| View Larger Image | Good | Audio CDby Morphine
| List Price: | $11.98 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Rykodisc | | Release Date: | July 27, 1993 | | Sales Rank: | 27,773th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Good
- Track 2: Saddest Song
- Track 3: Claire
- Track 4: Have a Lucky Day
- Track 5: You Speak My Language
- Track 6: You Look Like Rain
- Track 7: Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave
- Track 8: Lisa
- Track 9: Only One
- Track 10: Test-Tube Baby/Shoot'm Down
- Track 11: Other Side
- Track 12: I Know You (Pt. 1)
- Track 13: I Know You, Pt. 2
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Amazon.com
With no guitars and a half a set of bass strings, Morphine managed to rock harder than most of their fret-bound competition while retaining the slippery nocturnal undercurrent that would become their signature sound. On this 1992 debut album, the Boston trio strips down the minor-key blues of frontman Mark Sandman's former group, Treat Her Right, and adds a host of off-kilter elements. Sandman's slide bass and narcoleptic vocals are perfectly complemented by Dana Colley's frenetic baritone sax, which he plays like a cross between Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Van Der Graaf Generator's David Jackson. Sandman reportedly played one-string bass for this album (he'd later expand to two), and the sound quality here is murkier than on subsequent efforts. But tracks such as the infectious "You Speak My Language" and the prophetic "Do Not Go Quietly unto Your Grave" (Sandman would die onstage in 1999) are powerful indicators of Morphine's dark musical glories to come. --Bill Forman |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 12 reviews)
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lasting goodness by Crystalinda (OH United States)  5 Stars
February 23, 2008
Good is my all time favourite Morphine album. I is an almost seamless obra. Almost every song on it still haunts me with its resonance and elloquence. Claire, Look like Rain, etc. are still good songs. Yes the music was better live, but alas, that time is no more.
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Morphine's best album. by Ebbe A. Pedersen (Norway) 5 Stars
June 27, 2006
Without doubt the best product Morphine ever made.
Mark Sandmand voice (not very unlike Jim Morrison) together with that brilliant baritone sax plays along from start to end. - My favourite track is no 7: "Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave".
In general a very good cd - recommended.
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underrated... by Oliver (Morelia, MICH MEX) 5 Stars
November 03, 2005
Boston was the home base of one of the greatest bands of the decade, Morphine, a guitar-less trio whose style borrowed heavily from blues and jazz but shared with the Pixies the same casual, detached approach to melody. Three masterpieces established them among the masters of the "noir" atmosphere. Good (1992) highlighted their ability to turn ballads and rockers into metaphysical dialogues between bass and saxophone. The languid crooning of former Treat Her Right's bassist Mark Sandman, who chiseled one of the most evocative voices of the era, added another layer of meaning, a Tom Waits-like mourner and Nick Cave-like preacher floating inside the stark, unreal, heavy fog of the music. The trio contrived melodies that offered a quiet vivisection of post-industrial anxiety.
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i wish there was a negative rating option...... by antonio dellomo  1 Stars
August 19, 2005
i wouldn't recommend this album to my worst enemy, you probably have to be on heavy doses of "Morphine" just to consider this legit music.
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Subtle Bliss by Royale (Terre Haute,IN USA) 5 Stars
June 17, 2005
Morphine is a great band that sounded like nothing else. I've owned "Good" for 4 or 5 years and I keep going back and listening to it, finding new favorite parts or ideas in it. I don't write reviews (this is actually my first) but this is by far one of the best albums (CDs) that I own. The music is stripped bare with only the Sax, bass, and drums. In later albums Morphine experiments with adding some other instruments but on this album everything feels so pure. The songs are full of back-alley positivity, hauntingly sung by Mark Sandman. The production is subtle and offers the music in a form that feels real and at many times comfortable. "Good" is a masterpiece anyone who loves good music should own.
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