The Divine Comedy
Tour dates, exclusive interviews with Neil Hannon, Joby Talbot, Rob Farrer and Bryan Mills, mp3 downloads, lyrics directory, latest news and photos.
http://www.musicomh.com/thedivinecomedy/ |
Atomicduster: Divine Comedy
An interview with Bryan Mills. Includes photo.
http://www.atomicduster.com/interviews/divinecomedy/ |
Liberation to Regeneration
A resource centre for the music of the Divine Comedy, including chords, lyrics, scores and other insights into the music of this band.
http://www.thedivinecomedy.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk |
The Liberator
News, gallery, lyrics and FAQs.
http://www.thedivinecomedy.com |
The Divine Comedy - Regeneration
Review of the new album by Neil Hannon et al, released on Parlophone on March 12th 2001.
http://www.musicOMH.com/albums/divine-comedy-2.htm |
The Divine Online
Fan site dedicated to the band.
http://www.thedivineonline.co.uk/ |
Fin de Siecle
Review of album.
http://members.tripod.com/thepages/findesiecle.html |
Adrian's Album Reviews : The Divine Comedy
Commentary on all Divine Comedy albums.
http://www.adriandenning.com/divinecomedy.html |
Roddy's Irish Music Show: The Divine Comedy
Interview with Neil Hannon.
http://www.almostfabulous.com/rc/interviews/divinecomedy.php |
The Divine Comedy interview - Neil Hannon
Interviewed in November 1999.
http://www.musicomh.com/interviews/neil-hannon.htm |
Amazon offers
Regeneration (Audio CD),12 March, 2001
List price $13.99
More Walker than Coward / 4
Let me be out front about this. I liked the Divine Comedy just the way they were. The sly lyrics and percolating pop of "Casanova," for instance, was precisely my cup of tea. And I really liked it when Neil Hannon played Noel Coward to Ute Lemper's Gertrude Lawrence on the latter's "Punishing Kiss," on which the pair perform two duets and Lemper solos on yet another of Hannon's compositions. Neil Hannon is a witty guy who also happens to be an acute social critic. None of this has changed. I like "Regeneration" precisely because it puts Hannon's acid wit and killer sense of irony on display, as on "Dumb It Down," without forgetting his `60s pop roots ("Perfect Love Song" is perfectly named). But the album does seem to take the music a step further onto the dark side, and I think I know why. On "Punishing Kiss" Scott Walker produced "Scope J" for Ute Lemper. That Neil Hannon listened and learned should not surprise anyone. After all, many have noted his indebtedness to Walker's vocals; now a case may be made that he's gone back and studied Walker's music as well. Play "Note to Self," for instance, and then listen to "Scope J." The musical atmosphere is uncannily similar without being imitative. Then go back and listen to "Tilt," Walker's last solo album. The lushness of the arrangements, the frequent reliance on strings for emotive effect, the abstract but strangely suggestive lyrics-all presage Hannon's metamorphosis on "Regeneration" (note the sonics on the title song in particular). However, whatever their sources, the songs here--and who could not relate to the lover's despair on "Lost Property?"--remain much more accessible, not to mention playful, than anything on "Tilt" and are bound to find a larger audience. They deserve to.
Song "Three Sisters"
This autumn breeze shall strip the trees
And freeze me to the bone
Why must these three sisters tease
Their lonely brother so?
Knowledge is a curse
But ignorance is worse i fear
Would you agree my dear?
I have watched you grow
From the same seed as my own shall grow
And they will never know how
How this autumn breeze shall strip the trees
And freeze me to the bone
Why must these three sisters tease
Their lonely brother so?
I don't know
I don't know
Pleasure is a sin
And abstinence shall win this day
And that's the way it's gonna stay
Black parisian lace
Your salvation-my disgrace
My god
Where did you go wrong?
I don't know if i can stop my eyes
From drifting slowly over holy temples of the soul
No self control
That autumn chill is with me still
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