Danseparc/Mystery Walk
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Artist: Martha & the Muffins
Label: One Way Records Inc
Category: Music
Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 046637100324
EAN: 0046637100324
ASIN: B00004XSSU
Release Date: 2000-09-12 |
Danseparc/Mystery Walk
Related Categories:
New Wave
| New Wave & Post-Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Tracks:
- Danseparc (Every Day It's Tomorrow)
- Obedience
- World Without Borders
- Walking Into Walls
- Sins Of Children
- Several Styles Of Blonde Girls Dancing
- Boys In The Bushes
- What People Do For Fun
- Whatever Happened To Radio Valve Road?
- Black Stations/White Stations
- Cooling The Medium
- Come Out And Dance
- I Start To Stop
- Big Trees
- In Between Sleep And Reason
- Garden In The Sky
- Nation Of Followers
- Alibi Room
- Rhythm Of Life
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Album Description
2 albums on 1 CD from 80's new wave favs M+M, expanding the pop music form into ambient sounds mixed with dance beats. 2000 release. Standard jewel case.
Customer Reviews:
Classic '80s pop...but GOOD!.......2003-01-23
Mystery Walk, released in 1984 is still totally rad, and the best in the M+M catalog. Here's why M+M still sounds cool today: Daniel Lanois. This musician/engineer/producer has worked with U2, Robbie Robertson, Scott Weiland, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Peter Gabriel, and on and on. This guy has "rock as art" down. Very Cool Guy. So on Mystery Walk you'll hear some of the new tools of the day (i.e. digital synthesizers), but filtered through delays, reverbs, and other techniques that render the sounds very organically. Add a lot of REAL drums and percussion, and you get some great pop grooves that remind me of period Talking Heads.
A Curio.......2002-07-27
Martha & The Muffins made fairly typical New Wave Europop similar to the Eurogliders and the Eurythmics. Not exactly exciting stuff, but basically inoffensive. M&M sound a little easier on the ears than the Eurythmics, but this is probably because they have never been overplayed. Of interest to New Wave fanatics only.
Two terrific albums in one package........2002-02-25
Martha and the Muffins, best known for the New Wave hit "Echo Beach" in 1980, continued to produce some of the most interesting music of the 80's, but listening to this CD, you will have to put aside some preconceptions of "80's music". M+M experimented freely, and the uninitiated might find the mix perplexing. Indeed there is a marked difference in tone between "Danseparc" and "Mystery Walk", the former being a broad-shouldered, boisterous, in-your-face kind of album, while "Mystery Walk" is cooler, more distilled. There are terrific songs in both realms. Some of my favorites: "World Without Borders", "Sins of Children", "Whatever Happened to Radio Valve Road?", "Garden in the Sky", "Nation of Followers", "I Start to Stop", "Big Trees".
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