Coming Down (album)

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Coming Down
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Studio album by
Daniel Ash
ReleasedSeptember 1990
Genre Alternative rock
Label Beggars Banquet [1]
Producer John Fryer [2]
Daniel Ash chronology
Coming Down
(1991)		 Foolish Thing Desire
(1992)

Coming Down is the first solo album by former Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, and Love and Rockets guitar player Daniel Ash, [3] released by Beggars Banquet in September 1990. [4] The first single, "This Love", was a number two hit on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in the United States. [5] Natasha Atlas sings on many of the album's tracks. [6]

Contents

The album peaked at No. 109 on the Billboard 200. [7]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [8]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Entertainment Weekly A− [9]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [12]

Entertainment Weekly called the album "insidiously listenable — all thick, pulsating drums and sinewy melodies, topped by Ash’s studio-processed and thus inhuman-sounding vocals." [9] Trouser Press wrote that the album "takes off in a bunch of different directions, from sedate cocktail swing to low-key salsa (!) to somber atmospherics to jittering dance noise." [6] The Buffalo News praised the "furtive, moody, electronically draped reflections on reality and romance." [13] Q described it as "sometimes playful, sometimes moody tinkering [that] is for close friends and relatives only". [11]

Track listing

  1. "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart)
  2. "Coming Down Fast"
  3. "Walk This Way" (Ash, Tito Puente)
  4. "Closer to You"
  5. "Day Tripper" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  6. "This Love"
  7. "Blue Angel"
  8. "Me and My Shadow" (Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose, Al Jolson)
  9. "Candy Darling"
  10. "Sweet Little Liar"
  11. "Not So Fast"
  12. "Coming Down"

Personnel

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  2. ↑ Thompson, Dave (19 February 2000). Alternative Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9780879306076 – via Google Books.
  3. ↑ "Daniel Ash | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  4. ↑ Group, Beggars. "The Arkive". The Arkive. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Daniel Ash". Billboard.
  6. 1 2 "Love and Rockets". Trouser Press. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
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  9. 1 2 "Coming Down". EW.com.
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  11. 1 2 Kane, Peter (5 March 1991). "Daniel Ash Coming Down". Q. Vol. 55. p. 65.
  12. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 25.
  13. ↑ "DANIEL ASH POP". The Buffalo News.


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