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Punishing Kiss | 
 enlarge | Creators: Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, N.s. Engel, Philip Glass, Joby Hannon Neil / Talbot, Steve Nieve, Tom Waits, Kathleen Waits Tom / Brennan, Ute Lemper, John Beal
Label: Decca
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 119428
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 028946647325
EAN: 0028946647325
ASIN: B00004RC8F
Release Date: April 4, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | The Case Continues - Ute Lemper, Hannon, Neil | | • | Tango Ballad - Ute Lemper, Weill, Kurt | | • | Passionate Fight - Ute Lemper, Nieve, Steve | | • | Little Water Song - Ute Lemper, Cave, Nick | | • | Purple Avenue - Ute Lemper, Waits, Tom | | • | Streets of Berlin - Ute Lemper, Glass, Philip | | • | Split - Ute Lemper, Hannon, Neil | | • | Couldn't You Keep That to Yourself - Ute Lemper, Costello, Elvis | | • | Punishing Kiss - Ute Lemper, ORiordan, Cait | | • | You Were Meant for Me - Ute Lemper, Hannon, Neil | | • | The Part You Throw Away - Ute Lemper, Waits, Tom | | • | Scope J - Ute Lemper, Engel, Scott |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Despite her roles in mainstream musicals such as Cats and Chicago, Ute Lemper has never been a typical Broadway baby. Her long association with the works of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, as well as her one-woman shows based on the repertoires of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich, has always marked her as a maverick in a world overpopulated by bland belters and cute ingenues. Lemper's distinctive voice isn't an instrument for easy listening. At full tilt, it's dangerous and edgy. In subdued mode, it's dark, ironic, and despairing. The cruelty that runs through many of her interpretations is taken on the chin. Lemper deals in defiance rather than submission. With just one, edgily updated Weill song ("Tango Ballad") and a host of contributions from Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Philip Glass, and the Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon, Punishing Kiss is a modern, bleak look at love in the 21st century. At times the tone is murderous, even apocalyptic ("The Case Continues"). The duet "Split," sung with Hannon, is a grimly humorous riot of punches and counterpunches in a disintegrating relationship. There's fleeting, poignant beauty too, in tracks like Waits's "Purple Avenue." Essential listening for anyone who likes their torch songs blood-stained, not just dampened by a few tears. --Piers Ford
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| Customer Reviews:
 Pop goes the Ute December 22, 2007
Marcus Aurelius (PA USA)
Perfectly reasonable cd, but for those of us who just love her German cabaret, this may disappoint.
 A guilty pleasure... September 30, 2006
Payaso (Chi-town)
Is this woman awesome, or what?
I have to say, this is probably one of my fav's. A very deeply moving, emotionally intense project. I keep coming back to it. It's just absolutely awesome!
Oh so very good March 6, 2003
S. Hawkins (New York, NY)
I fell in love with Ute Lemper when I heard a recording of her singing Kurt Weill's "Bilbao Song." I know she has her detractors, all of whom argue that other people are better at performing Kurt Weill. These people are idiots.This album came as a shock for me, as she truly stretches out farther than I had expected. Yes, there is a Kurt Weill song here, taken from the Threepenny Opera, but it's rearranged like you've never heard before - with a drum and bass loop churning underneath lush strings and keyboards (but not cheesy keyboards, mind you). The rest of the album follows in a similar style, though the instrumentation does subtly change for different composers' songs - most notably the addition of a bandoneon for the two Tom Waits songs. What is amazing about the album is the sense of continuity running through it, in spite its being a collection of songs of different people. The gem of the album, however, is Nick Cave's "Little Water Song," in which, over a beautiful string section, Ute Lemper lets her theatre training and singing mix freely - producing a performance that simply floors me. What else is there to say? She's simply amazing
The Best CD of All July 11, 2001
M. A. Wattam (Christchurch, DORSET United Kingdom)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Simply stunning performance of unusual new songs written expressly for her, entirely captivating, imaginatively written and performed. May not appear to be a 'hit' first time round but you will play it again and again, hear more, find new meanings and so much depth. It is performed dramatically (not as a routine studio tune and lyric) a most stimulating performance. In many ways it is a 'dark' album, not something you will be able to whistle in the bathroom, and all the better for that. If you are looking for real entertainment, look no further. Ute has to be the most under-rated artist of the current era, wildly flexible in how she performs, in many ways outrageously kitsch. She has performed this album in a tour, which I was privileged to attend and this underlined just how good she - and the album - is. A 'must buy'. Just wish she had a video/DVD as well!
 SWEET TORCH SONG TORTURE June 3, 2001
Pieter (Johannesburg)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The statuesque Ute is a beauty so monumental, she's almost architectural. And she's got a voice and delivery to match, plus on this album, a taste for superb material.My favourites are the Nick Cave, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits songs, but what is really impressive is how her voice holds together the Scott Walker song Scope J (If one can call it a song). Anyone who can sing along to, let alone intelligently interpret, such a bizarre and dark little symphony, deserves 5 stars just for the effort. I like my divas dark and brooding, like Nico of Velvet Underground, so Ute fits the bill. Investigate and enjoy!
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