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UK Mall 1 - This is Alphabeat
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List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £4.92
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Manufacturer: Copenhagen Records/EMI
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099952039324
Format: Enhanced
Label: Copenhagen Records/EMI
Manufacturer: Copenhagen Records/EMI
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Copenhagen Records/EMI
Release Date: 2008-06-02
Studio: Copenhagen Records/EMI
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Summary: Did they drop from space?
Comment: This "band" dropped from space, or have been trapped somewhere for over 50 years, these is the only logical reasons i can think of that they must have travelled many many miles from their home planet still thinking that everyone on earth still dress like a 1950's sitcom. Then try and set a style when they land with some of he worst music i have ever had the misfortune of listening to.
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Summary: Alphabeat = Amazing
Comment: Debut album from Danish group Alphabeat. I have seen them perform live twice now, they would have to be the pop band of today. Great songs, great live performers!! Fascination is pop at it's best, along with the new single Boyfriend. Great 80's influenced band. One group to watch out for!!
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Summary: a lovely upbeat guilty pleasure
Comment: The alphabeat album is bound to help lift the gloom of those who had a hard days work with poppy upbeat tracks like "10,00 nights of thunder" and "fascination" which are popular updated throw backs to the 80's when the commitments, housemartins and everything 80's music had to offer but thankfully without the ott fashion statements.
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Summary: Disappointing Rehash
Comment: This is not the original album. Three of the best tracks have been removed (Into the Jungle, Ocean Blue and The Hours) and replaced with sloppy generic synth-pop dribble (Gogo, Public Image and Touch me touching you). Get your hands on the original. Its much better than this one.
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Summary: At once frothy and retro
Comment: A great album, all high-octane Scissor Sister-esque camp one moment and full-of-itself grandeur the next.
"Go-Go" and "Boyfriend" sound like True Blue-era Madonna, having a mix with Opportunities-era Pet Shop Boys, whilst "10,000 Nights" and "Fascination" could have been on the last SS's album.
There's also a Grease soundtrack / rockabilly thing going on, which resurrects the shades of Aqua and <> The Cartoons, but there's a great sense of genuine fun and songwriting nous which elevates this album way beyond any of that.
The male vocalist has a kind of twang to his delivery that put me in mind of the lead vocalist of The Tubes ('Fee' Waybill) - no bad thing, in my book.
I didn't expect to like this, to be honest, but it has an inevitability and joie de vivre that's simply irresistible, as Robert Palmer once said.
Yes, there are other acts exploring similar ground, but this lot have the smack of authenticity about them.
Fun!
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Did they drop from space?
Comment: This "band" dropped from space, or have been trapped somewhere for over 50 years, these is the only logical reasons i can think of that they must have travelled many many miles from their home planet still thinking that everyone on earth still dress like a 1950's sitcom. Then try and set a style when they land with some of he worst music i have ever had the misfortune of listening to.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Alphabeat = Amazing
Comment: Debut album from Danish group Alphabeat. I have seen them perform live twice now, they would have to be the pop band of today. Great songs, great live performers!! Fascination is pop at it's best, along with the new single Boyfriend. Great 80's influenced band. One group to watch out for!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: a lovely upbeat guilty pleasure
Comment: The alphabeat album is bound to help lift the gloom of those who had a hard days work with poppy upbeat tracks like "10,00 nights of thunder" and "fascination" which are popular updated throw backs to the 80's when the commitments, housemartins and everything 80's music had to offer but thankfully without the ott fashion statements.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing Rehash
Comment: This is not the original album. Three of the best tracks have been removed (Into the Jungle, Ocean Blue and The Hours) and replaced with sloppy generic synth-pop dribble (Gogo, Public Image and Touch me touching you). Get your hands on the original. Its much better than this one.
Customer Rating:
Summary: At once frothy and retro
Comment: A great album, all high-octane Scissor Sister-esque camp one moment and full-of-itself grandeur the next.
"Go-Go" and "Boyfriend" sound like True Blue-era Madonna, having a mix with Opportunities-era Pet Shop Boys, whilst "10,000 Nights" and "Fascination" could have been on the last SS's album.
There's also a Grease soundtrack / rockabilly thing going on, which resurrects the shades of Aqua and <> The Cartoons, but there's a great sense of genuine fun and songwriting nous which elevates this album way beyond any of that.
The male vocalist has a kind of twang to his delivery that put me in mind of the lead vocalist of The Tubes ('Fee' Waybill) - no bad thing, in my book.
I didn't expect to like this, to be honest, but it has an inevitability and joie de vivre that's simply irresistible, as Robert Palmer once said.
Yes, there are other acts exploring similar ground, but this lot have the smack of authenticity about them.
Fun!
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