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Artist     : The Divine Comedy
Title      : Regeneration
Year       : 2001
Label      : Parlephone
Genre      : Indie
Ripped By  : dogbowl on 09/12/2006
Post Date  : dogbowl on 12/12/2006

Groups  :
  alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.2000s
  alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie

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Technical:

Source     : CD
Encoder    : Exact Audio Copy 0.95b4 (Secure mode)
Codec      : LAME 3.97b2
ACLO       : -V 2 --vbr-new
Bitrate    : VBR ~192K/s  44100Hz  Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag    : ID3v2.3

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Track Listing:

 1. Timestretched      (2:48)
 2. Bad Ambassador     (3:45)
 3. Perfect Lovesong   (3:10)
 4. Note To Self       (5:59)
 5. Lost Property      (4:39)
 6. Eye Of The Needle  (5:33)
 7. Love What You Do   (3:52)
 8. Dumb It Down       (3:56)
 9. Mastermind         (5:22)
10. Regeneration       (5:33)
11. The Beauty Regime  (5:11)

Total Playing Time: 49:53 (min:sec)
Total Size        : 68.0 MB (71,343,761 bytes)

As Standard    : .nfo / .sfv / .m3u
Extras (if any): 
 

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Comments (if any):

After breaking from Setanta records Neil Hannon put together a band for this release. The
familiar sound is still around but this time seems a bit beefier and, in the subject matter,
a bit more mature and, perhaps, serious. Musings on the passing of time, the loss of
insignificant objects, love (as usual), celebrity and other stuff. Just a wonderful mix of
electric, acoustic and classical instruments... and Neil's voice is on top form.

Standout Track/s (if any):

Timestretched, Lost Property, Bad Ambassador, Note To Self... Feck this whole albums great...

What's been and gone and still to come:

Fanfare For The Comic Muse <---Posted 09 December
Liberation <---Posted 09 December
Promenade <---Posted 09 December
Casanova <---Posted 09 December
A Short Album About Love  <---Posted 10 December
Fin De Siècle <---Posted 11 December
A Secret History <---Posted 11 December
Regeneration <---Posted 12 December
Absent Friends
Victory For The Comic Muse

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Review / Notes (if any):

Choosing a new direction is a hard and serious business for any band, but perhaps more so
for listeners, who, for better or worse, have grown to expect a certain mood and style from
their favorite artists. Regeneration, the Divine Comedy's first album for Parlophone Records,
finds Neil Hannon and company parting ways with the playful, coquettish songs of Casanova and
Fin De Siecle and taking a serious look at the duality of "town" and "country." Many bands
have tackled the subject of the "haves and have-nots," and that may be a bit of a problem
here, as both Pulp and the Divine Comedy themselves have done a much better job of illustrating
the point than songs like "Lost Property" or "Bad Ambassador." By shedding the smirking
artifice that served Casanova so well, and hiring producer Nigel Godrich, the Divine Comedy
may be treading dangerously close to the sounds of countrymen Radiohead, but the Divine Comedy
are smart enough to give listeners just enough lyrical bit to throw them off the scent.
Perhaps the true art of the Divine Comedy was the artifice that is missing on Regeneration,
but it is more likely that Hannon has found different things to say, and wanted to find a
different language in which to say them. Although not as musically striking or original as
Casanova, there is still a great commentary on celebrity in "Timestretched," and Hannon's
unmistakable croon saves the record's obvious single, "Love What You Do," by adding just
enough sincerity to make its listeners believers.

Links (if any):


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Requests:

Hot Hands compilation (Throwing Muses and Kristin Covers...)
Jóhann Jóhannsson - Dis
Anthony Burr & Skuli Sverrisson - A Thousand Incidents Arise
Skuli Sverrisson - Seremonie
HI-FI SKY - Music for Synchronized Swimming in Space
Delaney And Bonnie - Home
Justice For Jimbob - My Fathers Handbag Tattoo
Bitch Sniffer - Take Off Your Suicide Shorts
Acetone High - A Fascination With Elbow Licking (My Own)
Various Artists - Like A Daydream (The Story Of Shoegazing)
Various Artists - They'll Have To Catch Us First (Domino records Compilation)
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Majestic Grill
The Men They Couldn't Hang - The Mud, The Blood & The Beer
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Cherry Red Jukebox

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Thanks To:

Spear Of Des... cheers everyone :-)
The usual suspects posting good stuff and being nice.... 
and people with beards... 
and Father Christmas...
and Kristin Hersh...