| | Pete Shelley XL-1 CD - Import Pete Shelley Discography of CDs
Second solo album from Buzzcocks singer/songwriter. Combining electronics and Shelley's signature guitar sound, this sophomore release was produced by Martin Rushent (Human League/Stranglers/Buzzcocks). While not as successful as his debut ... Full Descriptionalbum, "Homosapien", this album did include radio favorites such as "Telephone Operator" and "I Just Wanna Touch". This CD remaster features two extended dub mixes as bonus tracks. Varep. 2006. Hide Description XL-1 Review
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Purchase XL-1 CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Shriekback Oil And Gold CD (1985)
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Shriekback managed to (somewhat) break out of the confines of the "underground" through the pitchblack plasma brews and cantilevered rhythms of OIL AND GOLD. Opening their sound beyond the sinister brittle funk and experimental electronic exercises of CARE and JAM SCIENCE, OIL AND GOLD vacillates between being a lumbering, multi-headed beast (the angular funk-rock of "Malaria," the circuit-driven stampede of "Nemesis") and a glimpse into the tiny creatures inhabiting the underbrush in the stereo field ("Faded Flowers," the ghostly "This Big Hush," the deep-space cadences of "Only Thing that Shines").
The backbone of Shriekback has always been Barry Andrews; the broad range of synthetics and various sundry devices he uses to flesh out the band's naked animal consistently ...
| | Cure Pornography: Deluxe Edition CDs (1982) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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This remastered edition features a 14-track bonus disc of rarities that includes numerous demos, studio outtakes, and live performances.
For a band that's known worldwide as the premier purveyors of goth-rock gloom and doom (though hardly incapable of sparkling pop gems), it's no small thing to identify a particular album as their darkest, most disturbing sonic statement. Nevertheless, PORNOGRAPHY surely fills the bill. Reportedly created during a time of great psychological upheaval for group leader Robert Smith, it's a gloriously no-holds-barred existential angst-fest, from the very first line, "It doesn't matter if we all die." Not since Leonard Cohen's SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE had despair been so lovingly ladled into album form, but it's not just Smith's Prozac prescription that was upped during these sessions. His lyrical approach expanded as well, incorporating more stream-of-consciousness poetic imagery. And the rhythmic attack of bassist Simon Gallup and drummer Lol Tolhurst reached new heights of propulsiveness and viscerality as well, whether pounding out a churning syncopation ...
| | Pete Shelley Homosapien CD (2006) (Import) Import; Remastered
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Debut solo album from Buzzcocks singer/songwriter. Originally intended as demos for the 4th Buzzcocks studio album, Shelley and producer Martin Rushent (hot off the heals of his work on the ...
| | Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record - Expanded Edition CD (1976) Bonus Tracks; Remastered
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Also available in a 3-pack with FACE THE MUSIC and DISCOVERY.
1976's A NEW WORLD RECORD is both a classic of commercial '70s pop and an archetypal ELO album. From the outer-space synths and rich orchestrations that open the album to Jeff Lynne's meticulous production and Beatlesque melodies, A NEW WORLD RECORD is magnificent ear candy. Both ambitious enough to appeal to "serious" rock fans and ultra-catchy enough to sound terrific on Top 40 radio (the plaintively gorgeous, McCartney-like "Telephone Line" and the anthemic "Livin' Thing" were well-deserved smashes), ELO was one of the few '70s bands whose appeal covered both the FM and AM spectrums. The album even resurrects "Do Ya," a classic single by Lynne's former band, the Move, in a splashy new version.
The next ELO album, 1977's elaborate double-album OUT OF THIS WORLD, was probably the band's commercial high point, but A NEW ...
| | Electric Light Orchestra Face The Music CD (1975) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Expanded Edition
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ELO was big enough by 1974 that some people actually suggested that ELDORADO featured Satanic backward-masking. Of course, the idea was ludicrous; but the band playfully responded by adding a backward message to "Fire on High," the opening instrumental on 1975's FACE THE MUSIC.
Besides "Fire on High," which was used as background music for countless television programs in the '70s, this album's eight lengthy tracks include two enormous hits, "Evil Woman" and the McCartneyesque ballad "Strange Magic." Decades later, these two tracks are still in constant rotation on classic-rock radio around the world. Those three songs defined the new sound of ELO. Gone were the elaborate, classically styled overtures, in favor of concise, ultra-melodic pop songs given lush, romantic orchestral arrangements with endlessly overdubbed harmony vocals. The next three ELO albums refine ...
| | Blancmange Happy Families CD (1982) (Import)
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| | Strictly The Best Vol. 20 CD (1997)
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| | Wanna Buy A Craprak? CD (2003)
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| | Olivia Ruiz J'Aime Pas L'Amour CD (2005) (Import) France
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| | Avon Calling: The Very Best Of Heartbeat Records CD (2005) (Import) United Kingdom
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The music emulating from in and around Bristol in the southwest of England during the late '70s and early '80s remains today as some of the most innovative and important from that era. Many of the creators of these sounds went on to do things internationally, though it's the origins that this release is concerned with. Heartbeat Records managed to capture most of this through a series of now highly acclaimed 7 inch singles. 2 ...
| | Kangaroo CD (2006) (Import) United Kingdom
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| | Eddie Higgins Moonlight Becomes You CD (2004)
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