Release Date: 18 June, 2002
Audio CD
Tracks
- Matterhorn
- Dance to Moroder
- Such a Beautiful Thought
- Ringing Bells
- Mistletoe and Molasses
- Apples of Gold
- We'll Last So Long
- Farmhouse Fables
- Weep in the Sunshine
- Come in, Brother
- Every Nook and Cranny
- Blueberry Boats (And Pink Elephants)
- We Are Rock [The Faint Remix]
- We Are Rock [The Norway Remix]
- We Are Rock [The Echoing Green Remix]
- Drum Machine Joy
- Candycane Carriage
- Analogue Grand Diary
- Sweet Sweet Charity
- Keep Him in Your Thoughts
- Five Stars for Failure
- Burgundy Years
- Hansel
- I Beam, You Beam
- Cobbler
- Sugar Rush
- Monosynth
- Robot Beat
- North Sea
- Disco for a Ride
- Singing in Gee
- Children of the Lord
- I Sing Electic
- These Should Be the Good Times
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Rating 4.0
Matterhorn!!My sister owns this CD and I think it is very creative. Joy electric just keeps getting better and better. If you have liked Joy Electric's older music, then you will definetly love this one!! My favorite songs on the first disc are the Matterhorn and don't forget the 3 We Are Rock Remixes!! AWSOME!!The second disc is a few songs from each of their previous alblums that are awsome hits!! Don't forget to check out Joy Electric's new alblum TICK TOCK TREASURY!! It is comming out march 25th!! Tommorrow!! -----I'm out Peace!!music for... Christians......ahh, how nice!Joy Electric? Should a name be so telling? I first heard this album rotating at a used CD store and just had to ask what it was. Since my curiosity always renders me with an empty wallet, the album ended up coming home with me that day.
Why? Hmmm, I suppose I found this music too cute to resist. I also enjoyed listening to the various electronic flourishes in each song and the 'spaceboy' vocals. Realistically, this kind of style may be unique to Christian music, but it most certainly is not revolutionary when other musical genres are considered. The name 'Erasure' came to mind several times while listening to this two disk set. 'Erasure' offers a similar, gleefully shallow approach. In both cases, lyrical prowess is virtually absent. This music would fit nicely into a kind of 'cotton candy' genre. It's sweet and tastes pretty good, but it melts away on contact.
What keeps me listening is not nuance, inventiveness, subtlety, or lyrical content. I listen because this music has a whimsical sense of fun, certainly its strongest quality. The artists behind 'Joy Electric' infuse this music with something close to joy by maintaining a brisk tempo and relying heavily upon the techo-lite methods of their mainstream brethren. Oh yes, and in another world, I would have no doubt that a nightclub catering to... Christians would play this music. Yeah, it's kind of like that!Great for Your collection of JEI was a tiny bit dissappionted by this cd. It's not bad, in fact these cds have great songs on it. If you are starting to be a joy electric fan, I highly recommend you get this cd first because the cd's have music that was never released or what was made before they became joy electric. On the other disc is all their hits from their other cd's, so you can know what their other albums sound like plus on the first disc there are three remixes of "We Are Rock" which sound really cool and diffrent than what they usally do. The first disc, like I told you, has songs that were unrealised and were made a while ago so the songs have an 80's or early 90's sound to them. The first two tracks though are new and they sound okay but why I was a little dissappionted was because I wasn't facinated with some of the songs on the first disc because they would be slow or boring in the music. That's pretty much what disappionted me but another thing why this is a great start to know JE is that there's a booklet that comes with it and the whole thing has Ronnie Martin(the singer and writer) talking about JE and each album they made. After reading it, I felt like I knew JE more than before because he talks about the good times and bad during the begining of joy e. and who they were before. This cd was well made and I do wish I could be 100% satisfactory but I guess I need to be honest. Enjoy the Music here! |
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