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Uncorrected Personality Traits
''Uncorrected Personality Traits'' is a compilation album by Robyn Hitchcock, released in 1997 on Rhino Records. Following A&M's 1996 ''Greatest Hits A greatest hits album or best-of album is a type of compilation album that collects popular and commercially successful songs by a particular artist or band. While greatest hits albums are typically supported by the artist, they can also be crea ...'', this compilation was assembled from earlier, pre-A&M recordings, spanning 1981 to 1995 and selected personally by Hitchcock. There are no previously unreleased tracks on the collection, and the title itself comes from one of his early solo recordings, made as an a cappella psycho-analytic comedy number for '' I Often Dream Of Trains''. The album includes three instrumentals and mixes solo work with tracks recorded by Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians in the 1980s. Track listing #Bass #Fifty Two Stations #Acid Bird #Egyptian Cream #Uncorrected Personality Traits #Heart Full Of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Hitchcock
Robyn Rowan Hitchcock (born 3 March 1953) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano, and bass guitar. After leading the Soft Boys in the late 1970s and releasing the influential '' Underwater Moonlight'', Hitchcock launched a prolific solo career. His musical and lyrical styles have been influenced by Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Syd Barrett, Captain Beefheart, Martin Carthy, Lou Reed, Roger McGuinn and Bryan Ferry. Hitchcock's earliest lyrics mined a rich vein of English surrealist comic tradition and tended to depict a particular type of eccentric and sardonic English worldview. His music and performance style was originally (and remains) heavily influenced by Bob Dylan, but also by the English folk music revival of the 1960s and early 1970s, and this was soon filtered through a then-unfashionable psychedelic rock lens during the punk rock and New Wave music eras of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". '' Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting system to reflect the rise of the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhino Entertainment
Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978. It is currently the catalog division for Warner Music Group. Its current CEO is Mark Pinkus. History Founded in 1978, Rhino was originally a novelty and reissue label during the 1970s and 1980s. It released compilation albums of pop, rock & roll, and rhythm & blues successes from the 1950s through the 1980s, as well as novelty-song LPs (compiled in-house or by Dr. Demento) and retrospectives of famous comedy performers, including Richard Pryor, Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer, and Spike Jones. Rhino started as a record shop on Westwood Boulevard, Los Angeles, in 1973, run by Richard Foos, and became a record distributor five years later thanks to the effort of then-store manager Harold Bronson. Their early releases were mostly novelty records (such as their first single, in 1975, Wild Man Fischer's "Go To Rhino Records"). The difficulties involved in getting airplay and distrib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greatest Hits (Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians Album)
''Greatest Hits'' is a collection of material by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians from the A&M period 1988–1992, spanning the albums '' Globe of Frogs'', '' Queen Elvis'', '' Perspex Island'', and '' Respect''. The collection also includes various hard-to-find B-Sides, which acted as a strong selling point for Hitchcock's fans, including ''Legalized Murder'', ''Ruling Class'', ''Dark Green Energy'' and ''Bright Fresh Flower''. In addition, two cover songs are included – Bryan Ferry's ''More Than This'' and a live recording of the Byrds' ''Eight Miles High''. It was released as part of A&M's Backlot Digital Remasters Series on September 9, 1996. Track listing # Balloon Man 03:34 # Vibrating 03:01 # Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) 02:40 # A Globe of Frogs (electric version) 04:29 (B-side for Balloon Man single 1988) # Legalized Murder 04:08 (B-side for Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis) single 1988) # Intro to "Eyes" 02:44 live intro to One Long Pair of Eyes. (Exce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Often Dream Of Trains
''I Often Dream of Trains'' is the third album by Robyn Hitchcock, released in 1984. It is Hitchcock's first acoustic-based album. After the break-up of The Soft Boys, Hitchcock recorded two solo albums — 1981's '' Black Snake Diamond Role'' and 1982's poorly received '' Groovy Decay'' — before hitting an artistic slump mitigated only by some collaborations with Captain Sensible. Hitchcock worked odd jobs, including a stint as a gardener and a journalist. Hitchcock felt compelled to return to music after listening to ''Wading Through a Ventilator'', a 1984 EP that compiles The Soft Boys' early singles. He wanted to make a fully solo album that, he would later comment, "only I could be blamed for". The album was recorded in the space of a few days under the working title ''Crystal Branches'' (taken from a line in the song "Winter Love", not originally included in the track listing). Hitchcock contributes vocals, acoustic and electric guitar and pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Compilation Albums
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Robyn Hitchcock Albums
Robin Miriam Carlsson (born 12 June 1979), known as Robyn (), is a Swedish pop singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ. She arrived on the music scene with her 1995 debut album, '' Robyn Is Here'', which produced two ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 10 singles: "Do You Know (What It Takes)" and " Show Me Love". Her second and third albums, ''My Truth'' (1999) and '' Don't Stop the Music'' (2002), were released in Sweden. Robyn returned to international success with her fourth album, ''Robyn'' (2005), which brought a Grammy Award nomination. The album spawned the singles " Be Mine!" and the UK number one "With Every Heartbeat". Robyn released a trilogy of mini-albums in 2010, known as the '' Body Talk'' series. They received broad critical praise and three Grammy Award nominations, and produced three top-10 singles: "Dancing On My Own", "Hang with Me" and " Indestructible". Robyn followed this with two collaborative EPs: '' Do It Again'' (2014) with Röyksopp, and ''Love Is Free'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
