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Jimmy Somerville, Manage the Damage

Audio CD

Disk ID: 1204415

Disk length: 43m 48s (11 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2000

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Here I Am 4:15
2. Lay Down (Contact) 3:59
3. Dark Sky 3:15
4. My Life 4:32
5. Something To Live For 3:51
6. This Must Be Love 5:06
7. Girl Falling Down 3:55
8. Someday Soon 3:33
9. Eve 3:51
10. Stone 4:23
11. Rolling 2:59

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Review

Working with cowriter and coproducer Sally Herbert, Somerville has crafted a fine dance-pop album. There aren't any big surprises lurking within these 11 tracks, just a batch of tasteful arrangements and nuanced production accompanying Somerville's unfaltering falsetto. "Something to Live For" opens with a pop-ballad intro, but soon shifts gears into an uptempo, affirmative dance track tinged with melancholy. The song's attitude and vibe recall '70s disco classics like Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." Manage the Damage's high point is the masterful pop gem "This Must Be Love," in which Somerville's relaxed singing is propelled by a trip-hop undertow and then a swooning bridge blossoms into a lovely chorus that's both dreamy and irresistibly catchy. The disc's last tune, "Rolling," features floating strings buoyed by a hypnotic bass line. The accompaniment nicely supports Somerville's vocals on this well-chosen closer. --Fred Cisterna

Other Versions

Albums are mined from the various public resources and can be actually the same but different in the tracks length only. We are keeping all versions now.

Manage the Damage

Tracks: 11, Disk length: 43m 47s (-1m 59s)

Manage the Damage

Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 47m 19s (+3m 31s)

Manage the Damage

Tracks: 14 (+3 tracks), Disk length: 1h 2m 5s (+18m 17s)

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