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Ghost In The Machine [Digipak]
: essential recording:Dark, somber, and thematically unified as no previous album by the Police, Ghost in the Machine deals almost exclusively with the negative effects of modern political and technological culture. The only departure from this focus is 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,' a perfect pop song and radio hit. Elsewhere, the album treats such issues as the hope underlying resistance to oppression, the dismissal of most of the nonindustrialized world, the daily bombardment of words and images that overload the senses, and the frequent recourse to violence for personal or ...
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Somewhere in Time
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: IRON MAIDENTitle: SOMEWHERE IN TIMEStreet Release Date: 03/26/2002DomesticGenre: HEAVY METAL
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Songs from the Big Chair
:Album Description:Digitally remastered reissue of the hit English new wave/ pop duo's huge second album, 1985's quadruple-platinum 'Songs From The Big Chair', which topped the charts for five consecutive weeks when originally released. Features the #1 smashes 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World' & 'Shout', plus the #3 'Head Over Heels' and the top 30 'Mothers Talk'. Also features seven bonus tracks, U.S. remixes of 'Mothers Talk' & 'Shout', along with the B-sides 'The Big Chair', 'Empire Building', 'The Marauders', 'Broken Revisited' and 'The Conflict'. 15 tracks total. 1999 release.
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Tom Tom Club
: :Talking Heads drummer Chris Franz and bassist Tina Weymouth formed Tom Tom Club to continue exploring the polyrhythmic experiments conducted on the Heads' Remain in Light release. On this self-titled debut, the husband-and-wife team mixed urban and arty new wave elements, generating two mammoth dance-floor hits. 'Wordy Rappinghood' is a study in art-school rap as it percolates along with the help of funk beats and synthesized bleeps. The brilliant 'Genius of Love' gives props to James Brown. A slow, slinky funk masterpiece, it includes call-and-response vocals, a rap, and a lilting melody. 'L'Elephant' ...
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Millennium Collection - 20th Century Masters, The Best Of Berlin
: :Like Blondie, Berlin is a female-fronted new wave band with a lead singer (Terri Nunn) who can really belt, although Nunn is more in-your-face than Debbie Harry. Their music is submerged new wave synth-pop that is varied most successfully by Nunn's agile vocal arrangements. In 'No More Words,' she first yells and then drops to a scathing whisper, only to attack again; it's scary enough to make any man cower. 'Take My Breath Away' is a beautiful from-the-gut ballad, so large and deep in scope that it commands your full attention. In 'The ...
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Iron Maiden
: :Like Blondie, Berlin is a female-fronted new wave band with a lead singer (Terri Nunn) who can really belt, although Nunn is more in-your-face than Debbie Harry. Their music is submerged new wave synth-pop that is varied most successfully by Nunn's agile vocal arrangements. In 'No More Words,' she first yells and then drops to a scathing whisper, only to attack again; it's scary enough to make any man cower. 'Take My Breath Away' is a beautiful from-the-gut ballad, so large and deep in scope that it commands your full attention. In 'The ...
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Franz Ferdinand
: :Franz Ferdinand is an unrelentingly smart, fluffy, and fun debut. This Scottish four-piece plays vaguely angular, guitar-heavy post-pop that makes you want to dance around the room while playing air guitar. It's the ideal hipster guilty-pleasure music. This is what the Rapture and Interpol would sound like if they wrote songs half as good as those they rip off, or the Strokes if their parents had sent them to art school instead of the fashion academy. Every song on here is so blatantly derivative it sounds almost original, like a Blur without the ...
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You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
: :You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into is the debut album from Reading electro-indie rockers Does It Offend You Yeah? Taking their influences from groups such as Justice, Daft Punk, Muse and DFA 1979, this raucous and day-glosmattering record embodies the spirit of 'Nu-Rave.' Includes the singles 'Battle Royale,' 'Weird Science,' and 'Let's Make Out.' This version comes with one bonus track, 'Like The Way I Do.' Amazon.co.uk:The debut album from Reading electro-punks Does It Offend You Yeah? slots neatly into the slipstream behind fellow rave/rock fusioneers The Klaxons and Justice, ...
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Antidotes
: :This is the debut from Oxford, England's five-piece dance-rock band. Completing the circuit between the minimalism of American composer Steve Reich, guitars that sound like insects, and tennis player Andy Roddick, theirs is a uniquely winning formula. Driving percussion high in the mix, guitars played above the 12th fret, no chords, and splashes of synth color all come together like the schematics for a piece of precision engineering. Amazon.co.uk:It's hardly the cure for anything but Antidotes, the debut album from Oxford's Foals, is a strong addition to the eternal tradition of dance-friendly ...
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David Bowie - Best of Bowie
: :Probably the most comprehensive anthology of any musical artist to date, the 47-track Best of Bowie traces the guises of David Bowie from the androgynous, glam-rock rebel of the 1970s to his more recent incarnation as the postmodern pop ironist of the '90s. The collection provides an added insight into wider developments in fashion, music, and the pop video. Most of the early material is taken from television music programs such as The Old Grey Whistle Test ('Oh! You Pretty Things,' 'Queen Bitch,' and 'Five Years'); however, as the demands of television and ...
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