The Glove

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* Audio CD (January 12, 1999)
* Original Release Date: 2000
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Import
* Label: Polygram Int'l
* Catalog Number: 815019
* ASIN: B000005S0A
* Average Customer Review: based on 19 reviews. (Write a review.)
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2. Looking Glass Girl Listen Listen
3. Sex-Eye-Make-Up Listen Listen
4. Mr. Alphabet Says Listen Listen
5. A Blues In Drag Listen Listen
6. Punish Me With Kisses Listen
7. This Green City Listen
8. Orgy Listen
9. Perfect Murder Listen
10. Relax Listen
11. Mouth To Mouth Listen
12. The Tightrope Listen
13. Like An Animal Listen

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Out of print in the U.S., this is Polydor's 1990 reissue of the 1983 side-project album by The Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie & The Banshees' Steve Severin. Contains 13 tracks, including all three of the bonus tracks that were on the U.S. edition: 'Mouth To Mouth', 'The Tightrope' and 'Like AnAnimal' (Club? What Club?).
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Dark, Psychedelic, Sensual and Sexy in a Deviant Way, February 19, 2004
Reviewer: SandmanVI (Glen Allen, VA United States) - See all my reviews
By now you know that The Glove was the side-project of The Cure's Robert Smith and Siouxsie & the Banshees' Steve Severin, with Severin's girlfriend at the time, Jeanette Landray, usually on vocals (Smith sings lead on 2 tracks).

"A Blues in Drag" is one of the great instrumental in post-punk's history. You could almost call it a tone poem, with its slowly shifting sweeps backed with sparse piano notes, hidden giggles, whispers, gently whining violins and other strings. The effect is beautiful, mesmerizing and deeply sensual.

"Punish Me with Kisses" is a lilting, strange pop song juxtaposing a nice lyrical flow with seemingly opposing images of violence, love and sex; the title should already tell you that much.

Smith sings on the enigmatically sexual "Mr. Alphabet Says", which almost sounds like a freaked out version of the Beatles "Eleanor Rigby" complete with moaning cellos and minor key piano. Lyrics include fun moments of covering, and of course removing, honey and treacle (that's Brit for molasses) from a partner's body. Ends with the hilarious lyric, "Don't be afraid, there's no marmalade."

"Perfect Murder", the other Smith-led number, is a bouncy, swirly (if you'll let me make that word up) track with Robert sounding a lot like the howling, wailing vocalist he did on The Cure album `The Top'. Reverb-affected synths and noises snake throughout the entire mix.

One of my favorites is the entrancing "Sex-Eye-Makeup" filled with some of the most lurid lyrics on the subject of self-satisfaction ever heard. "Run around the stairs in your Sunday dress, it's the best thing money can buy. Or leave me on stairs with my feet in the air, I'll think that I'm jazzy like Christ. Someone coughing took away my breath; Inches of glass all shiny and new, screaming, laughing, f@#ks me to death." The screeching guitar coupled with the organ feel dirty but in an artful way.

"Looking Glass Girl" is every oddball David Lynch scene set to music; "The umbrella man is shouting, we shake his paper hands... we peel away like tinsel"... all set to a light samba rhythm.

"Relax" is black and dreamy with minimal strumming of guitar and bass drifting amid floating noises and bizarre, looping phrases & whispers. It is hypnotic, trippy and not boring despite being an instrumental.

"Orgy", another hypnotic song, is very Middle East influenced and blends in a flute similar to another song from `The Top'. When she sings, "Overgrown senses ripple and spark... we could swim, my little fishes and me" somehow on a song called Orgy I don't think she's talking about the fishes in the deep blue sea. "This Green City" is similar in tone and content.

One of the singles is the upbeat "Like An Animal", which is unlike the other tracks without feeling out of place. Jeanette's vocals are almost ethereal here, sounding much bigger than elsewhere. As with elsewhere on this disc, the words are strange, darkly suggestive and jarring and violent despite the sing-song bounce to it. The guitar feels like Smith did on "Head on the Door"... think "In-between Days".

The B-side "Mouth to Mouth" makes for one of the best songs and features a piercing guitar hook. "I laid in bed for hours remembering your taste."

"The Tightrope", another instrumental, starts out sounding like a fun trip to the carnival but midday turns haunting as if it represents a horrifying childhood memory. The sense of loss, or maybe it's a sense of being lost, is powerful.

The album is a must for Goths, fans of either Cure & Siouxsie or anyone interested in really strange, original music. Despite the heavy hitters involved in the project, this album is unbearably obscure. Still it remains as one of the great albums of the 80's.

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