Label: Edsel Records Format: EAC-APE
Country: UK Released: 2004 Genre: PUNK/POST PUNK Total
Size: 448mb
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FANTASTIC! And, at last!! This remastered
reissue finally gives us Dirk Wears White Sox on CD; all the original
songs in their correct order. The mastering retains the dynamics of the
original mixes much better than the earlier CD version on
Sony/Columbia's Rewind imprint (and sounds infinitely better than the
American version with the color cover). It has much of the musical feel
of the original vinyl; other reissues just didn't - pardon the pun - 'do
it' for me. There are some great photos, and the graphics are
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Label: Island Records Country: UK Released:
2002 Genre: Alternative/britpop Bitrate:eac-ape
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It was the video to "Zombie" that first
made me notice The Cranberries. At first I didn't care for the song,
but as it grew on me, I began to be pulled into the emotion and story
behind the song. Finally I paid attention in detail, and I was hooked.
While The Cranberries first album was full of love and angst, this album
is darker and about violence.
The first song, "Ode to My Family",
is very much in the style of the songs from "Everybody Else Is Doing It,
So Why Can't We?" As full of angst as the former album, but th
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Artist: Artist: Billy Idol Album: Vital Idol
Released: 1987 Source: Crisalys records Genre: post/new wave
Info: rip by rat Format: eac.ape,308mb
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Vital Idol is a sort of remixed
greatest-hits collection, gathering some of Billy Idol's best tracks and
extending them all past the five-minute mark. It doesn't really work as
a hits collection, since it's missing key songs like "Rebel Yell" and
"Eyes Without a Face," and most of the dance remixes are repetitious and
uninteresting compared to the originals. It's most worthwhile for
"Dancing With Myself" and the live hit version of "Mony Mony," bot
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Artist: Tears for Fears Album: Raoul and
the Kings of Spain Released: 1995 Source: Epic Genre:
pop rock/new wave Format: eac.ape.302mb
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The second Tears for Fears album following
Curt Smith's departure finds Roland Orzabel treading water (and
self-consciously deep water at that). Long removed from the simple,
melodic melancholy of the band's early work and abandoning the
mid-period Beatles-influenced pop, Raoul and the Kings of Spain often
borders on progressive rock. There's some genuinely pretty, if
unexciting, music like the piano-driven ballad "Secrets," with it's
soaring g
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aug 1977 Rock & Roll / Pub
Rock Codec: Ape - Mac 3.97 - High Lossless Compression
Encoder: eac095pb4 Covers , Log, Cue
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Elvis Costello was as much a
pub-rocker as he was a punk-rocker and nowhere is that more evident than
on his debut, My Aim Is True. It's not just that Clover, a San
Franciscan rock outfit led by Huey Lewis (absent here), back him here,
not the Attractions, it's that his sensibility is borrowed from the
pile-driving rock & roll and folksy introspection of pub-rockers
like Brinsley Schwarz, adding touches of cult singer/songwriters
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Artist: Sparks Album: Exotic Creatures Of The
Deep Year: 2008 Style:Indie Pop/Rock Format: eac-ape[
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Well, they've done it again. I liked
Lil'Beethoven. I loved Hello Young Lovers. I suspect I will soon be
adoring Exotic Creatures of the Deep. It's a progression again,
continuing the sound that the Mael's have defined over the last couple
of records. There's humour, there's wit. There's catchy melodies and
cleverly constructed meters. There's also a thematic sound. I'm not
saying it all sounds the same, but almost like a concept album it's all
coming from one place. The top layer is Russell's multi-tracked
harmonie
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As
a huge fan of Icehouse, I was very suprised at the quality of their
freshman debut. This is an outstanding album form top to finish. Iva
Davies combines the best of various glam and New Wave influences and
melds them together by creating crafty incisve pop songs. The band is
more raw and heavy on guitar than on Primitive Man, and this actually
gives Flowers an edge over its successor. Although the proper album
doesn't have that one pure sweet confection like Angel Street or Trojan
Blue, ever
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Artist: INXS Album: X Released: 1990 Source: Atlantic
Genre: pop rock/new wave Format: eac.ape.257mb
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The seventh album from Australia's INXS
basically sticks to the formula set up on Kick, mixing solid remixable
dancefloor beats with slightly quirky production tricks, Michael
Hutchence's rough-edged, bluesy vocals, and some good solid song hooks.
The most immediate numbers are, of course, the two singles, "Suicide
Blonde" and "Disappear," but other tracks stand out as potential hit
material as well, including the anthemic "The Stairs." The biggest
problems with the album are a tendency to play it safe, stick
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Audio CD (March 19, 2002) Original Release
Date: March 2002 Number of Discs: 1 Format: Eac-ape, Original
recording remastered Label: Sony Genre: Post punk, new wave
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This is a great album featuring several of
the band's strongest songs as well as fine wordplay throughout by
Richard Butler. It's also the Furs' most American-oriented release,
produced (nicely) by Todd Rundgren and peppered with clever lyrics
saluting "President Gas" or name checking "Ma B. and her boys" (I assume
Ma Barker?).
As already noted by a few reviewers, there is a
mysterious alteration of the final song, "Yes I Do." This irritates
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