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I Love My Friends | 
| Artist: Stephen Duffy
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Category: Music
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 75558
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766484418525
EAN: 0766484418525
ASIN: B0000089BZ
Release Date: October 31, 2000
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 9 to 12 days
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| Tracks:
| • | Tune In | | • | Eucharist | | • | 17 | | • | Lovers Beware | | • | You Are | | • | Deal | | • | She Belongs To All | | • | Autopsy | | • | What If I Fell In Love With You | | • | Something Good | | • | Twenty Three | | • | Postcard | | • | One Day One Of These Fucks Will Change Your Life | | • | Mao Badge | | • | In The Evening Of Her Day | | • | Barbarellas | | • | House Of Flowers | | • | Comedown | | • | Hey Kat | | • | Holding Hands With Grace |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The opening track leaves little doubt as to what is in store: "Tune In" is a brief, cut-and-paste collage of hits and near-hits from Duffy's previous incarnations--as New Romantic popette Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy, as lead singer of The Lilac Time and as the wilfully diverse solo artist Duffy--made to sound like a radio being flicked between stations. What follows on I Love My Friends is pretty much Duffy telling his own life story in song. What could have come across as a monumental self-indulgence is redeemed by a combination of Duffy's frequently miraculous way with a pop tune and a streak of self-deprecation a mile wide: the self-explanatory 17" begins "I was born in Birmingham but soon I would escape / With education incomplete and two songs on a tape." From that point on, Duffy dissects his life, with particular reference to the relationships that have punctuated it, with the somewhat bemused air of a man who has found a bunch of old letters in an ex-lover's cupboard. --Andrew Mueller
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| Customer Reviews:
A Classic! June 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's not really much to say here except this is a great timeless record full of songs that you will love to listen to again and again. When you marry great melodies to chrisp production, beautiful arrangements and intelligent, involving lyrics you can't go wrong really. There are more addictive hooks here than one record should legally be allowed to have.
If Robbie has any sense and wants a massive hit record (and frankly he needs one after Rudebox), he should just have a word with Mr Duffy and just cover this album so that these songs get the sort of audience they deserve. :-)
Honestly, buy this and do yourself and your ears and your spirits a favour!
Me too February 20, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
A bit of a mixed bag, this, but still with more than enough great entertainment to merit 5 stars. #1 stand-out track is the Eurovisual "You are" - surely one of the best pop songs ever written.Stephen is on even more autobiographical form than usual, eg. in the songs "The Deal", "23" and "The Postcard". The best of these is "Eucharist" (on which he lets us know he'll always love us). Cheers, mate. The fun "17" and the Mediterranean "She belongs to all" are great tracks too. And you have to admire an artist who can put such opposite tracks as "Autopsy" and "Something good" on the same record. There are one or two ropey pop songs on here but even Stephen can't be perfect all the time. :) We should thank our lucky stars he's still writing for us.
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