Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product Description
Digitally Remastered Edition of the Former Be-bop Deluxe Frontman's 1983 Solo Album Release that Originally Appeared in the USA on the Enigma Label.

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Average customer rating: Signs of things to come New Wave Classic

Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam Bill Nelson Manufacturer: Ume Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Experimental Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sound on Sound Getting the Holy Ghost Across Drastic Plastic Futurama Blue Moons & Laughing Guitars ASIN: B000AQBAH6 Release Date: 2005-10-11

Tracks:

1. Banal
2. Living in My Limousine
3. Vertical Games
4. Disposible
5. False Alarms
6. Decline and Fall
7. White Sound
8. Life Runs out Like Sand
9. Kind of Loving
10. Do You Dream in Colour
11. U.H.F.
12. Youth of Nation on Fire
13. Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam
14. Mr. Magnetism Himself [*]
15. Living in My Limousine [Remix][*]
16. Birds of Tin [*]
17. Love in the Abstract [*]
18. Be My Dynamo [*]
19. Rooms with Brittle Views [*]
20. All My Wives Were Iron [*]

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition of the Former Be-bop Deluxe Frontman's 1983 Solo Album Release that Originally Appeared in the USA on the Enigma Label.

Customer Reviews:

Signs of things to come.......2006-06-23

The sound has aged a bit and again there are some better versions of the songs aroun d on some singles from the 80's: the 12" version of living in my limousine for example. This album is less good overall than the Red Noise one. This is strange since it has better songs but the production is less good. Also his masterpiece the Love that swirls was to come after this one.

New Wave Classic.......2005-11-27

Bill Nelson, the guitar wizard who led the brilliant Be Bop Deluxe from glam rock to new wave in the Seventies, entered the 80s with this extraordinary debut solo album produced by legendary British producer John Leckie (XTC, Simple Minds, Lucy Show). After Nelson broke up Be Bop Deluxe in 1978, following their extraordinary techno swan song "Drastic Plastic" LP, he formed Red Noise, a New Wave five-piece that produced one album, "Sound on Sound," which would eventually function as the template for the first two or three XTC albums. "Quit Dreaming," which began life as the second Red Noise album, eventually transformed into Nelson's first full-blown post Be Bop Deluxe solo album, producing a couple of UK hit singles ("Banal," "Do You Dream In Colour?") and climbing to number 7 on the British charts. In its new remastered form, with a clutch of crucial bonus tracks, the record sounds as current as it did 25 years ago. "Living in my Limousine" predates Flock of Seagulls (whom Nelson would later produce), "A Kind of Loving" taps into early 80s ska, "Youth of Nation on Fire" and "Life Runs out Like Sand" boast an exotic Asian air, and ""Banal" has the marks of a classic piece of postmodern new wave. Buy it now, before it disappears from the market.

Average customer rating: The pop-star path

Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam Bill Nelson Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music | Vinyl Records | American Punk | British Punk | Emo | Garage Punk | Hardcore | Post Hardcore | Proto Punk | Punk | Punk Revival | Punk-Pop | Riot Grrl | Ska Punk | Straight Edge New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Post-Punk | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Progressive Rock | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008EU9Q Release Date: 1989-07-14

Tracks:

1. Banal
2. Living in My Limousine
3. Vertical Games
4. Disposable
5. False Alarms
6. Decline and Fall
7. White Sound
8. Life Runs Out Like Sand
9. Kind of Loving
10. Do You Dream in Colour?
11. U.H.F.
12. Youth of Nation on Fire
13. Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam

Customer Reviews:

The pop-star path.......2003-11-23

Stylistically, this album fits somewhere between Vistamix and Sound On Sound. There's yet another track of "Do You Dream In Colour" (I've got it on two other albums) & what I'm relatively certain is a different mix of "Living In My Limousine" than appears on The Two-Fold Aspect Of Everything.

The tracks are driven by vocal & guitar; lacking any other handy notes, but a memory of something Nelson wrote in Two-Fold, this was about the era when he was recording band-oriented ideas solo & fleshing them out a little as part of his extensive "electronic notebooks" with the intent of doing a serious job of it later with other musicians. So, they're a little rough, but this lends an edginess so often lacking in synth-heavy music.

If I had to pick a favourite track, it'd be the very first: "Banal."

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