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Confrontation (Face To Face Album)
''Confrontation'' is the follow-up to the self-titled 1984 debut album of the Boston new wave band Face to Face. While the previous album had edgier elements, like the rap in "Under The Gun", ''Confrontation'' was starting to move away from that style. Because of that, this release can be seen as a bridge between the debut and their next (and final) album ''One Big Day''. Like the 1984 debut, most of the songs were written by Angelo, with Laurie Sargent credited as co-writer on half. This record was not a commercial success and would be their last release on Epic Records. Many vinyl pressings in circulation can be found with a gold promo stamp on the back cover, making the non-promo copy more desirable to collectors due to its rarity. "Tell Me Why" was released as a single in The United States. No promotional video was released. Reissue Epic Records made this available on Compact Disc in Japan exclusively. In 2006, the independent label Wounded Bird Records Wounded Bird Recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face To Face (new Wave Band)
Face to Face was an American new wave quintet from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Formation Guitarist Stuart Kimball (born December 21, 1956) formed the band with close friends in New Hampshire during the late 1970s. The lineup was Laurie Sargent on vocals, Kimball on guitars and keyboards, Angelo Petraglia (identified on their albums simply as 'Angelo') on guitars and keyboards, John Ryder on bass and Billy Beard on drums. They moved to Boston in 1980 and played there until signing with Epic in 1982. The band's biggest hit was " 10-9-8" (from their self-titled first album), which peaked at No. 38 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 the week ending July 20, 1984. Retrieved July 6, 2021 Breakup of the ...
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New Wave Music
New wave is a loosely defined music genre that encompasses pop-oriented styles from the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was originally used as a catch-all for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. Later, critical consensus favored "new wave" as an umbrella term involving many popular music styles of the era, including power pop, synth-pop, ska revival, and more specific forms of punk rock that were less abrasive. It may also be viewed as a more accessible counterpart of post-punk. Common characteristics of new wave music include a humorous or quirky pop approach, the use of electronic sounds, and a distinctive visual style in music videos and fashion. In the early 1980s, virtually every new pop/rock act – and particularly those that employed synthesizers – were tagged as "new wave". Although new wave shares punk's do-it-yourself philosophy, the artists were more influenced by the styles of the 1950s along with the lighter s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group Corporation SONAM, headquartered in New York City, manages the company's US-based businesses. Sony's principal U.S. business ..., the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. The label was founded predominantly as a jazz and classical music label in 1953, but later expanded its scope to include a more diverse range of genres, including pop music, pop, Rhythm and blues, R&B, rock music, rock, and hip hop music, hip hop. History Beginnings Epic Records was launched in 1953 by the Columbia Records unit of CBS, for the purpose of marketing jazz, pop music, pop, and European classical music, classical music that did not fit the theme of its more mainstream Columbia Records label. Initial classical music r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Stasium
Ed Stasium is an American record producer and audio engineer, who has worked on albums by the Ramones, Talking Heads, Motörhead, the Smithereens and Living Colour. History Stasium began his recording career in 1970 fronting the band Brandywine. He appeared on their sole LP, ''Aged''. When he returned to the music industry three years later, it was as a recording engineer, working on a wide variety of projects ranging from the Chambers Brothers' ''Unbonded'' to Barry Miles' ''Magic Theater'' to Sha Na Na's ''Sha Na Now''. He was the engineer on " Midnight Train to Georgia" by Gladys Knight and the Pips as well as "Dynomite (song)" by Tony Camillo and Bazuka. In 1976 he was again involved as a sound engineer in the production of the album ''Morin Heights'' by the Scottish band Pilot, which was recorded in Canada in the studios of the same name. Stasium's long affiliation with the American punk and new wave, and the latter-day alternative rock, began in 1977, the year he engi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Baker (musician)
Arthur Baker (born April 22, 1955) is an American record producer and DJ best known for his work with hip hop artists like Afrika Bambaataa and Planet Patrol, as well as British group New Order. He is also known for remixing the Jill Jones song "Mia Bocca" on the 12" single, taken from her self-titled debut album ''Jill Jones'' (1987), released on Prince's Paisley Park Records, as well as remixing the Pet Shop Boys song, " In The Night". His remix of the song was used as the main theme for the BBC TV programme The Clothes Show between 1986 and 1994. He also remixed 'the Massive Jungle Mix' for Tina Turner's UK top 40 lead single from her 1996 album '' Wildest Dreams'' " Whatever You Want" (co-written by himself, Taylor Dayne and Fred Zarr). Arthur Baker's songs are represented by Downtown Music Publishing. Biography Early career Born in Boston, Massachusetts, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face To Face (1984 Face To Face Album)
''Face to Face'' is the self-titled debut album of the Boston new wave band Face to Face, originally released in 1984 on LP (BFE 38857) and Cassette by Epic Records. It peaked at #126 on the ''Billboard'' pop album charts in the summer of 1984. Reissue Epic Records made this available on Compact Disc in Japan exclusively, though the single "10-9-8" can be found on various 1980s compilation CDs made in North America. In 2006, the independent label Wounded Bird Records (woundedbird.com) issued the album on CD for the first time ever in the United States. Music videos "10-9-8" and "Under the Gun" were released as singles. Both videos can be found on YouTube. Track listing All songs written by Angelo Petraglia, except where indicated. Side 1 Side 2 Track 11: * Originally released in 1984 as Epic 12" Single 49-4989 * Produced and mixed by Arthur Baker Track 12: * Originally released in 1984 as Epic 12" Single 49-5033 * Produced by Arthur Baker * Mixed by Arthur Baker & Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Big Day
''One Big Day'' is the third album by the American band Face to Face, released in 1988. It was produced by Anton Fier. The group disbanded shortly after the album's release. Critical reception The ''Orlando Sentinel'' deemed the album "flat out good," noting that the band had shifted from "electrobeat pop to country-flavored rock." ''The Washington Post'' wrote that "the songs are smart, the arrangements are countrypolitan with a metallic glint, and aurieSargent meets them with a warm clarion call that's often multi-tracked." ''Trouser Press'' opined that in a "misuse of talent, Syd Straw and Bernie Worrell contribute to the tunefully bland proceedings." Track listing All songs written by Laurie Sargent Laurie Sargent is best known as a songwriter and vocalist in the 1980s and 1990s. She was active in the city of Boston. Around 2008, she and her long-term partner, drummer Billy Conway, moved to Montana, where they began raising food on an organ ... and Angelo Petraglia excep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston
Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- most populous city in the country. The city boundaries encompass an area of about and a population of 675,647 as of 2020. It is the seat of Suffolk County (although the county government was disbanded on July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting area and including Providence, Rhode Island, is home to approximately 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States. Boston is one of the oldest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurie Sargent
Laurie Sargent is best known as a songwriter and vocalist in the 1980s and 1990s. She was active in the city of Boston. Around 2008, she and her long-term partner, drummer Billy Conway, moved to Montana, where they began raising food on an organic farm. Sargent occasionally visits various cities to perform. Collaborations * Jim Steinman * Holly Sherwood * Mark Sandman Bands * Fire, Inc., a group performing some of the soundtrack of the 1984 movie '' Streets of Fire'' ** Nowhere Fast * Morphine * Face to Face, a new wave band from Boston * Twinemen * Hi-n-Dry * If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man) * Confrontation * One Big Day * Session Americana Session Americana is a Boston-based Folk/Rock band/collective. History This six-member group of experienced musicians came together in 2004 for informal shows at Toad (a pub in Cambridge) on Sunday nights, with Sean Staples (mandolin, guitar ... * Dana Colley References External links * https://www.lauriesargenta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compact Disc
The compact disc (CD) is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 in Japan and branded as ''Compact Disc Digital Audio, Digital Audio Compact Disc''. The format was later adapted (as CD-ROM) for general-purpose data storage. Several other formats were further derived, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), Photo CD, Picture CD, Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-i) and Enhanced Music CD. Standard CDs have a diameter of and are designed to hold up to 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mebibyte, MiB of data. Capacity is routinely extended to 80 minutes and 700 mebibyte, MiB by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc. The Mini CD has various diameters ranging from ; t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wounded Bird Records
Wounded Bird Records is an American compact disc only re-issue record label that was founded in 1998 in Guilderland, New York. They re-release lesser known albums from popular and lesser known artists, including Paul Butterfield, Cactus, Herbie Mann, Brownsville Station, Stalk-Forrest Group, Faster Pussycat, Debbie Harry, Steve Smith, Foghat, Steve Khan, Tom Rush, Labelle, Jean-Luc Ponty, Cher, Bread, Billy Cobham, Debbie Gibson, Chic, Don Ellis, David Blue, Gordon Haskell, Blood, Sweat & Tears, and Sparks. Most of the Wounded Bird catalogue is licensed from Warner Music Group (including Atlantic Records) and Sony Music Entertainment. Notable artists released * Ace Spectrum * A Foot in Coldwater * Agent Orange * Toshiko Akiyoshi * Jan Akkerman * Joe Albany * Alessi Brothers * Steve Allen * Harold Alexander * Phil Alvin * Amazing Rhythm Aces * Ambrosia * David Amram * Jon Anderson * Apollonia * April Wine * Argent * Horacee Arnold * Ashford & Simpson * Tony Ashton and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
