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Analogue

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: a-ha

Release Date November 14, 2005
This is the third album released by A-Ha since their reuniting in 2000.

These thirteen tracks open with the catchy and subliminal 'Celice'. The next several songs build like a symphony to a crescendo that climaxes with the No. 1 'Holy Ground' - this is never quite matched afterwards. The third track of the album 'Cozy Prisons' has the usual beautifully melancholic intro. so imitated by Keane, and as many A-Ha tracks before it. 'Birthright' which precedes the crescendo to the climax of 'Holy Ground' I spoke of earlier is quite 'euphoric' in its beautiful melody - a sound that can only be created by the wonderful vocals and creation that makes up A-Ha. Then, there is a distinct change in style and theme with 'Over The Treetops' ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 232
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War - Deluxe Remastered

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: U2

Release Date July 21, 2008
"War", meanwhile, is the third U2 album, which saw them at the cusp of fame. The album is sonically a progression which has barely dated, the song writing is sound but painfully earnest and boringly sincere, and the band are clearly creating their own identity, their own personality, and have their own rare voice in the world. There are four or five truly classic songs on the main album, including the played-to-death "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (which repeated exposure to has now made me sadly numb and immune), and in true U2 style, it sounds very much like no one else, yet also unique to that particular record. If the band had split at this point, they'd go down in the annals of history as a band that were almost huge. And probably reformed a few years ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 233
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Hunting High And Low

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: A-Ha

Release Date November 11, 1985
Ok, I'll admit it, I love A-Ha, even now. This album was released when I was about 5 and my sister, 5 years older than me, had this on cassette and I can remember we both played it to death, with the result that listening to it now conjures up some really lovely memories of my childhood. But anyway.....yes, there are some undoubtedly cheesy 80s songs on here such as (which I think has been mentioned before) 'The Blue Sky' and 'Love is Reason' but even now, the classics such as 'Take on Me' and 'The Sun Always Shines on TV' still bring a tingle to the spine because they have been really well produced and there is a great use of synthesisers in there (do I detect a Fairlight in there somewhere - ultra ultra expensive early sampling synth with a really ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 234
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The Best of Culture Club

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Culture Club

Release Date March 14, 2005
Ok, I'll admit it, I love A-Ha, even now. This album was released when I was about 5 and my sister, 5 years older than me, had this on cassette and I can remember we both played it to death, with the result that listening to it now conjures up some really lovely memories of my childhood. But anyway.....yes, there are some undoubtedly cheesy 80s songs on here such as (which I think has been mentioned before) 'The Blue Sky' and 'Love is Reason' but even now, the classics such as 'Take on Me' and 'The Sun Always Shines on TV' still bring a tingle to the spine because they have been really well produced and there is a great use of synthesisers in there (do I detect a Fairlight in there somewhere - ultra ultra expensive early sampling synth with a really ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 235
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War - Remastered

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: U2

Release Date July 21, 2008
It was hearing "New Year's Day" on the radio nearly 25 years ago that first switched me onto U2. I rushed out and bought "War" on tape and played it everyday for months (student days !).

With this remastering, one of U2's best albums becomes even better. The remastering gives us a crisper cleaner sound particularly noticeable through much clearer vocals. Every song is improved by this treatment and it is wonderful to hear the lyrics properly on 40, Drowning Man, Sunday Bloody Sunday and the other songs. On "Seconds" Adam Clayton's bass is emphasised turning this from a fairly dull filler track to a really enjoyable piece. "Drowning Man" is also vastly improved, though, sadly, clearer lyrics can't really improve the second-rate "Refugee", "Red ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 236
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More Songs to Learn and Sing: the Very Best of Echo & the Bunnymen

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Echo & The Bunnymen

Release Date September 11, 2006
This is a fine collection of the Bunnymen's singles covering the last couple of decades.
Majestic is a good word to describe much of what is on here. "The Cutter" and "The Killing Moon" are beguiling early tracks. "Don't Let It Get You Down" is winsome and charming and the swirling "Nothing Ever Lasts Forever" suggests they still had into the mid-late 1990s.

Ian McCullogh is the front man does the business and the musicianship and song-writing is consistently strong.

A document of one of Britain's best bands of the last 25 or so years. Respect is due.

CD-Charts Position 237
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Dig the New Breed

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Jam

Release Date October 01, 1999
The Jam were without doubt one of the best if not the best band I have ever seen live. They played with an intensity which was by turns enthralling and shocking. I saw them live 5 times and I always came out the concert buzzing even when I was assaulted by a group of idiots (I left 2 worse off than me!) who were groping my girlfriend.

The music is played louder and badder than you will hear on the Jam's albums and this is evident in tracks such "Start" "Set the house ablaze" "Going Underground" and "Private Hell" but I like all the tracks on this album and it is refreshing that some of the tracks are not just single releases but in a way representative of the Jam as an albums band.

Great album and if I remember what those other 2 idiots ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 238
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The Best of the Durutti Column

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Durutti Column

Release Date October 11, 2004
The Durutti Column have been furrowing their/his own furrow for two and a half decades now. Untroubled by the pressures of fame (as he says on his web site, he is unlikely to ever be seen on Top of the Pops) he has gone his own sweet way across a score or so of albums. His consistancy is remarkable, as is his invention. It is never easy plucking a best of from an ouvre this large, but Phil Cleaver has done a good job here. You can trace Vini Reilly's progress on this set, starting with the sparse Sketch for Summer, progressing through warmer sounds of The Missing Boy, the jazz(ish) workout of Without Mercy (2 extracts here, brilliant whatever Vini himself says), the elecro like LFO Mod, the return to roots Requiem Again, the wonderful vocals of Sing to Me (Vini worked ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 239
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Greatest Hits

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: Cure

Release Date October 01, 2007
The Durutti Column have been furrowing their/his own furrow for two and a half decades now. Untroubled by the pressures of fame (as he says on his web site, he is unlikely to ever be seen on Top of the Pops) he has gone his own sweet way across a score or so of albums. His consistancy is remarkable, as is his invention. It is never easy plucking a best of from an ouvre this large, but Phil Cleaver has done a good job here. You can trace Vini Reilly's progress on this set, starting with the sparse Sketch for Summer, progressing through warmer sounds of The Missing Boy, the jazz(ish) workout of Without Mercy (2 extracts here, brilliant whatever Vini himself says), the elecro like LFO Mod, the return to roots Requiem Again, the wonderful vocals of Sing to Me (Vini worked ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 240
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The Best Of The Boomtown Rats

CD-Charts > Music > New Wave and Post-punk
by: The Boomtown Rats

Release Date February 07, 2005
Twenty years in the making, The Boomtown Rats finally get the retrospective they deserve. The first Irish band to make number one, the biggest selling singles band in the UK from 1978-1979, and led by the charismatic Bob Geldof.

Most familiar to all will be Rat Trap and I Don't Like Mondays, the two number one singles that were sandwiched between the Grease phenomenon and the advent of the Police. For a short period, The Boomtown Rats, and in particular, Geldof and Paula Yates, were foremost in the nation's consciousness.

Before this came some great songs such as Joey's on the Street Again, Looking After Number One, Mary of the Fourth Form, She's So Modern and Like Clockwork, which gave the Rats their early chart success, developing their ... Read More: