Visage - Visage (1980) {Polydor}
Visage - Visage (1980) {Polydor}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 232 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 94 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 22 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1988 Polydor / PolyGram | 800 029-2
New Wave / New Romantic / Synth Pop
With apologies to Spandau Ballet, Ultravox, and even Duran Duran, this is the music that best represents the short-lived but always underrated new romantic movement. That's fitting, because Visage's frontman, Steve Strange, was the colorfully painted face of the movement, just as this album was its sound. Warming up Kraftwerk's icy Teutonic electronics with a Bowie-esque flair for fashion, Strange and the new romantics created a clubland oasis far removed from the drabness of England's early-'80s reality – and the brutality of the punk response to it. And no one conjured up that Eurodisco fantasyland better than Visage, whose "Fade to Grey" became the anthem of the outlandishly decked-out Blitz Kids congregated at Strange's club nights.
Visage - Visage (1980) {Polydor}
With its evocative French female vocals, distant sirens and pulsing layers of synthesizers, "Fade to Grey" is genuinely haunting, the definite high point for Visage and their followers. But the band's self-titled debut is a consistently fine creation, alternating between tunes that share the eerie ambience of "Fade to Grey" ("Mind of a Toy," "Blocks on Blocks") and others that show off a more muscular brand of dance-rock (the title track, filled with thundering electronic tom-tom fills, and the sax-packed instrumental "The Dancer"). Strange and drummer/nightclub partner Rusty Egan had wisely surrounded themselves with top-level talent, primarily drawn from the bands Ultravox and Magazine, and the excellent playing of contributors like guitarists Midge Ure and John McGeoch, bassist Barry Adamson, synthesist Dave Formula, and, especially, electric violinist Billy Currie, all of whom give the album a depth unmatched by most contemporaneous techno-pop. And despite the group's frequently dramatic pose, Strange and his bandmates were hardly humorless; the first single, "Tar," is a witty anti-smoking advertisement, while the Eastwood homage "Malpaso Man" adds some incongruous cowboy twang to the dance beats. Only the closing track, the instrumental "The Steps," is inconsequential – the rest of Visage proves the new romantics left a legacy that transcends their costumes and makeup.
Personnel:
Steve Strange - vocals
Midge Ure - guitar, keyboards, bass
Billy Currie - violin, keyboards
John McGeoch - guitar, saxophone
Rusty Egan - drums, percussion
Dave Formula - keyboards
Barry Adamson - bass
tracklist:
01. Visage 3:53
02. Blocks On Blocks 4:00
03. The Dancer 3:40
04. Tar 3:32
05. Fade To Grey 4:00
06. Malpaso Man 4:14
07. Mind Of A Toy 4:28
08. Moon Over Moscow 4:00
09. Visa-age 4:18
10. The Steps 3:14
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010
EAC extraction logfile from 22. October 2011, 20:10
Visage / Visage
Used drive : ASUS DRW-20B1LT Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s
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9 | 31:53.10 | 4:20.25 | 143485 | 163009
10 | 36:13.35 | 3:14.42 | 163010 | 177601
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Track 6
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Track 7
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==== Log checksum 7BC80F51DBCF1CC4B72242B701B9A62A94092E2E81EE80D715E027EF2C46157D ====
EAC extraction logfile from 22. October 2011, 20:10
Visage / Visage
Used drive : ASUS DRW-20B1LT Adapter: 1 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\FLAC\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.32 | 3:53.33 | 32 | 17539
2 | 3:53.65 | 4:00.12 | 17540 | 35551
3 | 7:54.02 | 3:40.35 | 35552 | 52086
4 | 11:34.37 | 3:32.40 | 52087 | 68026
5 | 15:07.02 | 4:02.15 | 68027 | 86191
6 | 19:09.17 | 4:14.58 | 86192 | 105299
7 | 23:24.00 | 4:28.32 | 105300 | 125431
8 | 27:52.32 | 4:00.53 | 125432 | 143484
9 | 31:53.10 | 4:20.25 | 143485 | 163009
10 | 36:13.35 | 3:14.42 | 163010 | 177601
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Filename K:\EACrips\Visage - Visage\10 - The Steps.wav
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==== Log checksum 7BC80F51DBCF1CC4B72242B701B9A62A94092E2E81EE80D715E027EF2C46157D ====
Visage - Visage (1980) {Polydor}
Visage - Visage (1980) {Polydor}
All thanks goes to the original releaser!