Tuesday 19 August 2008

Mp3 music: Bee Gees






Bee Gees
   

Artist: Bee Gees: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Pop
Other
Rock
Rock & Roll
Dance: Pop
Rock: Pop-Rock
Blues

   







Bee Gees's discography:


Greatest (Special Edition) CD2
   

 Greatest (Special Edition) CD2

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 15
Greatest (Special Edition) CD1
   

 Greatest (Special Edition) CD1

   Year: 2007   

Tracks: 12
Turn Around Look At Me
   

 Turn Around Look At Me

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 16
Number Ones
   

 Number Ones

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 21
Megamix
   

 Megamix

   Year: 2004   

Tracks: 2
Their Greatest Hits CD01
   

 Their Greatest Hits CD01

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 21
Their Greatest Hits  The Record  (Disk Two)
   

 Their Greatest Hits The Record (Disk Two)

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 19
CD 2
   

 CD 2

   Year: 2001   

Tracks: 19
One Night Only (LiVE)
   

 One Night Only (LiVE)

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 24
One Night Only
   

 One Night Only

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 24
Brilliant From Birth [CD2]
   

 Brilliant From Birth [CD2]

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 31
Brilliant From Birth [CD1]
   

 Brilliant From Birth [CD1]

   Year: 1998   

Tracks: 32
Still Waters
   

 Still Waters

   Year: 1997   

Tracks: 12
Size Isn't Everything
   

 Size Isn't Everything

   Year: 1993   

Tracks: 12
High Civilization
   

 High Civilization

   Year: 1991   

Tracks: 11
One
   

 One

   Year: 1989   

Tracks: 11
E-S-P
   

 E-S-P

   Year: 1987   

Tracks: 11
1987 - E.S.P
   

 1987 - E.S.P

   Year: 1987   

Tracks: 11
Spirits Having Flown
   

 Spirits Having Flown

   Year: 1979   

Tracks: 10
Bunbury Tails
   

 Bunbury Tails

   Year: 1978   

Tracks: 6
Robins Reign
   

 Robins Reign

   Year: 1970   

Tracks: 17
Odessa
   

 Odessa

   Year: 1970   

Tracks: 16
Inception Nostalgia
   

 Inception Nostalgia

   Year: 1970   

Tracks: 24
Cucumber Castle
   

 Cucumber Castle

   Year: 1970   

Tracks: 12
Collection 1967 - 1970
   

 Collection 1967 - 1970

   Year: 1970   

Tracks: 18
A Kick in the Head (Unreleased album)
   

 A Kick in the Head (Unreleased album)

   Year: 1970   

Tracks: 14
Idea
   

 Idea

   Year: 1968   

Tracks: 13
Horizontal
   

 Horizontal

   Year: 1968   

Tracks: 12
First
   

 First

   Year: 1967   

Tracks: 14
Unreleased Demos From
   

 Unreleased Demos From

   Year: 1966   

Tracks: 30
The Bee Gees Sing And Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs
   

 The Bee Gees Sing And Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs

   Year: 1966   

Tracks: 14
Rare Precious And Beautiful
   

 Rare Precious And Beautiful

   Year: 1966   

Tracks: 13
Unsorted
   

 Unsorted

   Year:    

Tracks: 14
An Irresistible Force
   

 An Irresistible Force

   Year:    

Tracks: 7






No democratic music behave of the '60s, '70s, '80s, or '90s experient more ups and downs in popularity, or attracted a more varied consultation across the decades than the Bee Gees. Beginning in the mid to previous '60s as a Beatlesque supporting players, they quick developed as songwriters in their possess right and style, perfecting in the swear out a progressive pop sound all their have. Then, subsequently hitting a trough in their popularity in the early '70s, they reinvented themselves as maybe the to the highest degree successful white soul dissemble of all clip during the discotheque earned run average. Their popularity washed-out with the passing of disco's appeal, only the Bee Gees made a successful comeback in near every corner of the earth. What remained a invariant through their history is their unholy singing, frozen in ternary voices that were appealing severally and comprised so dead and by nature by melding together that they throw such acts of the Apostles as the Beatles, the Everly Brothers, and Simon & Garfunkel -- all celebrated for their harmonies -- about appear arch and contrived.


The grouping was likewise rock's nearly successful comrade play. Barry Gibb, born on September 1, 1946, in Manchester, England, and his fraternal twin brothers Robin Gibb and Maurice Gibb, born on December 22, 1949, on the Isle of Man, were leash of basketball team children of Hugh Gibb, a bandleader, and Barbara Gibb, a former isaac Merrit Singer. The leash of them gravitated toward music selfsame early on, bucked up by their father, wHO reportedly power saw his sons at first-class honours degree as a diminutive adaptation of the Mills Brothers, a '30s and '40s black American harmony chemical group. The leash Gibb brothers made their earlier performances at local motion-picture show theaters in Manchester in 1955, singing between shows. Their aim was but to pantomime to records as a novelty entertainment behave, only when the records got broken, they american ginseng for real and got a stirring response from the delighted consultation. They performed under a form of name calling, including the Blue Cats and (reportedly) the Rattlesnakes, and for a time, fell under the influence of England's skiffle business leader, Lonnie Donegan, and proto-rock & roller Tommy Steele.


Their early lives were interrupted when the family moved to Australia in 1958, resettling in Brisbane. The leash, known as the Brothers Gibb -- with Barry composition songs by then -- continued acting at endowment shows and attracted the attention of a local DJ, Bill Gates, which light-emitting diode to an lengthened employment at the Beachcomber Nightclub. They finally got their possess local television picture in Brisbane, and it was about this time that they took on the diagnose the Bee Gees (for Brothers Gibb). In 1962, they landed their first recording shrink with the Festival Records label in Australia, debuting with the individual "III Kisses of Love." The leash was astoundingly popular among the press and on television, and performed to very enthusiastic interview response. They finally released an LP, The Bee Gees Sing and Play 14 Barry Gibb Songs, just factual reach records eluded them in Australia. They were witness during 1963 and 1964 to the explosion of British get music half a world away with the success of the Beatles, whose harmony-based approaching to stone & roll and reliance on original songs only encouraged the trey Gibb brothers to keep pushing in those directions.


By belated 1966, however, they'd distinct to halt trying to conquer the Australian music earthly concern, or to reach the catch one's breath of the world from Australia, and return to England -- which, thanks to the Beatles, was at once the center of rock and popular music for the whole public. It was patch on the boat, in mid-ocean, that the Gibb family learned that the Bee Gees had in the end topped the charts back in Australia with their last release, "Spicks and Specks." Just as the Seekers had done upon going Australia, the radical had sent demonstration recordings ahead of them to England, and "Spicks and Specks" had attracted the stake of Robert Stigwood (an associate of Brian Epstein). The trio was signed by Stigwood to a five-year contract upon their arrival, and they began shaping their sound afresh in the environment of Swinging London in 1967. Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb alternated the lead vocal touch, harmonizing together and with Maurice Gibb. Barry played speech rhythm guitar as well, spell Maurice, in addition to his support outspoken spotlight, was the triple-threat player in the core card, playacting bass, forte-piano, pipe organ, and Mellotron, among other instruments. The brothers before long expanded the group with the addition of guitarist Vince Melouney and drummer Colin Petersen, whose front turned them into a in full functional playacting grouping. Their number one English transcription, "Fresh York Mining Disaster 1941," released in mid-1967, made the Top 20 in England and America and established a traffic pattern for the group's work for the next iI age. As an original by the mathematical group, it had a haunting melody and a foreign lyrical; it wasn't so practically psychedelic (though it could slip away for psychedelia in a pop vein) as it was surreal. They had successful follow-ups with "Holiday" and "To Love Somebody."


Henry M. Robert Stigwood arranged for Polydor to release the Bee Gees' records in England and Europe, and for Atlantic Records to issuing their work in America. Atlantic had missed out on the entire British Invasion and at once they had a mathematical group whose music resembled that of the Beatles at their most accessible. The Bee Gees' records had gorgeous melodies and arrangements and were steeped in quixotic even complex lyrics, many of them containing a funnily downbeat modality that no one seemed to mind. One curious branch of their appeal was that Stigwood was capable to convert Atlantic Records, as portion of the take for the Bee Gees, to accept and release the recordings of a relatively strange triplet called Cream. At the time, Eric Clapton was non practically more than a cultus figure in the United States, more "rumor" than asterisk (his recordings with the Yardbirds had never even appeared in America with his name mentioned on them), merely Atlantic -- which recorded Disraeli Gears -- helped change that, selling millions of records in the bargain.


The Bee Gees individual "Massachusetts" was a chart-topper in England and launched the group on their number 1 wave of stardom. Their music was made even more attractive by the fact that their albums were remarkably well put together. Reflecting the influence of the Beatles, a draw of tending was lavished on the group's LP tracks rather than relying on the front of a come to or two to justify their being. Bee Gees first, cut in early 1967, had its weaker muscae volitantes, just non a flier itinerary on it, piece Horizontal and Idea were stiff LPs filled with beautiful and unusual songs and lavish arrangements (courtesy of conductor Bill Shepherd), all carefully recorded, mixing galvanising instruments and orchestra. What made their process regular more telling was that afterward Bee Gees showtime, which was produced by their Australian friend Ossie Byrne, the iII Gibb brothers took all over producing their records; even more surprising, as is now known from various corn liquor releases of lively performances of the full full point, the group -- with Melouney and Petersen in the lineup -- was likewise able to perform their music note-perfect, with spot-on vocals piece onstage, something that the Beatles had ne'er fifty-fifty attempted severely with their post-1965 efforts.


The group enjoyed 2 major hits in 1968, "I Started a Joke" and "I've Gotta Get a Message to You," both from Idea. Whatever they arrange out seemed to ferment, including the delicious psychedelic crop up ode "Barker of the UFO," a B-side that is a spot-on perfect example of late-'60s English freakbeat, hardly a genre on which the Bee Gees are commonly idea to receive contributed. It was easy, amid the vapourous beauty of their records, to command the reach of influences that went into their sound -- the Bee Gees may make been making pop/rock, merely their underlying sounds came from a battalion of sources, including American area euphony and soul music. Indeed, one of the group's biggest hits, "To Love Somebody," had been scripted for Otis Redding to book, only the Stax/Volt singing legend didn't alive prospicient enough to record it himself. At this point in their story, they were most comfortable deconstructing elements in the vocalizing and harmonies of inglorious American music and rebuilding them in their dash, as the Beatles had through with with the euphony of the Shirelles and assorted Motown acts of the Apostles.


It was in 1969 when the trio bemused all the momentum they'd reinforced up, ironically over a difference involving their well-nigh challenging recording to date. They'd just finished a double-LP set, called Odessa, a lushly orchestrated, heavily overdubbed, and thoroughly haunting body of euphony. The seven-minute-long title trail was filled with eery images and ideas and gorgeous choruses just about a haunting lead performance and it was just the jumping-off point for the album. The brothers, withal, were unable to agree on which song was to be the unmarried and in the resulting difference, Robin distinct to percentage party with Barry and Maurice. They held on to the Bee Gees nominate for one LP, Cucumber Castle, spell Robin released the album Robin's Reign, on which he was manufacturer, adapter, and songwriter, and american ginseng all of the parts himself.


Eventually, level Barry and Maurice Gibb parted company. Melouney had left at the commencement of the Odessa sessions and Petersen left the two-man mathematical group behind a few days into Cucumis sativus Castle, though non without a well deal of effectual squabbling. (At one power point the drummer, in a flaky twist, filed a suit claiming that he owned the Bee Gees nominate.) Without a group to hitch behind or even make tV appearances promoting it, the Odesa album never sold the way it mightiness take in, regular with a hit, "First of May." Cucumber Castle was at least peripherally connected to a British tV special of the same name -- sort of the Bee Gees' better (and funnier) answer to the Beatles' Charming Mystery Tour pic -- and generated several singles that were successful in England and/or Germany, including the reggae-influenced "I.O.I.O." and "Don't Forget to Remember." Ironically, even during a geological period with their music partnership in tatters, the Gibb brothers were piece of writing and recording deeply beautiful songs -- Robin Gibb's "Protected by the Bell," with its profuse, ornate multi-layered vocals, justifiably topped the British charts, and the two-man Bee Gees B-side "Sun in My Morning" was one of the prettiest songs ever so issued by the grouping.


In 1970, they finally distinct to try and reform. Almost deuce years elderly and a full make out wiser, they related to each other better and had as well evolved musically out of pop-psychedelia and into a kind of pop-progressive rock sound, similar to the Moody Blues of the same eRA merely with bettor telling and more attractive songs. They came back up on a high note with deuce dazzling songs: "Lonely Days," the group's first-class honours degree number one strike in America and their first-class honours degree gold record in the United States. The early was "Dawn of My Life," a song originally known as "In the Morning," primitively authored by Barry Gibb; included on the soundtrack to the picture show Melody, it proved so popular with fans that the mathematical group was tranquil doing it in concert several old age afterwards.


They enjoyed some other vast outside success with "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" in 1971, just the incidental album, Trafalgar, lacked some of the variety of sounds that had made their earlier LPs so interesting. Moreover, it and the 2 Years On LP that preceded it ne'er reached higher than the mid-30s on the American charts (and ne'er charted in England at all), a considerable drop-off from their '60s albums' gross revenue. In 1972, the arheading the new profound was Barry Gibb, public Health Organization, for the number one time, american ginseng falsetto and ascertained that he could delight audiences in that register. "Jive Talkin'," the number one individual off the album, became their second base American number unitary exclusive, simply it was a recollective way from Lonely Days" in expressive style. It was followed up with the correspond "Nights on Broadway" and then the record record album Children of the World, which yielded the hits "You Should Be Dancing" and "Love So Right." In the midst of this twine of new hits, the group released their number one concert LP, Bee Gees Live, which gingerly walked a telephone line betwixt their old and raw hits.


Then in 1977, approach off of their recent success, the chemical group was approached about contributory to the soundtrack of a forthcoming moving picture, called Sabbatum Night Fever. Their featured numbers -- "Stayin' Alive," "How Deep Is Your Love," and "Night Fever" -- each made number one on the charts and the album stayed in the teetotum spot for 24 weeks, even as the film stony-broke existing box role records. In the process, the disco earned run average was born -- or more properly, born-again. It had already interpreted root in Europe, where it had become passé, and in the black and gay subcultures in America as well, merely there it had stalled out. Sat Night Fever, as an record album and a film, supercharged the phenomenon and broadened its hearing to tens of millions of middle class and wage-earning white River listeners, with the Bee Gees at the head of the music.


On the spur of the moment, they were outstripping the gross revenue that the Beatles had enjoyed with their records in the 1960s, and were even eclipsing Paul McCartney's multi-platinum '70s-era popularity. It was a profound moment, joining the ranks of their sometime idols in the highest reaches of music success, if non musical or social significance. They could (and did) fill arenas across the nation with their unexampled fans, although some of their elder admirers -- wHO were confessedly a nonage in the context of the tens of millions of record gross sales they were enjoying in the mid-'70s -- resented the group's new sound and the discotheque geological era that it corporal.


Ironically, there wasn't that much divergence in the grouping between the two eras. Apart from Barry Gibb's falsetto, the voices were the like and as good as of all time, and they had a brilliant band and all of the production resources that a recording act could want. And amid the saltation numbers, the group motionless did a goodly circumstances of quixotic ballads that each offered a high school "stalk" reckon and memorable meat hooks. They'd simply distinct, at Arif Mardin's urgency, to forget the fact that they were e. B. White Englishmen -- or the reticence that went with it -- and plunged head showtime into psyche music, emulating, in their own terms, the funkier Philadelphia individual sounds that all ternion brothers knew and loved. Luckily for them, they had the voices, the band, and the songwriting skills to do it convincingly, so a lot so that by 1977 the Bee Gees were getting played on black radiocommunication stations that were ordinarily unwilling to go whatsoever ovalbumin acts. What's more than, "Nights on Broadway" or "Honey So Right" were no less beautiful songs or records than, say, "Melodic phrase Fair" or "Outset of May," and if one recognised Dennis Byron's and Maurice Gibb's driving beat on "You Should Be Dancing," it was unsufferable not to be impressed with the vocal acrobatics and the bluff style of the strain. In one fell swoop, the grouping had managed to combine every influence they'd ever so embraced, from the Mills Brothers and the Beatles and early-'70s individual, into something of their possess that was virtually resistless. The cosmopolitan sales of the 1979 Hard liquor Having Flown record album topped 30 one thousand thousand and was accompanied by triad more identification number unitary singles in "Tragedy," "Overly Much Heaven," and "Honey You Inside Out." As a running light to the group's success, a fourth Gibb brother, Andy Gibb, was enjoying massive graph success during this same menstruum as a singer, on the job in a slightly lighter-textured dance nervure.


By the end of the '70s, however, the discotheque epoch was on the wane, from a combination of the high-risk economy, political chaos domestically and around the cosmos (in the lead to the election of Ronald Reagan), and a general burnout of the participants from excessively many drugs and profligate sex (which would precipitate an epidemic of sexually familial diseases and annunciate the irruption of AIDS in the United States). There had already been an ad hoc reaction against the group's dominance of the airwaves with mass burnings of Bee Gees posters and albums at public forums spurred on by DJs and ordinary listeners weary of the terpsichore hits by the group that seemed to soar effortlessly to the top of the charts; in the meantime, some radiocommunication stations of the Cross began looking at askance at new releases by the group after 1979. The group itself helped add to the end of the party with their possess excesses, in special their involvement (at Stigwood's insistence) in the pic Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, "inspired" (if that's the word) by the Beatles' album and songs. The picture was a box office and critical catastrophe and an embarrassment to all implicated; the incidental soundtrack LP was a $1.99 scratch out only sise months afterwards its 1978 freeing, lingering in steal bins and warehouses for days subsequently.


In 1981, the group's new LP, Surviving Eyes, was recorded after an lengthened layoff in the wake of four years of hard influence, simply didn't fifty-fifty make the Top 40. Suddenly, with the disco era over and verboten of favor, the Bee Gees couldn't even get arrested and were existence shunned for the excesses that it delineate. The most tragic of all was the destiny of Andy Gibb. The aged Gibb brothers had, at various times, struggled with personal demons such as alcohol and do drugs use, just the youngest sibling fell very concentrated when the '70s over, eventually losing his life in 1988, basketball team years after his 30th natal day at the end of a awful downward personal spiral. In America, the Bee Gees were near invisible as recording artists for most of the '80s. Instead, Barry Gibb pursued ferment as a manufacturer for other artists, creating hits for Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross, among others; the Bee Gees had songs on the soundtrack to Stayin' Alive, the lukewarm continuation to Sabbatum Night Fever, but they were no yearner taken earnestly by the music urge on.


They made their showtime endeavor at a retort in 1987 with E.S.P., an album that got favourable reviews and sold well in every turning point of the globe except the United States, yielding a number one individual (outside of the U.S.) in "You Win Again." A new album in 1989, One, got a good reception around the existence and even generated a Top Ten U.S. individual in the form of its title of respect track. Polygram Records, which had bought out the RSO Records catalog, struggled long and over the release of Tales from the Brothers Gibb, a box place anthology that was really aimed more at the external marketplace preferably than the United States, although it has sold substantially enough to remain in photographic print in America. High Civilization (1991) and Size Isn't Everything (1993) attracted more or less less attention, but their initiation into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 light-emitting diode to the departure of Still Waters. In 1998, they issued the s alive album in their history, Unrivalled Night Only, cut at their low concert appearance in America in virtually a decade, at the MGM Grand Hotel. In 2000, they participated in the qualification of the biographical video transcription, This Is Where I Came In, which covered their whole history, and an vector sum album of the same name.


The Bee Gees remained active until the death of Maurice in January 2003. While receiving treatment for an enteral obstruction, he suffered cardiac arrest and died at the long time of 53. Following his death, Robin and Barry distinct to cease playacting as the Bee Gees.





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Saturday 9 August 2008

Pixies

Pixies   
Artist: Pixies

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock
   



Discography:


The Pixies (The Purple Tape)   
 The Pixies (The Purple Tape)

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 9


Complete 'b' Sides   
 Complete 'b' Sides

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 19


Pixies At The Bbc   
 Pixies At The Bbc

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 15




Combining notched, holler guitars and stop-start dynamics with melodic pouch meat meat hooks, intertwining male-female harmonies and remindful, cryptic lyrics, the Pixies were one of the to the highest degree influential American alternate rock bands of the late '80s. The Pixies weren't complete musicians -- Black Francis wailed and bashed extinct chords patch Joey Santiago's lead guitar squealed out spirals of noise. But the band were inventive, fanatic stone fans that off conventions inside extinct, melding punk and indie guitar rock 'n' roll, classical pop out, surfboard rock candy and roll, and stadium-sized riffs with singer/guitarist Black Francis' capricious, split lyrics about blank space, religion, sex, mutilation, and crop up culture; piece the import of his lyrics may accept been impenetrable, the music was direct and forceful. The Pixies' interfering, brief songs, extreme dynamics, and subverter activity of come out song structures proven unitary of the touchstones of '90s alternative rock'n'roll. From grunge to Britpop, the Pixies' shadow loomed magnanimous -- it's hard to suppose Nirvana without the Pixies' touch stop-start dynamics and lurching, noisy guitar solos. While the Pixies were touted as the band to bring indie rock into the mainstream, they just set the groundwork for the alternate explosion of the former '90s. MTV was loath to repair their videos, while even modern rock receiving set didn't edit their singles into even rotary motion. Furthermore, tensions between drawing card Black Francis and bassist/vocalist Kim Deal, world Health Organization precious to incorporate her songs into the band's repertory, lame the band's advance. By the time Nirvana skint the doors depressed for alternative rock in 1992, the Pixies were effectively broken up.


The Pixies were formed in Boston, MA, in 1986 by Charles Thompson and his roommate, Joey Santiago. Born in California, Thompson began playing music as a adolescent, before he affected to the East Coast during high school. Following commencement ceremony, he became an anthropology major at the University of Massachusetts. Half way through his studies at the college, he went to Puerto Rico to study Spanish, and after six months he distinct to be active back to the U.S. to form a band. Thompson dropped extinct of school and moved to Boston, managing to persuade Santiago to join him. Advertising in a music paper for a bassist world Health Organization liked "Hüsker Dü and Peter, Paul & Mary," the duet recruited Kim Deal (world Health Organization was billed as Mrs. John Murphey on the group's first base two records), world Health Organization had previously played with her twin babe Kelly in the folk-rock garage band the Breeders in her hometown of Dayton, OH. On the advice of Deal, the radical recruited drummer David Lovering. Inspired by Iggy Pop, Thompson picked the stage name Black Francis and the radical named itself the Pixies later Santiago every which way flipped through the dictionary.


By the fall, the Pixies had played enough gigs to estate a load-bearing slot for mate Boston band Throwing Muses. At the Muses concert, Gary Smith, an creative person coach and producer at Boston's Fort Apache studios, heard the group and offered to record them. In March 1987, the Pixies recorded 18 songs over the course of trey years. The demo, dubbed The Purple Tape, was granted to key players inside the Boston musical community and the international alternative shot, including Ivo Watts, the head of England's 4AD Records. Impressed with the cassette, Watts signed the band and released eight-spot of the demo's songs as the EP Come On Pilgrim in 1987.


The Pixies convened to record their first full-length album, Surfboarder Rosa, with producer Steve Albini, wHO had pioneered the thin, abrasive indie-guitar grind with Big Black. Albini gave the band a harder-edged, harsh guitar sound, in time the group maintained its musical meat hooks. Released in the spring of 1988, Surfer Rosa earned enthusiastic reviews from the British weekly music weigh and became a college radio hit in America; in the U.K., the record album made inroads on the pop charts. By the end of the year, the hum on the Pixies had go substantial, and the group gestural to Elektra Records. At the end of 1988, the group re-entered the studio, this time with British producer Gil Norton. Released in the spring of 1989, Doolittle boasted a cleaner sound and received excellent reviews, which lED to greater exposure in America. "Monkey Gone to Heaven" and "Here Comes Your Man" became Top Ten forward-looking rock candy hits, clearing the way for Doolittle to peak at number 98 on the U.S. charts; in the U.K., it entered the charts at number ashcan School. Throughout their calling, the Pixies were more than popular in Britain and Europe than America, as evidenced by the success of the Sex and Death spell. The band became ill-famed for Black Francis' motionless performances, which were counterbalance by Deal's charmingly earthy sense of humor. The spell itself became ill-famed for the band's in-jokes, such as playing their integral specify list in alphabetic order. By the pass completion of their bit American spell for Doolittle at the end of 1989, the group had begun to wear of each other and distinct to take a hiatus during the root of 1990.


During the hiatus, Black Francis went on a brief solo enlistment and Kim Deal formed a group with Tanya Donnely from the Throwing Muses and bassist Josephine Wiggs of Perfect Disaster, naming it after her adolescent band, the Breeders. The Breeders recorded the Albini-produced Cod, which appeared on 4AD in early summer 1990, shortly after the Pixies reconvened to record their third base album with Gil Norton. More atmospherical than its predecessors, and relying heavy on Francis' surf rock candy compulsion, Bossanova was released in the fall of 1990; unlike Surfer Rosa or Jimmy Doolittle, it contained no songs by Deal. Bossanova was greeted with unquestionably interracial reviews, merely the record became a college hit, generating the mod rock hits "Velouria" and "Turn over for Fire" in the U.S. In Europe, the record expanded the group's popularity, hitting number trey on the U.K. album charts and paving material the manner for their headlining appearance at the Reading Festival. Though the load-bearing tours for Bossanova were successful, tension continued to get betwixt Kim Deal and Black Francis -- at the conclusion of their English term of enlistment, Deal announced from the stage of the Brixton Academy that the concert was "our last show."


Patch the Pixies did scratch their planned American term of enlistment, due to "exhaustion," the stripe reconvened in the spring of 1991 to disc its fourth album, again with Gil Norton. Hiring other Captain Beefheart and Pere Ubu keyboardist Eric Drew Feldman as an ancillary member, the band touched back toward loud rock, claiming to be divine by the bearing of Ozzy Osbourne in a contiguous studio. Upon its strike acquittance, Trompe le Monde was hailed by some as a welcome return to the sound of Surfboarder Rosa and James Harold Doolittle, just closer review revealed that it relied to a great extent on sonic detail and featured very few vocals by Deal and one of her songs. The band embarked on another international circuit, playing stadiums in Europe just theaters in America. During the outflow of 1992, the Pixies open for U2 on the porta leg of the Zoo TV term of term of enlistment; it would be their last trek through and through the United States. Upon the conclusion of the Zoo TV term of enlistment the Pixies went on foramen, with Deal reverting to the Breeders, earth Health Organization cathartic the EP Safari afterwards that springtime. Francis began operative on a solo record album.


As he was preparing to release his solo debut, Francis gave an interview on BBC's Radio 5, announcing that the Pixies were disbanding. He hadn't notwithstanding informed the other members; later on that day, he faxed them his statement. Inverting his stage key out to Frank Black, Francis released his eponymous debut that springtime to mixed reviews; over the following few days, Frank Black's interview step by step shrank to a humble religious cult next. The Breeders released their second album, Last Splash, in the strike of 1993. The album became a surprise hit, leaving gold in the U.S. and spawning the hit exclusive "Cannon ball." Soon after, Deal besides formed the Amps, world Health Organization released their unrivalled (and entirely) album, Pacer, in 1995. Santiago and Lovering formed the Martinis in 1995 and appeared on the soundtrack to Empire Records. Although 4AD began issuance archival Pixies releases, including Death to the Pixies 1987-1991, Pixies at the BBC, and Complete B-Sides in the late '90s and other 2000s, those were relatively quiet long time for the band's members. After cathartic the unsatisfying The Cult of Ray for American in 1996, Black shuffled betwixt different labels before closing up at spinART for 1999's Pistolero, where he as well released his subsequent solo albums, virtually of which were met with a adequate response. Deal and the rest of the Breeders, in the lag, suffered from problems ranging from centre abuse to writer's stymie, and only surfaced intermittently, expenditure time in the studio but only having a cover of 3 Degrees' "Collage" on the soundtrack to 1999's The Mod Squad to show for their efforts until they released Title TK in 2002. David Lovering left the Martinis and became the touring drummer for Cracker, and likewise appeared on Tanya Donelly's Sliding and Diving, simply establish himself unemployed in the late '90s. Combining his studies in electronic technology at Wentworth Institute of Technology and his days of acting experience, Lovering dubbed himself a "scientific phenomenalist," a bilk betwixt a scientist, operation artist, and prestidigitator, and warmed up the crowds at Frank Black, Breeders, Camper Van Beethoven, and Grant Lee Buffalo concerts. Santiago and his wife Linda Mallari continued the Martinis through and through the '90s, transcription several demos and self-released albums. Santiago besides began a career composition soundtracks and resultant music, beginning with the score for 2000's Law-breaking & Punishment in Suburbia, to which Black also contributed a rails. At the time, rumors circulated that Santiago would join Black onstage during ane of his London dates on the Blackguard in the Sand tour of duty; though this didn't happen, it at least sparked hopes that the Pixies would lastly reunite. These hopes seemed idle until 2003, when Black revealed in an interview that he had considered reuniting the band and that he, Deal, Santiago, and Lovering at times got unitedly to obstruct. Soon afterwards, it was confirmed that the Pixies would reunite in 2004 for U.S. tours in the give and light; an appearance at that year's Coachella festival; and gigs in Europe and the U.K. that summer, including performances at the T in the Park, Roskilde, Pinkpop, and V festivals. All 15 of the band's North American warm turn dates were recorded and released in limited editions of 1,000 copies, which were sold online and at the shows. The week subsequently the Pixies' Coachella appearance, the long-awaited DVD retrospective Pixies and revamped best-of Wave of Mutilation: The Best of Pixies were released by 4AD.






Tuesday 1 July 2008

Guy Ritchie - Ritchies Mother Slams Madonna Divorce Speculation


GUY RITCHIE's mother has hit out at reports her son wants to divorce his singer wife MADONNA - branding the rumours "works of fiction" dreamed up by the media.

The superstar couple has been plagued by speculation of a split for months, and reports heated up last week (begs23Jun08) when it was claimed the pair had begun to seek legal advice from top lawyers.

But Ritchie's mother, Lady Amber Leighton, has been in contact with her filmmaker son and insists the couple have no intention to part ways.

The 62-year-old says, "It is absolute rubbish, worse than that. Guy will be furious at me talking to you, but I feel I can't just let these reports go unanswered as they make me so angry and they are hurtful intrusions into their private lives.

"They are no different to most other couples and we all know that being together can be hard sometimes and marriages are not always a bed of roses.

"But like other couples they work at keeping their relationship happy and fresh and they are a close and loving couple who have a family to bring up."

She adds, "Madonna is in New York at the moment finishing off a tour and he will join her there after the weekend. That is not a couple splitting up. I'll say it one more time, they are not getting divorced; the speculation is TT - that's total tosh (untrue)."





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Rocked the Nation - the final 10

The final countdown of the top 100 moments in Kiwi music from C4's Rocked the Nation10. NZ-born British-raised Daniel Bedingfield scored three number ones in Britain, starting with Gotta Get Thru This in 2001. And he was never heard of again, though sister Natasha is still doing nicely. 9. Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over made it to number two in the US charts in 1986 finally waking us up to the charms of Neil Finn's post-Split Enz band.8. Comin' straight outta Otara was Pauly Fuemana who hooked up with producer Alan Jansson for worldwide hit How Bizarre. We haven't had a bigger song.7. Since the 80s, the proportion of local music played on radio has gone from two to 20 per cent, thanks in large part to the work of Brendan Smythe from NZ On Air.6: Scribe's catchphrase "How many dudes you know roll like this... not many, if any", along with the song Stand Up was a catalyst for a local hip-hop explosion. 5. On December 7, 1984, the Thank God It's Over concert in Aotea Square, turned from end-of-school-year festivities to the Queen St Riots which Dave Dobbyn was charged - and cleared - of inciting.




4. In 1981 Roger Shepherd started up record label Flying Nun because no one was releasing the music of the new Dunedin and Christchurch bands he liked. It would go on to be one of the country's most iconic record labels. 3. It's odd to think TrueBliss were ahead of their time but the made-for-TV   format of Popstars sold around the world. 2. Poi E sung by the Patea Maori Club and written by Dalvanius Prime was a chart-topper and a groundbreaker with its mix of te reo, kapa haka, hip-hop, breakdancing and pop. No Maori-sung song has been to the top spot since.1. Surprise, surprise. It had to be Split Enz   considering the band's impact and their enduring legacy. During the 70s their oddball style made them one of the most intriguing and innovative bands around. They got their commercial breakthrough on fifth album, 1980's True Colours, and called it a day four years later.

Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares   
Artist: Venetian Snares

   Genre(s): 
Breakbeat
   Electronic
   Experimental
   



Discography:


Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole   
 Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 9


Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett   
 Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


Infolepsy EP Vinyl   
 Infolepsy EP Vinyl

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 5


Winter In The Belly Of A Snake   
 Winter In The Belly Of A Snake

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


Salt (Zhark2006 Ep)   
 Salt (Zhark2006 Ep)

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4


Greg Hates Car Culture (Hot003 Ep)   
 Greg Hates Car Culture (Hot003 Ep)

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 7




Aaron Funk, a producer of hardcore drum'n'bass stochasticity, gained a profile in data-based techno circles with his sign language to the Planet µ label run by Mike Paradinas (aka µ-Ziq). It's a tribute to his production artistry that his base of Winnipeg, Manitoba, hasn't prevented IDM enthusiasts around the world from investigation his recordings. Funk's number one spillage was Shiver in Eternal Darkness, an EP for the Isolate label, followed by Doll Doll Doll for Hymen and Greg Hates Car Culture for History of the Future. When Paradinas heard the latter, he immediately hired Funk for Planet µ. The number one Venetian Snares LP, Making Orange Things (a co-production with Speedranch), dropped in early 2001; next in unforesightful orderliness were foursome more LPs or mini-LPs, all released in front the end of 2002. Funk continued recording for a variety of labels, including Hymen, and has besides recorded as Snares Man! and the less elusive Senetian Vnares. The following geezerhood continued to be fecund for Venetian Snares, among whose releases were 2004's Brobdingnagian Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding, 2005's Hungarian-inspired Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett, and 2006's Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms and Hospitality, all of which came on Planet µ.





Mr. Blonde Gets Red With Anger

Pam Slams Jess!

Jessica Simpson may have been taking aim at her veggie arch rival Carrie Underwood when she went out in a t-shirt reading, "Real Girls Eat Meat".

But she seems to have got up the hackles of a slightly more fearsome adversary in the process.

And while Carrie didn't deign to respond, Pamela Anderson has been a little more forthright, calling Jessica a "bitch and a whore" for pulling the stunt.

Two weeks ago Jess took the swipe at her boyfriend Tony Romo's ex, Carrie, with the carnivorous catchphrase plastered across her chest.

And yesterday animal rights campaigner Pammi had a few words to say on the matter during a radio interview in Australia, where she is starring in Big Brother.

"I think she is a bitch and whore," opined the PETA activist and winner of the Linda McCartney Memorial award for protectors of animals.

�Actually, I don't know if she was talking about food or men."

The glamor superstar added that vegetarianism is, "healthy, good for your body and good for the environment".




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Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers

Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers   
Artist: Rod Piazza and the Mighty Flyers

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   R&B: Soul
   



Discography:


Keepin' It Real   
 Keepin' It Real

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


Live at B.B. King's Blues Club   
 Live at B.B. King's Blues Club

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 12


Alphabet Blues   
 Alphabet Blues

   Year: 1992   
Tracks: 12




 





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