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You could have danced for me and punched me through
This album is seriously damaged. Lyrically it sounds like the view from someone who is so emotionally damaged, so disillusioned with life and love that the idea of sex is an act of violence. Relationships are so cold and icy that they almost cease to exist. Accompany this with the music and you have the music which is so glacial that it's helps the album well. It's hard to keep on about an album like this when you really can't fault anything. It may not instantly grab you and Howard Devoto's voice may not be the most instantly appealing thing you'll ever hear but stick with it as there's plenty to admire if given time. <
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Their best in my opinion
I own every magazine album but for me this one is the best. In this 79 album everything's perfect. The melodies, the lyrics, the voice, songs almost have a prog thing in it, the way they develop, so complex and yet pop, just like Eno did in this first two solo albums. This is magazine 's Taking Tiger by the Mountain reviewed in the eyes of punk and eighties new wave, and astonishingly as good.

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A MASTERPIECE--REALLY
If you are looking to buy your first MAGAZINE cd, some reviewers on Amazon will tell you to get THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP first because it's the most "accessible." My recommendation is: Start with the best--SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT. Get REAL LIFE next. Try THE CORRECT USE OF SOAP third. As for the accessibility issue--it's true; I didn't particularly like SECONDHAND DAYLIGHT the first time I heard it. It's as though my brain could not immediately process its awesome luminosity. But after a few more listens, its brilliance started shining through. Is it goth? Is it punk? Comparing this album to anything else is foolish and might even be misleading, but I'm going to throw some band names out that are in the ballpark: Bauhaus, Sex Pistols, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Damned, David Bowie (but harder and darker), Christian Death, Radiohead, Iggy and the Stooges, New York Dolls, Sonic Youth, Velvet Underground, early Roxy Music, early Eno. In any case, this cd takes you all the way into outerspace. Get ready for a wild ride.