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Their first proper new release since the commercial breakthrough of Once Upon a Time (a live album intervened) and Simple Minds makes a decidedly, noncommercial follow-up. Street Fighting Years is a moody, dark affair. The music is yearning and most of the songs are politically charged lyrically. It was a move that could (and did) bring commercial failure. However, Street Fighting Years is an artistic and elegant album that might lack immediate choruses but draws in the listener. The title track takes some dramatic turns that give the gentle melody added thrust. "Take a Step Back" pulsates and "Wall of Love" rocks with conviction. Slower tracks like the brooding "Let It All Come Down" and a spirited run through the traditional "Belfast Child" are well done. Other noteworthy tracks include a version of the Peter Gabriel classic "Biko" and the soaring "Mandela Day." It might not have satisfied the band's newly won fans, but Street Fighting Years is an interesting, enjoyable album with some truly lovely moments. ~ Tom DemalonQ - 5 Stars - Indispensible Street Fighting Years Music Simple Minds Street Fighting Years Songs Street Fighting Years Music Review Buy Street Fighting Years CD Purchase Street Fighting Years CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Simple Minds Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call CD (1986)
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Digitally remastered edtion of their fourth album and it's "ghost". By the time of its release, Simple Minds were on the fast track to stardom when "Sons & Fascination" bolted them further toward the stratosphere. The hit singles attacks of "Love Song", "Sweat In Bullets", "The American" (originally the b-side of "Love Song") made them the darlings of the critical set and of many postpunkers. Their music is still completely art school dark & mysterious, but only slightly bending in a general pop direction. This issue ...
| | Simple Minds Sparkle In The Rain CD (1984)
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| | Simple Minds Neapolis CD (1998)
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Simple Minds signed to Chrysalis for Néapolis and saw the return of Derek Forbes on bass. Néapolis signals a return to form while remaining on the cutting edge. Unlike ...
| | Simple Minds Once Upon A Time CD (1985)
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| | Simple Minds Live In The City Of Light CDs (1987)
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All of these 14 lengthy tracks come from the band's more commercially ...
| | Ozark Mountain Daredevils It'll Shine When It Shines CD (1974)
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| | Le Band Passepartout Cajun Sentiment CD (1993)
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| | Bobby Vinton Greatest Hits CD (1995)
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First assembled in 1981 by the Special Products (i.e., budget) division of what used to be called CBS Records, subsequently reissued by the company after it had been sold to Sony, and, in 2002, ...
| | Georg Pommer Commedia Dell'Arte CD (2000) (Import)
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| | Captain Beefheart Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot CD (1972)
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| | Best Of Acid Jazz CD (1995)
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| | Sloan Action Pact CD (2003) Import
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Principally recorded at Conway, The Embassy Studios, Los Angeles, California in 2003.
Sloan is Canada's answer to '90s pop rock like Oasis. The melodic ACTION PACT is their eighth full-length album and features the single "The Rest Of My Life."
One thing that no one can deny about Sloan is that they can't be ignored as a band always willing to bring out the fun and the rock & roll. They always wear the hearts of their influences proudly on their record sleeves, but never succumb to loss of originality for the sake of trying too hard to impress upon the listener the validity of their roots. Action Pact expands upon Sloan's muscular leanings, due primarily to the band's decision to hire a producer for the first time in its history. Under the direction of Tom Rothrock (producer of artists as diverse as R.L. Burnside, Beck, and Elliott Smith), the songs gel like on no previous Sloan release. The band really plays to its strengths on Action Pact, showcasing remarkably tight vocals, the power of drummer Andrew Scott, and the arena-rocking, bouncy, handclapper songs that defined part of Sloan's post-Navy Blues career. The only noticeable disappointment of this release comes in the decision not to include any compositions by Scott, whose songs have adorned every previous outing by these proud Canadians, but this doesn't really hold back the power and depth of Action Pact; it just seems a bit dishonest to the legacy Sloan has built. Nonetheless, Action Pact is a streamlined album, recorded with minimal overdubs (read: no keyboards), which opens in the classic Sloan one-two punch with "Gimme That" and "Live On" by songwriters Chris Murphy and Patrick Pentland respectively. It's on the fifth track, the Jay Ferguson-penned "False Alarm," where the band starts to really stretch out into fresh territory that never lets up the intensity through the rest of the album. The brilliant pop of Pentland's "I Was Wrong," the jerky tension of "Who Loves Life More," ...
| | Jawbreaker Dear You CD (1995) Enhanced CD
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After a trio of underground classics built a fanatical fanbase and a critical buzz, Jawbreaker hit the majors with its 1996 debut (and ultimately swan song) on Geffen Records. While shunned by many of the Cali band's hardcore fans at the time--the melodies were purer pop, Blake Schwarzenbach's affected accent more pronounced-DEAR YOU would go on to be cited as one of the forefathers of the '00s brand of emo.
Its re-evaluation is overwhelmingly deserved; DEAR YOU contains some of the sharpest, most psychotically searing lyrics the soon-to-be English professor Schwarzenbach ever composed. While opening track "Save Your Generation" is a tad preachy and obvious, the neurotically sinister "Accident Prone," the ultimate love/hate song "Fireman," and the Christopher Walken-sampling stalker-y "Jet Black" more than make up for it. Perhaps the best moment comes near the end on "Bad Scene, Everyone's Fault," where in pure first-wave punk style, Schwarzenbach excoriates a 1990s hipster party tableau.
Released in 1995, Dear You found Jawbreaker cleaning up and streamlining their punk-pop sound and coming up with a sleek, slick punk-grunge classic that relies as much on clever songwriting and restrained emotions as it does on the group's trademarked high-energy attack. From the opening chords of the anthemic "Save Your Generation," Blake Schwarzenbach's vocals are the star. He was coming off of throat surgery that robbed him of a lot of his vocal power, but gave him a smoky intimate sound that gives the feeling that he is whispering right in your ear. On songs like "I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both" and "Jet Black," he sounds wounded in a way that screaming could never convey. The album is a powerful mix of jumpy punk-pop like "Bad Scene Everybody's Fault," "Fireman," and the aching "Chemistry," and midtempo tracks like the amazing "Jet Black," "Million," and "Basilica," which escape being tied to the time of grunge-by-the-numbers by being melodic and heartfelt without going over the top, by being just punk enough to be real and just epic enough to rise above the often boringly earnest approach ...
| | Pajama Game CD (2008) (Import) Import
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