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The Wedding Present 'Live 2010: Bizarro Played Live In Germany' CD + DVD
£12.99
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The Wedding Present 'Live 2010: Bizarro Played Live In Germany' CD + DVD
£12.99
The Wedding Present, recorded and filmed at the Atomic Café, Munich, on 24 October 2010. This double disc release includes both a CD and a DVD of the concert.
Of the original Bizarro release, Allmusic says: The Wedding Present's second proper studio album, Bizarro, cut down a bit on the frenetic jangle the band was known for in its early days and replaced it with healthy doses of darkness and power. Adding some fuzzy, crunchy distortion to give the guitars some hefty impact, slowing the tempos down to speeds that allow vocalist David Gedge to squeeze more heartbroken despair and bleak sarcasm out of every line, and generally upping their game in every way, the album was the fullest realization of The Wedding Present's sound yet.
Leading off with the unstoppably hooky Brassneck'which features a brilliant Gedge reading of lines that rhyme "grow up" and "throw up," the album plays like a collection of thematically related singles. The most single-y among them is Kennedy'which has some brilliant sing-along lyrics and an intensely dramatic guitar strum buildup that crescendos into a maelstrom of sound.
The rest of the record isn't far behind; whether it's the sparse What Have I Said Now?'or the slowly grinding Bewitched'one could extract any song and it would feel like a highlight - even the epic-length Take Me!'which closes the album in a fury of strums, drum fills, and chugging bass that builds and builds until it seems like the song is going to levitate and take the listener right along with it.
The Wedding Present didn't necessarily need to improve their already winning template, but they did and it pays off big time on Bizarro.
Tracklisting:
1. Heather
2. What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?
3. Interstate 5 [Dvd Only]
4. End Credits
5. Real Thing
6. Mystery Date
7. Brassneck
8. Crushed
9. No
10. Thanks
11. Kennedy
12. What Have I Said Now?
13. Granadaland
14. Bewitched
15. Take Me!
16. Be Honest
Release Date: 06/09/2019
Of the original Bizarro release, Allmusic says: The Wedding Present's second proper studio album, Bizarro, cut down a bit on the frenetic jangle the band was known for in its early days and replaced it with healthy doses of darkness and power. Adding some fuzzy, crunchy distortion to give the guitars some hefty impact, slowing the tempos down to speeds that allow vocalist David Gedge to squeeze more heartbroken despair and bleak sarcasm out of every line, and generally upping their game in every way, the album was the fullest realization of The Wedding Present's sound yet.
Leading off with the unstoppably hooky Brassneck'which features a brilliant Gedge reading of lines that rhyme "grow up" and "throw up," the album plays like a collection of thematically related singles. The most single-y among them is Kennedy'which has some brilliant sing-along lyrics and an intensely dramatic guitar strum buildup that crescendos into a maelstrom of sound.
The rest of the record isn't far behind; whether it's the sparse What Have I Said Now?'or the slowly grinding Bewitched'one could extract any song and it would feel like a highlight - even the epic-length Take Me!'which closes the album in a fury of strums, drum fills, and chugging bass that builds and builds until it seems like the song is going to levitate and take the listener right along with it.
The Wedding Present didn't necessarily need to improve their already winning template, but they did and it pays off big time on Bizarro.
Tracklisting:
1. Heather
2. What Did Your Last Servant Die Of?
3. Interstate 5 [Dvd Only]
4. End Credits
5. Real Thing
6. Mystery Date
7. Brassneck
8. Crushed
9. No
10. Thanks
11. Kennedy
12. What Have I Said Now?
13. Granadaland
14. Bewitched
15. Take Me!
16. Be Honest
Release Date: 06/09/2019
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Visit product page →The first instalment of David Gedge's long-awaited memoir-in-comic-book-form'will be released by Scopitones Books on 6 November 2020. The stories featured in this stunning 176-page, matt-laminated, hardback book have previously only been available to readers of the Tales From The Wedding Present comic book series. This collected edition comes with forty pages of never-before-seen additional material and an introduction by Ian Rankin.
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