Audio CD (June 6, 2000) Original Release Date: 2000
Number of Discs: 1
Track Listing
1. Yellow Butterfly
2. I.S.A.A.C.
3. Heartbeat
4. Made First (Never Forget)
5. Mr. Davies
6. Swimming Suit
7. Hey Joe
8. Puzzle
9. Easy Way Out
10. Things Are Made To Last Forever
11. Revolution 80
12. When The Sun
13. Revolution 80 (Tahiti Mix)
14. Heartbeat (Video)
Editorial Reviews
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This French quartet, who borrowed their name from a cheesy souvenir T-shirt, dress
up horn- and string-swept '60s pop bliss in a tie-dyed T-shirt and black leather
jacket. With their intricate melding of woozy, reverberating guitars, jangling
acoustics, sitar, mellotron, breathy, effortless vocals, and almost ridiculously
pleasant melodies, a listener would likely place them among their contemporary
Brit pop torch-bearers Supergrass or Super Furry Animals (further, lead singer
Xavier Boyer's French accent is nearly undetectable). But what gives them away
is that seemingly requisite French tendency to leave no edge unsmoothed. Like
their techno counterparts Air, Tahiti 80's production is aerated, refined,
and simply perfect like a silky mousse. Puzzle is carefree pop at its most
elegant and substantive. Boyer's proclaimed adoration of the Kinks is evidenced
in the more guitar-crunched tracks like the title track and "Hey Joe," and the
charming "Mr. Davies" is a reverent tribute to Ray himself. In it, he sings,
"He's considered a songwriter, and I am not--at this time." Au contraire,
Mr. Boyer, you are an exquisite songwriter indeed. --Beth Massa
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