Editorial Product Review: :Sure, it screams mid-1980s as joyously as any John Hughes teen flick, but this debut--from perhaps the only German export to sound positively gleeful--deserves as long a nostalgic afterlife as Soft Cell's 'Tainted Love,' Yaz's 'Only You' or mid-period Depeche Mode. Forget OMD's 'If You Leave,' 'Forever Young' is the best should-be prom-theme the decade produced. While 'Big in Japan' was the KROQ anthem, everything here is deliriously tuneful. Revel in the manic melodies of 'The Jet-Set,' delight in the guilty synth-pleasure of 'Sounds Like a Melody,' surrender to the ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2008 deluxe two CD expanded edition of the UK trio's best-selling album featuring six bonus remixes on the first disc plus a bonus CD featuring an additional 10 bonus tracks. This deluxe release of the 1984 album presents all the remixes from the original cassette edition of the album as well as the extended mixes and the non-album B-sides, the majority of which appear on CD for the first time. After the huge success of their Quick Step & Side Kick album, The Thompson Twins reconvened with producer Alex ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2008 deluxe two CD expanded edition of the UK trio's best-selling album featuring six bonus remixes on the first disc plus a bonus CD featuring an additional 10 bonus tracks. This deluxe release of the 1984 album presents all the remixes from the original cassette edition of the album as well as the extended mixes and the non-album B-sides, the majority of which appear on CD for the first time. After the huge success of their Quick Step & Side Kick album, The Thompson Twins reconvened with producer Alex ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2008 deluxe two CD expanded edition of the UK trio's best-selling album featuring six bonus remixes on the first disc plus a bonus CD featuring an additional 10 bonus tracks. This deluxe release of the 1984 album presents all the remixes from the original cassette edition of the album as well as the extended mixes and the non-album B-sides, the majority of which appear on CD for the first time. After the huge success of their Quick Step & Side Kick album, The Thompson Twins reconvened with producer Alex ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. This is as ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of this 1983 album from the Manchester quartet, one of the most successful and consistent bands of the '80s and beyond. After the suicide of vocalist, Ian Curtis, the three surviving members of Joy Division regrouped under the band name New Order, adding Gillian Gilbert on keyboards. The rest, as they say, is history. Disc One in this package contains the original album in its digitally remastered glory. Disc Two is filled with eight non-album singles, B-sides and remixes. This is as ...
Editorial Product Review: :Written, produced, arranged, and performed by that little old funkmaster, Controversy hit stores in 1981 and still rocks 17 years later. As the title suggests, the subject matter Prince tackles here was meant to spark discussion. From the nasty anthems 'Sexuality' and 'Do Me Baby', to the slice of '80s political commentary 'Ronnie Talk to Russia' and 'Annie Christian,' Prince does just that. Oh, and he doesn't forget about the booty either, making this the ultimate agit-prop, sex-you-up soundtrack. --Amy Linden
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Includes the bonus track Radio Reidio. essential recording:With his second album, Elvis Costello firmly established himself as one of rock's--not just punk/new wave's--premier singer-songwriters. Building on the promise of his '77 debut, My Aim Is True, Costello put together a backing touring trio, the Attractions (keyboardist Steve Nieve, bassist Bruce Thomas, and drummer Pete Thomas), and their versatility helped Costello define himself as a punk-fuelled power-pop force. Sporting influences ranging from Bob Dylan (the stream-of-consciousness 'Pump It Up') to Burt Bacharach (the Dusty Springfield-worthy 'Little Triggers'), this '78-released ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Walter Meego is not a dude, but a duo. Justin Sconza and Colin Yarck, the heart and soul (respectively) of Walter Meego, are two rare suburban white boys who intuitively understand the subliminal power of synthy, salacious bass. Effervescent pop is Walter Meego's specialty, and it flies out of speakers like a Pegasus riding a cheetah. Walter Meego pull from a rainbow of inspiration, attractive to anyone who has affixed a critic's cap. Their live show (featuring a third member, Andrew Bernhardt) is an electric revival meeting, and the ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:a-ha celebrates their 20th anniversary with the release of a new singles collection. Throughout their career, a-ha has officially released 32 singles. 13 of them became top ten singles in the UK, and 14 singles have been number one on the radio lists over the world. The new singles album includes some of the highlights from a-ha’s last 20 years. 2004.
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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