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| Artist: Sneaker Pimps
Label: Tommy Boy
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  51 reviews
Sales Rank: 34146
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 1532
UPC: 661868153224
EAN: 0016998153222
ASIN: B00005UWL9
Release Date: May 6, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Kiro Tv | | • | Sick | | • | Small Town Witch | | • | Black Sheep | | • | Loretta Young Silks | | • | M'aidez | | • | The Fuel | | • | Bloodsport | | • | Think Harder | | • | Blue Movie | | • | Crazes |
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Amazon.com
Best known for their dance-floor hit "Spin Spin Sugar" and cracking 1997 debut, Becoming X, the British trip-hop quartet Sneaker Pimps have delivered a marvelous third album that bristles with inventive, shimmering electronics. Evoking slivers of old Depeche Mode, Killing Joke, Moloko, and Marilyn Manson, the Pimps meld and manipulate samples and snippets into smart trip-pop that hits on every level. Highlights? All of it, but "Sick" has a rudely addictive, airy loop in its upbeat refrain, while "The Fuel" is a Wim Wenders desert movie filtered through the Pimps' trip-hop conscience. With Bloodsport, the Pimps have successfully made their very own groovy alterna-dance-punk masterpiece. --Steffan Chirazi
Album Description
Tommy Boys Records debut produced by the band with Flood (Depeche Mode, U2) and Jim Abbis (Bjork, DJ Shawdow). Digipak. 2002.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 46 more reviews...
 Let Down February 18, 2008
Not a gem in the mix. Becoming X stays on top. Spin spin suggar great. This ones dull. Bring back the original female singer.
♥ February 14, 2008
Well of course if you don't like the Sneaker Pimps your taste in music sucks and this is another good one from them..
 Not Working For Me July 18, 2007
This just isn't the Sneaker Pimps sound - unlike Becoming X - that was awesome. I found a few tracks okay, but I won't be purchasing this CD because it only lets me down. It just doesn't work for me. I do hope they come out with another CD and familiar sound as the CD Becoming X - until then,,,I'll stick with my old sneaker pimps CD.
A successful reinvention of the Sneaker Pimps May 6, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This CD is, in essence, not from the same band you have heard recorded on the masterful album Becoming X. Having parted ways with Kelli Dayton (now Kelli Ali), their first highly definitive lead singer, the Sneaker Pimps underwent a sort of reinvention. While their initial sound was extremely bass heavy, eerie, and focused less on guitar-range notation, Bloodsport finds itself in a drastically less dark ambience. Rather than the sexy club mystique of old, this CD offers a much more cynical perspective.
This is a rather successful venture: from the outset, songs like "Kiro TV" and "Small Town Witch" are driving and powerful, with enough traces of trip hop left to feed your hunger for some dance grooves. Where their original moody dance sound has become less prevalent, however, it has been replaced by tinges of alternative rock and post-grunge, especially in the case of songs like "Sick". This is a daunting change for the Sneaker Pimps, who were so capable in their previous trip hop ambience. But it seems to have worked, because the album is quite coherent and cohesive, rarely if ever falling into tangential realms of sound past or future.
There are what I consider to be a couple of weak points in the songs "Black Sheep" and "The Fuel", however, which may simply be because they represent the unsuccessful return to the slow mood of the Sneaker Pimps' older material. In this setting, especially through Chris Corner's voice, the songs become dryly emotional in such a way as to bore to death. Say what you will about the raw emotion brought by Corner's voice, but electronic tracks such as these are unjustifiably slow and moody without any emotional return to the listener. One feels a certain blandness rather than the sympathy that ought to be desired. The lyrics add to the dead-ballad feel, succeeding elsewhere in the album but in these songs falling flat on their faces.
But in spite of these small failings, this is a good album. Those who loved Kelli Ali's bubblegum stylings with the Sneaker Pimps and the dark, rich trip hop feel she brought the band will probably be disappointed, but this band deserves better than to have those expectations imposed upon a wholly different lineup. Look at this recording as coming from a separate artist and it will be much easier to enjoy, and ultimately quite worth the time.
Third time's the charm July 25, 2005
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Sneaker Pimps will probably never write another song as good as "6 Underground", the mod-rock hit from their 1996 debut BECOMING X. But aside from that track and a few others, the album itself was fairly lackluster. The followup, 1999's SPLINTER, wasn't even released Stateside. Boldly jettisoning lead singer Kelli Dayton shortly before releasing SPLINTER was seen as a bad move by most of the music press, not to mention the fans. For a while it seemed like the band were destined to be a one-hit wonder.
Whether the shift in group dynamic was the catalyst needed to spark the creative burst of BLOODSPORT isn't known, but what's clear is that the Sneaker Pimps have improved immeasurably in terms of songwriting. The tunes on BLOODSPORT are everything BECOMING X's album tracks weren't: fully fleshed-out pop songs with hook, melody, and weight. The whole album is solid from start to finish, but highlights include "Sick", "Loretta Young Silks", "Small Town Witch", and the moody electro title track. Vocalist Chris Corner's world-weary rasp is a perfect fit for these downtempo numbers, and though Dayton had more charisma, Corner is the ultimately the right voice for these songs.
BLOODSPORT is a terrific about-face from a band once in the gutter. Pick it up and savor the sound of inspiration renewed.
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