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Perish (song)
"Perish" is the first single from the fourth studio album ''Gift'' by alternative rock band Curve. It was released on 28 October 2002 only on CD format and it reached #168 in the UK singles chart. This single includes a radio version of the "Perish", the album track "Want More Need Less" from ''Gift'' and a reworked version of "Recovery" from '' Pink Girl With the Blues''/'' Come Clean''. Track listing #"Perish" – 3:54 #"Want More Need Less" – 4:35 #"Recovery" – 4:59 Credits * Written by Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia * Toni Halliday: words, vocals and guitar noise * Dean Garcia: bass, guitar, programming and noise * Produced, engineered, recorded by Curve and Ben Grosse at Todal Studios * Mixed by Ben Grosse at The Mix Room Los Angeles * Featuring Kevin Shields Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band My Bloo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curve (band)
Curve were an English alternative rock and electronic music duo from London, formed in 1990 and dissolved in 2005. The band consisted of Toni Halliday (vocals, occasionally guitar) and Dean Garcia (bass, guitar, drums, programming). Halliday wrote the lyrics of their songs and they both contributed to songwriting. Producer Alan Moulder was a prominent collaborator who helped shape their blend of heavy beats and densely–layered guitar tracks set against Halliday's vocals. Curve released five studio albums (''Doppelgänger'' in 1992, ''Cuckoo'' in 1993, '' Come Clean'' in 1998, ''Gift'' in 2001, and '' The New Adventures of Curve'' in 2002), five compilation albums ('' Pubic Fruit'' in 1992, '' Radio Sessions'' in 1993, '' Open Day at the Hate Fest'' in 2001, '' The Way of Curve'' in 2004, and '' Rare and Unreleased'' in 2010), and a string of EPs and singles. History Dean Garcia, half Hawaiian and half Irish, had played in some small bands when he auditioned for Eurythmics. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gift (Curve Album)
''Gift'' is the fourth studio album to be released by the British alternative rock band Curve. Following two years of legal wrangles between the group and their then record company, Universal Records, the online success of Curve's self-released album '' Open Day at the Hate Fest'' convinced Universal - who had been threatening to shelve the album completely - to market it in the United States in 2001 under the Hip-O Records brand. The UK version was released a year later by FatLip Recordings in collaboration with Artful Records. A year after that, the album was released in Australia by Hoop Culture Records. The album was co-produced by Ben Grosse and Curve. Apart from Curve mainstays Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday, additional musicians who contributed to the album were Kevin Shields, Steve Monti, Alan Moulder, Flood, Rob Holliday, Geno Lenardo, Ben Grosse and Alan Wilder. Of the songs on the record, "Hell Above Water" has gained the highest public profile as a result of its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Garcia
Dean Garcia (born 3 May 1958) is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, best known as a member of the alternative rock duo Curve from 1990 to 2005. He also released solo work and collaborated with many other artists. Biography Garcia was born in London from a Hawaiian, Irish and English background. He had played in some small bands when he auditioned for Eurythmics. He has played bass guitar as part of Eurythmics' live band in 1983–84 and on two of their studio albums, ''Touch'' and '' Be Yourself Tonight''. Dean Garcia and Toni Halliday were introduced to each other by Dave Stewart from Eurythmics. The pair formed an ill-fated group named State of Play in the mid-1980s before parting ways, embarking on a no less ill-fated solo career (Halliday) and further stints as a backing musician (Garcia), and then reuniting for a more long-term partnership in Curve. Garcia and Halliday collaborated in Curve between 1990 and 2005. The group's career was interrupted by several pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Halliday
Antoinette "Toni" Halliday (born 5 July 1964) is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional guitarist of the alternative rock band Curve, along with Dean Garcia. She was also a member of the bands Photofitz, The Uncles, State of Play and Scylla. Halliday released solo work as Toni Halliday and Chatelaine. She collaborated with artists like Robert Plant, Recoil, The Future Sound of London, Leftfield, Paul van Dyk, Freaky Chakra, DJ? Acucrack, Headcase, The Killers, Acid Android, and Orbital. Halliday has a contralto vocal range. Early life and career Halliday was born on 5 July 1964 in Parsons Green, London, and brought up in various locations across Europe, before eventually settling in Washington New Town, Tyne and Wear. Her father is English and her mother Polish. From 1978 to 1980, Halliday was the lead vocalist in a punk rock band named Photofitz (initially called the Incest), after which she left to start a solo career. In 1980, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coming Up Roses (song)
"Coming Up Roses" is the second single from the third studio album '' Come Clean'' by alternative rock band Curve. It was released on 4 May 1998 and it reached #51 in the UK singles chart. The Kevin Shields mix of this song was included on the disc 2 of Curve's compilation ''The Way of Curve''. Track listing CD 1 #"Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Radio mix) – 3:51 #"Coming Up Roses" (Talvin Singh remix) – 8:09 #"Midnight & Royal" – 4:45 #"Habit" – 4:12 CD 2 #"Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Full mix) – 4:00 #"Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Crystaline Vocal mix) – 6:01 #"Coming Up Roses" (Red Star Yellow Star mix) – 9:06 #"Coming Up Roses" (Danny Saber Full Length mix) – 5:21 #"Coming Up Roses" (Kevin Shields mix) – 6:20 12" #"Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Crystaline Vocal mix) – 6:01 #"Coming Up Roses" (Blue Amazon's Quad Club mix) – 10:45 #"Coming Up Roses" (Jeremy Wheatley's Full mix) – 4:00 #"Coming Up Roses" (Talvin Singh remix) – 8:09 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Want More Need Less
"Want More Need Less" is the second single from the fourth studio album ''Gift'' by alternative rock band Curve. It was released on 3 February 2003 only on CD format and only in Australia. This single includes three songs from ''Gift''. Track listing #"Want More Need Less" – 3:59 #"My Tiled White Floor" – 5:16 #"Bleeding Heart" – 4:07 Credits * Written by Toni Halliday and Dean Garcia * Produced, engineered and recorded at Todal Studios by Curve and Ben Grosse at Todal * Mixed by Ben Grosse at The Mix Room Los Angeles * Toni Halliday: words, vocals and guitar * Dean Garcia: bass, guitar, programming and noise * Kevin Shields: more guitar track 1 * Alan Moulder: more guitar track 3 * Flood A flood is an overflow of water (list of non-water floods, or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are of significant con ...: bleeps track 2 * Monti: more drums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Come Clean (Curve Album)
''Come Clean'' is the third studio album by English alternative rock band Curve. It was released on 10 March 1998 by Estupendo Records and Universal, and was the first Curve album to be released following their temporary split in 1994 and reformation in 1996. ''Come Clean'' marked a shift to a style more informed by dance and electronic music than Curve's earlier records. Significantly, the commercial success of and critical acclaim for ''Come Clean'' – at least relative to the reception that the group's harsher and less accessible 1993 album ''Cuckoo'' had received – encouraged Curve to continue recording. Musical style Stuart Derdeyn of ''The Province'' wrote that ''Come Clean'' found Curve "updating its sound to better reflect the noise and punch of contemporary electronic rock". ''The A.V. Club''s Joshua Klein said that the band expanded on the dance and electronic elements of their previous albums, with the music on ''Come Clean'' placing a heavier emphasis on "big beat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Shields
Kevin Patrick Shields (born 21 May 1963) is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, who achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band My Bloody Valentine (band), My Bloody Valentine. Their studio albums ''Isn't Anything'' (1988) and ''Loveless (My Bloody Valentine album), Loveless'' (1991) established Shields as a pioneering figure in the shoegaze genre. His texturised guitar sound and his experimentation with his guitars' Vibrato systems for guitar, tremolo systems resulted in the creation of the "glide guitar" technique, which became a recognisable aspect of My Bloody Valentine's sound, along with his meticulous production techniques. Following My Bloody Valentine's dissolution in the late 1990s, Shields became a frequent guest musician, producer, Audio engineering, engineer, and remixer with various bands and artists, including Experimental Audio Research, Yo La Tengo, Dinosaur Jr, and Mogwai. In 1998 he became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
