Gr3ac3e Bla3ck Sa3n3d Sh3o3re

                                            Gr3ac3e Bla3ck Sa3n3d Sh3o3re

Reqauested way back by a site visitor. Apologies I forget your name

I didnt own this @ the time, as my last copy had got stolen nearly 20 yrs ago and  i had forgotten about replacing it

Now i have it again. This album is great

ok first up some info bout this great NZ band.tis quite lengthy but good read

The Ioasa brothers Anthony, Jason and Paul formed Grace in 1993, but they had been playing together since they were young kids in their father’s covers band The Plantations.

These NZ-born Samoan brothers grew up on Auckland's North Shore listening to 1980s bands from the UK and Europe, such as the Blue Nile, Scritti Politti and The Cure. Their sound wasn't what you would expect – they were not a Polynesian R&B group or South Auckland rappers.

In 1995, label DEEPGROOVES released this album. their one and only release.Following the release of their debut album in 1995, the band went on their first national tour, opening for Ruby Turner. They added ex-Chills drummer Earl Robertson to the band’s live line-up, along with unknown at the time future star Bic Runga , on backing vocals

Deepgrooves lined up showcase gigs in Australia to tie in with the release of the album there. A month before these were to happen, local music TV show Music Nation featured an item that said “Grace have now left Deepgrooves and have formed their own record label called Kokobutt and they'll be recording on that label.”

The resulting fallout led Festival, Deepgrooves’ distributor, to pull back from the Australian showcases. Although both label boss Kane Massey and the band subsequently presented a united front, insisting they weren't leaving the label and were working on their second album with Deepgrooves, the band eventually shifted to Polygram Records, where former Deepgrooves partner Mark Tierney (soon to form top Kiwi band Strawpeople) was now working in an A&R capacity.

In late 1996, Grace briefly changed their moniker to Kaizen, which they said “is very simply, Japanese for making something bad, good.” They shifted focus from gentle pop ballads to a more straightforward three-piece rock band and played a number of live shows under this name.

The band also recorded a number of demos for a second album, embracing a sharper rock sound based around Paul’s blossoming guitar skills. They recorded a single for Polygram in 1998 at York St studios, however it remains released as they split later that year, somewhat acrimoniously, with Anthony and Jason suffering a fraternal fall out which was not resolved for some years.

Anthony produced a number of other acts on Deepgrooves – Jules Issa, Jordan Reyne, 3 The Hard Way and Greg Fleming. He was later involved in writing and producing songs for the TV-manufactured pop group TrueBliss in 1999. Jason left music to focus on his career as a merchant banker. Paul later moved to Colorado in the USA, where, whilst working as a ski instructor, he died in a car crash in 2003.

Such a sad ending to this great band

5 singles were released from this album.

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B2ler2ta - Th2e R2tur2n Tr2ip

                                                        B2ler2ta - Th2e R2tur2n Tr2ip

Blerta. The 'Bruno Lawrence Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition were a band formed in 1970 by Bruno Lawrence

Blerta were a group of musicians, actors and aspiring film-makers and set out in a bus to tour the country.
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For five years the ever-changing group toured throughout New Zealand and Australia.
They wrote and played music, created and performed sketches and made films.
They wrote the scripts. They were the cast, set designers and builders.
They created their own explosions and special effects and shot it themselves on pieces of film and tape procured by whatever means.

This is the soundtrack to the film that was put together in 2001

Very awesome music....

Drugs is awesome song. dance all around the World is one of those songs you will never tire of.

In fact this disc is full of gems

They released 2 albums in the 1970s.. now long out of pint youre lookin @ $170 + for a album IF yr lucky enough to find a copy

2001 a film was put together which chronicles the history of the band. 21 tracks make up this disc....

Very psychedelic garage rock

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O2M2D Orc3he3stral Ma3noeuv3res i3n th3e Da3r re2ma2ster2ed

                             O2M2D Orc3he3stral Ma3noeuv3res i3n th3e Da3r re2ma2ster2ed

requested by Ian yonks ago
lol sorry took so long m8

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is the self-titled debut album by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, released in 1980.

It peaked at number 27 in the UK Albums Chart.

"Electricity" and "Red Frame/White Light" were low charting singles taken from the record.

A re-recorded version of "Messages" provided OMD with their first hit in the UK, reaching number 13.

The album was remastered and re-released in 2003, with six bonus tracks.

Used the orig album cover from the vinyl as i dont like the new cover

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U2ltr2av2ox - BB2C I2n Co2nc2ert 19c81

                                           U2ltr2av2ox - BB2C I2n Co2nc2ert 19c81

Great live album altho tad short...

This is essentially the VIENNA album live.

This is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better than Monument.....

Top notch recording even ALL STOOD STILL which was the 1 song I've never liked

7 tracks make up this album and I have included the entire disc as 1 file and the 7 songs split

Best listened to in its entirety imo LOUD

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C2a3thy Decn3nis - Mo3ve t3o T3his

                                             C2a3thy Decn3nis - Mo3ve t3o T3his

Move to This , spawned five singles which were spread out over a period of three years.

The first single, "C'mon and Get My Love", which also appeared on the D Mob album A Little Bit of This, a Little Bit of That and was credited to either D Mob or "D Mob introducing Cathy Dennis", was released in 1989.

I found  with singers who had been part of a group , usually did shit  solo releases or  top albums.. (BETTY BOOP ???  anyone hahahahha ) this sits halfway hahahahh


This is the 2 DISC 2014 remaster contains 20 bonus songs.
The remasterin is really top notch..

SO many 12" mixes and yeah I was  a fan back in the day ahhahahaah i loved D-MOB

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Du3ra3n Du3ran L3iber3ty

                                               Du3ra3n Du3ran  L3iber3ty 

REQUESTED by Laura P

In 1990 DD released this- their 6th album and their weakest to date...

Bassist John Taylor admitted that he was struggling with his drug addictions during recording of the album. He said, "When we were in rehearsal, it seemed like we had a great album, but we weren't able to parlay it into a great album in the studio, whatever. I can just remember smoking hash oil, that's all I can really remember about making that album.".

haha musta have been shit hash m8 hahaha

A bootleg recording of the demo sessions for the album, titled Didn't Anybody Tell You? surfaced in 1999. Many unreleased, scrapped songs from the Liberty sessions were heard by the public for the first time:

    "Bottleneck"
    "Money on Your Side"
    "Dream Nation"
    "In Between Woman"
    "Worth Waiting For"
    "My Family" (played live 1989)

Ive not heard any of these bootleg songs, but I sure would like to.. Over production is what makes this album sound like a Cliff Richard record hahahaha.

Still they had 2 fairly successful singles from this.... it isnt their worst- RED CARPET MASSACRE owns that distinction hahahah

Too many keyboard overdubs and the vocals were over produced IMO

DD were already plannin in 1991 the next album, known as the Wedding album which restored my faith in the band

This is the Limited Edition with bonus cd of 3 songs not on the original album

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Sh2ak2ata2k - In2vita2tio2ns (E2xpa2nd2ed)

                                         Sh2ak2ata2k - In2vita2tio2ns (E2xpa2nd2ed)

Shakatak are an English jazz-funk band, founded in 1980.

Shakatak scored a number of chart entries, including two Top 10 hits in the UK Singles Chart, "Night Birds" (1982) and "Down on the Street" (1984), plus a further 12 entries in the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles.
The group is still active and popular throughout the world, particularly in Japan and the Far East, and generally produce a new album every two years on JVC Records.

From their first release in August 1980, (the Bill Sharpe composition "Steppin'" on the Polydor record label), and their first album, Drivin' Hard, the band's singles and albums have entered the charts regularly.

Inviation is their 3rd album released in 1982 and what an album , expanded to 14 songs  and remastered in 2017, you wont find a better album of this genre  from this period

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