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Spandau Ballet - Diamond (2010 EMI Remaster) FLAC

Spandau Ballet - Diamond (2010 EMI Remaster) FLAC

EAC rip | 2CD | FLAC - Log - Cue | Full Artwork | Release: 2010 | 0.98 GB
Genre: New Romantic, New Wave, Contemporary Pop | Label: EMI
Released in March of 1982, 'Diamond' now remastered, comes complete on CD1 with bonus remixes of their singles 'Chant No. 1' (UK #3), 'Instinction' (UK #10), 'Paint Me Down' (UK #30) and 'She Loved Like Diamond' (UK #49) - all of which are appearing for the first time in CD format. Whilst CD2 collects together the b-sides from these singles, extra 12'' remixes and a previously unreleased live BBC show from April 1982.

With the new romantic movement they'd helped spearhead on the way out, futurist icons Spandau Ballet began thinking seriously about the future on their second album. The seeds of the group's transition to a slick, MOR soul outfit can be heard in hits like "Chant No. 1," the best song Spandau Ballet had come up with. More funk than rock, "Chant No. 1" got punctuation from the horn section of the British R&B act Beggar & Co., who were apparently a major inspiration for the track. Diamond features other tentative moves toward an authentically soulful sound; the tuneless single "Paint Me Down" is all chattering rhythm guitar and popping bass, while "She Loved Like Diamond" offers an inferior trial run at the approach that would produce the global mega-hit "True" (this version has an underdeveloped melody, which is OK, since still-improving vocalist Tony Hadley wasn't ready yet for a better one). The rest of the album sounds like the group had been listening too long to the second side of David Bowie's Heroes. "Pharoah" is off-kilter funk reminiscent of "The Secret Life of Arabia" -- a dubious choice for emulation -- and the gentle, oriental balladry of "Innocence and Science" segues into "Missionary," a percussion-filled mood piece light on actual substance. Although it's an improvement on their debut, Diamond showed Spandau Ballet was musically still far behind likeminded acts such as Duran Duran, Ultravox, and Visage -- a situation that would change somewhat with the band's next, most successful album, True.

Tracklist:
CD1
01. Chant No.1 (I Don-t Need This Pressure On)
02. Instinction
03. Paint Me Down
04. Coffee Club
05. She Loved Like Diamond
06. Pharoah
07. Innocence And Science
08. Missionary
09. Chant No.1 (I Don-t Need This Pressure On) [Remix]
10. Instinction [Remix]
11. Paint Me Down [Remix]
12. Coffee Club [Remix]
13. She Loved Like Diamond [Remix]

CD2
01. Feel The Chant [7"]
02. Man With Guitar
03. Gently
04. Chant No 1 (I Don-t Need This Pressure On) [12" Version]
05. Feel The Chant [12"]

06. Paint Me Down [12"]
07. Re Paint
08. Instinction [12" Mix]
09. The Freeze [BBC In Concert, Bournemouth, 10.04.1982]
10. To Cut A Long Story Short [BBC In Concert, Bournemouth, 10.04.1982]
11. Glow [BBC In Concert, Bournemouth, 10.04.1982]
12. Paint Me Down [BBC In Concert, Bournemouth, 10.04.1982]
13. Instinction / Chant No.1 [BBC In Concert, Bournemouth, 10.04.1982]

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