Necessary Evil

Deborah Harry - Necessary Evil

Necessary Evil
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Artist: Deborah Harry
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2007-10-09
Music Label: Eleven Seven Music
Soundtracks:
  1. Two Times Blue
  2. School for Scandal
  3. If I Had You
  4. Deep End
  5. Love with Vengeance
  6. Necessary Evil
  7. Charm Redux
  8. You're Too Hot
  9. Dirty and Deep
  10. What is Love
  11. Whiteout
  12. Needless to Say
  13. Heat of the Moment
  14. Charm Alarm
  15. Jen Jen
  16. Naked Eye
  17. Paradise

Music reviews of Necessary Evil

Music Review: A Deeply Satisfying Musical Experience
Rating: 5 Stars

It's no cosmic revelation that Nancy Sinatra and Deborah Harry broke the ground which Madonna has so successfully cultivated: intelligent off-center sorta-rock with a street-smart attitude, and an all-American rinky-dink voice in the guise of retro silver screen sirens. Which kinda makes Madonna iconic of not much except white-knuckled self-promotion and adherence to an already-established tradition. A marketing triumph of course, but if the subject is actually music then all spoils don't necessarily go to the victor.

With NECESSARY EVIL Deborah Harry articulates a musical vision which is more about sustained excellence than reinvention. She's not only at the top of her game here - she's at the top of everyone elses. As such, her latest album moves seamlessly and seductively around contemporary grooves anchored by deceptively unobtrusive lyrics and oblique ideas. Indeed Deborah's stock-in-trade, but here realized more cohesively than ever before as a solo artist. Or maybe we're just catching up with a girl who's usually been more musically relevant than her times because the new Deborah Harry album certainly stands alongside Blondie's finest moments, past and present.

NECESSARY EVIL is a very strong response to both vacant corporate pop and indie pretensions. The production is really superb inasmuch as it brings out the very best in Deborah Harry, and she has a lot to offer. Figure on mucho bang for your buck if you're looking for equal parts style and substance.

It's undoubtedly a classy piece of work with a lot of musical integrity, and should be listened to (and cherished) as an album. Not because there are no standout tracks, but just because it's a nice long buzz for the soul.

Five outta five cos it's too damned good for anything less.

Description of Necessary Evil

Anyone hoping for the 62-year-old Debbie Harry to sit up and act her age will be sorely disappointed by the former Blondie vixen's sixth solo album (and first in 14 years). Viscerally contemporary, Necessary Evil harnesses youthful exuberance from across the charts, and Harry and her team of producers and songwriting partners do radio-ready rock, pop, and soul-lite with ? la mode savvy to spare. Big-time sing-alongs ("Two Times Blue," "You're Too Hot") rub elbows with spare, distorted guitar lines piled in arena-sized stacks ("Love with Vengeance," "Charm Redux," and the especially vivacious "Whiteout"). "The Devil's dick is hard to handle," Harry growls in "School for Scandal," encapsulating the attitude of shameless defiance coursing through this and other lean, mean, up-tempo numbers like the half-rapped, full-lipped "Dirty and Deep." Between the reversed hip-hop break bisecting "Charm Alarm," the title track's stolen riff from Rage Against the Machine's "Know Your Enemy," and Harry's bits of Internet imagery, this album won't dare let go of its of-the-moment moxie. Gumdrops like the flaccid "What Is Love" and closer "Paradise" are irrevocable but few; in all, the occasional slice of tripe strangely sweetens Harry's otherwise surprising longevity, ready to rock and salty as ever. --Jason Kirk

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