Fatima [Import]

1. Fatima

2. Yearning

3. Escape

4. Silent Night

5. Fatima

6. Separation

7. Brave Woman

8. Farewell

9. Fearless Heart

10. Fatima ( Repeat)

11. Fatima ( Repeat)

Fatima,Omar Khairat,EMI,World Music

Average customer rating: impressive oddity lost to the sands of time "Black Seamus cried, my shamrock died . . . "

Viva Dead Ponies Fatima Mansions Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Pop General | Pop | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Alternative General | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Similar Items: Lost in the Former West Black River Falls The Sky's Awful Blue Tima Mansio Dumps the Dead I Am the Greatest ASIN: B000008FJ2 Release Date: 1991-08-13

Tracks:

1. Angel's Delight
2. Concrete Block
3. Blues for Ceauseseu
4. Legoland 3
5. Mr. Baby
6. Door to Door Inspector
7. Start the Week
8. You're a Rose
9. Ceauseseu Flash Back
10. Broken Radio #1
11. Concrete Block
12. Only Losers Take the Bus
13. Look What I Stole for Us, Darling
14. Farewell Oratorio
15. White Knuckle Express
16. Chemical Cosh
17. Tima Mansio Speaks
18. Pack of Lies
19. Viva Dead Ponies
20. More Smack, Vicar

Customer Reviews:

impressive oddity lost to the sands of time.......2007-02-15

I picked up this album after reading a rave review in Rolling Stone magazine, not being familiar with any of Microdisney's output. I was struck by the strange juxtaposition of '80s pop and punk-rock attitude. Some of the tracks are amazingly catchy. "Broken Radio #1" could be mistaken for a lost Spandau Ballet song until a death-metal break comes out of nowhere and knocks you out of your chair. "Angel's Delight" goes from dreamy synth-pop to thrash in an instant, as Cathal Coughlan screams "Burn, motherf****er burn!" like an Irish Zack de la Rocha. "You're A Rose," "Thursday," "The Door-to-Door Inspector," and the motown groove of "Mr. Baby" are incredibly catchy, and its only the vitriolic lyrics that betray the fact that you're listening to a very angry man that would love to murder various members of the establishment such as police officers and the pope. The music is a mix of synth-pop and rock, and it often conflicts strongly with the angry, sometimes absurd, lyrics. There are a few too many short interlude tracks for the CD age, but other that this there's not much filler here. With its rather unsettling mixture of pop and sarcastic, angry, Britain-centric lyrics I can understand why this album wasn't a hit. However, the fact that it has almost been forgotten completely is a travesty of musical justice. My recommendation to music lovers is to get your hands on a copy of this album, if just to hear how effectively pop can be twisted into a tool of subversion.

"Black Seamus cried, my shamrock died . . . ".......2003-04-15

I bought this recording on cassette when it first came out (more than 10 years ago) after hearing a aboutthe Irish band Fatima Mansions on NPR. It has continued to be one of my favorite recordings of all time. Fatima Mansions music is a strange clever mix of loud/angry/cynical/bitterness and exquisite sweetness. The singer (Cathal Coughlan?) has one of the greatest voices of all time. In a way, the album is prophetic: Jesus as portrayed in the title song, Viva Dead Ponies, is very much like the South Park Jesus! FM's other CD, Lost in the Former West, is also wonderful.

Average customer rating: Final release & career peak from Fatima Mansions....

Lost in the Former West Fatima Mansions Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: Viva Dead Ponies Black River Falls The Sky's Awful Blue The Dreamers (Original Uncut NC-17 Version) ASIN: B000008O03 Release Date: 1994-10-11

Tracks:

1. Belong Nowhere
2. Loyaliser
3. Something Bad
4. Popemobile to Paraguay
5. Walk in the Woods
6. Nite Flights
7. Go Home Bible Mike
8. Brain Blister
9. Walk Yr Way
10. Your World Customer
11. Brunceling's Song
12. Humiliate Me
13. Lost in the Former West

Customer Reviews:

Final release & career peak from Fatima Mansions...........2003-09-13

Cathal Coughlan remains sadly a cult concern, when he really should be accorded the same kind of devotion as songwriters like Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Scott Walker & Warren Zevon. His recent solo work (The Sky is Awful Blue, Black River Falls) has been wonderful, as too his earlier work in the 80s with Sean O'Hagan (High Llamas, Stereolab, SFA) in Microdisney (such songs as Singer's Hampstead Home, Mrs Simpson & Town to Town)But it's Fatima Mansions that remain the most potent- blending the ironic pop of Microdisney with a rock template. FM had released some potent singles and albums- Blues for Ceausescu, Viva Dead Ponies, Valhalla Avenue- but here on Lost in the Former West came the absolute career peak- and thus the obligatory death knell for FM!

LITFW is almost worth owning for the cover alone- which has Cathal Coughlan & fellow Mansion Hugh Bunker restage a famous photo of Liberace & his 'chaueffer'. Strangely CC had recently given up drinking and took up meditation- which is at odds with the post-Cold War bile he produced here. It's important to note that two of the tracks here stem from 1992's Valhalla Avenue: Something Bad & Go Home Bible Mike!- which means that the sublime folk song Sunken Cities is passed over. They've also played with the sequence, which is always irritating.

The album opens with the bleak Belong Nowhere, which sets out the themes of the album clearly: the vacuous emptiness following the end of the Cold War, particularly looking at the former Yugoslavia & the joys of capitalism and genocide. There's also the beginnings of anti-globalism here (probably then called 'the new world order')- typified by songs like Your World Customer & the lines in Belong Nowhere "No right to more than birth or death, for the drivelling drones of the former west/Their credo dead like Breznhev's bones...You'll heal so much faster, if your homeland is your master...No deathcamps here I tell you, just grey convienience hell/Ten civil wars unended,'neath billboard signs which yell "You need someone pretty, someone English and shifty"'- Coughlan then gives us some apocalyptic lyrics worthy of Beckett "Let the dirt cover all!/From the veil to the shawl, from the flirt to the brawl/we belong nowhere". This album sounds more relevant against the backdrop of displaced peoples of Europe who the UK media rail against in a MeinKampf-fashion. It contrasts the emptiness of the former west, basking in consumerism against atrocities and the backdrop of the former Yugoslavia. This is several steps on from Neil Young's Rockin'in the Free World and beyond The Fall's Zagreb, up there with Cohen's bleak-black comedy of The Future (1993).

Coughlan, who provoked a riot when supporting U2 in Rome (a football shirt/Papal comment), continues his railing against the Vatican. Popemobile to Paraguay sounds like Aerosmith meets Faith No More, Coughlan noting the Pope's policy on victims of mass-rape in Bosnia, which had declared that they should not abort but have the children of ethnic cleansing & genocide as "a gesture of conciliation". Hence "the king of the Papists is a friend to the rapists and the upside-down crucifixion squad"...the problems of hawkish US foreign policy, now no chimera to fight is noted also "It's been a while since you said 'Heil', you CIA-bred necrophile/No Russkies left to rail at, not for now...They'll murder their neighbours for the good of their souls". Let's note mass-murderers Bin Ladan and Hussein stem from CIA-support and let's note the thousands who died in the Srebrenica massacre, which has been related to the same dubious foreign policy. So subject matter more akin to Dead Kennedys, Disposable Heroes, RATM, Fugazi...

The two singles, a cover of Scott Walker's Nite Flights and The Loyaliser are suitably wonderful- the latter noting ruefully "You get older, you get scared, but you get no wiser". Yes, that kind of album!- which the electric chairs, Andy&Fergie pic, fur etc innersleeve portrait might suggest (Coughlan stems from that classic Irish strain of satire, typified by Jonathan Swift).

Walk Yr Way is a gorgeous Walkeresque ballad, which A Walk in the Woods is sometimes is in its schizophrenic form- slipping between heavy guitar assault & sublime balladry. The production from Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads), Ralph Jezzard (EMF) etc makes complete sense- it's knowing rock meets knowing pop...

A bleak estimation of the 1990s, especially in Europe once the bonhomie of the Berlin Wall falling etc went (perhaps in the Maastricht redefintion of nationality- the most extreme redefinition of nationality being that in post-Tito Yugoslavia)- there is a definite sense of postmodern, pre-millennium tension "I know Khomeni, John Wilkes Booth, and the Jackson Five" declares CC on Bruncelling's Song, prior to "Nothing, nothing, nothing is true" equal in negativity to Neil Young's intonation of 'no' on 1973's Last Dance...

The album closes with the instrumental title track (once the interlude of the album) after the Guns'N'Roses sounding conclusion of Humiliate Me!, a world where CC notes "I try to stand and confess to I don't know who/& the criminal insane look so gentle when they're being entertained:gunsmiths and prison warders, a gallery of brain disorders/Porn-stars handcuffed to their fathers...and I'll come sex with you if you pay...Lovely! Humiliate Me!".

Lost in the Former West remains a classic rock album and the kind of satirical release that Eminem or Marilyn Manson would be incapable of. A classic album, despite this slightly altered version- though it would be nice to see a decent reissue of Fatima Mansions and Microdisney's back-catalogue. Cathal Coughlan deserves to be more than just another cult concern- especially for this,one of the strongest albums of the 1990s.

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Rosario-Foi Deus ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music ASIN: B000FOT6M4 Release Date: 2006-05-16

Average customer rating: Fafa de Belém canta as músicas que lhe agradam.

Maria de Fatima Palha de Figueiredo Fafa De Belem Manufacturer: Wea International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Brazil | South & Central America | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000520LP Release Date: 2000-12-19

Tracks:

1. Velho Piano
2. Perciso Aprender a Ser S
3. Amor Em Paz
4. Sob Medida
5. Nada Por Mim
6. Tortura de Amor
7. Medids da Paix
8. Meu Nome E Ningu
9. NinguChora Por Mim
10. Nas Flores Pintei O Teu Nome
11. Cansei de Ilusoes
12. Devolvi
13. Foi Assim

Album Details

New release by Fafa De Belem featuring a host of Brazilian classics. Highlight tracks are: 'O Amor em Paz' , 'Velho Piano' & 'Nada Por Mim'.

Customer Reviews:

Fafa de Belém canta as músicas que lhe agradam........2001-03-29

Maria de Fátima Palha de Figueiredo, o verdadeiro nome Fafá de Belém, parece cantar neste disco as músicas do gosto dela. Ela procurou sair do recente estilo enveredado por ela, que no Brasil depreciativamente têm chamado de estilo "brega", para cantar o que lhe agrada e, certamente, atingir um outro público. São clássicos antigos e novos da música popular brasileira que certamente vão agradar a quase todos que gostam de ouvir canções bonitas do Brasil.

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Tima Mansio Dumps the Dead Fatima Mansions Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | CD Singles | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Viva Dead Ponies ASIN: B00000DWIJ Release Date: 1992-03-03

Tracks:

1. Only Losers Take the Bus
2. Stigmata
3. Shiny Happy People
4. Hive
5. Behind the Moon

Average customer rating: Track List A n important song from an important historical moment

The Ony Solution Fatima Mansions Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | CD Singles | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000002PLO Release Date: 1991-07-05

Customer Reviews:

Track List.......2007-03-01

Track Title
1. Blues For Ceausescu (Only Solution Mix)
2. Blues For Ceausescu (LP Version)
3. Chemical Cosh (Scream Mix)
4. Chemical Cosh (LP Version)

A n important song from an important historical moment.......2003-03-11

This is the Fatima Mansions best song by far. Doesnt fit into any one niche, which is probably why they didnt do well in the USA. Not to get nostalgic about how the end of the Cold War came about (Romania, Bulgaria...), but this song hit the spot when it came out. Still one of my favorites. It has a kind of bouncy roughness, plus a great closing sample form David Lynch's The Elephant Man: "sounds like something out of a dream"

Average customer rating: The Krautrock Flame continues to burn yeah dog

Bent Leg Fatima Bent Leg Fatima Manufacturer: File 13 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Ambient Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Space Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B00004UANK Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

1. Greetings And Farewells
2. Cup And Saucer
3. Dr. Sound & The Art That They Dismissed
4. Madame Fatima
5. Mouse/Lone Gunner
6. Sixteen
7. A Sort Of Seamless Suite
8. Hemingway
9. Crow, Cat And Snake
10. Yacht

Customer Reviews:

The Krautrock Flame continues to burn.......2003-10-26

Bent Leg Fatima obviously recorded this album with a certain theme in mind, but upon listening to it further, every track seems to offer a different spin to the previous one. Each song slightly bending in a different direction, but without straying too far away from the approach of early 70's experimental rock. Bent Leg Fatima continues the spirit of Krautrock like Can and Faust, improvisation and cyclical structures, yet with a sense of direction. In between appears a band probing, almost snaking, through musical ideas, from post-rock analog noodling and Hawkwind's space-trips, to funky trancelike jams and acoustical improv. Fast forward to the present, and we can hear the same musical concepts in The Beta Band, Simian, and early Stereolab. In this age of musical order, no one can deny that Bent Leg Fatima is pushing the creative boundaries. Bucking the establishment to create something a little off-center and unconventional, such is the root of art, such is spirit of music.

yeah dog.......2001-05-30

rock da house. these guys rule i seen them play a million times.

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Muito Intensa Fatima Guedes Manufacturer: Caravelas ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000JJSPN6 Release Date: 2006-10-20

Tracks:

1. Muito Intensa
2. Grata
3. Srio
4. Namorado
5. Desejo
6. Corpo Mestio
7. Dois Amores
8. Ultramar
9. Muito Obrigada
10. Perfeito
11. Sete Vus

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Popemobile Manufacturer: Radioactive ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000I105L0

Product Description

1. Popemobile to Paraguay 2. Evil Man 3. Gary Numan's Porsche 4. Sleep Of The Just 5. (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

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Salaam Aleikum Fatima Vs DJ Taylor & Flow Manufacturer: Eams ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00004ZV4R Release Date: 2000-10-16

Tracks:

1. Salaam Aleikum (Short Edit)
2. Salaam Aleikum (Main Mix)
3. Salaam Aleikum (Alternative Ver)

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2. Five Hands High
3. Flores Em Vida [Import]
4. Globe Trekker, Vol. 2 [Import]
5. Gold [Import]
6. Golden Panflute Melodies
7. Guitar & Flamenco
8. Hot Chili Mama
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10. Incoerente Jazz [Import]

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