How many people are digging the new album...better yet, are you digging the new album but loving the newly recorded tracks even more. I've been posting on a PSB club and they all love "Fugtive", with it's driving hard beat and great sense of melody, and think it should be a single. And how about the campy disco duet "In Private" with Elton John? Does Elton often do collobrations like this...I mean, this isn't even on the main disc. And the album is also great but I would have liked more club stompers like the "Fundmentalism" tracks.

VinnyM27 said:

I think it's their worst album.

Ok...I have listened to this album ALOT my thoughts

Being originally touted as an "epic" album by Trevor Horn, I think many expected a full on dance album or at least one that didn't have as many the ballads, as this one does. I think that disappointed many.

The faster tracks are actually quite excellent and the B-Sides I have heard are also very good. It makes me wonder why the album didn't have more of these on it and put the ballads to the B-Sides. Really I think they could have sustained a completly upbeat album. There are some of the best moments the PSB's have had in years. Songs like the dark opener Psychological to the Sodom and Gommorah Show...both quite excellent. Minimal, the new single is better than I'm with Stupid, which is a classic PSB track, if you ask me. 20th Century...I love this song. Very dark and moody like Psychological.

The slower track are good. I think that they seem a bit out of place. ANd perhaps could have been more electronic driven ala Liberation and Love COmes Quickly. But most are basically piano and strings...not htat there is anything wrong with that...but there are too many IMO. A song like Girls don't cry would have been a better inclusion as a slower song. I do love NUMB and Luna Park. and I think that fans over look the slower tracks because they were expecting faster ones. It's a shame, ecause they are some of the strongest ballads they have done. As I said they seem to be out of place and break the flow of the album.

I do like the bonus disk. Not as much, sice they are remixews. But I really like Fugitive, Gomorrah, Flamboyant and Psychological.

So that's what I got to say.

I was very cool to this record at first, but now every time I play it I like it better. I think seeing the video for Minimal helped with that song - now I can't stop playing it. It's a beautiful production, and I love the lyrics.

I burned my own version adding a couple of the b-sides plus Fugitive and In Private from disc 2 to give it a little more of an upbeat feel. There's alot of great stuff on Fundamental, but it is a little mellow in the 2nd half.

Shapeshifter said:

Even if that's true, all of there albums are above average, although I never really gave "Release" much of a listen for the reason I first dismissed "Fundamental"...too many slow to midtempo songs.