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| SUKiT Presents |
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| Artist : City Boy |
| Album : Dinner At The Ritz |
| Bitrate : 213 kbps avg |
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+-------------------------------[Release Info]-------------------------------+
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| Source : Vinyl |
| Label : Mercury |
| Catalog : SRM-1-1121 |
| Year : 1976 |
| Genre : Rock |
| Rip date : 2009-03-25 |
| Store date : 1976-00-00 |
| Rip tool : EAC |
| Encoder : LAME 3.97 (-V2 --vbr-new) |
| Size : 66.96 megs |
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+--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+
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| A1. Momma's Boy 3:40 |
| A2. Walk on the Water 3:38 |
| A3. Narcissus 5:22 |
| A4. Dinner at the Ritz (feat. Van der Graaf Generator) 10:01 |
| B1. Goodbye Blue Monday 4:53 |
| B2. The Violin 7:17 |
| B3. State Secrets - A Thriller 7:32 |
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| 42:23 |
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+-------------------------------[Release Notes]------------------------------+
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| DINNER AT THE RITZ. It is dripping with intelligence, wit, melody, |
| musicianship! It's an absolutely stunning album. If you're into |
| metal-prog try the first track "Mama's Boy" - everything tedious |
| prog-metal bands try to achieve but in less than 5 mins (not half hour |
| rubbish! and instead of boring woe-is-me lyrics, you get lyrics as witty |
| as 10cc and The Beatles at their best. In fact, there's a track poking |
| fun at the narcissists on this album, namely, "Narcissist") As for |
| "State Secrets", I've read somewhere that some prog bands are trying to |
| achieve the medley side of mainly McCartney work on side 2 of Abbey |
| Road, well listen to "State Secrets" the greatest ever homage to that |
| medley side of Abbey Road. The producer of this band, who did a |
| wonderful job on this album, went on to produce his future wife's |
| country crossover hits (I can't remember her name right now, but she had |
| a big it with "That Don't Impress Me Much" something like that) Well you |
| even get a Country and Western tearjerker here in "The Violin" - but |
| this is ironic country, complete with beautiful melody, with weeping |
| pedal-steel, all that stuff, but this is how Zappa or Randy Newman or |
| Stravinsky or some other detached 'objective' artist would write it. And |
| if you're bemoaning the fact that Freddie Mercury is partying in heaven, |
| take a listen to the title track: "Dinner at the Ritz" - Queen at their |
| very best, but much, much, much better! (And I love Queen!) Their |
| guitarist Mike Slamer, on these albums, is not only a virtuoso, but an |
| instant melodic and powerful composer, when adding his guitar work. |
| (Later on he went on to make some dreadful stuff in Streets, but he |
| probably made more money out of that!) If you like Beach Boys pretty, |
| albeit anaemic (because they never ROCK) harmonies, you'll be amazed by |
| the brilliant harmonies of this band. All City Boys are good - but |
| DINNER AT THE RITZ is one of those masterpieces (like Carl Nielsen's |
| 6th, or all of HAYDN'S symphonies, or McCartney's RAM or Traffic's LOW |
| SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS) that actually make life worth living |
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