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Saturday, July 10, 2010

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - FIRST ISSUE (1978)


Studio album by Public Image Ltd.
Released December 8, 1978
Recorded July-November 1978
The Manor Studio (Shipton-on-Cherwell)
Wessex Studios, Gooseberry Sound Studios, Townhouse Studios, Advision Studios, London
Genre Post-punk
Length 39:54
Label Virgin Records
Producer Public Image Ltd

The album was recorded between July and November 1978 at different studios. The song "Public Image" was recorded first (the backing track at Advision Studios plus vocals and mixing at Wessex Studios) in July 1978. The whole of the first side of the record was then recorded in autumn at Townhouse Studios and The Manor Studio. The last three songs on the second side were recorded at Gooseberry Sound Studios, a cheap demo studio used because the band ran out of money.

On 9 February 1979, Warner Bros. Recording Studios in North Hollywood manufactured a test pressing of the album for PiL's U.S. label Warner Bros. Records. The sound of the record was considered as too uncommercial for an American release and PiL were asked to re-record parts of the album.[1] Although the band recorded new versions of some tracks between March and May 1979,[2] the album was never released in the U.S.

Track Listing:
  1. "Theme" – 9:05
  2. "Religion I" – 1:40
  3. "Religion II" – 5:40
  4. "Annalisa" – 6:00
  5. "Public Image" – 2:58
  6. "Low Life" – 3:35
  7. "Attack" – 2:55
  8. "Fodderstompf" – 7:40

PRIZE: 150.000 IDR

KILLING JOKE - KILLING JOKE (1980)


Studio album by Killing Joke
Released August 1980
Recorded London, UK
Genre Post-punk
Length 39:51
Label E.G.
Producer Killing Joke - Phil Harding

Killing Joke is the debut studio album of the London post-punk band Killing Joke. Released in August, 1980 worldwide under E'G Records, Killing Joke was self-produced and was considered an underground album. The album was recorded in early 1980, shortly after a small tour promoting the Almost Red EP. The lyrics of the album were written by front man and vocalist Jaz Coleman, which expressed his opinions on issues such as politics, death, hypocrisy, human nature, pollution, and exile.
The album has been considered by many bands as an influential and inspirational database. Several bands like Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Tool, Soundgarden, and Metallica have all credited Killing Joke for a lot of their own material.
The song "Requiem" was covered by Foo Fighters in 1997 as a b-side to the Everlong single and the song "The Wait" was covered by Metallica in 1987 and released on The $5.98 E.P.: Garage Days Re-Revisited and was later released as a single for Metallica. The song also featured in the hit movie School of Rock.
Killing Joke reached number 39 on the UK Albums Chart in 1980.[1] Killing Joke went on to have three singles: "Wardance", "Change", and "Requiem".

Track listing:

1. Requiem
2. Wardance
3. Tomorrow's World
4. Bloodsport
5. The Wait
6. Complications
7. $0.36
8. Primitive

PRIZE: 125.000 IDR

MAGAZINE - RAYS & HAIL 1978 - 81 (1987)


Compilation album by Magazine
Released April 1978
Recorded 1987
Genre Post-punk
Length
Label Virgin
Producer Colin Thurston, John Leckie, John Brand

All Music Guide Review

The definitive single-disc collection of Magazine, a perfect starting point for the neophyte, Rays and Hail covers the three years of the band's existence with highlight after highlight on display. Devoto's mastery of a lyrical and musical approach that wedded chilly paranoia with explosive punk and post-punk energy -- as suspicious of emotion as Wire or the Gang of Four, yet at the same time more accepting and obsessed with emotion than most others at the time -- resulted in a series of jawdroppingly grand songs. Such compositions as "Feed the Enemy" and "Because You're Frightened" showcased the balance well, not to mention the excellent performances of such bandmembers as John McGeoch on guitar and Barry Adamson on bass. The only real rarity per se is the original single take on "Shot By Both Sides," one of the many landmark tracks Devoto and Pete Shelleywrote in early days together, and which, in Magazine's hands, become a fierce statement of intent. The incorporation of keyboards, in particular, helped give Magazine its smart edge, Devoto sounding both commanding and distanced on such tracks as "Back to Nature" and "A Song From Under the Floorboards" as guitars and queasy synth tones meshed to create weird, alien atmospheres. "The Light Pours out of Me" may well go down as Magazine's most epic, evocative song among the well-known numbers, McGeoch's guitar hitting truly dramatic heights as the relentless rhythm pounds forward. However, the inclusion of "Permafrost" on this collection makes for what could arguably be the band's most stunning moment. With Devoto's at once blunt yet evocative image of a relationship of some sort stretched beyond a breaking point captured in the lyrics, all that the music needed to do was capture the same disturbed vision. That it did, featuring a slow trudge rhythm treated to sound flat and unnatural, Adamson's fretless bass sounding warning notes as it goes. ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide

Track Listing

1. Shot by Both Sides
2. Definitive Gaze
3. Motorcade
4. Light Pours Out of Me
5. Feed the Enemy
6. Fhythm of Cruelty
7. Back to Nature
8. PermaFrost
9. Because You're Frightened
10. You Never Knew Me
11. Song From Under the Floorboards
12. I Want to Burn Again
13. About the Weather
14. Parade

PRIZE: 125.000 IDR

CABARET VOLTAIRE - RED MECCA (1981)



Studio album by Cabaret Voltaire
Released September 1981
Recorded Western Works, Sheffield, May 1981
Genre Post-punk
Industrial
Experimental
Length 40:11
Label Rough Trade
Producer Cabaret Voltaire

Red Mecca is an album by the Industrial/Post-punk band Cabaret Voltaire. Released in 1981 on Rough Trade Records (ROUGH 27), it was their final album before the departure of Chris Watson. It reached No.1 on the UK Independent chart in September 1981

Track listing:

  • "A Touch of Evil" - 3:11
  • "Sly Doubt" - 4:59
  • "Landslide" - 2:08
  • "A Thousand Ways" - 10:35
  • "Red Mask" - 6:54
  • "Split Second Feeling" - 3:47
  • "Black Mask" - 3:19
  • "Spread the Virus" - 3:40
  • "A Touch of Evil (Reprise)" - 1:32

Prize: 200.000 IDR