| | Spandau Ballet True CD Spandau Ballet Discography of CDs
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While Spandau Ballet's first two albums earned them European popularity, their third, TRUE, made them worldwide stars. The idiosyncratic blend of Bowie, funk, New Wave, and electronics that marked their earlier work was traded in for a smoother, much more accessible sound here. One couldn't really accuse the band of selling out, though, as the elegantly soulful ballad sound at the heart of TRUE played a role in their musical inspiration from the beginning (remember, the New Romantics were essentially soul boys, not rockers). The title track, a glistening slow-dance classic, both literally and musically evocative of Marvin Gaye, was an international smash, and made Spandau Ballet a household name. "Lifeline" expands on this aspect of the group's sound, evincing a noticeable Philly Soul influence, and "Communication" is catchy, mid-tempo R&B/pop. Such tracks as "Gold," however, would not have sounded out of place on a Broadway or Vegas stage, foreshadowing the ever more commercial sound Spandau would pursue as the 1980s wore on.
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. Spandau Ballet True Songs Purchase True CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Talk Talk It's My Life CD (1984)
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 $8.99   
An early band of New Romantics, they spent some time trying to shake off the image. Vocalist Mark Hollis has a problem insofar ...
| | Ultravox Lament CD (1984) (Import) Bonus Tracks; United Kingdom
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$10.15 
LAMENT was a 1980s-era addition to the canon of synth-pop albums from Ultravox, with the band scoring some hit singles with the upbeat "Dancing With Tears in my Eyes" and the mournful title track.
Ultravox were in a gray mood as they launched into their seventh studio album, LAMENT. With the band's previous existential angst now pooling around personal anguish, the album's title track was a study in languorous melancholy, where emotional pain lingers on and on. Even "One Small Day," the most celebratory song on the set, battles depression but dismally loses the war. No wonder Ultravox were so keen to escape into the past, with "Man of Two Worlds" taking them back to the gloriously romanticized days of the Celts. The modern world, in contrast, was filled with terrors, both emotional ...
| | Spandau Ballet Parade CD (1984)
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$9.95
Parade was Spandau Ballet's follow-up to their most successful LP, 1983's True. "Only When You Leave" reached number three on the U.K. charts. The three other singles that were released do successively worse: "I'll Fly for You" (number nine), "Highly Strung" (number 15), and "Round and Round" (number 19). (These charting songs are all marginal at best.) The band was still riding high in the U.K. and sold out seven consecutive dates at Webley Arena. Fans of the band, and the "new romanticism" of other acts like Simple Minds, Adam Ant, and Wham may like Parade because it comes close to recapturing the stylish, white soul sound of ...
| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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$6.39
This audio document of The Corrs' Dublin homecoming concert has pretty much everything fans of Irish pop could wish for, including an appearance from Bono in his earthly incarnation, fresh from an audience with President George W. Bush. It's to the band's credit that the charismatic singer fails to steal the show, despite creditable efforts via an anthemized version of Ryan Adams' beautifully ...
| | Thompson Twins Greatest Hits CD (2003) (Import) Sweden
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$9.19 
| | Dredg Catch Without Arms CD (2005)
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$8.49
Early on, critics often described Dredg as a metal group. However, the quartet has since matured into a hard-edged indie-rock ensemble that seeks diversity and refinement in its music. On CATCH WITHOUT ARMS, the band favors highly orchestrated parts, dense guitar riffs, and powerful drumming. Each song is based around memorable vocal hooks and sensitive lyrical content.
Many tracks on CATCH WITHOUT ARMS have a searching quality to them. Despite the sheer force of the music, this release is ultimately marked by ...
| | Free Beer Only Beer That Matters CD (2002)
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$8.55
This is part of Alternative Tentacles' "Skate-Punk Reissues" series.
Skatepunk pioneers Free Beer blessed the San Francisco punk scene with a unique, driving sound that would go on to influence countless other bands through the years. While not the only ones planting the seeds for skate-friendly hardcore at the time, the bandmembers were genuinely made up of skateboarders who only wanted to make music that they could skate to. Railing against girls, religion, parents, the army, sobriety, and virtually any other thing ...
| | Best Of Cafe Del Sol CDs (2002) Digipak
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$17.59
| | Earth Mama Christmas Heart CD (2003)
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$15.19
This recording is a result of over a dozen years of writing and selecting the best songs to go into this uplifting collection of contemporary Christmas originals, including Close To The Earth, The Angel Tree, and Green Christmas. Great holiday music for parties! The perfect Christmas gift for those who want to break free of the commercial Christmas and go straight to the Christmas Heart!Joyce Johnson Rouse is a singer, songwriter, actor, educator and environmental activist. A graduate of Iowa State University and a native of Iowa, she's still a child of the cornfields, as evidenced by her corny humor, and a farmer at heart, though a resident of Tennessee the past 15 years.Songs written by her have been recorded by pop and country music artists such as Maureen McGovern, Marie Osmond, Jennifer McCarter and the McCarter Sisters, Jana Stanfield, Lindy Gravelle, and Rachel Sumner, heard in movies and ads, and used as theme songs for a number of events including the National Celebration of the 75th Anniverary of Women's Suffrage, where her work premiered at ...
| | Mark Gould And Pink Baby Monster CD (2004)
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$15.19
MARK GOULD and Pink Baby Monster is a 3 member chamber music/performance art ensemble. The group is composer driven; all musical compositions and poetry are written by members of the ensemble. The instrumentation of MARK GOULD and Pink Baby Monster is trumpet/electric trumpet/echo cornet; guitar; computer samples, myriad midi components and drum samples; vocals. MG/PBM works extensively with video artists. Video is a major component of the ensemble's presentation. The musical roots of MG/PBM are wide and reflect the influences of the members of the ensemble whose ages span more than 2 generations. The musical ingredients of the ensemble are drawn from opera, electronica, beat-based minimalism, jazz and rock with a generous seasoning of hip-hop and Tibetan throat singing. The inspiration for the poetry and musical monologues is not drawn from the usual sources. MG/PBM's muse is politics, religion, science and mathematics, contemporary aesthetics, and various cultural ironies and peculiarities. Ensemble origins and history On 9/9/01, Mark Gould and his friend of 35 years, painter/sculptor/video artist, Michael Zansky began work on a multimedia piece, an over the top satire, a humorous encapsulation of the pious, voracious, excessive, naïve, arrogant, omnipresent beast that is American culture. We began writing lyrics and music and gathering images. The icon, PINK BABY MONSTER, was born. When 2 days later the world was turned on its head by the mass murder of 9/11/01, PBM was thrown into a much harsher perspective. The satire took on a much darker edge. The starkness of PBM's world view and ...
| | Barky Study In Rocking CD (2003)
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$13.69
When conceiving the band, Barky's founder, Scott Barkan, set out to create an instrumental outfit that would appeal to musicians, fans of new music with ears for complex harmonies and rhythms, but at the same time would not alienate those listeners who yearned for singable melodies and simple structures. The result was an exquisite blend of subtle chord changes and short melodic lines, underpinned by a driving rhythm section which twists and turns its way through barely decipherable time changes and bursts of blistering improvisation.Though he has chops to spare, Barkan's guitar playing is surprisingly restrained, often opting for harmonic and rhythmic dissonance to create and release tension, rather than a blistering flurry of high notes. And his impeccable ...
| | Animal Collective Hollinndagain CD (2006)
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$12.69
2006's HOLLINNDAGAIN is a re-release of Animal Collective's rare live album composed of tracks recorded for the radio station WFMU in 2001and live tracks from the band's tour from the same year. HOLLINNAGAIN presents a fascinating portrait of one of the 21st century's most relentlessly inventive indie rock bands at a time when they were committed to creating fresh ...
| | Zut CD (2007) (Import)
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$31.55
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