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Music > Pop / Rock
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Still
(Vinyl record)
Joy Division, Chrs Nagle, Martin Hannett; Performed by Joy Division
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R532
Discovery Miles 5 320
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The Power of Love
(CD)
Nicole Scherzinger, Michael Bolton, Various Producers; Performed by Sam Bailey
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R128
Discovery Miles 1 280
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Live performance and documentary featuring the pop supergroup
McBusted, which consists of members from the bands McFly and
Busted. 'Live at the O2' sees them perform live in London as they
showcase hits from both McFly and Busted including songs such as
'Year 3000', 'All About You' and 'Crashed the Wedding'. In 'Tour
Play' the group are documented on the road as they tour sold-out UK
arenas. The footage gives viewers unrestricted access backstage at
shows and to the band's life on tour.
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Mellow Magic
(CD)
Various Artists
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R105
Discovery Miles 1 050
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Dusk
(CD)
Badlands
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R199
Discovery Miles 1 990
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In Stock
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Badlands' long lost, third and final album, Dusk isn't really an
album at all, but a batch of demos recorded between 1991 and 1992
for the group's then label, Atlantic, which first rejected them,
then dropped the band, already mired in personal strife since the
troubled sessions for their commercially disappointing second
album, Voodoo Highway. Accordingly, the tracks that would
eventually surface as Dusk were circulated as bootlegs and would
have likely been mostly forgotten if not for the AIDS-related death
of singer Ray Gillen, in December 1993, and the subsequent rise of
the worldwide web -- both of which undoubtedly helped stimulate
interest in the recordings. This led, in time, to their "official"
release in 1998 by the Pony Canyon label, but it hardly altered the
fact that Dusk's ten tracks were mostly one-take jobs, reportedly
cut by Gillen, guitarist Jake E. Lee, bassist Greg Chaisson, and
drummer Jeff Martin in just six-to-eight hours. So although the
musicianship was impressively solid and the sound acceptable
enough, Dusk's songs lacked the usual refinements of a final album
mix, and some lyrics were even ad-libbed, resulting in a rather
uniform set, devoid of the characteristic variety and bombast heard
on Badlands' first two albums. Instead, most cuts might accurately
be described as competent blues metal (not unlike previous efforts,
just duller), with rare standouts like foreboding opener "Healin',"
the distinctively brash "Walking Attitude," and the notably funky
"Ride the Jack," still draped under a mantle of weary resignation,
reflective of the band's dispirited frame of mind at the time. Also
worth mention, though are "The River" and "Lord Knows" -- two
promising sketches that may, with additional studio seasoning, have
been transformed into powerful, slow-burning blues rockers; as well
as the Eastern-flavored "Sun Red Sun," which contained intriguing
traces of Alice in Chains, then on the rise along with the entire
grunge nation. But, as mentioned earlier, all of the material
collected on Dusk was far too raw and undeveloped for proper
mainstream consumption, making its commercial existence justifiable
only as a parting treasure for avowed Badlands aficionados. ~
Eduardo Rivadavia
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