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Melody N. Pilotte | San Francisco | 10/20/2009

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I will say that this never made me feel that special way that the first album did. It is a very solid album, and has some amazing tracks on it, but it has too much of a polished quality to it instead of the rawness that their album and live performances had. Sex Changes, Back Stabber, The Shores of California and Dirty Business are all fun and interesting tracks."

The Boston, Not Dresden Dolls

Bartok Kinski | Prague | 11/26/2009

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I won this album in a Berlin cabaret. Supposedly it's all part of a dark, underground cabaret movement that's formed by a bunch of nincompoops and bored, rich gothic youth in America. They dress up in white face paint and wear feathers and old coats and toss fire bottles at old trucks. Wow, how original. The Germans were doing this in the 1890's.



The Dresden Dolls album is not German cabaret at all, it's more like amateurish carnival music from Missouri. The piano is annoying, the vocals of Amanda Palmer sound like she swallowed an angry, irritable male with raspy helium in the coarse lungs. All the arrangements stink. Only people weaned on MTV will fancy this rubbish, anyone appreciating true cultural music will be offended.



This detritus has no business being linked with the great German cabaret.



Amanda Palmer also claims to have invented a phrase, "Brechtian punk cabaret", to describe the Dresden Dolls. Well, sorry to burst your Zeppelin, German techno-bands like KraftWerk were using the phrase in the 1970's.



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