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Artist: Deckard
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093624735229
EAN: 0093624735229
ASIN: B00004S4P7

Release Date: 2000-07-11

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Tracks:

What Reason
Remain This Way
Conversation
Christine
Still
Wasted At Your Wing
Once There Was A Girl
Christine II
Today Is A New Chapter
Sycamore
Bear

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Drawing on inspirations ranging from the Beatles and Queen on one side of the generation gap to Radiohead, Foo Fighters, and Smashing Pumpkins on the other, Scotland's Deckard have produced a remarkably assured, impressively eclectic first effort that should instantly spark the interest of Brit-pop fans. Frontman Chris Gordon poses an intriguing premise on the energetic single "What Reason": what would the Pumpkins have sounded like if Billy Corgan had Robin Zander's pipes? "Remain This Way" and "Still" offer up some of Radiohead's shadowy ethos, infused with a Verve-ish sense of drama, while the driving "Christine" confronts a drag queen's dilemmas without an ounce of condescension or sentimentality, and "Sycamore" breathes compelling new life into that most undervalued 1980s relic, the power ballad. Producer Nick Launay (Midnight Oil, Semisonic, Silverchair) seasons the band's nearly seamless pop constructions with an appropriately broad palette, including electronic effects, thrash guitars, and deft use of strings. And if the influences are flown a bit too prominently on this outstanding album, a little maturity should serve them well. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Bring Back Baby Chaos.......2005-08-10

Baby Chaos was the first band I ever saw live in about 93-94, thus I always followed the band even after the band broke up. I bought the EP, which was waaay better than this full length, which, frankly, pretty much sucks. I like some softer music, but this is ridiculous. Way too soft for me. Radiohead is metal compared to this.

DIFFERENT NAME FOR WHAT WAS ONCE A BETTER BAND.......2005-06-15

When I first her THE DECKARD EP, I was filled with the same sort of anger and disappointement that many metallica fans felt when LOAD first came out. Nonetheless, I was thrilled that there was still hope for Baby Chaos, one of my favorite bands. But they were my favorite because of there antisocial edginess, like if a grunge band would have, only sparkled with musicality that would be traced back to Radiohead. That was the real brilliance of rock music in the early 90's. In a very homosexual way (no offense to anyone...) DECKARD sill rocks. The combination of heavy guitars etc. with hypersensitive "getting-in-touch-with-your-feminine-side" lyrics leave me at times excited and confused. Where I love the blazing wall of sound, the lyrics and basically the whole attitude behind the album make me cringe. So I give them 4 stars. I guess, being a male chavunist, I just prefer the female legs covered in blood to the stary-eyed pouty pink lips of DECKARD.

One Of the best bands you've never heard.......2000-10-25

Let's face it, for a small release this is about as good as it gets. Here is a band that you could get mindless hordes of people to follow. maybe one day they will

Stop being foolish........2000-09-04

Right, lets get something straight. The album sounds like this because they wanted it to sound like this. No other reason; why else employ Nick Launay when they could've produced it themselves and made it sound like Baby Chaos? They wanted a commercial rock record, something that was relatively elusive to them until this point. And they've got it. The songs are amazing - with a great many of them harking back to the Baby Chaos days (What Reason, Once There Was a Girl, Wasted At Your Wing etc), and the production, whilst sticky, and a little soft, is actually right for this album. Christine2, for example, rocks in all the right places, and Still does not. ANd so on. If you must criticise the production, criticise Launay, for screwing up one album too many now. Personally, I'm going for Flood and Billy Corgan to produce the next one. Oh my God. Can you imagine?

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