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<pre>Be- Bop Delux - Sunburst Finish
Artist: Be- Bop Delux
Title: Sunburst finish
Label: EMI Records
Catalog#: CDP 7 94727 2
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Released: 1990 (originally Release: February 1976)
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock, Prog Rock, Glam
ratings: 4.3/5 discogs, 5/5 amazon
Be Bop Deluxe was founded by Bill Nelson in 1972. They never played bebop music, but instead came out of the blues-based British rock scene of the late 1960s. At first they were compared to the more successful David Bowie, but Nelson never tried to copy Bowie, and appears to have disliked comparisons or being pigeon-holed. This artistic restlessness eventually led him to disband Be Bop Deluxe altogether and pursue less commercial paths of expression.Nelson was acclaimed as one of the finest guitarists in British rock at the time, and the music showed that, with his distinctive tones adorning most tracks. Stylistically, the songs took elements from progressive rock, glam rock (the band had flirted with make-up in the early days) and hard guitar rock. Sunburst Finish contained the band's only UK hit album, Ships in the Night was their most successful single in the UK and USA.
~wikipedia
Thirty years on from its original release, listening to the album - the third of five studio albums the band made between '74 and '78 - is a remarkable experience. ThereΓÇÖs masses thatΓÇÖs vital and twisted and satisfyingly out-of-its-time as Nelson sets about creating a self-contained, wrapped world of accessible peculiarity. Dismissed at the time by Those Who Knew Best as a glam/prog irrelevance (a view given teeth by punkΓÇÖs burst into the cultural consciousness), thereΓÇÖs stuff on here that helped fuse those genres with post-punk experimentation. Thus, while it bleeds Bowie and Music Hall and Science Fiction and Mott and Queen and pre-bland Roxy, it also points towards PiL and Wire and Krautrock and the Flaming Lips and the Pixies and Giant Sand and Zen. With only very small glances at Duran Duran and The Darkness.
~twistedear.com
Be-Bop DeluxeΓÇÖs Sunburst Finish: ΓÇÿThis angular harlequin was more the Ziggy Stardust character than Bowie himselfΓÇÖ - Julian Cope
1. Fair Exchange
2. Heavenly Homes
3. Ships In The Night
4. Crying To The Sky
5. Sleep That Burns
6. Beauty Secrets
7. Life In The Air Age
8. Like An Old Blues
9. Crystal Gazing
10. Blazing Apostles
11. Shine
12. Speed Of The Wind
13. Blue As A Jewel
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