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Oh, you love Top 50 lists really. You know you do. Stop pretending to hate them.

EMBRACE MY TOP 50 ALBUM LIST!

feefafo's top albums (overall)
1. The B-52's - The B-52's (75) 2. Wall of Voodoo - Call Of The West (63) 3. XTC - Skylarking (47) 4. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (44) 5. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless (42) 6. Various Artists - Dead Bands Party - A Tribute To Oingo Boingo (41) 7. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party (40) 8. Juttman - Forgotten Songs EP (40) 9. Sparks - Kimono My House (39) 10. No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom (38) 11. Nuclear Bubble Wrap - Advanced at Nothing (32) 12. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box (31) 13. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (31) 14. Lemon Demon - Damn Skippy (31) 15. Danny Elfman - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (30) 16. Madness - Divine Madness (30) 17. Wire - Pink Flag/Chairs Missing/154 (30) 18. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Best of OMD (29) 19. Missing Persons - The Best Of Missing Persons (29) 20. Devo - Freedom of Choice (29) 21. Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear (29) 22. The Waitresses - The Best of The Waitresses (28) 23. Berlin - Best of Berlin 1979-1988 (28) 24. The Aquabats - Charge!! (27) 25. Gang of Four - Entertainment! (27) 26. Magazine - Real Life (26) 27. Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent (26) 28. Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club - Very Tiny Songs (26) 29. The Cars - Heartbeat City (26) 30. Adam and the Ants - Antics in the Forbidden Zone (26) 31. DAT Politics - Are Oui Phony?? (25) 32. The Fixx - Reach the Beach (25) 33. Harry and the Potters - Harry and the Potters (25) 34. XTC - Drums And Wires (25) 35. The Specials - The Singles Collection (24) 36. They Might Be Giants - Flood (24) 37. The Guckenheimer Sauerkraut Band - Delta Sushi (22) 38. John Foxx - Cathedral Oceans III (22) 39. Logan Whitehurst & the Junior Science Club - Earth is Big (22) 40. Bow Wow Wow - The Best of Bow Wow Wow (22) 41. Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves/Alien Soundtracks (22) 42. Reel Big Fish - Cheer Up! (22) 43. The Red Krayola - The Red Krayola (22) 44. Oingo Boingo - Best O' Boingo (22) 45. The Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing (22) 46. Devo - Duty Now for the Future / New Traditionalists (22) 47. Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club (21) 48. Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat (21) 49. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (21) 50. Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep (21)

I realized I have lots of CDs of the bands I don't listen to and I need some money (for more CDs xD), so I decided to sell them.

I like keeping my things in a very good condition, so all CDs look perfect, but if you need some pics of them, feel free to ask.

The shipping abroad is about 10$, but if you want to know exactly how much it is, ask me.

I don't know what prices are fair for you, so I thought the best way is let you to offer for the CDs. I don't want to rip you off and I don't want to sell it way too cheap, so please, let your prices be fair, ok :)? Please offer in dollars or euro.

Possible payment: PAYPAL ONLY

For Polish people:
Płatność Paypalem lub przelewem na konto w mBanku. W Warszawie możliwość odbioru osobistego. Cenę zaproponujcie oczywiście w złotówkach :D. Przesyłka to ok. 8zł poleconym priorytetem.

CD list:

AFI
- Sing the Sorrow [album]

Apocalyptica
- Apocalyptica [album]

Backyard Babies
- MAKING ENEMIES IS GOOD [album]

Bad Religion
- PUNK ROCK SONGS (THE EPIC YEARS) [album]

Blade Loki
- ...no pasaran [album]

Cradle of Filth
- DUSK...AND HER EMBRACE [album]
- FROM THE CRADLE TO ENSLAVE [mini-album]
- VEMPIRE or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein [min-album]
- NYMPHETAMINE special edition [album, 2 discs]
- Bitter Suites to Succubi [album] SIGNED BEFORE THE LIVE ON METALMANIA IN POLAND IN 2005
- LOVECRAFT & WITCH HEARTS [album, 2 discs]
- PanDaemonAeon [DVD]

Dimmu Borgir
- DEATH CULT ARMAGEDDON [album]

Edguy
- HELLFIRE CLUB [album]

Evergrey
- THE INNER CIRCLE special edition [album]

For Selena And Sin
- OVERDOSED ON YOU [album]

Manzana
- BABIES OF REVOLUTION [album]
- nothing as whole as a broken heart [album]

Moonsorrow
- Kivenkantaja [mini-album]

Rammstein
- Sehnsucht [album]

Sacriversum
- SIGMA DRACONIS [album]

Tennis
- laundromat [album]

The 69 Eyes
- Framed in Blood [album]
- blessed be [album]
- Wasting The Dawn [album]
- Paris Kills [album]

The Rasmus
- FUNERAL SONG (THE RESURRECTION) [single]

Unshine
- the enigma of immortals [album]

Zwan
- HONESTLY [single]

misc (I can add one of them for free if you want to, but only if you buy 2 CDs and more):

TOTALLY PUNK
THE ESSENTIAL PUNK ALBUM
Tracklist:
1. The Stranglers - Something better Change
2. The Ruts - Babylons Burning
3. Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (with someone you shouldn't 've?)
4. The Skids - Sweet Suburbia
5. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster
6. The Vapors - Turning Japanese
7. X-Ray Specs - The Day The World Turned Day-Glo
8. Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
9. Penetration - Don't Dictate
10. Generation X - King Rocker
11. 999 - Emergency
12. Wire - Outdoor Miner
13. The Buzzcocks - What Do I Get?
14. Cockney Rejects - I'm Not A Fool
15. The Ramones - Sheena Is A Punk Rocker (Live)
16. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
17. The Stranglers - Hanging Around

American Pie: The Wedding soundtrack
Tracklist:
1. Foo Fighters - Times Like These
2. Good Charlotte - Anthem
3. New Found Glory - Forget Everything
4. Sum 41 - The Hell Song
5. All American Rejects - Swing Swing
6. Avril Lavigne - I Don't Give
7. Matt Nathanson - Laid
8. American Hi-Fi - The Art of Losing
9. Hot Action Cop - Fever For The Flava
10. Gob - Give Up The Grudge
11. Sugarcult - Bouncing Off The Walls
12. Feeder - Come Back Around
13. Nu - Any Other Girl
14. The Working Title - Beloved
15. Blue October - Calling You
16. Joseph Arthur - Honey & The Moon
17. The Wallflowers - Into The Mystic

Various Artists, CocaCola "Rock"
Tracklist:
1. Hole - Doll Parts
2. 3 Doors Down - When I'm Gone
3. Godsmack - I Stand Alone
4. Tosteer - The Hardest Task
5. Kangaroz - Taki Dzień
6. Wrinkled Fred - Backstabber
7. Sepultura - Roots Bloody Roots
8. Type O Negative - My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
9. Moonlight - Ronaa
10. Acid Drinkers - High Proof Cosmic Milk

Alternative Addiction
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October 7, 2009

1. Radiohead - Weird Fishes / Arpeggi
2. No Age - You're A Target
3. Magazine - Shot By Both Sides
4. Girls - Morning Light
5. Pictureplane - Cyclical Cyclical (Atlantis)
6. Rain Machine - Give Blood
7. Hecuba - Suffering
8. The Ettes - Take It With You
9. R.E.M. - Second Guessing
10. Wilco - You Never Know
11. Jupiter One - Anna
12. Blur - There's No Other Way
13. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than The Stars
14. The Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute
15. Kleerup - Misery
16. Simian Mobile Disco - Cream Dream
17. La Roux - Tigerlily
18. Electric Six - Fabulous People
19. WhoMadeWho - The Plot
20. Vampire Weekend - Horchata
21. Islands - Tender Torture
22. The Raveonettes - Breaking Into Cars
23. Calvin Harris - You Used To Hold Me
24. Patrick Wolf - Hard Times
25. Cougar - Appomattox
26. Portugal. The Man - Guns And Dogs
27. Washed out - Feel It All Around
28. Mew - Sometimes Life Isn't Easy
29. Monotonix - My Needs
30. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension
31. Muse - MK Ultra
32. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices
33. Editors - The Big Exit
34. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
35. Feist - I Feel It All
36. Modest Mouse - The Whale Song
37. Stars of Track and Field - Racing Lights
38. The Big Pink - Velvet
39. Underworld - Eight Ball

Maybe it's because I'm the kind of guy that starts reading Record Collector at the back page, then work my way to the front that I got into Magazine before I got into Buzzcocks. I got into Magazine through my ongoing fascination with post-punk, but to be honest I'd always thought of Buzzcocks as a 'punk' band.

I was seven years old when Buzzcocks first started rewriting the punk rule book so I missed them first time around and never really made the effort to listen to them after that. What a mistake!

Recently I took up bass guitar and one of the first songs I learned to play was 'Boredom' from Buzzcocks' groundbreaking Spiral Scratch EP, which has once again piqued my interest in the band.

I picked up the remastered 'Another Music in a Different Kitchen' for just £5 - a bargain for a double CD, especially when you get the full original album, plus four associated singles including Orgasm Addict and What Do I Get? plus a Peel session (3 tracks) - and that's just disc one!

Disc 2 includes 14 demo versions (some previously unreleased) and 9 tracks from their gig 'Live at the Electric Circus'on 2 October 1977.

If you haven't heard Buzzcocks yet Another Music in a Different Kitchen is a great introduction.

(this was cross-posted to my music blog A Future in Noise, and here for your perusal!)

Here, by 'underrated', I'm referring to artists that I enjoy that have a relative lack of mainstream acclaim and appeal in the present, though many (if not all) of the artists below have been critically acclaimed and some even did reasonably well sales-wise in their heyday. Check out the list below of my picks for best underrated bands, suggestions from Tumblr users, and be sure to name your personal favorites in the comments!

The Cars
Why They're Great: Ah, where to begin...The Cars are easily one of my most favorite bands ever, and while they've been reasonably respected by critics, particularly for their initial '78 album (one of the rare 5-star getters in my library at Rate Your Music), they continue to be underrated by a great many of those young enough to not have fond memories of hearing these tracks when they first came out. Luckily, I heard The Cars quite a lot growing up, thanks to my Mom playing tapes and later on, the particularly great compilation Anthology: Just What I Needed. Being a keyboardist myself, I always appreciated the innovative use of synths (Greg Hawkes) throughout their music, as well as the seamless melding of the worlds of new wave and straight-up pop-rock. Candy-O (1979) shows off their power-poppy tendencies as well as their darkly ironic side. More hits follow on Panorama (1980), Shake it Up (1981; it contains a hidden gem "A Dream Away"!), and their most commercial endeavor, Heartbeat City (1984). This cool, slick music is perfect where you think it ought to be...in cars.
What People Don't Get: It could be the ever-present aversion to rock-pop song structures, though it's a puzzler how anyone could have an aversion to Ric Ocasek's lyrical genius!
Recommended Albums: The Cars (1978), Candy-O (1979)
Recommended Compilation: Anthology: Just What I Needed (1995)

Felt
Why They're Great: Felt are that great, lost jangle-pop group that should have been huge, though appear to be forever doomed to relative obscurity and a cult following. A dreamlike, autumnal haze surrounds much of the work ("Primitive Painters"), occasionally giving way to isolated melancholy ("Crystal Ball"), which is where Felt truly shine.
What People Don't Get: Lawrence stole Tom Verlaine's voice? Well, Felt were "named after the way Tom Verlaine enunciated the word "felt" in the Television song "Venus", after all. I'd admit that Felt takes some getting used to, which is why I'd recommend going with Absolute Classic Masterpieces to begin.
Recommended Album: Forever Breathes the Lonely Word (1986)
Recommended Compilation: Absolute Classic Masterpieces (1993)

INXS
Why They're Great: 1987's Kick alone would justify the inclusion of INXS in such a list as this, and yet I rarely ever spot that album, or any other, from the band included in any kind of definitive albums list, be it for the 80s or overall. Anyone who is looking for something to dance to, or that has an interest in 80s music, at least ought to love this. 1984's The Swing (with "Johnson's Aeroplane", one of my favorite tracks!) and 1992's Welcome to Wherever You Are are even more underrated, alas.
What People Don't Get: The rest of their albums have scattered hits and aren't nearly as consistent as Kick. Listeners often bash the album (and band, for that matter) for sounding dated and/or mainstream...as if everything that was popular for a time must automatically be irrelevant in the present-day!
Recommended Album: The Swing (1984), Kick (1987)
Recommended Compilation: The Greatest Hits (1994)

The Kinks
Why They're Great: The Kinks deserve just as much props as the Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and The Who, and yet they're not always included up on that pedestal of greatness in the same way those bands are. The Kinks could warrant a whole separate future artist feature here on AFIN, surely, so for now I'll simply say that this is music I enjoy immensely, because of Rate Davies' brilliant songwriting, and the lovely, quintessential Britishness that permeates their work.
What People Don't Get: They have quite a large studio discography, with sharp variations of styles from album to album; compare and contrast Village Green... with Lola..., for instance! Non-UK listeners may also be non-receptive to the Britishisms of The Kinks, and may be disappointed to not hear much else like the proto-punky "You Really Got Me". Many of their best songs are scattered across albums, some of which have more filler than gems.
Recommended Albums: Something Else by The Kinks (1967), The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society (1968), Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (1970)
Recommended Compilation: The Ultimate Collection (2002)

Orange Juice
Why They're Great: Now, I'll admit I'm not the biggest fan of Orange Juice myself, but enough people suggested this to me to include that I figured I ought to go back and revisit their material. This band were jangle-poppers ahead of The Smiths (a band people tend to compare them with), frequently playing with a kaleidoscope of sound and a general cheeriness that makes this some of the most uplifting stuff you can expect to hear without the cheeriness getting in the way of musical quality.
What People Don't Get: Erm...the voice?
Recommended Albums: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982), Rip it Up (1982)
Recommended Compilation: In a Nutshell (1985)

Silver Apples
Why They're Great: The artists they've influenced are far better known (including Sonic Boom from Spacemen 3/Spectrum, Kraftwerk, and Suicide, a band I'll be featuring momentarily) than this genuinely strange group that came out with a psychedelic-synth sound (the melding of which had, I think it's safe to say, had not been heard before) in their first album, Silver Apples, released in 1968. Sounding like music from outer-space, with unsettling drumbeats and a warbling hum of vocals and electronics, it's little wonder this went over the heads of many and still remains a cult favorite.
What People Don't Get: It's dang weird.
Recommended Album: Silver Apples (1968), Contact (1969)
Recommended Compilation: Just get the albums!

Sparks
Why They're Great: Oh my, where to begin...a somewhat-warped, theatrical take on glam/art-rock, with a very European feel about it all (despite the band hailing from Los Angeles) and heavy theatrics - this applies particularly to the Sparks masterpiece Kimono My House. Much zany, over-the-top silliness is to be found in the world of Sparks, in equal measure to some of the most memorable, catchy tunes you can hope to hear ("This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us", "Something For the Girl With Everything").
What People Don't Get: They can be a bit much to take in, sometimes...?
Recommended Album: Kimono My House (1974), Propaganda (1974), Hello Young Lovers (2006)
Recommended Compilation: Profile: The Ultimate Sparks Collection (1991)

Suicide
Why They're Great:As the AMG indicates, "Although they barely receive credit, Suicide (singer Alan Vega and keyboardist Martin Rev) is the source point for virtually every synth pop duo that glutted the pop marketplace (especially in England) in the early '80s", and not only that, but they've been cited as being influential by artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, U2, and R.E.M. Hearing this band for the first time is probably in the topmost important moments in my musical life (and all from a Last.fm Music Advice Center recommendation!). Oddly enough, it wasn't their seminal debut album that I first heard, but their second released in 1980, and produced by The Cars' Ric Ocasek (a big-time fan of the band!).
What People Don't Get: I. Don't. KNOW! I think, luckily, Suicide are getting their long overdue props, what with Blast First Petite's series of singles from artists, including The Horrors, Primal Scream, and Sun O))), covering Suicide in honor of Alan Vega's 70th (?!) birthday and the fact that the band are going to be playing, their 1977 album in it's entirety, live at ATP New York 2009.
Recommended Albums: Suicide (1977), The Second Album (1980), A Way of Life (1988)
Recommended Compilation: Get those albums! Live 1977-1978, released last year, is no place for beginners, but makes for some seriously intense listening.

XTC
Why They're Great: Their slow transformation from first-rate post-punk (Drums and Wires) to psychedelic-chamber pop (Skylarking), to soundtrack-esque bliss (Apple Venus Vols. 1 and 2) make XTC a truly singular entity in music.
What People Don't Get: Inconsistent albums - you're better off beginning with a compilation for starters.
Recommended Albums: Drums and Wires (1979), Skylarking (1986), Apple Venus Vol. 1 (1999)
Recommended Compilation: Fossil Fuel: The XTC Singles 1977-1992 (1996)

Yello
Why They're Great: As is the case with The Cars, I know about and like this band primarily due to hearing them quite a lot growing up. I am a sucker for dark, eerie electronic music, and this is what this band excelled at. Yello's music is characterized by otherworldly instrumentation, unique samples, and haunting vocals.
What People Don't Get: It's a safe bet that the majority of people that have heard Yello and aren't into them have really only heard "Oh Yeah". If that was the only song I heard, I'm not sure that I would've gone any further. Those who have become acquainted with more material and still aren't impressed might be off-put by their hodgepodge sound-collages and arty strangeness in general, particularly on their first release Solid Pleasure. A suspicion of electronics in music may also be responsible, which I believe is a silent, widespread plague among us!
Recommended Album: Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess (1983)
Recommended Compilation: Yello 1980-1985: The New Mix in One Go (1986) This is truly the best place to begin with Yello; even though these are remixes, nearly all are superior to the originals, particularly "Daily Disco" and "Pinball Cha Cha".

...and More (thanks to the Tumblr users I polled! I still have more investigating in regards to some of these artists, particular faves of mine are bolded):
14 Iced Bears, a-ha, Black Tambourine, Cheap Trick, The Chills, The Clean, Flamin' Groovies, The Flesh Eaters, Gallows, The Gun Club, Jazz Butcher, Joy Zipper, Magazine, Metal Urbain, Prefab Sprout, The Pretty Things, The Saints, Small Faces, Violent Femmes, Wipers, The Yardbirds

This week, we lifted the lid once more off our worm farm of unholy covers, bringing you the beauty of the source by diving into the cesspool of re-interpretation. Electronic or just absolutely electric cover versions and covers of electronic originals to fascinate and devastate, including selections from the brilliant "Recovery" box set on Fractured and some dubbed out pop from the new “King Size Dub Chapter 69” comp on Echo Beach. Dare to do it differently!

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Coming up Nextended -

Monday 3 August 09
"Upstairs at Frigid"
A very special occasion we celebrate with the soundtrack to a very special night of good interesting music - legendary Sydney Sunday club night Frigid. At home in a number of different venues over the 10 years of its existence, tonight’s EP focuses on the Hopetoun Hotel years, and the upstairs/downstairs secondary spaces in particular. Fringe interpretations of relaxing dinner music!

More themes at your leisure, please, to extendedplay@2ser.com .
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Max Tundra - Tell It To My Heart
(“Ink Me” single - 2000, Domino)
(original by Taylor Dayne - from “Tell It To My Heart” single - 1987, Arista)

Wall of Voodoo - The Morricone Themes (Hang 'em High/The Good, The Bad & The Ugly)
(“Ring Of Fire” 12inch - 1982, Index)
(originals by Dominic Frontiere and his Orchestra - from “Hang 'em High - Original Motion Picture Score” - 1968, United Artists; and Ennio Morricone - from “The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” - 1967, United Artists)

Magazine - Goldfinger
(“Touch And Go” single - 1978, Virgin)
(original by Shirley Bassey - from “Goldfinger” single - 1964, United Artists)

The Soft Pink Truth - Homo-Sexual
(“Do You Want New Wave Or Do You Want The Soft Pink Truth?” - 2004, Soundslike)
(original by Angry Samoans - from “Back From Samoa” - 1982, Bad Trip)

Yo La Tengo - Too Late
(“Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo” 2xCD - 1996, Matador)
(original by Wire - from “Chairs Missing” - 1978, Harvest)

The Systematics - The Israelites
(“More Songs That Will Never Be Released” ltd cassette compilation - 1980, M Squared) #
(original by Desmond Dekker & The Aces - from “Israelites” single - 1968, Pyramid)

The Barons - Paint It Black
(“Growing Pains” 12inchEP compilation - 1980, M Squared) #
(original by The Rolling Stones - from “Paint It Black” single - 1966, Decca)

Height/Dismay - Girl From Ipanema
(“Growing Pains” 12inchEP compilation - 1980, M Squared) #
(original by Stan Getz/João Gilberto - from “The Girl from Ipanema” single - 1963, Verve)

Matmos - The Stars And Stripes Forever
(“The Civil War” - 2003, Matador)
(original “Stars And Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa, written 1896)

Laibach - For You Blue
(“Let It Be” - 1988, Mute)
(original by The Beatles - from “Let It Be” - 1970, Apple)

J.G. Thirlwell - Warm Leatherette
(“Recovery” 10x7inch compilation - 2008, Fractured)
(original by The Normal - Warm Leatherette - from “T.V.O.D.” single - 1978, Mute)

CoH - Fffetish
(“Love Uncut” - 2000, Eskaton)
(original by Vicious Pink - from “Fetish” single - 1985, Parlophone)

B(if)tek - Wired For Sound
(“2020” - 2000, Murmur)
(original by Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound - from “Wired For Sound” - 1981, EMI)

Carter Tutti - Lucifer Sam
(“Recovery” 10x7inch compilation - 2008, Fractured)
(original by Pink Floyd - Lucifer Sam - from “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn” - 1967, EMI Columbia)

Gudrun Gut - Tumbling Monks
(“Silver Monk Time” - 2006, play loud!)
(original “Love Came Tumblin' Down” by The Monks - from “Black Monk Time” - 1966, Polydor)

The Slits - I Heard It Through The Grapevine
(“Typical Girls” single - 1979, Island)
(original by Marvin Gaye - from “In the Groove” - 1968, Tamla Motown)

Dub Spencer & Trance Hill - Jeanny
(“King Size Dub Chapter 69” compilation - 2009, Echo Beach)
(original by Falco - from “Jeanny” single - 1985, Gig)


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notes for future post:
1.track the invisible somehow reminds of The Legendary Pink Dots, especially vocal

2.Kreuzer's new EP Lilium - to find out about last track. A review.

3.about last purchases.

4.Long Fin Killie. What happened with Valentino disc and how much i miss it.

5. Magazine.one of the first alboms (or even debut? to check) Secondhand Daylight Came from the same source as Long Fin Killie (that means from Tsipy.
Conseptual one, of coarse. Two "thematic" tracks, Feed the Enemy at the begining, and it's twin, Permafrost at the end. . Ironically aggressive songs about human nature, all full of disappointment together with happy synth and catchy rythm and mean punk like vocal in the middle. Beautiful instrumental cut an album a two(a two I should say? to two? for two? or there is no such form in english? Ok anyway if somebody wants to give me a free lessson - you're welcome)

The Thin Air in the middle of album . Almost Pink Floyd style instrumental outbreak, crystally bright, clear, with that leaf-fall atmosphere of autumn that also was so breathable in Pink Floyd instrumentals. As perfect as instrumental could be.
Back to Nature - is it a bow to the Fad Gadget side? or in reverse, Fad Gadget are turning to a Magazine side? well, both tracks are out at middle 79...A spirit of an Epoch?
few post-punkish (or even slightly punkis) grimaces like Believe That I Understand or Rhythm Of Cruelty, with almost a tragic lyrics and almost clown-like poses. Wp, theese guys may be sarcastic too. Although I prefer especially their pure tragic at the final track of an album, Permafrost - a hymn to emptiness of a human soul.

Take the 50 top artists in your musical profile, and create a cloud of the similar artists that are not in your top 50. The result is a collection of highly recommended artists for your personal profile. You can generate your own cloud (in BBCode) at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/recommend.php

My recommendations are

Adam Ant Ash Big Audio Dynamite British Sea Power Duran Duran Echo & The Bunnymen Elbow Frankie Goes to Hollywood Gang of Four Graham Coxon Heaven 17 Howard Jones Ian Brown James Dean Bradfield Kasabian Love and Rockets Magazine Mansun Missing Persons Modern English Nicky Wire Noel Gallagher Ocean Colour Scene Paul Weller Peter Murphy Public Image Ltd. Richard Ashcroft Scritti Politti Shed Seven Siouxsie and the Banshees Super Furry Animals Tears for Fears The Alarm The Bluetones The Charlatans The Comsat Angels The Danse Society The Enemy The Glove The Human League The La's The Psychedelic Furs The Seahorses The Sound The Stone Roses The Teardrop Explodes Thomas Dolby Thompson Twins Wire XTC