adventurous enough to follow along with this band's journey will be unduly rewarded with their hardest hitting recording to date. Pounding piano riffs and psychedelic guitar flourishes abound, along with Janet's always dead-on drumming. Alice the Goon and The Rhino get to album off to a heavy piano destroying start, with all of the charm of early Quasi invigorated by the new found heaviness in their sound. The politics of their last release is still evident but less emphasis has been placed on name calling, replaced by a call to own up to one's beliefs. With a top notch melody, Peace and Love is a wonderful continuation of the sentiments in the Nick Lowe/Elvis Costello What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding, sung by Sam with a heartfelt urgency. Poverty Sucks could have been an acoustic folk strut on Led Zeppelin 3, except for the lovely Sam/Janet harmonies on the chorus, and lyric content which makes it clear whose side of the economic scale Sam Coomes is on.

Death Culture Blues continues Sam's flirtation with the blues, with stomping, off kilter rhythms and chromatic counterpoint popping in just before the vocals start, giving a big shot of energy as the album comes to a close. The topper and show stopper is the closing track, Invisble Star, which slowly builds from a hymn to a furious Robin Troweresque guitar workout, coming to rest amongst shattering distorion and feedback. This band has made it clear that they are not about repeating the past. The adventure continues.

Just when you thought they hit rock bottom.........2006-03-23

Here is a band that ran out of steam 5 years ago. The only 2 albums of theirs worth getting is "Featuring Birds" and "Field Studies". At least those albums featured catchy melodies. When I thought they reached their nadir with their last album (whose title was relatively apt), they plunge deeper into the abyss. Sam Coomes "vocals" come across way too annoying and whiney and smug. At least this time around, vitriolic Coomes isn't crying about the current administration nearly as much as he did in the recent past.

Average customer rating:

pale comparison to original
This song's cool!!!!!
BOYZONE RULES!!!
No just another "BoyBand"

When the Going Gets Touch
Boyzone
Manufacturer: Polydor
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000J22V
Release Date: 2003-12-02

Tracks:

When the Going Gets Tough
What a Wonderful World
Love Can Build a Bridge [Documentary Track]

Album Description

1999 single from the hit all-male British teen pop sensations, a charity release for Comic Relief. It's backed with Alison Moyet's rendition of 'What A Wonderful World' and the documentary track 'Love Can Build A Bridge'. Slimline jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

pale comparison to original.......2002-09-25

Just heard this to see if this is the same as the Billy Ocean hit. It is. However, it doesn't come close to matching the fun and energy of the original. Check out Billy Ocean for this great song and others instead.

This song's cool!!!!!.......1999-09-24

This song rockz!!! If you haven't heard it, listen to it

BOYZONE RULES!!!.......1999-06-06

great single, great video, ronan and steve are unbeleivable.........they are not cheap and cheesy or artificial. they sing from the heart. if u dont like it, be sorry!

No just another "BoyBand".......1999-05-09

These guys have what the others missed...Talent! Although they haven't hit the US yet, expect to see these guys real soon! I first saw these 5 men on the International Music Awards performing this live and was stuck by the vocal talents of the lead singers. Since then, I've ordered all CDs possible (over the internet) and have purchased a copy of the Andrew LLoyed Webber birthday celebreation in which the group performs "No Matter What".

I hope this group is given the opportunity they deserve based on their talents, not the composition of the bands gender.

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