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A vastly important and influential album, SPEAK & SPELL is virtually ground zero for British synth-pop.
Live RecordingRolling Stone (p.74) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[They] built a massive cult that worshipped the quartet's dance beats, bondage-inspired outfits, singalong tunes and carnal angst." Depeche Mode Speak & Spell Songs Speak & Spell Music Review Purchase Speak & Spell CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Depeche Mode Broken Frame CD (1982)
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When pop mastermind/main songwriter Vince Clarke departed DM after the group's first album to form Yaz with Alison Moyet, it seemed like the end for the boys from Basildon, but it was really a new beginning. Martin Gore stepped forward to fill Clarke's songwriting shoes, surprising the world by taking his predecessor's catchy electro-pop approach a step further.
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| | Depeche Mode Construction Time Again CD (1983)
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Having proven his abilities as a pop craftsman on the previous year's A BROKEN FRAME, DM main songwriter Martin Gore gets down to the business of developing a new sonic language for himself and his bandmates on CONSTRUCTION TIME. Earlier in its career, ...
| | Depeche Mode People Are People CD (1984)
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Depeche Mode's fourth American album is more a patchwork compilation of singles documenting a rather confusing period in the band's career. After the twinkly synthpop of their 1981 debut SPEAK AND SPELL, founding songwriter Vince Clarke left the band ...
| | Depeche Mode Some Great Reward CD (1984)
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Depeche Mode's U.S. breakthrough album, 1984's SOME GREAT REWARD, expanded the U.K. synth band's American following from a small cult of Anglophiles to the same sort of teenage adulation that the Cure had started attracting around the same time. Featuring the Top 20 U.S. hit "People Are People," along with cult faves such as the intensely mopey "Blasphemous Rumours," the fashionably S&M-tinged "Master and Servant," and the disarmingly earnest love ballad "Somebody," this is the album on which Depeche Mode finally shed the stigma of founding songwriter Vince Clarke's departure.
SOME GREAT REWARD finds Martin ...
| | Depeche Mode Black Celebration CD (1986)
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| | Various Artists Oldie Chartbreaker: Hippy Hippy Shake CD (2005)
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| | Bo Diddley Two Great Guitars/The Super Super Blues Band CD (1996) (Import) United Kingdom
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Two rock & roll legends have albums collected here, with Bo Diddley offering TWO GREAT GUITARS and Chuck Berry presenting THE SUPPER SUPER BLUES BAND, with a little help from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.
Bo Diddley shared this 1964 Chess album with his labelmate, Chuck Berry. They duel it out on a pair of incredibly lengthy instrumentals (brilliantly titled "Chuck's Beat" and "Bo's Beat") that get tiresome long before they run their full course. Better (and briefer) are two numbers where they don't cross paths -- Diddley's rendering of "When the Saints Go Marching In," and Berry's amazing country breakdown "Liverpool Drive." A couple of bonus Bo Diddley sides ("Stay Sharp" and "Stinkey,") also make this digital re-incarnation worth acquiring. ~ Bill Dahl
The linking theme behind this two-LP-on-one-CD compilation seems to be the fact that, on both Two Great Guitars and Super Super Blues Band, Chess Records was trying to coax or force collaborations between the company's established stars. Two Great Guitars was the more spontaneous and inspired of the two albums, coming about on a day when Chuck Berry happened to turn up at Chess when Bo Diddley was cutting a session, and they decided to try and cut something together -- the result was a pair of superb extended guitar workouts that were unique in their time; no rock & roll record had ever featured jams of this length, or showcased the bags of tricks of a pair of axe-men like this. Although the usual assumption is that the featured guitarist on each of the tracks got the spotlight, the fact is that Bo Diddley holds his own even on the Chuck Berry piece "Chuck's Beat," providing a relentless, sometimes thunderous and sometimes shimmering rhythm guitar backup to Berry's lead guitar that's a show in itself. "Bo's Beat" features the piano nearly as prominently as either of the guitarists, and Berry wanders through some intelligent variations on his most familiar licks, part of a very busy band. The Super Super Blues Band album was more problematic, being a company-dictated collaboration between Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, and Bo Diddley that never quite fits together -- Muddy and the Wolf never got along sharing their repertory, and Bo Diddley seems caught in the middle of a nasty argument a lot of the time; sadly, Chuck Berry wasn't on Chess at the time, or else he might've been here in place of the unwilling and unhappy Wolf. There's occasionally some interesting playing or singing, and it's always nice to hear more Holwin' Wolf (nothing here is as awkward as Wolf's work on the infamous "Howlin' Wolf's New Album" of the same period), but it's not a prime example of the work of anyone involved. The BGO disc is a fresh remastering ...
| | Chase Phoenix Cut To The Chase CD (2004)
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| | Dan Siegel Inside Out CD (2004)
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Adult contemporary pianist Dan Siegel has been helping to shape the smooth jazz genre since his recording debut in 1980. Having released several chart-topping records, Siegel now returns with Inside Out, his first all-new studio release in over six years. Inside Out is a collection of ten original tracks featuring special guests Boney James, Jeff Kashiwa, and Brian Bromberg. The recording is characterized by smooth urban grooves, insightful melodies, and mood-setting atmosphere. The recording opens with "Just Like That," a melodic distillation of piano finesse, ambient electronic instruments, and inventive programming. "Inside Out" is ripe with the beauty of percussive syncopation and the sonority one hears from an array of castanets, congas, and other percussion. Siegel's piano grace is surrounded by elaborate string complements that sway the listener into a state of relaxation. On "In Your Eyes," Siegel's exquisite piano playing sets the scene for love with natural and expressive resonance. The addition of flute to this lovely piece provides another ...
| | Grady Y.U. So Shady? CD (2004) Import
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| | Chemical Brothers Boxer CD (2005)
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| | Anton Butler Miracles & Melodies CD (2008)
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