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Spilt Milk | 
 enlarge | Artist: Jellyfish
Label: Virgin Records Us
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Rating:  108 reviews
Sales Rank: 7061
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 86459
UPC: 077778645924
EAN: 0077778645924
ASIN: B000002US5
Release Date: February 9, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Hush | | • | Joining a Fan Club | | • | Sebrina, Paste and Plato | | • | New Mistake | | • | Glutton of Sympathy | | • | The Ghost at Number One | | • | Bye Bye Bye | | • | All Is Forgiven | | • | Russian Hill - Jellyfish, Jellyfish | | • | He's My Best Friend | | • | Too Much, Too Little, Too Late | | • | Brighter Day |
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100 Amazon Reviewers Can't Be Wrong March 6, 2008
Diamond Dave (Chicago, Home of the Blues)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just have to add my blessing to this CD. I must be from a different planet than those that did not think is was the best listen. When I hear music this fun, fresh and fantastic, I wonder why everyone doesn't. Members of Jellyfish would have had to have listened to a few Queen albums in their day. The lead vocals and harmony (without the guitar edge)would have made Freddie Mercury happier than a sissy with a new boa. "Joining a fan Club" is a classic. Everybody's talkin' about the song "Best Friend" (not to be confused with Queen's song) sounds to me like "The Courtship of Eddie's Father"(written by Harry Nilsson). Not a duff track on this set. They have borrowed from evey one from the Beatles & Beach Boys and XTC and it all works for me. I wish I had a thousand CDs this good in my collection. I have 10s of thousands of recorded songs. I'd take this to an island with me if I could only take 100 items. It's that good. Thankfully, this review finds me in the majority. It looks like most people simply adore this, but it made me feel good to add my name to the "Milk" carton anyway. Naturally it sold very poorly and the band discolved.
A Gem! January 18, 2008
Spilt Milk is one of those albums that is so rich and so dense, that you will be able to pick out something new on every listen. It is true that the listener can hear influences from Queen, the Beatles (Paul especially), and many others (stylistically) in Jellyfish's songs - which I LOVE. This has encouraged me to share this album with friends had never heard of them, but loved their influences. It's that good (and as a side note, anyone who I've turned onto this album has always been super-thankful).
The lyrics on Spilt Milk are as thoughtful and dense as the music. Very often complex and full of pun, Sturmer and Manning's words gracefully weave in and out of each other, leaving the listener with concrete images and interesting thematic juxtapositions to ponder.
The bottom line is, this is truly a majestic rock and roll album. The power of the ideas, the production, the tightness, the varied arrangements, the instrumentation and the delivery never disappoints. This album is a classic.
sad truth December 24, 2007
Kevin E. Mcdonald (Cleveland, Ohio United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
How can a great band like Jellyfish not make it? The songwriting, musicianship, production is superb on this CD. I listen today to it, and it's still as fresh as 10 years ago!
I would love to see this band re-unite.
Perfect Pop Period. November 1, 2007
comedreja (depths of the west)
Just as great as the best of The Beach Boys, Queen, The Beatles, XTC, Joe Jackson (and Michael for that matter), Prince, or Robyn Hitchcock. All of the praise that these boys have received is well deserved. By far without any hesitation this is the best of the best pop ever written. Buy now!
Perfection! August 13, 2007
Booker (Vancouver, BC, CAN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It's taken me so long to get around to reviewing these guys, but that should not in the least suggest that they've been neglected in the playlist rotation. There were some criminally underated and ignored musical talent and albums out of the early and mid-90's: Elliott Smith, My Bloody Valentine ("Loveless" is still one of the all-time intense albums), along with a handful of others; I actually use this album (loan it out) to potential friends (yes, I'm that brave :)) to not only see how they react, but it helps me understand them as a person. Every single person that I've introduced this album (haven't had quite the same success with "Bellybutton") flat out loves it, hounds their local music store, breaks their rules about purchases online, or begs me to borrow my copy "a little longer". The production is stunning and the closest thing to it recently would be Porcupine Tree's "In Absentia" or The Mars Volta "De-loused in the Comatorium"... and those two albums are 10-years "Spilt Milk's" junior. The musicianship is amazing, the lyrics give the songs a completely different dimension once you really get into them, and the whole band is just so willing to put themselves out in the most saccharine of directions, and yes the music is so super sweet/tart/lemony in that absolutely perfect way, that it takes a true humbug not to admit a deep like and toe-tapping tendency for these guys.
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