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Television - Marquee Moon ( 77 ^ 99 mb)
Television, formed in New York City in 1973, is an American rock music band. Although Television never achieved more than the tiniest cult audience in their American homeland, they achieved significant commercial success in Europe and today are widely regarded as one of the key founders of postpunk rock.
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Television's roots can be traced to the teenage friendship between Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine. The duo met at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, from which they ran away. Their first group together was the Neon Boys, consisting of Verlaine on guitar and vocals, Hell on bass and vocals, Bill Ayers (briefly) on guitar, and Billy Ficca on drums. The group lasted from late 1972 to early 1973. In late 1973 the trio reformed, calling themselves Television and soon recruiting Richard Lloyd as a second guitarist. They persuaded CBGB's owner Hilly Kristal to give the band a regular gig at his club which had just opened on the Bowery in New York. Television was the first rock group to perform at the club, where they quickly established a significant cult following.
Initially, songwriting was split almost evenly between Hell and Verlaine, friction began to develop as Verlaine, Lloyd and Ficca became increasingly confident and adept with both instruments and composition, while Hell remained defiantly untrained in his approach. This led Hell to leave the group and take his songs with him, and later forming Richard Hell and the Voidoids. Fred Smith, briefly of Blondie, replaced Hell as Television's bassist. Television's first album Marquee Moon was received positively by music critics and audiences, didn't do much in the US, but sold well in Europe. Meanwhile it's become a classic. This whole record's a mash note to guitars, the contrast between these two essential leads is stunning, Richard Lloyd chisels notes out hard while Verlaine works with a subtle twang and a trace of space-gazing delirium, a surrealistic version of garage-rock, with earthy riffs that spiral up into ecstatic guitar-solo jaunts.
Television's second album, Adventure, was issued in 1978 to less fanfare. The distinctive dual guitars of Lloyd and Verlaine are still evident on Adventure, notably on the tracks "Glory", "Days" and "Foxhole". The band members had very independent and strongly held artistic visions, and this, along with Richard Lloyd's alleged drug abuse, led to the band's break-up in 1978. Both Lloyd and Verlaine pursued solo careers. Nearly 14 years after their breakup, Television re-formed in late 1991, recording an eponymous third album. They performed at Glastonbury in 1992, releasing Television a couple months later. The album received good reviews, yet Television disbanded again in early 1993, and have performed live sporadically thereafter.
01 - See No Evil (3:53)
02 - Venus (3:48)
03 - Friction (4:40)
05 - Marquee Moon (9:52)
05 - Elevation (5:04)
06 - Guiding Light (5:31)
07 - Prove It (4:57)
08 - Torn Curtain (6:45)
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A Flock Of Seagulls - A Flock Of Seagulls ( 82 ^ 99 mb)
A Flock of Seagulls was started by Mike Score and his brother Ali in 1979 in Liverpool. Mike, who was previously a hairdresser, played keyboards, guitar, and vocals, Ali played drums and their friend fellow hairdresser Frank Maudsley played bass. The band took their name from a line in the song "Toiler on the Sea" by The Stranglers, which appears on their album Black and White.They added guitarist Paul Reynolds and began writing songs, playing clubs and trying to land a record contract. The group released its debut EP on Bill Nelson's Cocteau Records early in 1981, and while the record failed to chart, its lead track, "Telecommunication," became an underground hit in Euro-disco and new wave clubs.
A year later they had signed to Jive Records which released their eponymous debut album, the first single I Ran got picked up by MTV, who were smitten by the hairdo(n't) aswell as the female angst ( the women act like camouflaged daleks in the video) and so the single ended up in the US top 10, whilst UK lads just shrugged their shoulders, no hit.. Flock Of Seagulls had to wait another year for success back home with Wishing (i had a photograph of you) from their second album "Listen" which turned out moderately successful (in sales that is). Trouble started after the third album 1984's "The Story of a Young Heart" failed to produce any hit singles.
Last one in, first one out, Reynolds abruptly left A Flock of Seagulls, leaving the band a trio, but the band continued to tour. The Score brothers wanted to base the band in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mike and Ali Score and Frank Maudsley all applied for, and were conditionally awarded, green cards, and the three settled in Philadelphia. Maudsley returned to England, while Mike and Ali Score stayed in Philadelphia. The brothers then had a falling out that resulted in Mike Score remaining as the sole remaining original member of the band and Ali going to Boston, where he played in a hard rock band and then worked for a computer company in Cambridge.
Following the dissolution of the band in the wake of Dream Come True, Mike Score resurfaced in a series of new bands with changing line-ups. The band released two singles ("Magic" and "Burnin' Up") and one album (The Light At The End Of The World) which achieved some success. In the late 1990s, the group made a cameo appearance in the 1999 movie The Suburbans, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Will Ferrell.
01 - Modern Love Is Automatic (3:47)
02 - Messages (2:49)
03 - I Ran (5:01)
04 - Space Age Love Song (3:43)
05 - You Can Run (4:22)
06 - Telecommunication (2:29)
07 - Standing In The Doorway (4:37)
08 - Don't Ask Me (2:44)
09 - D.N.A. (2:27)
10 - Tokyo (2:51)
11 - Man Made (5:31)
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">Freeez - Gonna Get You (83 ^ 99mb)
Freeez was led by John Rocca, included Peter Maas (bass), Andy Stennet (keyboards) and Paul Morgan (drums). Rocca, a former van salesman for the dance music specialist shop Disc Empire, formed the group in 1978. They released their first single ‘Keep In Touch’ on their own Pink Rythm label (one of the first British acts to form their own label) and it narrowly missed the UK Top 40. Freeez was initially known for its emergence as one of the UK's first and leading Jazz Funk bands of the very early eighties. They gained considerable respect from the industry, DJs and the Jazz Funk and Dance public. After moving to the Beggars Banquet label in 1981 they hit the UK Top 10 with ‘Southern Freeze’, which included vocals by Ingrid Mansfield-Allman (b. London). The album of the same name reached the Top 20.
The group expanded to a seven piece but then later reduced to the basic duo of Rocca and Maas, they had their biggest success in 1983 with ‘I.O.U.’, written and produced in the USA by noted New Yorker Arthur Baker with mixing help from John ‘Jellybean’ Benitez. They released the Gonna Get You album in 83 , which delivered another hit co-written/produced by Arthur Baker "Pop Goes My Love".
In 1985 Rocca and Stennet recorded as Pink Rhythm whilst Freeez reformed with Maas, Morgan and Louis Smith taking the duties of keyboard player co-writer and programmer, with Billy Chrichton now the songwriter and guitarist. Freeez then went on to record an album called Idle Vice at the famous studio number 2 at Abbey road studios. As a solo artist Rocca had a US dance number I with ‘I Want To Be Real’ in 1987, the same year a remix of Freeez’s ‘I.O.U.’ on Citybeat made the UK Top 30. Rocca later recorded on Who’d She Coo and Cobra (where he re-recorded ‘Southern Freeze’) and re-appeared in 1991 as Midi Rain on Vinyl Solution.
01 - We've Got The Juice (6:18)
02 - Can't Keep My Love (5:05)
03 - Love's Gonna Get You (6:24)
04 - Pop Goes My Love (8:12)
05 - I.O.U. (8:45)
06 - Freezin' (6:03)
07 - Can You (4:59)
08 - Watch Me (6:04)
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