Indochine - Unita (Best Of) (1996)

Unita: Le Best of Indochine collects various tracks from throughout the French new wave turned alt-rock band's career. Included are such cuts as "L'Aventurier" and "Des Fleurs pour Salinger," as well as a a live version of "3eme Sexe." Unita is a superb overview of Indochine's career for fans and newcomers alike. 

~ Matt Collar

1 Kissing My Song
2 L'Aventurier
3 Les Tzars
4 Nuits Par Semaine
5 Des Fleurs Pour Salinger   
6 La Chevauchée Des Chants De Blé
7 Kao Bang
8 Un Jour Dans Notre Vie
9 Un Grand Carnaval
10 Le Baiser
11 Tes Yeux Noirs
12 La Machine A Rattrapper Le Temps
13 Canary Bay
14 Punishment Park
15 Savoure Le Rouge
16 3eme Sexe (Live)
17 Dizzidence Politik
18 La Buddha Affaire

Cause & Effect - Cause & Effect [Deluxe] (1990)

Cause & Effect were formed in Sacramento, California, consisting of founding members vocalist/guitarist Rob Rowe and keyboardist Sean Rowley. They originally released their debut in 1990 as a self-titled album on minor label Exile Records. C&E was subsequently picked up by BMG Music subsidiary, Zoo Entertainment, and a reworked version of their album was released in 1991 as Another Minute.

The re-released album spawned two top-ten dance singles, "What Do You See?" (number 8, Billboard Hot Dance Club Play) and "You Think You Know Her" (number 9, Billboard Hot Dance Club Play). "You Think You Know Her" also peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, becoming C&E's most well-known song. The title track "Another Minute" was released as the third single and peaked at number 75 on the Hot 100 singles chart and number 31 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart.
~http://www.answers.com/

1  The Echoing Green
2  Another Minute    
3  Something New    
4  What Do You See    
5  Farewell To Arms    
6  You Think You Know Her
7  New World
8  Nothing Comes To Mind    
9  The Beginning Of The End    
10  What Do You See (Arabian House Mix)
11  Echoing Green (Sean's Remix)
12  Figment Of Fashion
13  Unholy Day

Darkroom - A Test Of Time (1985)

The band formed in Edmonton, Alberta Canada in the early 80′s and was made up of Jim Gray (vocals), Jeff Schmidt (bass), Tim Palmar (drums), Alan Marks (guitar), and Wolf Radke (guitar, keyboards). Before the band eventually broke up in 1989, they released two full-length LPs, San Paku and A Test of Time.
Jim Gray also played a vampire in the mid-80′s TV series “The Little Vampire,” launching an acting career that would see him into the 90′s in front of the camera, then behind the scenes as a Hollywood set designer.

~http://rave-and-roll.com

1   In A Dream 

2   Test Of Time 

3   Don't Play With Breaking Hearts 

4   Put Away Your Toys 

5   The Wall's Too High
6   Broken English 

7   Lions Made Of Stone 

8   Fixing Pieces
9   Temptation 

Heaven 17 - Endless (1986)

Kolekcja 11-stu singli w wydłużonych wersjach zespołu Heaven 17 to dobry początek na zapoznanie się z ich muzyką dla tych wszystkich, którzy nie mieli do tej pory okazji posłuchać tego trio.

Taking their name from a fictional pop group mentioned in Anthony Burgess's novel, A Clockwork Orange, (where 'The Heaven Seventeen' are at number 4 in the charts with "Inside"), Heaven 17 formed when Ian Craig Marsh and Martyn Ware split from their earlier group, The Human League, and formed the production company British Electric Foundation (BEF).

Heaven 17 were always more than just another 80`s pop band. this Sheffield trio always had the fingers firmly placed on the new world of electronic dance music. This album acts not only as a greatist hits package but it`s non-stop mix of up-tempo tracks clearly shows the influence Heaven 17 had on many of the dance icons that would follow in the years to come. All the H17 hilights are here from the chart storming Temptation to the political and challenging Let`s all build a bomb (here in it`s remixed form).

 

1 Heaven 17 Megamix     
2 We Live So Fast
3 Penthouse & Pavement    
4 Let Me Go    
5 Temptation
6  Who'll Stop The Rain
7 (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
8  Let's All Make A Bomb (New Version)
9 Counterforce
10 Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry
11 And That's No Lie
12  Sunset Now

Spear of Destiny - Outland (1987)

Outland is the fourth studio album by Spear of Destiny, released in 1987. It included the hit single "Never Take Me Alive" which reached no.14 in the UK singles charts in 1987 - Spear of Destiny's only Top 20 hit in the UK. Three other singles were released from the album, namely "Strangers In Our Town", "Was That You?" and "The Traveller", all making the UK Top 50.

1 Outlands   
2 Land Of Shame   
3 The Traveller
4 Was That You?
5 Strangers In Our Town
6 The Whole World's Waiting   
7 Tonight   
8 Miami Vice   
9 Never Take Me Alive
10 Time Of Our Lives (Original Version)
11 Pumpkin Man
12 Embassy Song
13 The Man That Never Was
14 Jack Straw

Pete Shelley - Homosapien (1981) (CD2006)

Homosapien was Buzzcocks frontman Pete Shelley's 1981 debut solo album, the title-track of which was released as a UK single the same year. The single was banned by the BBC, but was nevertheless a hit in several countries.

The album began as a collection of studio demos recorded by Shelley (and produced by Martin Rushent) for the next Buzzcocks' album. In the process, Shelley and Rushent grew enormously fond of the sound they had created in the studio, which featured an interesting blend of drum machines, synthesizers and sequencers coupled with guitars. Shelley, weary of the Buzzcocks' financial state, decided to leave the band after Island Records' Andrew Lauder offered him a solo record deal based on the demos.

Released at the start of the home computer boom, the album cover featured Shelley in a stylised 'office' leaning on a Commodore PET computer.

As was typical in the era, Homosapien had a different track listing in the United States, with three songs being excised and three single b-sides being added in their place.

In 1997, Razor & Tie Entertainment reissued the US version on CD with five bonus tracks taken from Shelley's follow-up album, XL1. In 2006, the original UK version was reissued on CD by Varep Records. It includes all the songs from the US version as bonus tracks, as well as two other b-side "dub" mixes.
~ wiki/Pete_Shelley

1 Homosapien
2 Yesterday's Not Here
3 I Generate A Feeling
4 Keats Song  
5 Qu'est-Ce Que C'est Que Ca?
6 I Don't Know What It Is
7 Guess I Must Have Been In Love With Myself  
8 Pusher Man
9 Just One Of Those Affairs
10 It's Hard Enough Knowing   

+ bonus tracks
11 Witness The Change
12 Maxine
13 In Love With Somebody Else
14 Homosapien (Dub)  
15 Witness The Change / I Don't Know What Love Is
16 Love In Vain

New Musik - Warp (1982) (CD2002)

 

Like Kraftwerk, New Musik were techno-pop pioneers; Warp is essentially Kraftwerk's futuristic dance music without the German accents and the icy hooks. If the tracks on Warp sound familiar, it's probably because the album's chilly keyboards and mechanical percussion helped to form the blueprint for '80s synth acts such as I Start Counting and Depeche Mode and the electronica artists that followed in the '90s like the Crystal Method and the Prodigy. That doesn't mean they're entirely original. "Here Come the People" opens up with funky riffs prevalent among club-oriented new wave bands from the early '80s; its robotic, monotonous vocals are snagged from Kraftwerk. Tony Mansfield (vocals, keyboards, guitars) has a thin voice that sometimes recalls Tim Finn of Split Enz. Unfortunately, Mansfield sings without emotion and his often cryptic lyrics are repetitive and uninvolving. If songs such as "Kingdoms for Horses" or "The New Evolutionist (Example 'A')" are actually about anything, a casual listener wouldn't be able to solve the puzzle. However, "A Train on Twisted Tracks," "I Repeat," and "The Planet Doesn't Mind" don't need comprehensible lyrics; they may not have much heart, but it can be fun listening to the lads play with their high-tech gadgets. [Originally released in 1982, Warp was reissued with bonus tracks in 2001.] ~ Michael Sutton




2002 Japanese reissue of 1982 album. Includes 5 bonus tracks for Japan, 'The Planet Doesn't Mind' (single version & 12 inch version), '24 Hours From Culture-Part II', 'Twelfth House' & 'Here Comes The People' (remix).
~www.cduniverse.com

1. Here Come the People
2. Going Round Again
3. A Train on Twisted Tracks
4. I Repeat
5. All You Need Is Love (New Musik)
6. All You Need Is Love (Beatles)
7. Kingdoms for Horses
8. Hunting
9. The New Evolutionist (Example 'A')
10. Green and Red (Respectively)
11. The Planet Doesn't Mind
12. Warp

+bonus tracks Japanese CD
13. The Planet Doesn't Mind (7" version)
14. The Planet Doesn't Mind (12" version)
15. 24 Hours from Culture - Part II
16. Twelfth House
17. Here Come the People (Remix)