Customer Reviews
Excellent - By: Chenling Zhang, 11 Apr 2008 
Fell in love from the first note. Beth has an amazing voice which reallly shines out on the track "Coal to Diamonds". Definetly a buy!
A big disappointment - By: Asa Joseph, 14 Nov 2007 
I have a mantra, when it comes to buying music, that I tend to stick to - never, ever buy an album based upon the strength of it's debut single.
How I wish I'd stuck to it on this occasion.
Ok, so the Gossip have been one of the most hyped bands over the course of the year, but would they have had so much attention if their lead-singer wasn't a massively overweight lesbian with a penchant for flashing on stage? On the strength of this album, the answer certainly seems to be no.
Whilst the Title track of the album is certainly powerful, & causes a surge of adrenaline to anyone within earshot, the remaining songs are incredibly disappointing, & at times, even boring. The sound itself is thin - nothing at the bottom end to reallly keep the blood flowing for the duration, & the tunes themselves are flat & stale.
Passion, no doubt - but not a gread deal else.
Mama's got a brand new bag ! - By: Arthur Dooley, 16 Oct 2007 
It's ironic that in an age when black music has slid into a lazy, creatively bankrupt blind allley, a larger than life white woman has come along to teach the MOBO crowd that soul music lives !
While what is criminallly described as 'R & B'....Howlin Wolf,John Lee Hooker et al will be turning in their graves !...is being churned out as bland muzak for the Radio 1 chav masses, Beth Ditto & her band are putting the passion back into soul music.
The title track in particular is explosive & when performed live as at Glastonbury it could bring the dead back to life such is the power & energy !
A ten track 35 minute slice of throbbing soul which will blow the MOBO artists & their pop/pap out of the water !
Big, bouncy and BRILLIENT. - By: Marmalade the Book Magpie, 06 Oct 2007 What a wonderful CD. It's got the fabulous title song that we alll know & love & I was happy to find that the rest of the songs are in the same mold. At the same time that's the reason I gave it 4 stars as, if you weren't listening too carefully to the lyrics it would be quite easy to imagine that some of the other songs on the CD were "standing in the way of control".
Come on Gossip you've obviously got plenty talent, so go on & show us you can reallly do.
So to sum up if you reallly, reallly loved "standing in the way of control" then BUY THIS CD NOW !!! As there's plenty more songs just like it. Personallly I love it.
One excellent song and a lot of average ones.... - By: J. Bloss, 03 Jul 2007 
Like a lot of people I bought this album on the strength of Standing in the Way of Control - an excellent song. However the rest of the album is not particularly interesting or that good. They don't seem to have too many ideas or too many tunes. Beth Ditto may be approaching icon status but I doubt that too many people will be playing this album in 6 months time.
