ECHOBELLY

Londres 1992

Britpop band

Sonya Madan, voz

Glenn Johansson, guitarra

EVERYONE'S THE ONE (1994)

Fauve Records 1994

DISCOTECA F 

ON (1995)

CD Fauve Records 1995

DISCOTECA F

Olympian (Gene, 1995)

English indie rock/Britpop band

Londres, 1993-2004

Martin Rossiter, Vocals

Steve Mason, Guitar

Kevin Miles, Bass 

Matt James, Drums

OLYMPIAN (1995)

Produção de Phil Vinall

Songwritting

Kevin Miles, Martin Rossiter, Matt James, Steve Mason

DISCOTECA

FAIXAS

1. Haunted By You 3:42

2. Your Love, It Lies 3:19

3. Truth, Rest Your Head 5:01

4. A Car That Sped 3:37

5. Left-Handed 2:21

6. London, Can You Wait? 3:12

7. To The City 4:00

 8. Still Can't Find The Phone 3:01

9. Sleep Well Tonight 4:36

10. Olympian 5:25

11. We'll Find Our Own Way 2:25

FICHA TÉCNICA

Todas as músicas compostas por Kevin Miles, Martin Rossiter, Matt James e Steve Mason

Phil Vinall, produção

Pete Thomas, arranjos

Kevin Miles, guitarra baixo

Sian Bell, cello

Matt James, percussão e bateria

Steve Mason, guitar

Trouser Press

Gene Olympian (Polydor)

1995 Olympian EP (UK Costermonger)

1995 For the Dead EP (UK Costermonger)

1996 To See the Lights (UK Costermonger)

1996 Drawn to the Deep End (UK Polydor)

1997 Speak to Me Someone EP (UK Polydor)

1997 Where Are They Now? EP (UK Polydor)

1997 Revelations (UK Polydor) 

1999 Rising for Sunset (UK Contra Music)

2000 As Good As It Gets: The Best of Gene (UK Costermonger) 

2001 Is It Over? EP (UK Contra Music)

2001 Libertine (UK Contra Music)

Never mind the fact that Gene does bear a marked resemblance to the Smiths. The British foursome had a similar approach to UK guitar pop — a love of joyous songcraft composed of equal parts intelligent words, cheeky melodies and a sense of grandiose melodrama. But where Morrissey basks in his miserabilia, Gene singer/lyricist Martin Rossiter kicked against his grim London world, finding solace, community and redemption in his band’s music. Despite the often-dreary subject matter (which ranges from homophobia to gang violence to premature death), Olympian retains an exuberant spirit that never gets mopey or maudlin. Rossiter’s songs are witty and articulate, often fraught with an epic temperament (“Sleep Well Tonight,” the bracing “To the City”), even when capturing the minutiae of urban life and love (“Truth, Rest Your Head”). On such soulful and electric anthems as “Haunted by You” or tender-but-tough ballads like “Your Love, It Lies,” Gene conjures up echoes of the Faces, the Jam — even Queen. Guitarist Steve Mason is a wonder, whether he’s getting orchestral on the majestic title track or plying the proverbial hot licks all over “A Car That Sped.” In the end, Olympian is so good Rossiter can be forgiven his occasional Mozzer-like growl; Gene’s touching and terrific tuneage is enough. (The A-sides of the band’s first two singles, “For the Dead” and the splendid “Be My Light, Be My Guide,” were left off the British release but added to the US edition as bonus tracks.) The Olympian EP features a different mix of “Olympian” (retooled for UK pop radio with the piano up and the guitars down), as well as two UK non-LP tunes and a fine BBC radio version of the Beatles’ “Don’t Let Me Down.” For the Dead reprises the band’s first 45 with producer Phil Vinall’s remix of the title cut and the original B-side (“Child’s Body”), plus live takes of “Sick, Sober and Sorry” and “Truth, Rest Your Head.” To See the Lights collects all of Gene’s consistently excellent B-sides, including the way-Smithsy “I Can’t Decide If She Really Loves Me,” the ripping title cut and yet another fine Rossiter romantic lament, “How Much for Love.” There are also some fab radio sessions (like the amazing, bare-boned “A Car That Sped”), such live thingies as the shambolic take on the Bacharach/David standard “I Say a Little Prayer” (recorded at Glastonbury in ’95), plus “For the Dead” and “Be My Light, Be My Guide.” Given Gene’s momentum, Drawn to the Deep End should have been a significant breakthrough, yet it is something of a disappointment. The instrumentalists are in excellent form, handling the rockers and ballads with equal parts theatrical drama and dynamic subtlety. The tempo- shifting, suite-like “New Amusements” remains Gene’s most ambitious moment on record, and Steve Mason’s guitar stands out in nearly every song, especially the Smiths-like “Where Are They Now?” The unavoidable problem here is Rossiter, who has devolved into a weeping, humorless, pathetic boo- hooer (or its flip side, a milquetoast who gushes thanks to anyone who cares for him). While his lovely baritone sounds even better than Morrissey’s, the insufferable lyrics lack his wit. Sobbing desperation ruins the otherwise beautiful “We Could Be Kings”: “Will you hold me like a child / Will you catch me when I fall / Can you hear me when I call / When I’m hungry and I’m cold / Will you feed me from your palm / And shelter me from harm / Can you love me?” “Speak to Me Someone” and “Why I Was Born” also suffer from high-maintenance sappiness. Rossiter regains his effectiveness when inhabiting other characters (examining the long-term effects of child abuse on the bruising “Voice of the Father,” conjuring up London’s fog and grime on the murder ballad “The Accidental,” making like Freddie Mercury on “I Love You, What Are You?”), but they’re no match for the self-absorbed love cries. Thankfully, Rossiter toned it down on Revelations, but the effort is in vain. He continues to send a mixed message, proclaiming himself to be “In Love With Love” (as an excuse for infidelity), then sighing that “Love Won’t Work” one song later. He dabbles in socialist politics here, as clumsily as he shouldered love on the prior album. Activism poorly suits the vocalist’s mannerisms; he turns compassion into dogmatic finger- pointing. The well-meaning “As Good As It Gets” offers vague working-class angst, and groan-inducing lines like “Yes, I started life retarded” damage the Tony Blair- questioning “Love Won’t Work.” Much of the album rocks harder than Gene’s norm, but the louder guitars don’t convey intensity and too many of the ballads lack memorable melodies. On the plus side, the riffs and emotional drama of “You’ll Never Walk Again” almost reach U2 levels, “Angel” poetically questions social class and the piano-driven “Something In the Water” boasts a winning chorus (despite Rossiter’s silly vocals). Revelations provides added evidence for those convinced that Gene are Smiths slaves: the best melody here, the pub shout-along “Fill Her Up,” shares its hook with “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” while the “The Looker” lifts its “this is the last line I’ll ever sing” lyric directly from Morrissey’s “Disappointed”. A pedestrian, forgettable affair. Rising for Sunset is a bland live set that magnifies Gene’s troubles. Ballads like “Your Love, It Lies” are handled deftly, and Rossiter is in fine voice (especially on “You’ll Never Walk Again”), but the band fails to generate any spark on the harder numbers. As Good As It Gets: The Best of Gene is an adequate retrospective, but hardly essential. The disc contains such rarities as the suicide ballad “Drawn to the Deep End” (omitted from the album of the same name) and a cover of the Jam’s “Town Called Malice,” yet it omits many gems from Olympian. Such a downturn in quality relegated Gene to a forgotten also-ran in the Britpop realm, so few noticed the band’s return to form, Libertine. The set gets off to a weak start with the pretty, empty, whining and overlong “Does He Have a Name?” and “Is It Over?,” an inexcusable rip-off of the Smiths’ “I Know It’s Over” that raises the melodrama to unlistenable heights. But the rest of the album delivers a batch of solid tunes, sprinkled with reggae (!) rhythms. This new ingredient gives Mason new avenues to explore, making “We’ll Get What We Deserve” and the excellent “Spy in the Clubs” especially powerful. Rossiter also shines, returning to Olympian-era form on “O Lover,” a gentle Marvin Gaye-styled plea for a girl to leave her abusive boyfriend. He even allows himself a light-hearted moment on “Walking in the Shallows,” a charmingly awkward request for a one-night stand (“My heart’s full of pain / So I’ll follow my groin, not my brain”). Rossiter still wields the schmaltz too liberally (“You”), but Libertine is Gene’s most satisfying album since Olympian. 

Gene disbanded in 2004.

Texto de Michael Krugman e Seth Bender

2025 Trouser Press LLC

HEATWAVE

Londres 1975 - 1984

SONGS Boogie Nights, Always and Forever, The Groove Line

1° TOO HOT TO HANDLE (1976)

Produzido por Barry Blue

LP Vinil GTO 1976 (UK) NT

2° CENTRAL HEATING (1978)

Produzido por Barry Blue

LP Vinil GTO 1976 (UK) NT

HOT PROPERTY (1979)

Produzido por Phil Ramone

LP Vinil GTO 1979 (UK) NT

2CD Demon Music 2010

DISCOTECA F

Do site Dusty Grooves:

A pair of mid 70s classics from Heawave -- Too Hot To Handle & Central Heating -- in a 2CD set with bonus tracks! TOO HOT TO HANDLE (1976) is a killer album of crossover soul -- one that dropped like a bomb when it hit, and gave this UK group a number of big hits in America! Keyboardist Rod Temperton wrote all the tracks on the album -- and he's got keen talent for both funky numbers and ballads. If soul stations played album side specials the way that classic rock stations do, side one would be in heavy rotation -- as it kicks off with the funky title cut, rolls into the hit "Boogie Nights", cuts to the sample classic "Ain't No Half Steppin" (forever made famous by Big Daddy Kane), and steps into the moody ballad "Always & Forever". It's hard to beat that lineup, but side two does a pretty good job -- and includes a similar mix of titles like "Super Soul Sister", "All You Do Is Dial", and "Sho'nuff Must Be Love".  The CD includes 4 bonus tracks: alternate versions of "Boogie Nights", plus "Special Offer" and "Slip Your Disc To This". 

CENTRAL HEATING (1978) is another great effort that's almost as perfectly sublime as the first! Despite their UK origin, these guys really give American late 70s soul a run for its money -- hitting in a sweetly compressed sound that fuses the vocals, keyboards, and grooves together wonderfully! The album hits equally well on all burners -- with some key mellow cuts, and a few funkier upbeat numbers. Titles include loads of classics -- like "Mind Blowing Decisions", "Star Of A Story", "Send Out For Sunshine", "Mind Blowing Decisions, "The Groove Line", "Central Heating", "Leavin For A Dream" and more. 2 bonus tracks: remixes of "Mind Blowing Decisions" and "The Groove Line".  © 1996-2025, Dusty Groove, Inc.

LUKE HAINES

THE SERVANTS

Londres 1985-1991

Desinterest (1990)

CD LP Vinil Paperhouse Records 1990

Small Time / Hey Hey We're The Manqués

LP Vinil Captured Tracks 2013

THE AUTEURS

New Wave (1993)
Now I’m A Cowboy (1994)
After Murder Park (1996)
How I Learned To Love The Bootboys (1999)

BAADER MEINHOF

1° Baader Meinhof (1996)

DAS CAPITAL (2003)

CD Hut Records 2003

DISCOTECA F

Lançº 21.07.2003

BLACK BOX RECORDER

1° England Made Me (1998)

DISCOTECA F

2° The Facts of Life (2003)

3° Passionoia (2003)

Luke Haines is Alive Well and Living in Buenos Aires-Heavy Frenz The Solo Anthology 2001/2017

Box 4 CD

DISCOTECA F

SOUL II SOUL

Londres 1988

CLUB CLASSICS VOL. ONE (1989)

DISCOTECA

VOLUME IV THE CLASSIC SINGLES (1993)

DISCOTECA

PET SHOP BOYS

Londres 1981

Chris Lowe & Neil Tennant

ÁLBUNS:

 

1° PLEASE (1986)

K7 Cassete Parlophone 1986

DISCOTECA

2° ACTUALLY (1987)

2° Álbum dos Pet Shop Boys

CD Duplo 2001

DISCOTECA

K7 Parlophone 1987

DISOTECA F

DISCO (1986)
    CD Parlophone 1986

3° INTROSPECTIVE (1988)

CD Parlophone 1988

DISCOTECA

INTROSPECTIVE (1988)

K7 Cassete Parlophone 1988

DISCOTECA F

3° INTROSPECTIVE (1988)

CD Duplo 2001

DISCOTECA P

BEHAVIOUR (1990)
    CD 1990

VERY (1993)

CD Parlophone 1993

DISCOTECA x2

VERY (1993)

K7 Cassete Parlophone 1993

DISCOTECA

6° BILINGUAL (1996)

CD Parlophone 1996

DISCOTECA P

BILINGUAL (1996)

K7 Cassete Parlophone 1995

DISCOTECA F

BILINGUAL (1996)

CD Duplo 2001

DISCOTECA 

A RED LETTER DAY (1997)

CD 1997

NIGHTLIFE (1999) CD    
    CD 1999

RELEASE (2002)

CD EMI 2002

DISCOTECA

FUNDAMENTAL (2006)

YES (2009)

ELYSIUM (2012)

ELECTRIC (2013)

SUPER (2016)

HOTSPOT (2020)

Alternative

Disco 2

COMPILAÇÕES:

DISCOGRAPHY - THE COMPLETE SINGLES COLLECTION (1991)
    CD 1991

ULTIMATE (CD/DVD, 2010)    
    CD DVD 2010

PARTY (2009, Compilação do Brasil)

SINGLES:
1º West End Girls (Bobcat Records 1984) NT
2º Opportunitties (Parlophone 1985) NT

I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing (1993)

Single dos Pet Shop Boys

CD Máxi-Single Parlophone 1993

CD 7243 8 81120 2 4

DISCOTECA

I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing, CD Máxi-Single Parlophone 1993

A Red Letter Day CD One (1997)

Single dos Pet Shop Boys

CD Cardboard Wallet

CD One, Parlophone 1997

DISCOTECA 

A Red Letter Day CD One, CD Cardboard Wallet Parlophone 1997

DVDTECA:

ERASURE

Andy Bell e Vince Clarke

Londres 1985

Synth-Pop

1º WONDERLAND (1986)

NT

THE INNOCENTS (1988)

CD Stumm 55 (1988)

DISCOTECA??

WILD! (1989)

DISCOTECA

ABBA-ESQUE (1992)

DISCOTECA

COWBOY (1997)

CD Mute Records 1997

DISCOTECA F

Loveboat (2000)

POP 12 HITS (1997)

DISCOTECA

FAZE ACTION

GB Londres, irmãos Simon e Robin Lee

1º PLANS & DESIGNS (1997)

DISCOTECA

Abstract FUNK Theory (2002)

CD Obsessive Recordings 2002

DISCOTECA

CD com Sobrecapa cartão

DISCOGRAFIA

Original Disco Motion (1995, single de estreia)

In The Trees (1996, single)

1º Plans & Designs (Nuphonic, 1997)

Moving Cities (Nuphonic, 1999)

Pure Braziliance (2001)

FA presents Abstract Funk Theory (Obsessive Records 2002)

Broad Souls (Bar de Lune, 2004)