Dusk [Remaster] - The (The) (CD 2002)

Sometimes, you just need to wallow. Forget all of that happy, perky, "Come on everyone, get happy," drivel. You've just been dumped, you feel like the stuff that collects underneath the refrigerator, and you don't want anyone to tell you how to feel. You want to be miserable, but you also know that if you listen to The Smiths one more time, you're going to slit your wrists. Or write poetry. Maybe both. Enter Matt Johnson, the brains, heart, guts, and genitals behind The The. Here he has given you a gift: an album that will take you down to the very bottom of wallowing and self-righteous I've..

OK, here's the deal: if you want to get a woman in bed, buy this CD and play it as soon as possible. I admit, that might not be the best reason to purchase music, but as a woman, I can attest to the fact that this is the sexiest album I have ever heard in my life. Leonard Cohen is the only guy who has a voice that can compare, but he never released an album like this one. Even "Help Line Operator" makes the most conservative practitioner of celibacy want to go out and find someone to... well, anyway, it's pretty hip. Actually, the entire CD tells a story, and it's a story well worth hearing...