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"Experiment" is the key word on this 1988 release by Manchester's ultra-prolific Fall. Though the entirety of the band's then-current six-person lineup appears on the front cover, THE FRENZ EXPERIMENT is so pared-down that at times only Mark E. Smith's unique vocals and the guitar playing of his soon-to-be-ex Brix Smith's can be heard. As a result, this is one of The Fall's least difficult albums and one of the better starting points for neophyte fans. Highlights include the oblique "Oswald Defense Lawyer," the sneering "Get A Hotel," and a surprisingly straightforward and poppy rendition of the Kinks' classic "Victoria." The CD contains five bonus tracks, including a full-length version of the LP's abridged "Guest Informant."
Producers: Simon Rogers, Grant Showbiz, Dian Barton.
Personnel: Marcia Schofield (keyboards); Simon Wolstencroft (drums).
Recording information: Manchester, England; St. John's Wood, Brixton, England.
Photographer: Pyke.
The Fall: Mark E. Smith (vocals, electric piano); Craig Scanlon, Brix E. Smith (guitar, background vocals); Marcia Schofield (keyboards, background vocals); Steve Hanley (bass, background vocals); Simon Wolstencroft (drums, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Simon Rogers (guitar, electric saxophone, synthesizer).
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Purchase Frenz Experiment CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Fall Wonderful & Frightening World CD (1984) Bonus Tracks
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| | Elliott Smith Either/Or CD (1997)
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| | Elliott Smith Xo CD (1998)
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The Cinderella-esque climb from lo-fi indie cult artist to Grammy nominee/major label darling must have been a perilous one for Smith, who makes the leap to the big time here after three well-regarded albums on small labels. He's lost none of his bite, though. The production values on XO may be slightly higher, but Smith's vision remains undiluted.
The production, centered around acoustic guitar augmented by keyboards and lush vocal harmonies, recalls pop icons like the Beach Boys (especially on the closing acapella cut), Beatles and Big Star, but this is no sunny Cali-pop album. Leavening the instrumental brightness are Smith's ...
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| | MxPx Pokinatcha CD (1995)
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| | St Christopher Golden Blue CD (2001)
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St. Christopher first appeared on the then-nascent UK twee-pop scene in 1986. Over a series of singles, EPs and albums released on at least half a dozen highly regarded indie labels, singer/songwriter Glenn Melia and a revolving crew of sidepersons developed a rather slight but likable body of work, but in all those years, only managed one flat-out masterpiece, the 1988 single "All of a Tremble." That song, two minutes of breathless vocals and hyper-jangly guitars, is a touchstone of the whole twee-pop aesthetic and one of the era's classic British indie singles. Nothing on 2001's Golden Blue, St. Christopher's first album in nearly half a decade, reaches that level, although the gently squalling "The First Or The Last" comes pretty close, not least because of its the glorious fuzztone and reverb guitar sound, and the Echo and the Bunnymen-like "Low" is a neo-psychedelic gem. On the downside, too many of these 11 brief songs use the same low-key arrangement ideas and the album's most memorable chorus, from "The Devil From Nowhere," is a direct, plagiarism suit-worthy lift from the Flying Machine's 1968 hit "Smile A Little Smile For Me." More irritatingly, Melia has adopted a new vocal style on this album, a Jarvis Cocker-style whine that serves to put even his most personal lyrics in arch quotation marks. St. Christopher have always hit their peaks on individual songs, which meant they were perfect for the "singles are everything" indiepop mindset, but it makes listening to an album like Golden Blue a rather frustrating experience. ~ Stewart Mason
CD REVIEW, BY POP MATTERS MAGAZINE:"Like Barrett, Gabriel, Julian Cope and others, Glenn Melia lets us hop on his back for a sonic trip across the river that flows inside your imagination. Golden Blue is a skyscraper of sounds with a driving lead guitar ...
| | Styx 21ST Century Live CD (2003) With DVD
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Recorded live throughout various concers between 2000 & 2003.
Although they're not on par with Pearl Jam just yet for the largest amount of live albums released in the shortest amount of time, Styx surely lead the pack of veteran classic rock bands in the live album department. During the space of six years, from 1997 through 2003 (which saw Styx reunite with Dennis DeYoung, then hand the singer his walking papers, before replacing him with Lawrence Gowan), the Chicago arena rockers issued a staggering five live albums. Released in 2003, 21st Century Live features much of the same material as its predecessors, but differs in the fact that it's a double disc, comprised of a CD and DVD. Despite the fact that many fans will scream "Sacrilege!" at the mere thought of Styx carrying on without DeYoung (and they do have a valid point), the versions of such classics as "Snowblind" ...
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