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1212
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by Barbara Manning
Sales Rank: 1186104
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$29.99
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on 10-2-2008.
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1. Arsonist Story: Fireman
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2. Arsonist Story: Evil Plays Piano
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3. Arsonist Story: Evil Craves Attention/Our Son/10 X 10
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4. Arsonist Story: Trapped and Drowning
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5. End of the Rainbow
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6. Blood of Feeling
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7. Rickity Tikity Tin
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8. Stain on the Sun
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9. Isn't Lonely Lovely?
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10. That Kid
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11. First Line Seven the Row
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12. Marcus Leid
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13. Stammtisch
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Added to the other reviews below, which convey the feel of this album, one of my top ten from the 90s, is the craft Manning and her mates bring to the sounds as well as the lyrics and vocals. The extended guitar riffs crest and swell and shimmer, like those of Graeme Downes' in his NZ band the Verlaines. Her next work, the "In New Zealand" e.p., less well-known than "1212" due to its distribution on a smaller label than Matador, was recorded with Downes and other luminaries of the Kiwi/Flying Nun constellation. For those seeking a less treacly, creepier female singer than her more famous counterparts, Manning's almost innocent style may seem coy at first (compare Mary Timony), but careful listens to this, her best effort of her career, show an appropriately almost hesitant, deceptively disguised to be as if off-hand, haunted campfire aura. This could lead to novelty tunes, but even "Rickity Tikity Tin" (barely) avoids this by counterpointing to the cartoonish percussion a crying, faintly sorrowing violin and a sprightly, insistent beat that carries the tune. Her version of "End of the Rainbow" by Richard & Linda Thompson after her own four-part Arsonist Story again shows how confident she turns her own songs out, pitted against the two of the best songwriters that precede her. The songs here progress rather stately and saunter rather than rush or rock, but the melancholy pacing of this record, as on many NZ albums of the same period that have influenced her, show that her arranging abilities match her musical savvy.
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1212
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Price: $29.99
Updated on 10-2-2008.
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