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Artist: The TheBrand: Epic
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Uncertain Smile
- Perfect
- Sweet Bird Of Truth
- Infected
- Heartland
- Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
- The Beat(en) Generation
- Dogs Of Lust
- Slow Emotion Replay
- Love Is Stronger Than Death
- This Is The Day
- I Saw The Light
- December Sunlight
- Pillarbox Red
- Deep Down Truth
- Uncertain Smile (12" Remix)
- Perfect (12" Remix)
- Sweet Bird Of Truth (12" Remix)
- Infected (12" Remix)
- Armageddon Days Are Here (Again) (12" Remix)
- Violence Of Truth (12" Remix)
- Gravitate To Me (12" Remix)
- Dogs Of Lust (12" Remix)
Free Music Notes for 45 Rpm: The Singles [Limited Edition Bonus Disc]
Free Music Review: 45 RPM - Finally! A Superb Compilation
Hit: 5 Stars
The The is one of those bands, well one guy really (Matt Johnson), who could blend musical concepts, personal thoughts, political views and a clear perception and make it always sound interesting. Sure the dark angst that pervades many of the songs isn't for everyone but for the rest of us, getting all his singles on in one place is a godsend.All of this material was released between 1982 and the present. His debut in 1981, Burning Blue Soul was released under his name. This was repackaged and reissued under the The The name in 1993. It is a revealing yet somewhat sombre record.
I bought his first single as The The in the summer of 1982, "Uncertain Smile" and it was totally fresh for its day. Of course, by the time "Perfect" came out and his first album, Soul Mining, in 1983, I had succumbed to the musical viewpoints of The The.
The sound on this double CD is remastered and sounds great. His quirky "I Saw The Light" from 1995's Hanky Panky, an album that pays tribute to Hank Williams, shows the diversity of this capable performer. A nice bonus is included on Cd one, with two unreleased songs "Pillar Box Red" and "Deep Down Truth" and a new version of "December Sunlight" that appears in original form on Naked Self (2000). These songs are an excellent bonus that pick up where he leaves of since Dusk (1993).
The eight song second CD contains some of his best 12" remixes that include "Uncertain Smile", "Perfect", "Sweet Bird Of Truth" (controversial because it gives his take on the USA's air attack on Libya) and "Infected" (dealing with a tricky demonic issue). Others from Mind Bomb and Dusk round out this second disk.
I would have liked to see "Jealous Of Youth"(1989}, the raw energy of "Cold Spell Ahead" (1981, actually the previous version of "Uncertain Smile") or the dub version of "Gravitate To Me" but with a Volume 2 expected in 2003, we can always hope.
I highly recommend this 2 CD set for the curious, the fans and those who like a thinking mans music. Excellent.
45 Rpm: The Singles [Limited Edition Bonus Disc] Poster
This 2 CD set is the original 2002 Epic release. Catalog E2K-86611. There is a hole punch through the UPC. Disc Two:The 12" RemixesLike Steely Dan, The The wasn't so much a band as a personal musical conceit/alter ego, this one for English writer-performer Matt Johnson. While Johnson's "band" came of age during the English synth pop boom of the early ?80s, electricity was about the only common denominator between Johnson and his fashion slave contemporaries. Indeed, the sense of conscientious outrage that informs many of the two decades worth of singles collected here fostered a perception of Johnson as something of a prickly malcontent. But fashion was never an end in itself for Johnson, even on early pop fare like "Uncertain Smile" and "Perfect." Johnson's restless creative bent has led him to remix many of these tracks anew, ensuring that this set would never be seen as mere artistic obituary. Johnson's reputation as a socio-political crank reached its zenith on tracks like "Heartland" (which decries the reverse cultural colonization of Britain by America) and "Armageddon Days" (a shotgun blast at pan-religious hypocrisy, here introduced by a hilarious parody of the Sweet's "Ballroom Blitz": "Are you ready Jesus? Yeah! / Budda? Uh-huh."), but subsequent history has only proven him sagacious. Pity that Johnson's "Armageddon" lineup was short-lived: The The was a real band in ?89, with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr adding his signature sound to "The Beat(en) Generation" as well. And if anyone thought they had Johnson pegged, his acclaimed 1995 Hank Williams tribute, Hanky Panky (represented here by a riveting reinvention of the country legend's "I Saw the Light"), surely set them scratching their heads again. The set is rounded out by three strong new tracks ("Decembersunlight (Cried Out)," a duet with Liz Horsman; "Pillar Box Red"; and "Deep Down Truth," a duet with Wild Colonial Angela McCluskey). The limited-edition two-disc set also includes a bonus disc of eight 12" club mixes previously unreleased in the U.S. on CD. --Jerry McCulley
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