Island Post Punk

New Model Army - 30th Anniversary Concerts (2011) (4CD+2DVD) Music

Posted by uff at Oct. 24, 2014

To their impassioned cult of fans, New Model Army were one of the best post-punk outfits Great Britain ever produced. Combining the gut-level force of punk with the anthemic political fervor of U2 and the Alarm, as well as the urban protest folk of Billy Bragg, NMA sounded like few other bands mining similar post-punk territory. Their attack was hard, spare, and precise, but as time wore on, they were just as likely to deliver modern-day folk-rock replete with acoustic guitar, violin, and harmonica.

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The Boomtown Rats - Classic Album Selection: 1977-1984 (Remastered) (2013) Music

Posted by Rtax at March 8, 2024

The Boomtown Rats - Classic Album Selection: 1977-1984 (Remastered) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) - 2.3 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 749 MB
5:26:33 | New Wave, Melodic Pop Punk, Power Pop, Post-Punk | Label: Mercury / Universal

This collection features the Dublin band’s six original albums – The Boomtown Rats (1977), A Tonic For The Troops (1978), The Fine Art Of Surfacing (1979), Mondo Bongo (1980), V Deep (1982) and The Fine Art Of Surfacing (1984) – and all come packaged in card wallets. The CDs will feature the bonus material included with previous reissues.
The Boomtown Rats were at their peak in the late 1970s when they notched up two UK number one singles with Rat Trap and I Don’t Like Mondays, but by 1984 their popularity was declining rapidly and Bob Geldolf would subsequently become more famous for Band Aid and Live Aid than as a member of the Boomtown Rats.
Despite this, Geldolf announced earlier this year that the Rats have reformed and they will be touring the UK and Ireland in October and November 2013. This box set and a new ‘best of’ – Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits – are released to coincide with the tour.

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U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (1984) [1985, Japan, 1st Press] Music

Posted by BlondStyle at Jan. 26, 2019

"The Unforgettable Fire" is the 4th studio album by Irish rock band U2. It was released on 1 October 1984. The band wanted a different musical direction following the harder-hitting rock of their 1983 album "War". They employed Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois to produce and assist in experimenting with a more ambient and abstract sound. The resulting change in direction was at the time the band's most dramatic. Recording began in May 1984 at Slane Castle, where the band lived, wrote, and recorded to find new inspiration. The album was completed in August 1984 at Windmill Lane Studios. It features atmospheric sounds and lyrics that lead vocalist Bono describes as "sketches". Two songs feature lyrical tributes to Martin Luther King Jr.

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The B-52's - The B-52's (aka Play Loud) (1979) Music

Posted by Designol at May 30, 2024

The B-52's is the debut album by the Athens, Georgia-based new wave band the B-52's. Also released in Germany as "Play Loud". The kitschy lyrics and mood, and the hook-laden harmonies helped establish a fanbase for the band, who went on to release several chart-topping singles. The B-52's peaked at number 59 on the Billboard 200, and "Rock Lobster" reached number 56 on the Billboard Hot 100. In 2003, the television network VH1 named The B-52's the 99th greatest album of all time. Shortly before his death, John Lennon said he enjoyed the album. In his 1995 book, The Alternative Music Almanac, Alan Cross placed the album ninth on the list of 10 Classic Alternative Albums. In 2012, the album was ranked number 152 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The B-52's was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

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Hüsker Dü - Savage Young Dü (2017) {3CD} Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 20, 2017

Experience the punishing sonic origins of a punk icon. Collected here for the first time, and skillfully remastered from original board tapes, demos, and session masters, this collection is an authoritative chronicling of the wellspring and maturation of Grant Hart, Greg Norton and Bob Mould - three Minneapolis teenagers who'd go on to become the most heralded trio of the American punk underground. Follow the Hüskers to their earliest gigs in 1979, through extensive road dog touring, and to the start of their partnership with West Coast tastemaker SST in 1983.

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Shriekback - Priests And Kanibals: The Best Of ... (1994) Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 3, 2021

Shriekback is not an easy band to classify. They borrowed heavily from funk but had a very different agenda; their music was more suited for contemplation than for parties. They combined synthesizers and drum machines with throbbing bass lines and unorthodox vocals to evoke a primordial world where the line between human and animal was blurred. The title of their fourth album, Big Night Music, might be the most succinct summation of their work: Shriekback's music was always an appropriate soundtrack for life in the dark, but with the emphasis on the possibilities rather than the dangers. Though often haunting, it was not gothic and harbored strains of pop and dance that rose to the surface from time to time. Still, however accessible they became, Shriekback cultivated an air of mystery that made them hard to pin down. Further complicating any evaluation of their career is the fact that they never made a single, brilliant album that concentrated all their strengths in one place; their best material is spread out across a decade during which they underwent a great deal of evolution.

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Ultravox - Premium Gold Collection (1996) Music

Posted by Designol at March 29, 2024

Ultravox are a British new wave band, formed in London in 1974 as Tiger Lily. Between 1980–86, they scored seven Top Ten albums and seventeen Top 40 singles in the UK, the most successful of which was their 1981 hit "Vienna". The band has been led by two different frontmen who never played together in the band at the same time. From 1974 until 1979, singer John Foxx was frontman and the main driving force behind Ultravox. Foxx left the band to embark on a solo career and, following his departure, with the three remaining members in hiatus, Midge Ure took over as lead singer, guitarist and frontman in 1980 after he and keyboardist Billy Currie worked in the studio project Visage.

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Talking Heads - Albums Collection 1977-1986 (7CD) Japanese Remastered Releases Music

Posted by Designol at Oct. 14, 2024

Collection includes: 'Talking Heads 77' (1977); 'More Songs About Buildings And Food' (1978); 'Fear Of Music' (1979); 'Remain In Light' (1980); 'Speaking In Tongues' (1983); 'Stop Making Sense' (1984); 'True Stories' (1986).

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U2 - At the BBC (Special Edition) (2017) [HDTV, 1080p] Music

Posted by v3122 at March 18, 2021

U2 - At the BBC (Special Edition) (2017)
TS: MPEG4 Video, 1920x1080, 25fps, 12,0 Mb/s | AAC 48kHz, 2ch, 221kbps
Post Punk, New Wave, Rock | 01:14:00 | ~ 7.01 Gb

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), the Edge (lead guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums and percussion). Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style evolved throughout their career, yet has maintained an anthemic sound built on Bono's expressive vocals and the Edge's effects-based guitar textures…

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U2 - Live in London (2017) [HDTV, 1080i] Music

Posted by v3122 at March 19, 2021

U2 - Live in London (2017)
TS: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1920x1080 29.97fps 7 335 kb/s
Dolby AC3 48000Hz 6ch 384kbps / Dolby AC3 48000Hz stereo 192kbps
Post Punk, New Wave, Rock | 00:44:00 | ~ 2.81 Gb

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin formed in 1976. The group consists of Bono (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), the Edge (lead guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals), Adam Clayton (bass guitar), and Larry Mullen Jr. (drums and percussion). Initially rooted in post-punk, U2's musical style evolved throughout their career, yet has maintained an anthemic sound built on Bono's expressive vocals and the Edge's effects-based guitar textures…

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