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For the Masses (Hadouken! album)
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For the Masses is the second studio album by British grindie band Hadouken. It was recorded in Groningen, The Netherlands during the Summer of 2009, all songs written by James Smith Ugly was featured as a dub mix on the M. A. D. The album was released on 25 January 2010, fans who pre-ordered the album through the official website received a signed copy a few days early, with their name included on a mini poster inside the case. Reviews for the album have been mostly negative, drowned in Sound stated that This aggressive tone. Breaks new boundaries in something absolutely ridiculous, whilst NME feels James Smith is in the throes of an aneurysm, by the end of For the Masses you might well be wishing one on yourself just for sweet relief. Both reviewers gave the album 3 out of 10 stars, one notable exception to this negative trend was Q, whose reviewer called the album addictive, energizing, and catchy as hell. James Smith - vocals, programming Daniel Pilau Rice - guitar, synthesizer Christopher Purcell - bass, synthesizer, samples Alice Spooner - synthesizer Nick Rice - drums, programming
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Alternative metal
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Alternative metal is a music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. The term has been in use since the 1980s, although it came into prominence in the 1990s, other genres considered part of the alternative metal movement included rap metal and funk metal, both of which influenced another prominent subgenre, nu metal. Nu metal expands the alternative metal sound, combining its vocal stylings and downtuned riffs with elements of genres, such as hip hop, funk, hardcore. They also remarked that alternative metal was originally a style united by its nonconformist sensibility rather than any immediately classifiable sound, one of the main characteristics of alternative metal and its subgenres are heavily downtuned, mid-paced chug-like guitar riffs. However, funk metal bands use a more conventional riffing style influenced by 1980s thrash metal. Alternative metal features clean and melodic vocals, influenced by those of alternative rock, later bands frequently incorporated vocal styles that alternated between clean singing, growls and screaming. Examples include alternative metal bands associated with the nu metal movement, such as Korn and Deftones, jonathan Gold of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1990 Just as rock has an alternative, wing-bands like the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. -so does metal. Alternative metal is alternative music that rocks, and alternative metal these days can reach 10 times the audience of other alternative rock. Janes Addiction plays an intense brand of 70s-influenced arty metal, so does Soundgarden, in fact, the arty meanderings of Sab and the Zep themselves would be considered alternative metal. Houston Press has described the genre as being a compromise for people for whom Nirvana was not heavy enough but Metallica was too heavy. The first wave of metal bands emerged from many backgrounds, including hardcore punk, noise rock, Seattles grunge scene, stoner rock, sludge metal. These bands never formed a movement or scene, rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences. Fudge Tunnels style of alternative metal included influences from both sludge metal and noise rock, other early bands in the genre also came from hardcore punk backgrounds. During the 1980s, alternative metal appealed mainly to rock fans. Several bands associated with the genre denied their status as metal bands, Helmet drummer John Stanier said We fell into the whole metal thing by accident, we always hated it when people mentioned metal in conjunction with us. Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of Pitchfork Media stated bands like Faith No More, Soundgarden, Primus, Helmet, the Rollins Band, and dozens more were initially marketed as quasi-metal acts. This was only possible in a climate where record labels, journalists, many established 1980s metal bands released albums in the 1990s that were described as alternative metal, including Anthrax, Metallica and Mötley Crüe. It resulted in a standardized sound among alternative metal bands, in contrast to the more eccentric
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Alternative rock
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Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s and 2000s. In this instance, the word refers to the genres distinction from mainstream rock music. The terms original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their debt to either the musical style or simply the independent. Ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music, Alternative rock is a broad umbrella term consisting of music that differs greatly in terms of its sound, its social context, and its regional roots. Most of these subgenres had achieved minor mainstream notice and a few bands representing them, such as Hüsker Dü, with the breakthrough of Nirvana and the popularity of the grunge and Britpop movements in the 1990s, alternative rock entered the musical mainstream and many alternative bands became successful. By the end of the decade, alternative rocks mainstream prominence declined due to a number of events that caused grunge and Britpop to fade, emo attracted attention in the larger alternative rock world, and the term was applied to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts. Post-punk revival artists such as Modest Mouse and The Killers had commercial success in the early, before the term alternative rock came into common usage around 1990, the sort of music to which it refers was known by a variety of terms. In 1979, Terry Tolkin used the term Alternative Music to describe the groups he was writing about, in 1979 Dallas radio station KZEW had a late night new wave show entitled Rock and Roll Alternative. College rock was used in the United States to describe the music during the 1980s due to its links to the radio circuit. In the United Kingdom, dozens of small do it yourself record labels emerged as a result of the punk subculture, according to the founder of one of these labels, Cherry Red, NME and Sounds magazines published charts based on small record stores called Alternative Charts. The first national chart based on distribution called the Indie Chart was published in January 1980, at the time, the term indie was used literally to describe independently distributed records. By 1985, indie had come to mean a particular genre, or group of subgenres, at first the term referred to intentionally non–mainstream rock acts that were not influenced by heavy metal ballads, rarefied new wave and high-energy dance anthems. The use of alternative gained further exposure due to the success of Lollapalooza, for which festival founder, in the late 1990s, the definition again became more specific. Defining music as alternative is often difficult because of two conflicting applications of the word, the name alternative rock essentially serves as an umbrella term for underground music that has emerged in the wake of punk rock since the mid-1980s. Alternative bands during the 1980s generally played in clubs, recorded for indie labels. Sounds range from the gloomy soundscapes of gothic rock to the guitars of indie pop to the dirty guitars of grunge to the 1960s/1970s revivalism of Britpop. This approach to lyrics developed as a reflection of the social and economic strains in the United States and United Kingdom of the 1980s, by 1984, a majority of groups signed to independent record labels mined from a variety of rock and particularly 1960s rock influences. This represented a break from the futuristic, hyper-rational post-punk years
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New wave music
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New wave is a genre of rock music popular from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s with ties to 1970s punk rock. New wave moved away from smooth blues and rock and roll sounds to create pop music that incorporated electronic and experimental music, mod, initially new wave was similar to punk rock, before becoming a distinct genre. It subsequently engendered subgenres and fusions, including synth-pop, college rock, common characteristics of new wave music include the use of synthesizers and electronic productions, the importance of styling and the arts, as well as diversity. In the mid-1980s, differences between new wave and other genres began to blur. New wave has enjoyed resurgences since the 1990s, after a rising nostalgia for several new wave-influenced artists, subsequently, the genre influenced other genres. During the 2000s, a number of acts explored new wave and post-punk influences, such as the Strokes, Interpol, Franz Ferdinand and these acts were sometimes labeled new wave of new wave. The catch-all nature of new music has been a source of much confusion. The 1985 discography Whos New Wave in Music listed artists in over 130 separate categories, the New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock calls the term virtually meaningless, while AllMusic mentions stylistic diversity. New wave first emerged as a genre in the early 1970s, used by critics including Nick Kent and Dave Marsh to classify such New York-based groups as the Velvet Underground. It gained currency beginning in 1976 when it appeared in UK punk fanzines such as Sniffin Glue and newsagent music weeklies such as Melody Maker and New Musical Express. In November 1976 Caroline Coon used Malcolm McLarens term new wave to designate music by bands not exactly punk, the term was also used in that sense by music journalist Charles Shaar Murray in his comments about the Boomtown Rats. For a period of time in 1976 and 1977, the new wave. By the end of 1977, new wave had replaced punk as the definition for new music in the UK. As radio consultants in the United States had advised their clients that punk rock was a fad, like the filmmakers of the French new wave movement, its new artists were anti-corporate and experimental. At first, most U. S. writers exclusively used the new wave for British punk acts. Music historian Vernon Joynson claimed that new wave emerged in the UK in late 1976, in the U. S. the first new wavers were the not-so-punk acts associated with the New York club CBGB. CBGB owner Hilly Kristal, referring to the first show of the band Television at his club in March 1974, said, furthermore, many artists who would have originally been classified as punk were also termed new wave. A1977 Phonogram Records compilation album of the same name features US artists including the Dead Boys, Ramones, Talking Heads, New wave is much more closely tied to punk and came and went more quickly in the United Kingdom than in the United States
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Synthpop
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Synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s. In Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestras success opened the way for bands such as P-Model, Plastics. The development of polyphonic synthesizers, the definition of MIDI. This, its adoption by the acts from the New Romantic movement, together with the rise of MTV. Synth-pop is sometimes deployed interchangeably with electropop, but electropop may also denote a variant of synth-pop that places emphasis on a harder. In the late 1980s duos such as Erasure and Pet Shop Boys adopted a style that was successful on the US dance-charts. Some artists and bands were criticised for gender bending, Synth-pop was defined by its primary use of synthesizers, drum machines and sequencers, sometimes using them to replace all other instruments. Borthwick and Moy have described the genre as diverse but, many synth-pop musicians had limited musical skills, relying on the technology to produce or reproduce the music. The result was often minimalist, with grooves that were woven together from simple repeated riffs often with no harmonic progression to speak of. Early synth-pop has been described as eerie, sterile, and vaguely menacing, using droning electronics with little change in inflection, common lyrical themes of synth-pop songs were isolation, urban anomie, and feelings of being emotionally cold and hollow. Synthesizers were increasingly used to imitate the conventional and clichéd sound of orchestras, thin, treble-dominant, synthesized melodies and simple drum programmes gave way to thick, and compressed production, and a more conventional drum sound. Lyrics were generally optimistic, dealing with more traditional subject matter for pop music such as romance, escapism. According to music writer Simon Reynolds, the hallmark of 1980s synth-pop was its emotional, at times operatic singers such as Marc Almond, Alison Moyet and Annie Lennox. Because synthesizers removed the need for groups of musicians, these singers were often part of a duo where their partner played all the instrumentation. Later synth-pop saw a shift to a style influenced by other genres. Electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, the portable Minimoog, which allowed much easier use, particularly in live performance was widely adopted by progressive rock musicians such as Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes
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Industrial metal
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Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM. Industrial metal developed in the late 1980s, as industrial and heavy metal began to fuse into a common genre, in the early years of the 21st century, groups from the black metal scene began to incorporate elements of industrial music. Industrial metal did well in the early 1990s, particularly in North America, the industrial metal movement began to fade in the latter half of the 1990s. Though electric guitars had used by industrial artists since the early days of the genre. British post-punk band Killing Joke pioneered the crossing over between styles, and was an influence on industrial metal bands such as Ministry, Godflesh. Another pioneer industrial rock group, Big Black, also impacted some later groups, by the late 1980s industrial and heavy metal began to fuse into a common genre, with Godfleshs self-titled EP and Ministrys The Land of Rape and Honey at the forefront. Godflesh was founded by former Napalm Death guitarist Justin Broadrick, though not a top-seller, Godflesh nonetheless became an influential act, their name mentioned by Korn, Metallica, Danzig, Faith No More, and Fear Factory. Ministry emerged from the scene surrounding Wax Trax, Records, a Chicago label dedicated to industrial music. Ministrys initial foray into guitar rock happened during a session of The Land of Rape and Honey on Southern Studios. The bands frontman, the Cuban-born Al Jourgensen, explained this transition, after the release of Land, he recruited guitarist Mike Scaccia from Texas thrashers Rigor Mortis. On one occasion, Jourgensen told the press that Sepultura was his favorite band and he also expressed the desire to produce a Metallica album. German band KMFDM was another seminal industrial metal group, although not a metal fan, KMFDM leader Sascha Konietzkos infatuation with ripping off metal licks stemmed from his experiments with E-mus Emax sampler in late 1986. He told Guitar World that, A Swiss trio, The Young Gods, brushed with the style on their second album, the rivethead subculture also developed at this time, along with the so-called coldwave subgenre, which encompassed Chemlab,16 Volt, and Acumen Nation. Some electro-industrial groups adopted industrial metal techniques in this period, including Skinny Puppy, british band Pitchshifter, formed in 1989 by brothers Jon and Mark Clayden, also started as an industrial metal band. The band later included elements of drum and bass, frontman JS mentions Industrial metals popularity led a number of successful thrash metal groups, including Megadeth, Sepultura, and Anthrax, to request remixes by industrial artists. Some musicians emerging from the metal scene, such as Fear Factory, Nailbomb. Fear Factory, from Los Angeles, were influenced by the Earache roster. The German band Oomph. after their debut album Sperm started to play Industrial metal combined with elements of death metal, Sepultura singer Max Cavaleras Nailbomb, a collaboration with Alex Newport, also practiced a combination of extreme metal and industrial production techniques
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A&M Records
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A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent label by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962. Due to the success of the discography A&M released, the label garnered interest and was acquired by PolyGram in 1989. Today, A&Ms catalog releases are managed by Verve Records, Universal Music Enterprises, A&M Records was formed in 1962 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss. Their first choice for a name was Carnival Records, under which they released two singles before discovering another label had already taken the Carnival name, the company was subsequently renamed A&M, after Alperts and Mosss initials. From 1966 to 1999, the headquarters were on the grounds of the historic Charlie Chaplin Studios at 1416 North La Brea Avenue. Marc Benno, Liza Minnelli, Rita Coolidge, Wes Montgomery, Paul Desmond, Bobby Tench, Hummingbird, Toni Basil, folk artists Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Gene Clark also recorded for the label during the 1970s. Billy Preston joined the label in 1971, followed by Andre Popp, in the 1970s, under its manufacturing and distribution agreement with Ode Records, A&M released albums by Carole King and the comedy duo Cheech & Chong. On March 10,1977, A&M signed the Sex Pistols after the band had dropped by EMI. However, A&M dropped the band within a week, within a decade of its inception, A&M became the worlds largest independent record company. A&M releases were issued in the United Kingdom by EMIs Stateside Records label. From 1969, A&M set up their own UK base appointing John Deacon as General Manager - a post he held until 1979, A&M releases were also issued in Australia through Festival Records until 1989. A&M Records Ltd. was established in 1970, with distribution handled by other labels with a presence in Europe, A&M Records of Canada Ltd. was also formed in 1970, and A&M Records of Europe in 1977. In 1979, A&M entered an agreement with RCA Records in the USA. A&M was bought by PolyGram in 1989, Alpert and Moss continued to manage the label until 1993. In 1998, Alpert and Moss sued PolyGram for breach of the integrity clause, in 1991, A&M launched Perspective Records as a joint venture with producing team Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Jam and Lewis stepped down as CEOs of the imprint in 1997, in 1999, the label was absorbed into A&M. In the mid-1990s, A&M began distributing its PolyGram sister label Polydor Records in the USA, ceCe Peniston, Intelligent Hoodlum, Dred Scott, Ridel High and the Gin Blossoms. The company released the soundtracks Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, The Three Musketeers, Sabrina, The Living Sea, Demolition Man, and Lethal Weapon 3
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Single (music)
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In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s
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Stripped (song)
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Stripped is Depeche Modes fifteenth UK single, released on 10 February 1986. It was the first single from the album Black Celebration, Stripped is well known for its innovative use of sampling. The underlying beat is a distorted and slowed-down sound of an engine running, while the main melody begins with a cars ignition starting. The bands U. S. label Sire Records, however, decided to use the B-side But Not Tonight on the soundtrack to the movie Modern Girls and included the song on US editions of Black Celebration. As a result, the single was flipped, and released as But Not Tonight in the United States to help promote the movie, the band was not happy with this decision, seeing But Not Tonight as a useless pop track recorded in less than a day. The other two B-Sides are Breathing in Fumes and Black Day, Breathing in Fumes was a new song using samples from Stripped, mixed by the band and Thomas Stiehler. The Highland Mix of Stripped was mixed by Mark Ellis, who in the future would produce Depeche Modes Violator and Songs of Faith, some editions of the Black Celebration CD include the extended remix of But Not Tonight along with Black Day and Breathing in Fumes as bonus tracks. The music video for Stripped was the last Depeche Mode video to be directed by Peter Care and was filmed outside of Hansa Studios in Berlin, the music video for But Not Tonight was directed by Tamra Davis. Two differently cut versions of both Stripped and But Not Tonight are available on Video Singles Collection, Stripped was featured in the film Say Anything. The 12 mix later appeared on the fourth disc of Depeche Modes remix compilation, Remixes 81–04. Stripped –6,42 But Not Tonight –5,12 Breathing in Fumes –6,07 Fly on the Windscreen –4,24 Black Day –2,37 This is the UK Extended 12 version. Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein released a cover of Stripped in 1998 and this version cuts the line Let me see you stripped down to the bone to Let me see you stripped, which was due to singer Till Lindemanns difficulty singing down to the bone. The song was originally on the tribute album For the Masses, the song also appears as a hidden track on some special editions of the bands sophomore release Sehnsucht. It was the first English song released by the band, the video for the song incorporated footage from the Leni Riefenstahl Nazi propaganda film Olympia, which led to threats against the band. Members of Depeche Mode, especially Dave Gahan, responded positively to the cover, also, in 1997, the Swedish electro/synth-pop band Statemachine released a version of Stripped on their album Legerdemain. The Italian progressive death/doom metal band Novembre covered Stripped on the album 1995 album Arte Novecento The USA one-man based black metal Leviathan covered Stripped on Demo Five, in 2001, Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots covered But Not Tonight for the soundtrack to Not Another Teen Movie. In 2004, German techno band Scooter covered Stripped on their album Mind the Gap, in 2007, they produced a download-only orchestral version of the song. In 2005, Shiny Toy Guns covered Stripped on Goth Electro Tribute to Depeche Mode, the single can also be found in the second version of their 2005 album We Are Pilots in addition to Blood & Chocolate, Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Depeche Mode
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Depeche Mode /dᵻˌpɛʃˈmoʊd/ are an English electronic band that formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group consists of founders Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Depeche Mode released their debut album Speak & Spell in 1981, bringing the band onto the British new wave scene. Original band member Vince Clarke, left the band after the release of the album, leaving the band as a trio to record A Broken Frame, released the following year. Gore took over the songwriting duties and, later in 1982, Alan Wilder officially joined the band to fill Clarkes spot. Depeche Mode have been a trio again since 1995, when Wilder left, the bands last albums of the 1980s, Black Celebration and Music for the Masses, established them as a dominant force on the mainstream electronic music scene. A highlight of this era was the concert at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. In the new decade, Depeche Mode released Violator, a mainstream success, now a trio once again, the band released Ultra in 1997, recorded at the height of Gahans near-fatal drug abuse, Gores alcoholism and seizures, and Fletchers depression. Depeche Mode have had 50 songs in the UK Singles Chart and thirteen top 10 albums in the UK chart, Q included the band in the list of the 50 Bands That Changed the World. Depeche Mode also rank number 98 on VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Depeche Modes origins date to 1977, when schoolmates Vince Clarke and Andy Fletcher formed a Cure-influenced band called No Romance In China, with Clarke on vocals and guitar and Fletcher on bass. Fletcher would later recall, Why am I in the band and it was accidental right from the beginning. I was actually forced to be in the band, I played the guitar and I had a bass, it was a question of them roping me in. In 1979, Clarke played guitar in an Ultravox rip-off band, in 1978–79, Martin Gore played guitar in an acoustic duo, Norman and the Worms, with school friend Phil Burdett on vocals. In 1979, Marlow, Gore and friend Paul Redmond formed a band called the French Look, with Marlow on vocals/keyboards, Gore on guitar and Redmond on keyboards. In March 1980, Clarke, Gore and Fletcher formed a band called Composition of Sound, with Clarke on vocals/guitar, Gore on keyboards and Fletcher on bass. Soon after the formation of Composition of Sound, Clarke heard Wirral band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, along with OMD, other early influences included the Human League, Daniel Miller and Fad Gadget. Clarke and Fletcher switched to synthesisers, working odd jobs in order to buy or borrow the instruments from friends. Dave Gahan joined the band in 1980 after Clarke heard him perform at a scout hut jam session, singing a rendition of David Bowies Heroes. When explaining the choice for the new name taken from a French fashion magazine, Dépêche mode, Gore said, I like the sound of that
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Martin Gore
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Martin Lee Gore is an English singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, producer, remixer, and DJ. He is a member of Depeche Mode and has written the majority of their songs. His work now spans four decades. In addition to composing music and writing lyrics for the majority of Depeche Modes songs and he has been a backing singer on many others. In 1999, Gore received the Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for International Achievement, Martin Lee Gore was born in Dagenham, Essex in England. Gores biological father was an African-American G. I. stationed in Britain, Gore was raised by his stepfather and biological mother. He believed his stepfather was his father until age 13. When he was 13, he learned that his father was an African-American serviceman and, as an adult. Gore responds to the information and is quoted in Millers book saying, It brings up family traumas. He left Nicholas Comprehensive, Basildon in 1977 and took a job as a bank cashier. During evenings, weekends and any spare time, he was involved with the local band Norman. Gore has two younger half-sisters, Karen, born in 1967, and Jacqueline, born in 1968, in 1980, Gore met Andy Fletch Fletcher at the Van Gogh club. Fletcher recruited Gore into his band Composition of Sound along with Vince Clarke, soon the band drafted Dave Gahan to be the lead singer after hearing him sing Heroes by David Bowie. Clarke left Depeche Mode in late 1981, shortly after the release of their debut album Speak & Spell, Clarke wrote most of the album, with Gore contributing two tracks, Tora. Tora. and the instrumental Big Muff, any Second Now features Gores first lead vocals for the band. Gore sings lead vocals on several of the songs, notably ballads. When Clarke announced his departure from Depeche Mode in 1981, citing the pressures of fame and creative differences, Gore had been writing material since the age of 12. Songs Gore wrote for Depeche Modes second album, A Broken Frame differed musically and lyrically from Clarkes, Gores writing became gradually darker and more political on subsequent Depeche Mode albums
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God Lives Underwater
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God Lives Underwater was an industrial rock band from rural Perkiomenville, Pennsylvania, formed in 1993 by band members David Reilly and Jeff Turzo. God Lives Underwater was originally signed to American Recordings after being discovered by Rick Rubin, prior to the bands breakup, there were two other members, Andrew McGee and Adam Kary. The band produced a play in 1995. Later that year, they released their first studio album, Empty, in 1998, they released another studio album, Life in the So-Called Space Age. It was their first and only album to chart, peaking #6 on Heatseekers. Later that year, the released their second EP, Rearrange, in 2004, God Lives Underwater released their last album, Up Off The Floor. David later re-united with drummer Adam Kary in Philadelphia and created Fluzee, the two wrote and recorded a 7 track CD entitled Seven Recorded in Karys Philadelphia house, it was sold in limited edition online. They put together a band to play a few shows in Philadelphia. David on guitar and vocals, Adam on guitar and backing vocal, Melissa Zahnweh on bass, One year later, lead singer David Reilly died in his sleep, after the bands breakup. Supposedly, the name God Lives Underwater was derived from Jeff Turzos previous band GLU, stated influences of the bands sound include Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, David Bowie, The Psychedelic Furs, and Spiritualized. Reilly disparaged uses of electronica in reference to the band in 1998, suggesting that techno would be more appropriate, God Lives Underwater recorded their first EP in 1993, but it was not released until 1995. The EP consists of 6 tracks, God Lives Underwaters first full-length album Empty was also released in 1995 via American Recordings. Several songs from their first two releases were featured in movies, tortoise was used in the movie National Lampoons Senior Trip. No More Love was featured as the credits began to roll at the end of the commercially successful Keanu Reeves film Johnny Mnemonic, Drag Me Down was used in The Doom Generation. No More Love and Drag Me Down were included on both the EP and album, in addition, their remix of the Rob Zombie song, How To Make A Monster, was featured in the climatic scene of another Keanu Reeves film, The Watcher. Reeves reportedly suggested to the producers of the film that use the song. Also, Weight—an outtake from Empty— was featured on Mortal Kombat, More Kombat, in 1998 the band released a 5 track promotional EP titled Rearrange and their second full-length album. The title of the full-length, Life in the So-Called Space Age, comes from the Depeche Mode album Black Celebration, the album consists of 11 tracks and reached number 137 on the U. S. Billboard chart in April 1998
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Gary Richards (music executive)
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Gary Richards, known by his stage name Destructo, is an American music executive, concert promoter, and DJ. He is the founder and CEO of HARD Events, a brand that has put on popular music festivals since 2007. He has performed professionally as a DJ under the name Destructo for more than 20 years and he is credited with being a leader in the Electronic music business in North America, and through his events, has helped bring artists like Deadmau5 and Justice into the mainstream. Richards is included on Rolling Stones 50 Most Important People in EDM list, Billboards EDM Power Players lists in 2014 and 2015, as Destructo, he has released three EPs titled Technology, Higher, and West Coast respectively. Richards was born in Washington, D. C. growing up in the industry with a father who worked in radio. By age 10, he was already attending concerts by the likes of Led Zeppelin and his family moved to New Orleans, LA, and then to Myrtle Beach, SC, where he worked as an on-air Radio Personality. The family then moved to Los Angeles, CA, where by age 18 he was booking his first shows and he organized his first major music event titled Magical Mickeys Holy Water Adventure at Wild Rivers in Irvine, CA in 1991. For the next two years, Richards produced monthly events including what would become the first two Electric Daisy Carnivals in 1991 and 1992. After being asked by promoter Pasquale Rotella to use the name Electric Daisy Carnival for a series of festivals that he was producing. The Electric Daisy Carnival or EDC is now arguably the largest electronic music festival in North America and he followed Electric Daisy Carnival with presenting RaveAmerica at Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, CA on New Years Eve,1993. In the mid 1990s, Gary Richards began performing as a DJ under the name Destructo and he is quoted as saying that the Destructo name derives from My goal to play the hardest and most gnarly techno out there. Id blow up the system and the mixer at clubs if I could. I wasnt only into Kraftwerk and Daft Punk, I loved Metallica, so when I performed, it was aggressive and had to be banging. He has released remixes for Warren G, Depeche Mode, Major Lazer, YG, White Zombie, Digitalism, in 2012 he released his debut EP titled Technology. He has performed around the world for more than a decade, destructos second EP titled Higher was released on June 10,2013 via OWSLA/Boysnoize Records and features remixes by Tommy Trash and Brodinski. The music video for the EPs title track was directed by Agata Alexander, on November 24,2014, Destructo released the West Coast EP on Interscope Records which featured appearances by YG, Problem, Ty Dolla Sign, Kurupt, Too Short, and Warren G. As the music continued to change at the turn of the century, Richards returned to his roots as a concert promoter. It is estimated that HARD Events draw an audience of more than 100,000 people per year to its events
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The Cure
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The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976. The band has experienced several changes, with vocalist, guitarist. During the early 1980s, the increasingly dark and tormented music was a staple of the emerging gothic rock genre. After the release of Pornography in 1982, the future was uncertain. The band is estimated to have sold 27 million records as of 2004 and have released thirteen albums, ten EPs. The 1989 album Disintegration is regarded as the commercial and critical peak. That band consisted of Robert Smith on piano, Michael Mick Dempsey on guitar, Laurence Lol Tolhurst on percussion, Marc Ceccagno on lead guitar and Alan Hill on bass guitar. In January 1976 while at St. Wilfrids Comprehensive School Ceccagno formed a 5-piece rock band with Smith on guitar and Dempsey on bass and they called themselves Malice and rehearsed David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Alex Harvey songs in a local church hall. By late April 1976, Ceccagno and the two school friends had left, and Tolhurst, Martin Creasy, and Porl Thompson had joined the band. This lineup played all three of Malices only documented live shows during December 1976, both Malice and Easy Cure auditioned several vocalists before Smith assumed the role of Easy Cures frontman in September 1977. That year, Easy Cure won a talent competition with German label Hansa Records, although the band recorded tracks for the company, none were ever released. Following disagreements in March 1978 over the direction the band should take, Smith later recalled, We were very young. They just thought they could turn us into a teen group and they actually wanted us to do cover versions and we always refused. Thompson was dropped from the band in May, and the trio were soon renamed The Cure by Smith. Later that month, the recorded their first sessions as a trio at Chestnut Studios in Sussex. The demo found its way to Polydor Records scout Chris Parry, the Cure released their debut single Killing an Arab in December 1978 on the Small Wonder label as a stopgap until Fiction finalised distribution arrangements with Polydor. The band placed a label that denied the racist connotations on the singles 1979 reissue on Fiction. The Cure released their debut album Three Imaginary Boys in May 1979, because of the bands inexperience in the studio, Parry and engineer Mike Hedges took control of the recording
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The Smashing Pumpkins
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The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1988. Formed by frontman Billy Corgan and James Iha, the band included Darcy Wretzky and it has undergone many line-up changes over the course of its existence, with the current lineup being Corgan and rhythm guitarist Jeff Schroeder. The Smashing Pumpkins broke into the mainstream with their second album. The group built its audience with extensive touring and their 1995 follow-up, the double album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, with 20 million albums sold in the United States alone, The Smashing Pumpkins were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands of the 1990s. However, internal fighting, drug use, and diminishing record sales led to a 2000 break-up, in 2006, Corgan and Chamberlin reconvened to record a new Smashing Pumpkins album, Zeitgeist. After touring throughout 2007 and 2008 with a lineup including new guitarist Jeff Schroeder, by mid-2016, Corgan stated that they were considering reforming the bands original lineup, though no concrete plans have been revealed. While working there, he met guitarist James Iha, adorning themselves with paisley and other psychedelic trappings, the two began writing songs together that were heavily influenced by The Cure and New Order. The duo performed live for the first time on July 9,1988 at the Polish bar Chicago 21 and this performance included only Corgan on bass and Iha on guitar with a drum machine. Shortly thereafter, Corgan met Darcy Wretzky after a show by the Dan Reed Network where they argued the merits of the band, after finding out Wretzky played bass guitar, Corgan recruited her into the lineup and the now-trio played a show at the Avalon Nightclub. After this show, Cabaret Metro owner Joe Shanahan agreed to book the band on the condition that they replace the machine with a live drummer. Jazz drummer Jimmy Chamberlin was recommended by a friend of Corgans, Chamberlin knew little of alternative music and immediately changed the sound of the nascent band. As Corgan recalled of the period, We were completely into the sad-rock and it took about two or three practices before I realized that the power in his playing was something that enabled us to rock harder than we could ever have imagined. On October 5,1988, the band took the stage for the first time at the Cabaret Metro. In 1989, The Smashing Pumpkins made their first appearance on record with the compilation album Light Into Dark, the group released its first single, I Am One, in 1990 on local Chicago label Limited Potential. The single sold out and they released a follow-up, Tristessa, on Sub Pop, the band recorded their 1991 debut studio album Gish with producer Butch Vig at his Smart Studios in Madison, Wisconsin for $20,000. In order to gain the consistency he desired, Corgan often played all instruments excluding drums, the music fused heavy metal guitars, psychedelia, and dream pop, garnering them comparisons to Janes Addiction. Gish became a success, with the single Rhinoceros receiving some airplay on modern rock radio. After releasing the Lull EP in October 1991 on Caroline Records, the band signed with Virgin Records
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Deftones
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Deftones is an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, U. S. Formed in 1988, the band was founded by Chino Moreno, Stephen Carpenter, Abe Cunningham, during the groups first five years, the bands lineup changed several times, but stabilized in 1993 when Cunningham rejoined the group after his departure in 1990. Cunningham replaced John Taylor, who had replaced Garcia after he had switched to drums in 1990, the lineup remained stable for fifteen years, with the exception of keyboardist and turntablist Frank Delgado being added in 1999. In 2008, Cheng was involved in an accident that ended his stint with Deftones. He has been replaced by Sergio Vega, the band is known as one of the most experimental groups to have come from the alternative metal music scene. Deftones have released eight albums since their inception, after the lineup settled in 1993, the band secured a recording contract with Maverick Records, and subsequently released their debut album, Adrenaline, in 1995. Promoting the album by touring exhaustively with other bands in the scene and their sophomore album, Around the Fur, was released in 1997. The album and its singles reached chart positions, and the album was the bands first to receive certification from the RIAA, the band found even further success with their third album, White Pony, in 2000. It showed a transition away from the earlier sound into a more experimental direction. Its lead single, Change, is the groups most commercially successful single, White Pony was the bands first of three albums to be certified platinum in the United States. Their self-titled fourth album was released in 2003, while the groups mainstream success continued, sales proved to be lackluster compared to White Pony. The follow-up, Saturday Night Wrist, was released in 2006 after a falling out within the band due to creative tensions. Its completion was delayed by personal issues within the band. In 2008, while Deftones were working on an album tentatively titled Eros, as a result, he was left in a minimally conscious state until his death in 2013 of cardiac arrest. During that time, Deftones halted production on Eros and released Diamond Eyes and Koi No Yokan in 2010 and 2012 respectively, in 2016, the band released a followup, titled Gore. When Stephen Carpenter was 15 years old, he was hit by a car while skateboarding, confined to a wheelchair for several months, he began teaching himself guitar by playing along to bands such as Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death and Metallica. Carpenter, Cunningham and Chino Moreno were friends from their childhood, All three went to McClatchy High School in Sacramento and remained friends through the citys skateboarding scene. While Carpenter was a fan of metal, Moreno was also interested in hardcore punk bands such as Bad Brains and post-punk
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Rammstein
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Rammstein is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band, formed in 1994 in Berlin. The majority of their songs are in German, but they have performed songs entirely or partially in other languages including English, Spanish, French. Rammsteins award-winning live shows are known for their pyrotechnic elements and both on and off-stage theatrics, Rammsteins entire catalogue is published by Universal Music Group. Rammstein have sold over 35 million albums worldwide, in 1989, East German guitarist Richard Z. Kruspe escaped to West Berlin and started the band Orgasm Death Gimmicks. At that time, he was influenced by American music. After the Berlin Wall came down, he moved home to Schwerin. At this time, Kruspe lived with Oliver Riedel of the Inchtabokatables, Kruspe had come to realize that the music he had previously created did not really suit him. He envisioned something that would combine machines as well as the sound of hard guitars, Kruspe, Riedel and Schneider started working together on a new project in 1994. Finding it difficult to both music and lyrics, Kruspe persuaded Lindemann, whom he had overheard singing while he was working. The band called themselves Rammstein-Flugschau after the 1988 Ramstein air show disaster, guitarist Paul H. Landers said the spelling of Ramstein with the extra m was a mistake. The extra m in the name makes it translate literally as ramming stone. A contest was held in Berlin for amateur bands in 1994, Kruspe, Schneider, Riedel, and Lindemann entered and won the contest, which sparked Landers attention, who wanted in on the project upon hearing their demo. To complete their sound, Rammstein attempted to recruit Christian Flake Lorenz, though initially hesitant, Lorenz eventually agreed to join the band. Later, Rammstein were signed by Motor Records, Rammstein began to record their first studio album, Herzeleid, in March 1995 with producer Jacob Hellner. They released their first single Du riechst so gut that August, later that year, they toured with Clawfinger in Warsaw and Prague. Rammstein headlined a 17-show tour of Germany in December, which did much to boost the bands popularity and they went on several tours throughout early 1996, releasing their second single titled Seemann on 8 January. On 27 March 1996, Rammstein performed on MTVs Hanging Out in London, Rammsteins first major boost in popularity outside Germany came when music director Trent Reznor chose two Rammstein songs, Heirate mich and Rammstein, for David Lynchs film Lost Highway. The soundtrack for the film was released in the U. S. in late 1996, Rammstein went on to tour through Germany, Austria and Switzerland from September to October 1996, performing an anniversary concert on 27 September called 100 years of Rammstein
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Meat Beat Manifesto
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Some of the bands earlier work has been credited with influencing the rise of the trip hop, big beat, and drum and bass genres. Dangers and Stephens had formed the English pop group Perennial Divide in 1986 with Paul Freeguard and they left Perennial Divide in 1988 to record a full Meat Beat album. The tapes of what would have been the debut MBM album were claimed to have destroyed in a studio fire before it could be released. The former founder of Sweat Box Records said that the fire never happened, Jack Dangers confirmed the story of the fire in a 2010 interview. In response, they released 99%, which was more techno-influenced, in August they released Armed Audio Warfare, which was an effort to re-create the lost tracks of the would-be début album. In the United States, they opened for Nine Inch Nails on their national tour in 1990. In 1991, they performed at The Limelight in Manhattan, adams also appeared in several of MBMs early videos, such as Strapdown and Psyche-Out. The album produced the hits Mindstream and Circles, in 1993 Dangers relocated from England to San Francisco, resulting in Stephens departure from the band. At this time, Nothing Records was founded as an imprint of Interscope with the purpose of signing industrial, Nothing, helmed by Trent Reznor, signed Meat Beat Manifesto and in 1996 the double album Subliminal Sandwich was released. While this album represented MBMs major-label debut, it failed to achieve the critical and commercial successes of previous releases, also in 1996, the group contributed to the AIDS benefit album Offbeat, A Red Hot Soundtrip produced by the Red Hot Organization. The album yielded the single Prime Audio Soup which was featured in the film The Matrix, while Jon Wilson left the band prior to the 1998–1999 tour, Farmer remains with the band as of Spring 2007. Wilson was replaced by former Consolidated programmer Mark Pistel, who remains a contributing member. During these years, Dangers contributed a pair of remixes to high-profile Nine Inch Nails releases Closer to God, after the release of Actual Sounds + Voices, Meat Beat Manifesto was let go by Nothing Records and once more appeared on independent labels. In 2000, Dangers released a 12 MBM EP of four new songs called Eccentric Objects which demonstrated a shift in Dangers output towards simpler song structure and less sonically-dense layering. This evolution in form was full realized two years later, in 2002, with the release of Meat Beat Manifestos seventh full-length album and this album prominently featured Dangers newly acquired EMS Synthi 100, as well as guest contributions from turntablist Z-Trip and The Orbs Alex Paterson. In 2003 MBM released an album for Storm The Studio, followed by. In Dub. At the Center was released on 29 May 2005, a part of independent label Thirsty Ears Blue Series, the album is a collaboration between Jack Dangers and jazz musicians Peter Gordon, Dave King, and Craig Taborn. The album has been received by many critics, with one reviewer calling it one of the best albums of the year in any genre
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Nine Inch Nails
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Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock band founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. Despite this, the band has had feuds with the corporate side of the recording industry. Reznor returned to self-releasing material with the second Nine Inch Nails EP, as the bands main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only constant member of the group, and remains solely responsible for its direction. This changed however in 2016 when Atticus Ross was introduced as a permanent member of Nine Inch Nails alongside the announcement of Not the Actual Events, after recording a new album, Reznor usually assembles a live band to perform onstage with him. The touring band features a lineup that often rearranges songs to fit a live setting. On stage, Nine Inch Nails often employs visual elements to accompany performances, Nine Inch Nails has been nominated for thirteen Grammy Awards, and won twice for the songs Wish and Happiness in Slavery in 1992 and 1996, respectively. In 1997, Reznor appeared in Time magazines list of the years most influential people, in 2004, Rolling Stone placed Nine Inch Nails at 94 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time. In 2014, Nine Inch Nails was named as nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2015, they were nominated a second time. Koster agreed and allowed Reznor to use it whenever it was empty, while completing the early recordings, Reznor was unable to find a band that could articulate the material as he desired. Instead, inspired by Prince, Reznor played all the instruments except drums himself and this role remains Reznors on most of the bands studio recordings, though he has occasionally involved other musicians and assistants. Nine Inch Nails debut was at the Phantasy Theater in Lakewood, in 1988, after playing its first shows supporting Skinny Puppy, Reznors ambition for Nine Inch Nails was to release one 12-inch single on a small European label. Several labels responded favorably to the material and Reznor signed with TVT Records. The overall sound on Purest Feeling is lighter than that of Pretty Hate Machine, several songs feature live drumming and guitar work throughout. Reznor coined the name Nine Inch Nails because it abbreviated easily, other rumored explanations have circulated, alleging that Reznor chose to reference Jesus crucifixion with nine-inch spikes, or Freddy Kruegers nine-inch fingernails. The English letters NIN are also noted for their resemblance to the modern Hebrew characters of the Tetragrammaton, the Nine Inch Nails logo, which consists of the letters set inside a border, was designed by Reznor and Gary Talpas. The logo first appeared on the video for Nine Inch Nails debut single, Down in It. Talpas, a native of Cleveland, would continue to design Nine Inch Nails packaging art until 1997, written, arranged, and performed by Reznor, Nine Inch Nails first album Pretty Hate Machine debuted in 1989. It marked his first collaboration with Adrian Sherwood and Mark Flood Ellis, Reznor asked Sean Beavan to mix the demos of Pretty Hate Machine, which had received multiple offers for record deals
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Marilyn Manson (band)
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Marilyn Manson is an American rock band formed by singer Marilyn Manson and guitarist Daisy Berkowitz in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1989. Originally named Marilyn Manson & the Spooky Kids, they gained a cult following in South Florida in the early 1990s with their theatrical live performances. In 1993, they were the first act signed to Trent Reznors Nothing Records label. Until 1996, the name of each member was created by combining the first name of a female sex symbol. In the past, band members dressed in outlandish makeup and costumes and their lyrics often received criticism for their anti-religious sentiment and references to sex, violence and drugs, while their live performances were frequently called offensive and obscene. On several occasions, protests and petitions led to the group being blocked from performing and they released a number of platinum-selling albums, including Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals. These albums, along with their music videos and worldwide touring. In 1999, news media blamed the band for influencing the perpetrators of the Columbine massacre. As this controversy began to wane throughout the 2000s, so did the mainstream popularity. Despite this, Jon Wiederhorn of MTV, in June 2003, vH1 ranked Marilyn Manson as the seventy-eighth best rock band on their 100 Great Artists of Hard Rock. They were inducted into the Kerrang, hall of Fame in 2000, and have been nominated for four Grammy Awards. In the US, the band has eight of its releases debut in the top ten. Marilyn Manson have sold in excess of 50 million records worldwide and it was in this capacity that he met several of the musicians to whom his own band would later be compared, including My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult and Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. That December, he met Scott Putesky, who proposed that the two form a band together after reading some lyrics and poems written by the singer, bundy left the band soon after, and was replaced by Gidget Gein, born Brad Stewart. They were later joined on keyboard by Stephen Bier, who called himself Madonna Wayne Gacy, in 1991, drummer Fred Streithorst joined the band under the name Sara Lee Lucas. The stage names adopted by each member were representative of a concept the band considered central, the dichotomy of good and evil, Marilyn Monroe had a dark side, explained Manson in his autobiography, just as Charles Manson has a good, intelligent side. Images of both Monroe and Manson, as well as of other famous and infamous figures, were common in the early promotional materials. Band members variously performed in clothing or bizarre costumes, and, for lack of a professional pyrotechnician
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Foo Fighters
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Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994. It was founded by Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl as a project following the dissolution of Nirvana after the death of Kurt Cobain. The group got its name from the UFOs and various phenomena that were reported by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II. The band began with performances in Portland, Oregon, Goldsmith quit during the recording of the groups second album, The Colour and the Shape, when most of the drum parts were re-recorded by Grohl himself. Smears departure followed soon afterward, though he would rejoin them in 2005 and they were replaced by Taylor Hawkins and Franz Stahl, respectively, although Stahl was fired before the recording of the groups third album, There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band briefly continued as a trio until Chris Shiflett joined as the lead guitarist after the completion of There Is Nothing Left to Lose. The band released its album, One by One, in 2002. The group followed that release with the two-disc In Your Honor, Foo Fighters released its sixth album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, in 2007. The bands seventh album, Wasting Light, produced by Butch Vig was released in 2011. In November 2014, the eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, was released as an accompanying soundtrack to the Grohl-directed 2014 miniseries of the same name. Over the course of the career, four of its albums have won Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album. As of 2015, the eight albums have sold 12 million copies in the U. S. and 30 million worldwide. Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl joined the grunge group Nirvana as its drummer in 1990, during tours, he took a guitar with him and wrote songs. Grohl held back these songs from the rest of the band, he said in 1997, I was in awe of, I thought it was best that I kept my songs to myself. Grohl occasionally booked studio time to record demos and covers of songs he liked, frontman Kurt Cobain was found dead in his Seattle home on April 8,1994, and Nirvana subsequently disbanded. Grohl received offers to work with artists, press rumors indicated he might be joining Pearl Jam and he almost accepted a permanent position as drummer in Tom Petty. Ultimately Grohl declined and instead entered Robert Lang Studios in October 1994 to record fifteen of the forty songs he had written. With the exception of a part on X-Static, played by Greg Dulli of the Afghan Whigs, Dave Grohl played every instrument
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Personal Jesus
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Personal Jesus is a song by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 28 August 1989 as the lead single from their seventh album, Violator. The single reached No.13 on the UK Singles Chart, the song was the first single to make the US Top 40 for the band since their 1984 single People Are People and was their first gold-certified single in the US. In Germany, the single is one of the bands longest-charting songs, Personal Jesus was re-released as a single on 30 May 2011 for the new Depeche Mode remix album Remixes 2, 81–11, with the leading remix by the production team Stargate. The song was inspired by the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley, according to songwriter Martin Gore, Its a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. Personal Jesus is written in the key of F♯ minor with a tempo of 130 beats per minute in 128 time, in mid-1989, the band began recording in Milan with record producer Flood. The result of session was the single Personal Jesus, which featured a catchy bluesy riff and drum-based sound. The song became a big hit across the world, and is one of Depeche Modes most successful songs, although not the first Depeche Mode song to feature guitar parts, it was the first time a guitar was used as a dominant instrument in a Depeche Mode song. Prior to its release, advertisements were placed in the columns of regional newspapers in the UK with the words Your own personal Jesus. Later, the ads included a number one could dial to hear the song. The ensuing controversy helped propel the single to No.13 on the UK charts, the single was particularly successful commercially thanks to the fact that it was released six months prior to the album it would later appear on. Up to that point, it was the best selling 12 single in Warner Brothers history, Personal Jesus had a plethora of remixes, almost unprecedented for Depeche Mode at the time. The Hazchemix and Hazchemix Edit of Dangerous were mixed by Daniel Miller, the back-cover of Personal Jesus features one of the band members and the back-side of a naked woman. The band member she is with depends on whether it is the 7 Vinyl, the 12 Vinyl, on some copies she does not appear at all, such as the 2004 CD re-release, and on promo copies. On some limited releases, like the GBong17, all four photos are available plus one photo of the full group. The Anton Corbijn-directed music video for Personal Jesus is his first Depeche Mode video in colour, MTV edited out some suggestive mouth movements of Martin Gore during the bridge and replaced it with some other footage from the video. All songs written by Martin Gore, the digital single was released in the UK on 18 April 2011. It was released a day later in the US, frusciante plays guitar on the track, along with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell. It appears as the B-side to another cover, Nine Inch Nails Hurt, marilyn Mansons 2004 cover version of Personal Jesus appears on the bands best-of compilation, Lest We Forget, The Best Of, and was that albums lead single
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Lest We Forget: The Best Of
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Lest We Forget, The Best Of is the first greatest hits album by American rock band Marilyn Manson, released on September 28,2004 by Interscope Records. The album includes a version of Depeche Modes Personal Jesus. The album cover is one of Marilyn Mansons watercolor paintings, titled Experience is The Mistress of Fools, the deluxe edition includes a DVD containing most of the bands music videos. The album was certified gold in the United States and was supported with the bands Against All Gods Tour, Manson initially referred to Lest We Forget as the bands farewell album because the band would become a solo career for him. This has turned out to be true as subsequent albums were written and recorded with just one primary collaborator such as Tim Sköld, Twiggy Ramirez. All lyrics written by Marilyn Manson, except where noted, the bonus DVD contains the following easter eggs, the Autopsy short film, the making of the Mobscene video, and the performance version of the Disposable Teens video. Credits adapted from the notes of the international of Lest We Forget
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Music for the Masses
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Music for the Masses is the sixth studio album by the English electronic music band Depeche Mode. It was released on 28 September 1987 by Mute Records, and was supported by the Music for the Masses Tour, with Millers approval, the band co-produced the album with David Bascombe, who had previously worked as a recording engineer with Tears For Fears and Peter Gabriel. Band members Andy Fletcher and Martin Gore both explained the title was conceived as a joke. Everyone is telling us we should make more music, so thats the reason we chose that title. According to Gore, the title was a joke on the uncommerciality of and it was anything but music for the masses. The megaphone on the cover was used during the breadth of the albums release, at press events, on the covers of the albums singles. Alan Wilder gave credit to Martyn Atkins, who had been a longtime Depeche Mode collaborator, for the use of the megaphone. Up with this idea of a speaker, but, to give the kind of ironic element which the title has and it was, in fact, the opposite. So you end up with this kind of thing where you get these speakers or megaphones in the middle of a setting that doesnt suit it at all. The deserted natural setting in question being Peak District, an early alternative cover was rejected for the album. The rejected cover was designed by Martyn Atkins and a test pressing copy was auctioned off by Alan Wilder in 2011. The re-release preserves the album as it was originally intended, thus, the four bonus tracks do not appear on the SACD, but appear on the DVD. The DVD also features all B-sides from the Music for the Masses era, but unlike the album and the bonus tracks, the documentary features new facts on the album, and also an extensive look at the film 101. The re-release was released on 3 April 2006 in Europe, the US version was delayed to 2 June 2006 and is only available on a CD + DVD format, with no SACD. The DVD on all the versions are region independent however, so one can import the SACD version without worrying about the DVD being incompatible. The remastered album was released on deluxe vinyl 2 March 2007 in Germany and 5 March 2007 internationally, according to Slant Magazines Sal Cinquemani, Music for the Masses showed the gloomier side of the post-punk synthpop scene during the 1980s and was a success with both critics and consumers. This was the point at which Depeche Mode were first taken seriously, alternative Press called the record articulate, intricate electronic music that lacked the tinny feel of DMs early synth pop. Music for the Masses was listed by Slant Magazine at number 75 on their list of Best Albums of the 1980s, all songs written by Martin Gore
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Rocket (The Smashing Pumpkins song)
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Rocket is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the fourth and final single from their album, Siamese Dream. The CD single is a rarity to fans of the band as it only saw a release in Australia. A7 vinyl record was released in the United Kingdom as part of the Siamese Singles box set. Rocket was one of the few singles that did not appear on the Smashing Pumpkins greatest hits album Rotten Apples, Corgan once commented, Rocket is a rock song. Being more melodic than Siamese Dream single Cherub Rock and the bands Gish-era work in the vein of the track, the song also features a repetitive guitar line pulsing through, creating a wall of sound effect. The music video features a group of scientifically-minded children who receive an interplanetary broadcast sent by the Smashing Pumpkins and they set out to build a rocket to fly to another planet to see the Pumpkins perform. They build the advanced rocket piece-by-piece, with no help from their unattentive parents, when they arrive on the planet, they discover that the band members have grown old since their first transmission, much to the childrens surprise. The bands 2001 Greatest Hits Video Collection DVD also includes a different cut of the video with only the bands performance and it was directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, who would go on to direct many more videos for The Smashing Pumpkins. The single included a cover of Never Let Me Down Again by Depeche Mode, the song was recorded by request of bassist Darcy Wretzky who is a long-time Depeche Mode fan. It was recorded at the BBC, perhaps in one take and it featured on the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses, as well as the soundtrack for the film Not Another Teen Movie. Rocket spent five weeks on the ARIA Charts, peaking at number 26 and it also charted within the top 30 on the US Active Rock chart in 1994. Rocket —4,45 Never Let Me Down Again —4,01 Rocket Official music video on YouTube Chris True, lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Olympia (1938 film)
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Olympia is a 1938 German documentary film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, documenting the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany. The film was released in two parts, Olympia 1, teil — Fest der Völker and Olympia 2. It was the first documentary film of the Olympic Games ever made. The techniques employed are almost universally admired, but the film is due to its political context. Nevertheless, the film appears on lists of the greatest films of all time. Olympia set the precedent for future films documenting and glorifying the Olympic Games, the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was devised by the German sports official Dr. Carl Diem for these Olympic Games in Berlin. Riefenstahl later staged the torch relay for this film, with events of the Games. Olympia was made in three versions, German, French and English, there are slight differences between each version, extending to which portions were included and their sequence within the entire film. The French version is known by the alternate title Les Dieux du Stade and it appeared to be Riefenstahls habit to re-edit the film upon re-release, so that there are multiple versions of each language version of the film. For example, as released, the famous diving sequence ran about four minutes. Riefenstahl subsequently reduced it by about 50 seconds, the film had an immensely strong reaction in Germany and was received with acclaim and accolades around the world. In 1960, Riefenstahls peers voted Olympia one of the 10 best films of all time, the Daily Telegraph recognised the film as even more technically dazzling than Triumph of the Will. The Times described the film as visually ravishing, noted American film critic Richard Corliss observed in Time that the matter of Riefenstahl the Nazi director is worth raising so it can be dismissed. N the hallucinatory documentary Triumph of the Will, painted Adolf Hitler as a Wagnerian deity. In Riefenstahl gave the same treatment to Jesse Owens. Riefenstahl was touring the U. S. to promote the film at time and was immediately asked to leave the country. S. Office of Alien Property Custodian and severely edited without Riefenstahls involvement, in 1955 Riefenstahl agreed to remove three minutes of Hitler footage for screening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The same version was screened on West German television and in cinemas around the world
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Leni Riefenstahl
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Helene Bertha Amalie Leni Riefenstahl was a German film director, producer, screenwriter, editor, photographer, actress, dancer and propagandist for the Nazis. Born in 1902 Leni Riefenstahl grew up in Germany with her brother Heinz, a talented swimmer and artist, she also became interested in dancing during her childhood, taking dancing lessons and performing across Europe. After seeing a poster for the 1924 film Der Berg des Schicksals. Between 1925 and 1929, she starred in five motion pictures. In 1932, Riefenstahl decided to try directing with her own film called Das Blaue Licht, in the 1930s, she directed Triumph des Willens and Olympia, resulting in worldwide attention and acclaim. Both movies are considered two of the most effective, and technically innovative, propaganda films ever made. Her involvement in Triumph des Willens, however, significantly damaged her career, the exact nature of her relationship with Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler remains a matter of debate. However, Hitler was in collaboration with Riefenstahl during the production of at least three important Nazi films, and a closer friendship is claimed to have existed. When in 2000 Jodie Foster was planning a biopic on Riefenstahl and they stated that publicly Riefenstahl seemed quite infatuated with Hitler and was in fact the last surviving member of his inner circle. Others go further, arguing that Riefenstahls visions were essential to the success of the Holocaust, after the war, Riefenstahl was arrested, but classified as being a fellow traveler or Nazi sympathiser only and was not associated with war crimes. Throughout her life, she denied having known about the Holocaust, besides directing, Riefenstahl released an autobiography and wrote several books on the Nuba people. Riefenstahl died of cancer on 8 September 2003 at the age of 101 and was buried at Munich Waldfriedhof, helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born in Germany on 22 August 1902. Her father, Alfred Theodor Paul Riefenstahl, owned a heating and ventilation company. Since Riefenstahl was the child for several years, Alfred wanted her to carry on the family name. However, her mother, Bertha Ida, who had been a part-time seamstress before her marriage, had faith in Riefenstahl, Riefenstahl had a younger brother, Heinz, who was killed at the age of 39 on the Eastern Front in Nazi Germanys war against the Soviet Union. Riefenstahl fell in love with the arts in her childhood and she began to paint and write poetry at the age of four. She was also athletic, and at the age of twelve joined a gymnastics, in 1918, when she was 16, Riefenstahl attended a presentation of Snow White which interested her deeply, it led her to want to be a dancer. Her father instead wanted to provide his daughter with an education that could lead to a more dignified occupation and his wife, however, continued to support her daughters passion
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1936 Summer Olympics
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The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain, on 26 April 1931 and it marked the second and final time the International Olympic Committee gathered to vote in a city that was bidding to host those Games. To outdo the Los Angeles games of 1932, Adolf Hitler had built a new 100, 000-seat track and field stadium, six gymnasiums, the games were the first to be televised, and radio broadcasts reached 41 countries. Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl was commissioned by the German Olympic Committee to film the Games for $7 million and her film, titled Olympia, pioneered many of the techniques now common in the filming of sports. When threatened with a boycott of the Games by other nations, total ticket revenues were 7.5 million Reichsmark, generating a profit of over one million marks. The official budget did not include outlays by the city of Berlin or outlays of the German national government and these were the final Olympics under the presidency of Henri de Baillet-Latour and the final Olympic Games for 12 years because of World War II. The next Olympic Games would be held in 1948, the bidding for these Olympic Games was the first to be contested by IOC members casting votes for their own favorite host cities. The vote occurred in 1931, during the Weimar Republic, before Adolf Hitler, many other cities around the world also wanted to host the Summer Olympics for that year, but except for Barcelona they did not receive any IOC votes. The other cities competing to hold the games were Alexandria, Buenos Aires, Cologne, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Lausanne, Nuremberg, Rio de Janeiro, Budapest, and Rome. The selection procedure marked the second and final time that the International Olympic Committee would gather to vote in a city which was bidding to host those Games, the only other time this occurred was at the inaugural IOC Session in Paris, France, on 24 April 1894. Then, Athens and Paris were chosen to host the 1896 and 1900 Games, after the Nazis took control and began instituting anti-Semitic policies, the IOC held private discussions among its delegates about changing the decision to hold the Games in Berlin. However, Hitlers regime gave assurances that Jewish athletes would be allowed to compete on a German Olympic team, in September 1934, the US Olympic committee publicly accepted the invitation to go to the Berlin games, halting any further IOC attempts to quietly revise the decision. The next scheduled games in 1940 were awarded to Tokyo, the Japanese military even demanded that venues should be built from wood because metal was needed for its wars in Manchuria. The Olympic torch relay – itself pioneered as part of the 1936 Summer Games – was to fly the Olympic flame from Olympia to Tokyo in a specially-designed long-range aircraft. In 1938 the Japanese rejected hosting the games because they saw the Olympics and he promoted the idea that the use of sports would harden the German spirit and instill unity among German youth. At the same time he believed that sports was a way to weed out the weak, Jewish. Among Diems ideas for the Berlin Games was the introduction of the Olympic torch relay between Greece and the host nation, the 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, following on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered the modern convention of moving the flame via a system from Greece to the Olympic venue
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Billy Corgan
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Formed by Corgan and guitarist James Iha in Chicago, Illinois, in 1988, the band quickly gained steam with the addition of bassist Darcy Wretzky and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin. Strong album sales and large-scale tours propelled the bands increasing fame in the 1990s until their break-up in 2000. Corgan started a new band called Zwan, and after their demise, he released a solo album. The new version of Smashing Pumpkins, consisting of Corgan and a lineup, has released and toured new albums extensively since the 2007 reunion album. In 2011, Corgan entered the world of wrestling, founding Chicago-based indie professional wrestling promotion Resistance Pro Wrestling. He later joined Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in 2015, becoming its president in August 2016, on November 2,2016, he left TNA due to lawsuits which he had filed with the company stating gross misconduct as the reason. Corgan was born in Elk Grove Village, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, as the oldest son of William Corgan Sr. a blues/rock guitarist and his parents had one more son, Ricky, before divorcing in 1970. His father was remarried to a flight attendant, and Corgan and his brother went to live with them in Glendale Heights. During this time, Corgan alleges he was subject to physical and emotional abuse by his stepmother. Corgan also developed a bond with his younger paternal half-brother. When Corgans father and stepmother separated, all three boys would live alone with the stepmother, with both of Corgans birth parents living separately within an hours drive, Corgan, who grew much faster than his fellow students, was a strong athlete in elementary school. In addition to being a member of his Marquardt Middle School baseball team, he collected baseball cards, however, by the time he began attending Glenbard North High School in Carol Stream, Illinois, he had become only an average athlete. He decided to start playing guitar when he went over to a house and saw his friends Flying V. Corgan gave his savings to his father. Corgan, Sr. steered his son stylistically, encouraging him to listen to Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix, but offered little support. His musical interests in his formative years included hard rock like Guts-era John Cale, heavy metal pioneers Black Sabbath, and mainstream rock like Queen, Boston, ELO, Rush, in high school, Corgan discovered alternative rock through Bauhaus and The Cure. Corgan performed in a string of bands in school. Despite grant and scholarship offers from a number of schools, not finding the Chicago music scene to his liking, he moved from Chicago to St. Petersburg, Florida in 1985 with his first major band, The Marked. Not finding success in St. Petersburg, the band dissolved, Corgan performed with Wayne Static in Statics first band Deep Blue Dream, in 1987/88
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High Definition Compatible Digital
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Originally developed by Pacific Microsonics, the first HDCD-enabled CD was released in 1995. In 2000, the technology was purchased by Microsoft, and the following year, Microsofts HDCD official website was discontinued in 2005, by 2008, the number of available titles had declined to around 4,000. A number of CD and DVD players include HDCD decoding, and versions 9, there is thus a benefit at the expense of a very minor increase in noise. The claim that the process is compatible with ordinary CD players is disputed, “Not being able to decode the peak soft limiting. HDCD technology was developed between 1986 and 1991 by Prof. Keith O. Johnson and Michael Pflash Pflaumer of Pacific Microsonics Inc and it was made publicly available as HDCD-enabled audio CDs in 1995. In 1998, Burr-Brown and Sanyo Electronics of Japan introduced low cost D-to-A converters with HDCD decoding included, allowing HDCD to be used in CD and DVD players in the $100 range. HDCD algorithms were included in DVD chips from many IC makers including Motorola and C-Cubed, allowing HDCD to be offered by mass-market DVD player makers such as Panasonic, in 2000, Pacific Microsonics folded and Microsoft acquired the company and all of its intellectual property assets. Microsoft discontinued the official HDCD website in 2005, in January 2007, there were roughly the same number of titles available on SACD as on HDCD-encoded CDs. A number of manufacturers offer players with HDCD capability, the Oppo line of players prior to 2017 all feature HDCD decoding. Several Yamaha Blu-ray players as well Emotiva CD players decode HDCD, since version 9 of Microsofts Windows Media Player, released in 2003, it has been possible to decode and play HDCD enabled CDs on personal computers fitted with a 24-bit sound card. In some HDCD discs, and some DVD players using WMP and this is because HDCD has a control signal, and if that control signal is not detected by WMP at the beginning of the song, the HDCD decoder is not activated. In 2007, a member of the Doom9 forum authored a Windows CLI utility, hdcd. exe, to extract and this utility writes 24-bit WAV output files with four bits of padding per sample. The author of the utility decided not to make the code publicly available as the HDCD technology is patented. Illustrates dBpoweramp Music Converter, a Windows GUI program, has an HDCD DSP effect that acts as a front-end to the utility listed above, a plugin is available for foobar2000 that will decode HDCD data in any 16-bit PCM passed through it, resulting in a 20-bit PCM stream. FFmpegs libavfilter includes an HDCD filter as of FFmpeg 3.1 that will convert 16-bit PCM with HDCD data to 20-bit PCM, an open-source HDCD decoder library exists as libhdcd. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02, List of HDCD-encoded compact discs at HydrogenAudio wiki List of known HDCD compact discs at Head-Fi. org High Definition Compatible Digital at HydrogenAudio wiki
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Never Let Me Down Again
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Never Let Me Down Again is Depeche Modes nineteenth UK single, released on 24 August 1987, and the second single for the then upcoming album Music for the Masses. A relatively moderate hit in the UK at number 22, it was a smash in West Germany, where it hit number 2, the cover art features fragments of a Soviet map of Russia and Europe, with different fragments used for the different editions of the single. Studio impresario Alan Wilder and the members of the band considered the track an obvious single with much potential. They developed it throughout so that dramatic-type elements such as the Led Zeppelin-influenced drum patterns, the coda of Never Let Me Down Again references Soft Cells song Torch. The main remix version of the track, known as the Split Mix, the 12 maxi release stretched to exactly nine and a half minutes long. Oddly enough, despite the results from the point of view of the band. The song became a favourite among fans, especially live, shows during Depeche Modes 1988 tour were often concluded with this song. Notable in the 101 video is when Dave Gahan waves his arms in the air toward the end of the song, and it is now customary at Depeche Mode shows for fans to wave their arms in the air during the coda section of Never Let Me Down Again. The main 12 remix of Never Let Me Down Again is known as the Split Mix, as stated above, in detail, the remix features the regular song, an added intro piece, and a techno-like musical arrangement appended at the end. The arrangement was expanded to the Aggro Mix on the 12 B-side, the Split Mix appears on the album collection Remixes 81–04, a release that came out on October 2004. Another remix of the track, done by the German group Digitalism and that remix appears on the bands remix compilation Remixes 2, 81–11 as well. Eric Prydz also remixed the song for this album, there are two music videos for Never Let Me Down Again, directed by Anton Corbijn. There is also a video with just the single version of the song. The short version appears on The Videos 86>98, the DVD of The Best of Depeche Mode Volume 1, pleasure, Little Treasure is a short dance track. An extended version called the Glitter Mix ends with fragments of recordings that have been reversed and treated with delay effects. Notably, some of these sounds can be heard in the track Mothers Talk from the 1985 Tears for Fears album Songs from the Big Chair, which was engineered by Dave Bascombe. The Glitter Mix showed up as a track on the CD/Cassette versions of Music for the Masses. The rarer b-side is To Have and To Hold, Martin Gores original plan for the song sounded a lot like upbeat electropop, but Alan Wilder turned it into the dark wave track it eventually became
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It's Called a Heart
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Its Called a Heart is Depeche Modes fourteenth UK single recorded at Genetic Studios. It was included as one of two new songs on the compilation The Singles 81→85 the same year, along with Shake the Disease and it reached number 18 in the UK singles chart. The American version of The Singles 81→85, Catching Up with Depeche Mode, also includes the B-side, Fly on the Windscreen. Martin Gore and Alan Wilder have often quoted as saying Its Called a Heart is their least favourite single ever recorded by Depeche Mode. However, the so-called Final version of the song was included on Black Celebration, there is no limited edition version of this single in the way that most other Depeche Mode singles have been. Instead there was a D12 Bong, a double 12, that both the standard 12 and the remix 12. The music video was directed by Peter Care and shot on location in a Berkshire cornfield and this is the last video which presents Dave Gahan with blonde hair, after that he returned to his natural black hair. All songs written by Martin Gore
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Black Celebration
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Black Celebration is the fifth studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 17 March 1986 by Mute Records. To promote the album, the band embarked on the Black Celebration Tour, three years after its release, Spin ranked it at number 15 in its list of The 25 Greatest Albums of All Time. Contemporary reviews for Black Celebration in the British press were mixed, betty Page of Record Mirror felt that the band should be admired for their refusal to follow anything but their own fashion and unswerving ability to come up with great, fresh melodies. Black Celebration has since been reappraised in retrospective reviews, in 2007, Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone referred to the album as an instant classic for the bands fans that at the time of its release had seemingly been utterly ignored by everybody else. In 2007, Black Celebration was re-released with a bonus DVD and it was released as a part of the third wave of re-issues. The first CD was remastered and released on a CD/SACD hybrid, there are also several live versions of some of the songs from Black Celebration. The album is released the way it was intended and ends with New Dress. Like the other re-issues, the DVD includes a documentary on the album, the title is Martin paraphrasing Daniel Miller about his demos for Black Celebration in the film. The double-documentary discusses both The Singles 81→85 and Black Celebration, its more challenging commercial success and all five related singles and it also includes a plethora of behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Black Celebration and the ensuing tour. Highlights include the band meeting The Cure, and behind the scenes footage of several of the music videos, the documentary is nearly an hour long. It was released 20 March 2007 in the US,26 March in the UK and 2 April in the rest of Europe, the remastered album was released on deluxe vinyl on 2 April 2007 in Europe and on 11 September 2007 in the United States. All tracks written by Martin Gore, except Black Day written by Gore, Alan Wilder and Daniel Miller, credits adapted from the liner notes of Black Celebration. Album information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Official remaster info
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Enjoy the Silence
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Enjoy the Silence is a song by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, taken from their seventh studio album, Violator. The song was recorded in 1989 and released on 16 January 1990 as the second single. The single is Gold certificated in the US and Germany, the song won Best British Single at the 1991 BRIT Awards. Enjoy the Silence was re-released as a single in 2004 for the Depeche Mode remix project Remixes 81–04, there are two instrumental B-sides to Enjoy the Silence. Sibeling is a soft piano-tune while Memphisto is a darker, eerier track, the title of Sibeling refers to Finnish classical composer Jean Sibelius. According to Martin Gore, Memphisto is the name of a film about Elvis as a Devil. The Anton Corbijn-directed music video for Enjoy the Silence references the themes, brief flashes of a single rose appear throughout the scenes. When Corbijn presented the concept of the video to the band and they changed their minds, when he explained that the idea was that the King represented a man with everything in the world, just looking for a quiet place to sit, a king of no kingdom. Andy Fletcher jokes that he favoured the video only had to do about an hours worth of work. The video uses a different mix of the album version of the song that has not been released in any audio format. The final long shots of the king walking through the snow are not Gahan but rather the videos producer, Gahan had left the set, tired of the cold in Switzerland. There are in two edited versions of the Corbijn-directed video. One version - which appears to be the earlier version - begins with Andy Fletcher looking towards his right as the song begins. Shots of Dave Gahan dressed as a king singing directly to the camera are intercut with scenes of his walking through the Scottish Highlands, the coast of Portugal, the video ends with Gahan singing the last line, Enjoy the silence. Then putting his finger in front of his lips as if to quiet the viewer, the other version begins with Martin Gore looking to his right as the song begins. This version omits the shots of Gahan singing directly to the camera, the video ends with Gahan sitting on a deck chair in the snow while the last line, Enjoy the silence. There are also differences in the shots of the band standing together between the two versions. In a review, Tim Di Gravina wrote that Enjoy the Silence is one of Depeche Modes greatest songs with a pristine and lush yet punishing musical environment and lyrics of violence, in 1998, Failure covered the song for the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses
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Violator (album)
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Violator is the seventh studio album by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 19 March 1990 by Mute Records. Preceded by the hit singles Personal Jesus and Enjoy the Silence, the album yielded two further hit singles, Policy of Truth and World in My Eyes. Violator is the bands first album to reach the top 10 on the Billboard 200 and it was supported by the World Violation Tour. Compared to previous efforts, the decided to try a new approach to recording. Alan Wilder said, Usually we begin the making of a record by having extensive pre-production meetings where we decide what the record will actually sound like and this time we decided to keep all pre-production work to a minimum. We were beginning to have a problem with boredom in that we felt wed reached a level of achievement in doing things a certain way. Martin Gore elaborated, Over the last five years I think wed perfected a formula, my demos and we decided that our first record of the 90s ought to be different. With co-producer Mark Flood Ellis, Wilder began a working relationship, with Flood able to provide the technical know-how and Wilder working on the arrangements. Thats how we made the work at that time, clarified Wilder, by accepting that we all had different roles. So we ended up with this agreement in the band. Then Fletch and Mart would go away, and theyd come back after wed worked on it for a while to give an opinion, there was also a notable change in Gores demos. After the rigid, limiting effects of almost-finished demos for Music for the Masses, Gore, heeding to Wilders request, several of the basic recordings consisted of vocals over simple guitar or organ part, with the odd percussion loop but less sequenced material. The sparse demos allowed the band to take liberties with the songs. For instance, Enjoy the Silence started out as a slow ballad, the band convened to work on the record with Flood at Mutes WorldWide programming room in London for three weeks after which they flew to Milan for the new sessions at Logic studios. According to Flood, they didnt do substantial amount of work in Milan, except for the song Personal Jesus, everybody was feeling each other out, because they wanted to try working in a different way. The idea was to hard and party hard and we all enjoyed ourselves to the full. After Milan the band relocated to Puk studios in northern Denmark, Martin called the track World in My Eyes a very positive song. Its saying that love and sex and pleasure are positive things, the song Blue Dress, which Gore called pervy, is simply about watching a girl dress and realising that this is what makes the world turn
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Failure (band)
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Failure is an American alternative rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1990 to 1997 and from 2014 onwards. In 1992, Failure signed with Slash Records, and went to Minnesota to record their album with notorious producer Steve Albini at Pachyderm Studio that summer. Comfort was released in September 1992, and around this same time, both the band and Albini were unsatisfied with the sound of Comfort, so when the band went back into the studio in 1993, Andrews and Edwards took on the role of producers themselves. Midway through these sessions, Gauss left the band, so Edwards played some drums himself, until a replacement was found in Kellii Scott. Their second album, Magnified, was released in March 1994, a video was made for the single Undone. Critics took note of the sonic and musical advances achieved on Magnified and that year, they again went on tour with Tool, and during Failures set each night, Tool guitarist Adam Jones came onstage to play rhythm guitar on the Comfort track Macaque. As the recordings neared completion, they received word that their labels distribution deal with Warner had expired, meanwhile, the band continued to unofficially shop the record to other labels and industry personnel, while hoping that Warner would step up and release the album. In the spring of 1996, Warner did exactly that, agreeing to keep the Slash imprint one last time for Failure, guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen, a friend and former bandmate of Scotts, joined Failure around the time of the albums release. The albums first single, Stuck on You, became a minor hit and achieved light to medium rotation on MTV. The song peaked at No.31 on the U. S. Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and that summer, Failure also joined the Lollapalooza tour, during what became the last of that tours travelling years. On November 19,1997, Failure officially announced that they had disbanded, Ken Andrews has gone on to become a well-known producer, engineer, and mixer, and has been involved in several different music projects. He released his first solo album, Secrets of the Lost Satellite and he has also started a label, Dinosaur Fight Records, which has released his solo album and Martins, and has announced their intention to release the forthcoming LADNA album, as well. Greg Edwards collaborated with fellow musicians Chris Pitman, Brad Laner, in 2000, Edwards formed the band Autolux in with vocalist/bassist Eugene Goreshter and former Ednaswap drummer Carla Azar. They were hand-picked by Trent Reznor to open for Nine Inch Nails North American arena tour in the autumn of 2005, in 2006, they collaborated on a few tracks with the British musical outfit Unkle, for Unkles 2007 release, War Stories. After various delays, Autolux released their album, Transit Transit. Kellii Scott joined Blinker the Star after Failures breakup, and then joined Campfire Girls for their 2003 album, Tell Them Hi. Scott also played on a track titled Best Friend by Size 14 bassist Robt Ptak on his solo project Artificial Joy, as of 2005, he was playing drums for both Veruca Salt and Enemy. In 2008, his most recent band The Brontosaur released their self-titled album, from 2008-2012 Kellii could be heard playing on all Linda Perrys recording sessions, most notably Christina Aguileras song You Lift Me Up and Courney Loves Letter To God
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World in My Eyes
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World in My Eyes is Depeche Modes 26th UK single, released on 17 September 1990, and the fourth and final single for the album Violator. Martin did the demo on his own, recalled Andy Fletcher, I dont remember it standing out when we heard it then. But somehow, in the studio, it all came together brilliantly… Whenever Im asked which of our tracks is my favourite, the cover art for World in My Eyes has a photo of one of the band members making a shape similar to that of glasses with their hands. On the Limited 12, there are pictures of all four members, World in My Eyes has two exclusive B-sides, making Violator the only Depeche Mode album with all four singles having at least one exclusive B-Side, including instrumentals. The B-sides for World in My Eyes are Happiest Girl and Sea of Sin, Happiest Girl and Sea of Sin are the main 7 versions. Original versions were never released, or rather, these mixes are the versions, according to interviews. Reaching No.17 in UK, and only No.52 on the Hot 100, however, it was more successful than most of singles released from Depeche Modes previous and later album, as the band popularity was at the highest at the time. The 2004 re-release of the EU single includes a version of World in My Eyes. The music video for World in My Eyes is directed by Anton Corbijn, there are two versions, the original version was not originally released to the public until The Videos 86-98. The original music video features footage from the World Violation Tour, while Dave Gahan. The alternate version on Strange Too features the band in the car instead, more footage. However, even after the 3 plans were scrapped in favour of a regular CD, the German release, although displaying the same track list, used the longer versions of these three mixes, like on the US release and the Japanese release. The Cure, on the Depeche Mode tribute album For the Masses, single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Policy of Truth
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Policy of Truth is a song by English electronic band Depeche Mode, released in May 1990 as the third single from their seventh studio album Violator. It also became the bands second chart-topper on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, françois Kevorkian mixed a new single version for the release, extending it slightly while lowering the tempo, and also making Dave Gahans vocals more prominent. He also mixed the Beat Box Mix and the Pavlovs Dub, the Trancentral Mix is by The KLF, a popular Acid House band at that time and one of only 3 occasions they did remix work for other artists. The Capitol Mix uses the sample I want to tell you my side of the case from the Checkers speech by Richard Nixon, a version of Kaleid was used as intro music for Depeche Modes World Violation Tour in 1990. The music video for Policy of Truth is directed by Anton Corbijn and appears on the VHS collection Strange Too
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Dishwalla
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Dishwalla is an American alternative rock band from Santa Barbara, California. The bands name comes from a Hindi term for a person providing satellite TV to a neighborhood, in a Vox interview, lead guitarist Rodney Browning Cravens claimed the band took the name out of a Wired magazine article. The band is best known for their 1996 hit song Counting Blue Cars, in 1994, the band recorded Take Some Time on the tribute album If I Were a Carpenter featuring cover versions of songs by The Carpenters. In 1996, the single Counting Blue Cars from the album Pet Your Friends climbed the charts and was played on the airwaves. The track earned them a Billboard Award for Best Rock Song for 1996 as well as two ASCAP Awards for Rock Track Of The Year in both 1996 and 1997. Their 1998 follow-up album, And You Think You Know What Lifes About, Dishwalla has since made other ventures into the limelight. In 1995 the song Counting Blue Cars was featured in the movie Empire Records, pretty Babies is on the Blast from the Past soundtrack. In 1998 landed the song Truth Serum in The Avengers, in 1999, the song Stay Awake was featured in the movie Stir of Echoes and the song Find Your Way Back Home was featured in the movie American Pie. In 2002 the song Home was in the movie The Banger Sisters, other TV shows that have used their songs include Smallville, The OC, and NCIS. They have also mentioned several times in the show How I Met Your Mother. The band has gone on to two more studio albums, Opaline and the self-titled Dishwalla, as well as a live album. Charlie Browns Parents hit No.24 on the Mainstream Rock charts, the following year, Give was a No.26 Adult Top 40 single. In 1998, Once in a While reached No.17 on the Mainstream Rock charts, finally, Somewhere in the Middle hit No.25 on the Adult Top 40 charts in 2002. The lineup featured long-time friend, Justin Fox, singer of the Santa Barbara band Tripdavon, as a Special Guest Vocalist. On March 15,2009, Dishwalla was asked to play a concert for Tea Fire victims, Lance and Carla Hoffman. The hugely successful event was put on by coordinated efforts with Santa Barbara City Fire, Santa Barbara County Fire, Montecito Fire, Carpinteria/Summerland Fire departments. In September 2012, the band announced on their official Facebook page a concert on October 13 to raise money for George Pendergasts Rockshop Academy. The next two year in 2013 and 2014 saw the band touring extensively across the United States and the world
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Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody
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Blasphemous Rumours/Somebody is Depeche Modes twelfth UK single and first double A-side single, released on 29 October 1984. Both A-side songs are from the album Some Great Reward, somebody is the first single with Martin Gore as lead vocals, one of only three. The music videos for songs were directed by Clive Richardson. The single charts number 16 in UK single charts, the verses to Blasphemous Rumours describe a 16-year-old girl who attempts suicide but fails. She experiences a religious revival but is killed in a car accident aged 18 and dies. The chorus uses these incidents to conclude, I dont want to start any blasphemous rumours / but I think that Gods got a sense of humour /. Like other songs on Some Great Reward, the uses a dense sound with extensive sampled percussion. No Bong number, same cover as the vinyl version, Filipino R&B band Freestyle revived the song in mid-2000s, the band is the first Filipino musician to cover the song. Filipino musical group BoybandPH is the second Filipino musician to cover the song in 2017, english singer Damian Wilson covered the song for his 2016 solo album Built For Fighting. Single information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Some Great Reward
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Some Great Reward is the fourth studio album by the English electronic band Depeche Mode, released on 24 September 1984 by Mute Records. The album peaked at five in the United Kingdom and at number fifty-four in the United States. The title comes from the last lines of the bridge in Lie to Me when it repeats near the end, the album was supported by the Some Great Reward Tour. Its just that they should be so much better, in 2006, Some Great Reward was re-released with a bonus DVD. The CD was remastered and was released on a CD/SACD hybrid, the bonus DVD includes the B-sides In Your Memory and Remotivate Me in addition to a remix of Somebody and several live versions of some of the songs from the album. The DVD also includes a documentary on the making of the album, the remastered album was released on deluxe vinyl in March 2007. All tracks written by Martin Gore, except If You Want, video Audio Credits adapted from the liner notes of Some Great Reward. Album information from the official Depeche Mode web site Allmusic review Official remaster info
