Olympian
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曲目リスト
1 | Haunted By You |
2 | Your Love, It Lies |
3 | Truth, Rest Your Head |
4 | A Car That Sped |
5 | Left-Handed |
6 | London, Can You Wait? |
7 | To The City |
8 | Still Can't Find The Phone |
9 | Sleep Well Tonight |
10 | Olympian |
11 | We'll Find Our Own Way |
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Dismissed at the time as mere Smiths wannabes--thanks to the moany, mannered timbre of Martin Rossiter's vocals, combined with the eloquent self-obsession of his lyrics--many critics missed the most glaring influence upon these perennial UK second-stringers: the jagged, overdriven buzz of Steve Mason's guitar, which owed at least as much to Steve Marriott as it did to Johnny Marr. On this, their much-anticipated debut album, there is a distinct feeling of acknowledging and celebrating their influences, both musical and geographical: a deep sense of London was embedded in these songs, either overtly--on tracks like "To The City" and "London, Can You Wait?"--or implicitly, in its role as host to most of the great guitar-pop of the preceding decade. Inevitably, some tracks worked ("Haunted By You", "Sleep Well Tonight"), and some didn't ("Your Love, It Lies", "A Car That Sped"); yet for all the dutiful veneration of their sources, what Gene lacked were moments of actual transcendance. Obsessed with the great and enduring, they were capable only of the intermittently good. --Andrew McGuire
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- 梱包サイズ : 14 x 12.6 x 1.1 cm; 100 g
- メーカー : Polygram Int'l
- EAN : 0731452744623
- 商品モデル番号 : 527446-2
- レーベル : Polygram Int'l
- ASIN : B000024Q86
- ディスク枚数 : 1
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"Olympian", the first album, was a confident 11 track missive, which didn't sound like a band tentatively making its debut, but more an assured statement from a band that had been doing this for years. (To an extent, they had, working together in various forms in other bands such as the dreadfully named Sp!n, before becoming the final Gene lineup). As such, it's a record where some of the bands best songs of the time - "For The Dead", "Be My Light, Be My Guide", "I Can't Help Myself", weren't even on it ; favouring new material rather than old singles. Then again most bands would be overjoyed to have an album with three songs as good as "Sleep Well Tonight", "Olympian" and "Haunted By You," The album is appended by two single-only recordings, and several BBC Sessions, The second disc 2 offers two live BBC broadcasts (from Bristol and London), offering about 20 songs in total. Sure, since the band didn't have 20 songs at the time, there is a lot of repetition, - the title track appears four times (I think), but thats not to say this isn't anything other than a bountiful set of treasures. To be honest, there's little more a fan could expect given the circumstances, and the limited commercial interest and profile this band currently has, and whilst it is a musical loss that Gene were not blessed with a 30 year journey similar to obvious contenders of sometimes lesser skill but wider appeal, this is as good as it gets.