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Fall leader Mark E. Smith had never been satisfied with the sound of 1983's PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE, so this CD release has been completely remixed. This is not only The Fall's best-sounding album-it may well be the group's best album, period. PERVERTED BY LANGUAGE is an important record in The Fall's long and prolific career, as it begins a six-year stretch during which the band released one excellent album after another--each filled with such intelligent, knotty, and increasingly pop-oriented songs as LANGUAGE's "Eat Y'self Fitter," "Smile," and "I Feel Voxish." LANGUAGE is also the first album to feature Smith's then-wife Brix on guitar. The CD includes five tracks previously available only on singles, including 1982's amazing "Kicker Conspiracy," a funny and appealing song about football.
1982's ROOM TO LIVE is a transitional album in The Fall's long and amazingly prolific career. The band's two-drummer lineup--excellently showcased on the live FALL IN A HOLE AND LIVE ON AIR IN MELBOURNE--was at its peak on ROOM TO LIVE. The album's seven tracks match singer/provocateur Mark E. Smith's increasingly bitter and politicized rants such as the raging, sarcastic Falklands War parable "Marquis Cha Cha" with extended, intense, rhythmic, and dark songs.
Unfortunately, the group was falling apart. Guitarist Marc Riley left the band shortly after the release of ROOM, forming the much more pop-oriented Creepers. Ironically, The Fall went on to create the poppiest music of its career after Riley was replaced by Smith's then-wife Brix. It is worth noting that the first 2000 copies of this CD include a bonus disc of four 1982 live recordings.
Reissue of their 1998 album, remastered and featuring 2 bonus tracks taken from rare withdrawn Kamera single 'Marquis Cha Cha' & 'Papal Visit'. Cog Sinister. 2002.
This 1998 reissue contains bonus tracks.
Recorded at Pluto, Manchester. Includes liner notes by Nick Church.
The Fall: Brixe Smith, Craig Sanlon (vocals, guitar); Mark E. Smith (vocals, violin, piano); Karl Burns (bass, drums); Steve Hanley (bass); Paul Hanley (drums).Uncut (p.124) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[I]t contains the band's superior sixth Peel Session..." Room To Live Music | List Price | $17.98 (You save $10.59) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Gospel, Alternative, Live Performances, Contemporary Christian Music | | Label | Cog Sinister | | Orig Year | 1983 | | All Time Sales Rank |  240901  | | CD Universe Part number | 5528955 | | Catalog number | 139 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Dec 02, 2002 | | Studio/Live | Live | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Personnel | Mark E. Smith - vocals, violin, piano
Craig Scanlon - vocals, guitar
Steve Hanley - bass
Karl Burns - bass, drums
Brix Smith
Paul Hanley - drums
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Fall Room To Live Songs | 1. | Joker Hysterical Face |
| 2. | Marquis Cha Cha |
| 3. | Hard Life in Country |
| 4. | Room to Live |
| 5. | Detective Instinct |
| 6. | Solicitor in Studio |
| 7. | Papal Visit |
| 8. | Town Called Crappy / Solicitor In Studio - (bonus track) |
| 9. | Hard Life in Country - (bonus track) |
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Purchase Room To Live CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Medium Medium Hungry, So Angry CD (2001) (Import)
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These 15 songs actually comprise all but a handful of the songs that Medium Medium released during their lifetime, taken from their LP The Glitterhouse and a handful of singles. It's anxious punk funk, suitable music for cruising around industrial sites in the English midlands. Aside from "Hungry, So Angry," though, these songs lack the hooks -- irritating as the chorus of "Hungry, So Angry" might be -- that would make them stick in the memory. Andy Lewis' occasional sax distinguishes this a little from some other music in the genre, and the constant finger-popping bass and eerie reverb both act as unifying threads and work against diversity that might have enhanced the group's worth. The enhanced-track ...
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| | Gang Of Four Hard/Solid Gold CD (2003)
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1983's HARD found drummer Hugo Burnham replaced by a drum machine. Additionally, the album's production substituted the band's previous angularity for a lush, polished sound augmented by backing singers and synthesizers, which longtime fans found hard to take. But both "Is It Love" and "Womantown" have a smoky mystery, while "A Man With a Good Car" is an energetic backward glance at the band's post-punk roots.
Gang Of Four were a British new wave band formed in 1980 by lead singer Jon King and guitarist Andy Gill. They had four albums hit the Billboard charts between 1981 & 1983. Two of those albums comprise this 2-on-1 CD. Hard is making ...
| | Miaow When It All Comes Down CD (2003) Import
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Miaow is one of those curious groups whose mystique and influential sway greatly overshadowed their meager recorded output. Between 1985-1987, the band contributed "Sport Most Royal" to NME's original C-86 compilation, recorded two sessions with legendary British DJ John Peel, and released an unforgettable single on Factory Records. If these feats don't solidify Miaow's old-school indie cred, vocalist Cath Carroll also wrote for NME, married Big Black guitarist Santiago Durango, and went on to be the fanboy fantasy of TeenBeat's Mark Robinson. But the best thing about Miaow's legacy? They actually deserve it. Songs like "Did She?," "Grocer's Dead Daughter," and "Following Through" sound so impossibly fresh, it's difficult to believe they aren't 21st century recordings from Slumber Party, Belle & Sebastian, or the Shermans. No matter what the genre was eventually called -- twee, indie pop, shambling, etc. -- Miaow's effortless melodies, bittersweet lyrics, and complete lack of musical pretense contributed significantly to its blueprint. When It All Comes Down is the definitive Miaow retrospective. It includes all of the trio's ...
| | Blue Orchids From Severe To Serene CD (2003) Import; Reissued
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Features John Peel radio sessions from December 1980 and May 1982, the complete RIDING THE TIMES ep, live tracks and rarities.
LTM's well-regarded abilities to get comprehensive reissues together continue with the Blue Orchids' efforts, though this is perhaps one of the craziest quilts the label has yet put together. There are two John Peel sessions from the band's earliest days and a slew of live cuts from around the same time, but smack dab in the middle is the one EP from Thirst, a semi-interim band led by Martin Bramah in the late '80s. Still, what matters most of all is the availability of the music, and more than a few obsessives (Fall-inspired or otherwise) who had held onto their crumbling tapes of the original Peel broadcasts were doubtless thrilled at the appearance of this disc. Said radio recordings take up the first seven tracks of the disc, with the first covering the "Work"/"The House That Faded Out" days (the version of the former is really grand, Bramah's end of song monologue a spot-on rant) and the second selections from their justly legendary Greatest Hits album. Bramah's singing here is just wonderful, and the takes on "No Looking Back" and "Sun Connection" in particular are stellar. As for the live cuts, while the lack of fidelity is duly noted in the liner notes, the performances are still enjoyable and readily audible. The Thirst cuts do differ ...
| | David Byrne Look Into The Eyeball CD (2001)
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LOOK INTO THE EYEBALL was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.
Like its predecessor FEELINGS, LOOK INTO THE EYEBALL folds David Byrne's various sonic preoccupations--funk, world music, string quartets, quirky pop-rock with heady lyrics--into a relatively seamless whole. "Like Humans" bears a post-modern R&B slant that recalls SPEAKING IN TONGUES-era Talking Heads. "The Revolution" is an ornate ballad centered around gentle acoustic guitar. "The Great Intoxication" is powered by the Brazilian percussion of Byrne cohort Vinicius Cantuaria. The strings-and-woodwind arrangement of "The Accident" adds a contemporary-classical edge. But from the breakbeats of "The Moment of Conception" to the Beatlesque guitar chords of "Everyone's in Love with You," Byrne manages ...
| | Lutricia Mcneal Greatest Hits CD (2005)
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| | Favorite Rock N Roll Classic CD (2001)
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| | My Friend The Chocolate Cake Live At The National Theatre CD (1999) (Import) Australia
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Born out of the band Not Drowning Waving, Melbourne's My Friend The Chocolate Cake is an eclectic folk-rock ensemble. This live recording from 1997 includes "Sirens" and "Cello Song for Charlie."
19 Easy Pieces is pretty much exactly that. The 19 tracks on the album -- culled from abandoned B-sides, compilations, film and theater soundtracks, and live recordings -- could be described as "easy" in light of their accessibility and digestibility. These are light and mellow chamber pop tunes, textured and inventive but always firmly rooted in melody. David Bridie and his collaborators (which include violinist Hope Csutoros, cellist Helen Mountfort, former Not Drowning, Waving bandmate John Phillips, and even pop star Michelle Shocked) certainly do not follow anybody's formula, but even their instrumental film score pieces demonstrate an ...
| | Paul Panzer Familienalbum CD (2004) (Import)
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| | Buddy Holly Golden Greats CD (2006) (Import) Import
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| | Jim Weiss Thomas Jefferson's America CD (2005)
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| | Clutters Don't Believe A Word CD (2007)
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