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One Way Ticket To Hell ... And Back |  | Artist: The Darkness
Label: Atlantic
Category: Music
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Rating:  92 reviews
Sales Rank: 16192
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5051011121821
ASIN: B000BOG1L2
Release Date: November 28, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | One Way Ticket | | • | Knockers | | • | Is It Just Me | | • | Dinner Lady Arms | | • | Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time | | • | Hazel Eyes | | • | Bald | | • | Girlfriend | | • | English Country Garden | | • | Blind Man |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
It's a great title, but can the second album by codpiece-clad rockers The Darkness measure up to the good-time japery of their debut? Fears that the rancorous departure of bassist Frankie Poullain (replaced by Richie Edwards) might have tarnished their saucy-postcard image are proved groundless seconds into the opening title-track, which, for all its serious subject matterimg src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-music/images/artists/darkness1.jpg" width="200" height="150" align="left"--the dangers of cocaine abuse--rattles along with a preposterous amount of cowbell and a guitar-shaped swimming pool of cunning puns: "I've always tried to keep my vices under wraps", coos Hawkins, with the mock-innocence of a mischievous choirboy. p Recorded with "Bohemian Rhapsody" producer Roy Thomas Baker, the rest is a feat of flamboyant musicianship and shameless high-fidelity sound. One highlight comes with "English Country Garden", a falsetto-pitched number reminiscent of Queen in their pomp that sees Hawkins compare his genitalia to a prize-winning marrow. IOne Way Ticket#133;/I, however, is particularly notable for an explicitly romantic streak. "Is It Just Me?" ("Or am I all on my own again?") is a desperate letter to a distant ex-lover, and if the title "Dinner Lady Arms" isn't exactly the most flattering of testaments, the sincerity of its sentiment is unmistakable.--ILouis Pattison/I ptable width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1" tr align="center" valign="top" td colspan="4"div align="left"strongMore to Explore/strong/div/td /tr tr align="center" valign="bottom" tdimg src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/02/uk-music/images/artists/darkness2.jpg" width="83" height="110" border="0"/td tdimg src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0000A0C4U.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="110" height="110" border="0"/td td/"img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0859653528.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="82" height="110" border="0"/td tdimg src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/1843286491.02.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" width="82" height="110" border="0"/td/tr tr align="center" valign="top" td width="25%"p align="center" The Darkness/td td width="25%" p align="center" iPermission to Land/i (CD)/p /td td width="25%"div align="center" p align="center" iPermission to Rock/i(Paperback)/p /div/tdtd width="25%" div align="center"p iPermission to Land/i (TAB)/p /div/td/tr tr align="center" valign="top" td colspan="4" div align="center" p align="left"br img src="http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/G/02/x-locale/common/orange-arrow.gif" width= "10" height="9" Find more Darkness/p /div/td /tr /table
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 Will be a future Classic May 13, 2006
mr.mercury (Malta)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
OK, I hoenstly can't understand how so many people hate this album. My conclusion is no one really associates rock with fun anymore. This album is FUN from begining to end. You put it on and all way through you can enjoy it and rock out.
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br /Compared to other 2005 rock releases such as the Foo Fighters' 'In Your Honor' or Audioslave's 'Out of Exile' (both excellent rock albums) this album stands out simply for the creativity and imagination that has been put into it. Roy Thomas Baker has really worked magic on this album giving the band a new dimension, which is very notable compared to Permision to Land(again another excellent album).
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br /The thing about One Way Ticket is it's more than excellent. It's an instant Classic. Easily one of my alltime favourites. 35mins (yes 35mins only) of pure genius. The band have admitted this is more of a vinyl album with 5 tracks on each side. Listening to the album you realise why.
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br /Side 1 (the pure rock side)
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br /One Way Ticket starts off with panpipes, no idea why, but its brialliant. The only thing I don't like about this song is that dreadful cowbell. But otherwise this was the perfect first single for this album. It's got those winning rock elements that worked wonders on their debut, but you can hear the new elements as well. More harmonised vocals and a sitar solo distinguish it from their other songs.
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br /Knockers...i love the chorus to this. Great lyrics. Great vibe. I love the piano and guitar solo piece. Makes me smile everytime I hear it.
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br /Is It Just Me?...has to be one of their best songs so far. Possibly one of the best guitar solos in rock history. The guitar and bass riff is also really cool. Really pumping, and gives the song a great drive. I think this song is a great example of keeping the music simple yet complex enough to entertain and excite.
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br /Dinner Lady Arms...starts of like vintage Leppard. But don't slag this off as being some rip off. The lyrics are beautiful in a quirky way, as The Darkness know how to be. Beautiful overall layered sound. I was really surprised with this one, this is where the album starts verging away from Permission to Land.
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br /Seemed Like a Good Idea...in my opinion this is one of the best power ballads of all time. I would have never imagined The Darkness using an orchestra, but this sounds glorious. Such a powerful chorus, you can't help but try and scream out the melody. Even though you probably will never hit those notes. I love those jazzy piano chords stuck here and there. This is a power ballad like you've never heard it before. And ''Across a thousand miles of broken glass on my hands and knees'' is the lyric that gets me most. How romantic...ahhhhhhhh *sighs*
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br /Side 2(the experimental side of the album)
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br /Hazel Eyes...starts off with a Brian May-esque lick, really cool. The lyrics are so original and wacky they make you laugh. Great balsy bass. And there are so many sounds in this song. Ebow guitars, a mandolin i believe or a guitar made to sound similar to one, bagpipes, marching drums, triangle. The best Celtic rock song ever. Also introduces a new word to your vocab...HAZELERER. You can't beat that.
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br /Bald...don't really like this one. I think it could have been used so much better. It's mostly the lyrics that ruin this one. I definetly udnerstand Justin Hawkin's humour in his lyrics. But this could have been a sort of Love on the Rocks pt.2. and instead it's more like the Darkness taking the piss out of AC/DC's Hell Bells. Still great guitar work and vocal melody. Definetly grows on you more with each listen. Shame about the lyrics.
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br /Girlfriend...lololol. One of the coolest songs on this album. On first listen I was like WTF. But the more I heard it I became adicted to it. The orchestrations in this song are mind blowing. Especially considering this is a rock song, and it rocks well. It is simplicity that's the key here. This has to have the best synthesiser solo ever(and not only on a rock album). Clocks in at 2.31 and you just want to play it again again. Girlfriend I Love You...soooooooo much.
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br /English Country Garden...their most Queenish song. Actually I think this is the only Queenish song the Darkness have, despite so many people slagging them off for sounding too much like Queen. Again great lyrics and a great guitar solo. First song the Darkness have used the piano as a main instrument. Works really well. Maybe the begining of whats to come on future albums. Again another best in the rock world...best rock song to use a French word. Jardin Jardin Jardin Jardin wooooh!
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br /Blind Man...maginificent is the only word to describe the closing song of One Way Tikcet. The orchestra is used again for beautiful effect. Beautiful lyrics. No drums, no guitars(well no distorted guitas at least)...just an orchestra and lots of harmonised vocals. A not straight forward chorus that grows so well on you with each listen. Pefect album ending.
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br /If this isn't a modern classic rock album then at least it should get the status of being one of the most Underated Classic Rock Albums.
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It rocks December 4, 2005
M. Spencer (England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The album may need a few listens to but after that you can#x27;t get most of the songs out of your head. Very Queen influenced which is somewhat down to the producer I suspect. A cracking second album. I hope we don#x27;t have too wait so long for the third.
AWESOME....JUST AWESOME! January 4, 2006
Mark (Newcastle, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Darkness first album was brilliant and sold billions, and this second album that my g/f bought me for xmas is just as good, if not, better than the first album! The rock is still there and for some reason, it sounds better than the first album! Their is more harmonies on this album and it really really sounds good! Every tune on this album will get you wanting to listen to it again and again and even at work the songs will be in your head! This album deserves the number one spot and I strongly recommend this album to you, you wont be disappointed in it! The singing from Justin and the band are awesome and there are a number of the songs I really like but I really like Hazel Eyes, sounds great! TOP BAND, TOP GUYS, TOP SINGING, BUT MOST OF ALL TOP ALBUM! brWell done Darkness!
Darkness Rocks Again... January 6, 2006
T. Letchford (Kent)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Well after much anticipation, they#x27;ve done it again. The dangerous second album is out and......IT ROCKS. The lads from The Darkness have done themselves proud with this very different sound. One way Ticket is the opening track which starts with pan pipes, yes pan pipes you rockers, give it 20 seconds and it blasts off into pure genius. The whole album seems to be telling a story, whether it is a personal one... who knows but it is brilliant. My personal favourite apart from the opening one is track 7, Bald. It has some astounding riffs which are reminiscent of AC/DC, and it soooo works. You must buy this if you love good rock with excellent guitar riffs and some astonishing vocals by Mr Justin Hawkins. The only drawback is it seems a tad short only about 36 minutes which if they read any of these reviews should prompt them, more lads, we want more....
Listening to It right now February 15, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Absolute quality Dinner lady Arms, Is it just me? and Bald would get on my top 20 of all time and are indescribable to those who havent heard them. Had the album on repeat for 10 times now. All the songs on the album are great, slight queen feel to this album.pAlthough not to keen on the final song of the album blind man pMust have for any music fan and this genre.
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