Dirty Dozen Live (Live)
Hugh Cornwell
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Duchess | Hugh Cornwell | 2:32 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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First Bus to Babylon | Hugh Cornwell | 3:57 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Goodbye Toulouse | Hugh Cornwell | 2:58 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Picked Up By the Wind | Hugh Cornwell | 2:58 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Hanging Around | Hugh Cornwell | 4:05 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Black Hair Black Eyes Black Suit | Hugh Cornwell | 4:10 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Always the Sun | Hugh Cornwell | 4:20 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Nerves of Steel | Hugh Cornwell | 4:57 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Nuclear Device | Hugh Cornwell | 3:38 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Putting You In the Shade | Hugh Cornwell | 2:09 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Walk On By | Hugh Cornwell | 7:04 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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No More Heroes | Hugh Cornwell | 4:02 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Songs |
Album Review
A live and largely acoustic set by former Stranglers singer Hugh Cornwell and his current touring band, Dirty Dozen is roughly evenly split between Cornwell's solo work and his better-known (and, it must be said, mostly just plain better) work with everyone's favorite new wave misanthropes. The solo material comes across considerably better, however, likely because it was written with Cornwell's weathered (to put it as politely as possible) voice in mind. Early Stranglers hits like 1979's career high point "Duchess" are pitched considerably lower nowadays, and even then Cornwell misses about half the notes and doesn't seem to quite have the breath to finish the wordy verses at just the right point. In comparison, solo single "Black Hair Black Eyes Black Suit" makes better use of Cornwell's current Nick Cave-meets-Johnny Cash vocal instrument. His band veers between acceptable and amateurish, hitting its nadir near the set's end with a downright painful take on the Stranglers' reworking of Burt Bacharach's "Walk On By": the song simply seems to be out of the band's league. It's tough to recommend Dirty Dozen for anyone other than the most obsessive and forgiving of Stranglers devotees.
Customer Reviews
maninblack returns!
This collection is taken from hugh's 2005 residency gig at London's carling academy. Mixing classic stranglers material with more recent solo offerings this is a good collection to have under one roof. The cover cheekily uses the stranglers logo with hugh's name which will raise a few eyebrows..
Biography
Born: 28 August 1949 in London, England
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
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Within You or Without You | Hooverdam | 5:16 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Nice 'n' Sleazy | In The Dock | 2:55 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Walk On By | Dirty Dozen Live (Live) | 7:04 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Strange Little Girl | In The Dock | 3:13 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Going to the City | Hooverdam | 3:31 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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Lay Back On Me Pal | Hi Fi | 3:37 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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The Pleasure of Your Company | Hooverdam | 4:01 | £0.79 | View In iTunes |
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