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| Artist : Robyn Hitchcock |
| Album : Goodnight Oslo |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
| Label : Yep Roc |
| Year : 2009 |
| Genre : Rock |
| Rip date : Jan-23-2009 |
| Store date : Feb-17-2009 |
| Size : 56,8 MB |
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|Track Listing: |
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| 01 - What You Is 03:26 |
| 02 - Your Head Here 03:48 |
| 03 - Seaturday Groovers 02:48 |
| 04 - I'm Falling 04:34 |
| 05 - Hurry For The Sky 03:11 |
| 06 - 16 Years 04:24 |
| 07 - Up To Our Necks 03:47 |
| 08 - Intricate Things 03:31 |
| 09 - TLC 03:46 |
| 10 - Goodnight Oslo 06:01 |
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| 39:16 min |
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| Robyn Hitchcock is one of England's most enduring contemporary |
| singer/songwriters and live performers. Despite having been persistently |
| branded as eccentric or quirky for much of his career, Hitchcock has |
| continued to develop his whimsical repertoire, deepen his surreal |
| catalog, and expand his devoted audience beyond the boundaries of cult |
| stature. He is among alternative rock's father figures and is the |
| closest thing the genre has to a Bob Dylan (not coincidentally his |
| biggest inspiration). |
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| Starting his career as a folkie in the Cambridge England, Hitchcock has |
| been compared to his fellows in British folk-rock, Roy Harper and the |
| Incredible String Band, specifically because of his acoustic guitar and |
| loopy vocal style, though his rock voice bears shades of John Lennon and |
| Syd Barrett. Switching gears early to front the Soft Boys, a punk-era |
| band specializing in melodic, chiming jangle pop and clever lyrics |
| (Underwater Moonlight remains a classic of the genre), it wasn't long |
| before he quit the band life and made his solo debut. Black Snake |
| Diamond Role (1981) confirmed his reputation as an oddball thanks to his |
| titles "Brenda's Iron Sledge" and "Acid Bird," among others. The |
| psychedelia of Groovy Decay (1982) followed, as did the all-acoustic I |
| Often Dream of Trains (1984). By 1985, Hitchcock's unpredictable |
| songsmithing coalesced on Fegmania! Later that year, the live document |
| Gotta Let This Hen Out! demonstrated his command of the stage. In 1988, |
| he landed his first major U.S. label contract with A&M Records and |
| followed by releasing the ambitious Globe of Frogs (1988) and Queen |
| Elvis (1989). He continued to record (Perspex Island, 1991 and Respect, |
| 1993) and receive college radio airplay, though once the momentum of the |
| A&M years begun to lag, Hitchcock bounced back in 1996 with the return |
| to form Moss Elixir (Warner Brothers) which embraced his folk roots. |
| Storefront Hitchcock, the soundtrack to the Jonathan Demme-directed |
| concert film, followed in 1998. |
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| Upon release from his contract with Warner Bros., Hitchcock self- |
| released A Star for Bram (Editions PAF! 2000), a collection of outtakes |
| and leftover recordings from the Jewels for Sophia (1999) sessions. In |
| 2002 he released Robyn Sings, a double-disc collection of Bob Dylan |
| songs culled from various live appearances in America and abroad during |
| 1999-2000. The stripped-down Luxor followed in 2003, released in |
| conjunction with his 50th birthday. In 2004, he took not only a bit role |
| in Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate, but released |
| Spooked (Yep Roc Records) a one-off collaboration with alternative |
| country artists Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, recorded over a period |
| of six days in Nashville. 2005 saw the release of a Japanese-only |
| compilation of his work while 2006 offered This Is the BBC, a collection |
| of his BBC sessions from the '90s, as well as OlΘ! Tarantula, a new |
| batch of surreal pop tunes recorded with members of the Minus 5. |
| Hitchcock delved back into the archives for 2008's Shadow Cat, a |
| collection of unreleased material from the latter half of the '90s. |
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