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Standing in the Way of Control | 
| Artist: Gossip
Label: Backyard
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 3799
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
EAN: 5051253201718
ASIN: B000GPI3A8
Release Date: July 31, 2006
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| Tracks:
| • | Fire With Fire | | • | Standing In The Way Of Control | | • | Jealous Girls | | • | Coal To Diamonds | | • | Eyes Open | | • | Yr Mangled Heart | | • | Listen Up | | • | Holy Water | | • | Keeping You Alive | | • | Dark Lines |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's flatly unfair that the Gossip aren't a massive success, a rocknroll giant slayer, especially as they unleash another 10-song, 30-minute zinger like Standing in the Way of Control. Singer Beth Ditto's boundless, whether shouting out the title song's chorus or feather-dusting the lyric on Meg White-sounding album closer, "Dark Lines." The band rocks with an unerring simplicity, a leanness that writhes. The big-beat, hop-along (and sing-along) "Listen Up," is the centerpiece here, a stripped focus on the Gossip's core conviction, that rhythm can rock like little else. The tune has Ditto holding court over a bluntly simple one-two beat, cautioning a crowd that by rights ought to be tenfold larger: "now gather round/now listen up," warning them that "some people talk way too much." As Ditto stuns, drummer Hannah Blilie's beat pounds, and Brace Paine's guitar lays down a simple law. Ignorance of that law is no excuse. --Andrew Bartlett
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| Customer Reviews: Read 12 more reviews...
 Excellent April 11, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fell in love from the first note. Beth has an amazing voice which really shines out on the track "Coal to Diamonds". Definetly a buy!
 A big disappointment November 14, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have a mantra, when it comes to buying music, that I tend to stick to - never, ever buy an album based upon the strength of it's debut single.
How I wish I'd stuck to it on this occasion.
Ok, so the Gossip have been one of the most hyped bands over the course of the year, but would they have had so much attention if their lead-singer wasn't a massively overweight lesbian with a penchant for flashing on stage? On the strength of this album, the answer certainly seems to be no.
Whilst the Title track of the album is certainly powerful, and causes a surge of adrenaline to anyone within earshot, the remaining songs are incredibly disappointing, and at times, even boring. The sound itself is thin - nothing at the bottom end to really keep the blood flowing for the duration, and the tunes themselves are flat and stale.
Passion, no doubt - but not a gread deal else.
Mama's got a brand new bag ! October 16, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It's ironic that in an age when black music has slid into a lazy, creatively bankrupt blind alley, a larger than life white woman has come along to teach the MOBO crowd that soul music lives !
While what is criminally described as 'R & B'....Howlin Wolf,John Lee Hooker et al will be turning in their graves !...is being churned out as bland muzak for the Radio 1 chav masses, Beth Ditto and her band are putting the passion back into soul music.
The title track in particular is explosive and when performed live as at Glastonbury it could bring the dead back to life such is the power and energy !
A ten track 35 minute slice of throbbing soul which will blow the MOBO artists and their pop/pap out of the water !
Big, bouncy and BRILLIENT. October 6, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a wonderful CD. It's got the fabulous title song that we all know and love and I was happy to find that the rest of the songs are in the same mold. At the same time that's the reason I gave it 4 stars as, if you weren't listening too carefully to the lyrics it would be quite easy to imagine that some of the other songs on the CD were "standing in the way of control".
Come on Gossip you've obviously got plenty talent, so go on and show us you can really do.
So to sum up if you really, really loved "standing in the way of control" then BUY THIS CD NOW !!! As there's plenty more songs just like it. Personally I love it.
 One excellent song and a lot of average ones.... July 3, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Like a lot of people I bought this album on the strength of Standing in the Way of Control - an excellent song. However the rest of the album is not particularly interesting or that good. They don't seem to have too many ideas or too many tunes. Beth Ditto may be approaching icon status but I doubt that too many people will be playing this album in 6 months time.
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