artist : Eddie and the Hot Rods
title : Thriller
label : Captain Oi!
cat# : AHOYCD192
genre : Rock
street date : 2002-00-00
tracks : 12
bitrate : 216 kbps avg. 44.1/Joint Stereo
size : 67.29 mb
source : CD
type : Reissue
url : http://www.captainoi.com
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Forget everything you've ever read about Thriller. Eddie & the Hot Rods'
third album arrived in 1979, at a time when the band's own brand of
high-octane punk-pop was wallowing in the depths of unfashionable
retrogression. Live, the group was still the hottest thing on ten legs,
and the first single from the album, the anthemic "The Power and the
Glory," certainly suggested that the magic dispensed by their last set,
Life on the Line, was still firmly in place. But the album as a whole
didn't simply disappoint, it all but disappeared and, for 20 years
thereafter, when old-time fans discussed the Rods, it was the first two
albums that lay on the altar. Truly, nothing else mattered. Reissued for
the first time since those dark days, Thriller hasn't simply improved with
age; It actually rivals its predecessors, a fast-paced, dramatically
dynamic and, above all, deeply melodic album that reiterates both the
complexity and the contrary simplicity that was the Rods at their best.
Even picking favorites among the tracks is no longer easy ù "The Power and
the Glory" still thrills, but so do "Media Messiahs," "Breathless," and
"Living Dangerously," while the bonus tracks, both drawn from period
B-sides, continue down the same road, to demonstrate that whatever was
wrong with this record in 1979, it had nothing to do with the band.
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01 The Power & the Glory 4:15
02 Echoes 2:54
03 Media Messiahs 2:54
04 Circles 2:55
05 He Does it with Mirrors 4:11
06 Strangers 2:46
07 Out to Lunch 4:48
08 Breathless 3:32
09 Take it or Leave it 4:11
10 Living Dangerously 3:36
11 Horror Through Straightness (Bonus Track) 4:24
12 Highlands 1-Hopefuls 2 (Bonus Track) 3:01
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