Fantastic Plastic Machine - Beautiful

Label: Emperor Norton
Catalog#: EMN 7042
Format: CD
Country:US
Released:15 May 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Leftfield, Disco
Notes:
Rating: 3.24/5 (21 votes) Rate It
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Tracklisting:

1   I Am Beautiful (0:04)
2   Beautiful Ways (4:29)
3   Paragon (5:10)
4   Love Is Psychadelic (5:59)
5   On A Chair (6:17)
6   Whistle Song (8:02)
    Written-By - Frankie Knuckles
7   One Minute Of Love (0:59)
8   Todos Os Desejos (7:28)
9   I'm Still A Man (4:40)
10   Black Dada (3:59)
11   God Save The Mona Lisa (5:12)
12   Beautiful Days (Reprise) (4:19)
13   Take Me To The Disco (Malibu Remix) (6:26)
    Remix - Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
User Reviews:
scoundrel, Apr 27, 2004

The Fantastic Plastic Machine’s third album, Beautiful, is much more steeped in disco than his previous two, which is both good and bad. It’s bad in that it narrows the eclectic sound that made his first two albums so fun; it’s good in that he can still pump out a great track like “Beautiful Days.” There’s no mistaking the disco strings on “On a Chair”; “The Whistle Song” isn’t a remake of the famous Frankie Knuckles track as you might think -- it’s a peppy number with more of a flute than a whistle. “I’m Still a Simple Man” sounds like it came straight from vaudeville. Not all the tracks are as charming, though: “God Save the Mona Lisa” seems rambling and “Take Me to the Disco” shows you why disco had a short shelf life. Still, not a bad album.

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