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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094637306727
Label: Virgin Records Us
Manufacturer: Virgin Records Us
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Virgin Records Us
Release Date: January 23, 2007
Sales Rank: 6699
Studio: Virgin Records Us
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Album Description:
Standard UK pressing of the debut album from Britpop supergroup The Good, The Bad And The Queen. TGTBTQ is a new album featuring Damon Albarn (Blur/Gorillaz), Paul Simonon (The Clash), Tony Allen (Africa 70/Fela Kuti) and Simon Tong (The Verve). The Good, The Bad and The Queen began life in the Aphrodisia Studios in Nigeria in 2004 and traces a journey from the English music hall tradition, over to West Africa for Afrobeat, zigzagging through the West Indies and its reggae and dub, back to England and London's punk scene, all the while taking in a strand of British beat music from the '50s right through to Britpop. Produced by Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Burton. EMI. 2007
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To open this oddball supergroup's debut, Paul Simonon hints at "Guns of Brixton," and when Tony Allen's flex rhythms come in, there's a shadow of Fela Kuti, too. Then Damon Albarn's slow grit of a voice enters--framed by Simon Tong's flecked guitar. And collectively, The Good, the Bad, & the Queen is quickly sui generis, adamantly different than anything you think you've heard. A band with this much power has at least two options: to cut loose raucously or to mute their overt power for a more covert, dub-inflected atmospheric potency. Smartly, Albarn and his crew opt for the half-light of elastic bass lines, the clouds between the parentheses of drums--the covert. It's not until "Kingdom of Doom," the erstwhile 'single' of the album, that motion expands beyond the languorous. And even then, Tony Allen largely sits out. You get the full flush of Simonon and Allen on "Three Changes" shuffling time even while holding the tempo to a dubbish gait. It's not Blur, the Clash, Fela, the Verve, or Gorillaz. It's more than just names on albums. --Andrew Bartlett
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I was destined to buy this album, whether it was good or not. Since I discovered Blur back in High School, I've followed Damon Albarn from project to project, thoroughly enjoying every album he's released. The Good, the Bad & the Queen was the next stop on what has been a very interesting and exhilarating musical journey.
Blur and Gorillaz are all about immediacy. There are brilliant layers in the music if you should listen some more, but you'll still get a lot out of the first listen. ... Read More
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This band has such an amazing sound, an absolutely refined sound incorporating their influences and histories in such a way I find it unmatched by any bands of the genre. Very few bands move me; this album did. I'm still pining for another album by The Good, The Bad & The Queen.
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I won't rehash what others have already put down about this guy's pedigree, what comes through here is his appreciation for the dancehall art form and it's ability to tell a good story. This is more evocative of the music he collaborated on for Antonia Bird's film 'Ravenous' [see it, and not on commercial TV!] and the title cut reminds me of Roxy Music at the height of it's Eno/Jobson artrock flourishes. There's not a lot out there excites me right now. This does.
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I bought this 1) because I was following the career of ex-Clash bassist Paul Simonon, and 2) I was convinced by all the rave reviews the album was receiving, including several best-of-'07 lists...It was not what I expected; I was not familiar with Blur's work, so I was expecting a more punk/reggae-driven, Clash-like sound. But I do enjoy it, with it's dreamy quality, and an intensity that builds to the intense final track. It's grown on me each time I've listened to it.
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It might be a little hard to keep track of Damon Albarn because musically, he has so much going on, from being the frontman of rock band Blur to being a member of hip-hop outfit Gorillaz to recording his own songs. Now he comes at us with a new project, The Good, the Bad & the Queen.
Well, I don't know if I can really call this a "new" project after all because it was recorded in 2005. And I really can't tell whether the editorial reviewer likes or DISlikes the album, but anyway, if you're ... Read More
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