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Greatest Hits (Thompson Twins Album)
''Greatest Hits'' is a compilation album by British pop band Thompson Twins, released in 1996 on the Arista Records label. It is the group's first compilation of singles, the remix collection '' Greatest Mixes'' having already been released in 1988, mainly promoted by the remix "In the Name of Love '88". ''Greatest Hits'' includes all of Thompson Twins' singles from 1982 to 1987, omitting earlier minor tracks from their UK debut album, '' A Product of ... (Participation)'', and the later single "Sugar Daddy", the last mainstream hit they had in the US, taken from their unsuccessful 1989 album '' Big Trash''. Though Thompson Twins' previous album, 1987's '' Close to the Bone'', was also a flop, both singles taken from it—"Get That Love" and "Long Goodbye"—are included here. Thompson Twins' first singles collection chronologically compiles songs by the band's three different lineups (big band in the early years, three-piece group from 1983 to 1987, and duo in the later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thompson Twins
Thompson Twins were a British Pop music, pop band formed in 1977 in Sheffield. Initially a New wave music, new wave group, they switched to a more mainstream pop sound and achieved considerable popularity during the mid-1980s, scoring a string of hits in the United Kingdom, the United States, and around the world. In 1993, they changed their name to Babble (band), Babble, to reflect their change in music from pop to Dub music, dub-influenced Chill-out music, chill-out. They continued as Babble until 1996, at which point the group permanently broke up. The band's name was based on the two bumbling detectives Thomson and Thompson (who are close doubles not twins) in the English language version of Hergé's comic strip ''The Adventures of Tintin''. At various stages they had up to seven members, but their best known line-up was as a trio between 1982 and 1986. The band became a prominent act in the US during the Second British Invasion, and in 1985 performed at Live Aid in Philade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Love On Your Side (song)
"Love On Your Side" is a song by British pop band Thompson Twins, released as the second single from the band's third studio album, ''Quick Step & Side Kick'' (1983), which was renamed ''Side Kicks'' in the US. Background and recording In 1982, after the commercial failure of their second studio album ''Set'', the Thompson Twins collaborated with producer Alex Sadkin to record ''Quick Step & Side Kick''. Sadkin produced the album including "Love On Your Side". The original lyrics were written by Alannah Currie, but were later altered to that of a male perspective, as Currie wasn't the lead singer. Tom Bailey has said of the song: "it's actually a complicated and quite dark song. It's about discovering that your girlfriend or boyfriend wants to experiment with a relationship in a much deeper or broader sense than you were prepared to do. And so it drags you into this kind of helpless feeling of being lost, helplessly in love, but taking some kind of confidence from the fact that lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We Are Detective
"We Are Detective" is a 1983 song by British pop band Thompson Twins. It was the third single from the band's third studio album, ''Quick Step & Side Kick'' (1983). It was the band's second single to reach the UK Top Ten, peaking at no. 7. It also reached no. 48 in Alannah Currie's native New Zealand A limited number of copies of the 12" single came with a free 12" of the tracks "Love Lies Fierce" and "Frozen in Time", both remixes of the songs "Love Lies Bleeding" and "Kamikaze" from the album. Track listing * 12" Single (ARIST 12 526, ARIST 12526) #"We Are Detective (More Clues)" – 6:00 #"Lucky Day (Space Mix)" – 6:58 * 7" Single (ARIST 526) #"We Are Detective" – 3:05 #"Lucky Day" – 3:52 Official versions # Album Version – 3:05 # Extended Version – 6:00 Sales chart performance Weekly charts See also * 1983 in British music *Thompson Twins discography The following is the complete discography of English pop band Thompson Twins. Albums Studio albums C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quick Step And Side Kick
''Quick Step & Side Kick'' is the third studio album by the British new wave group Thompson Twins. It was released in February 1983 by Arista Records, and was their first album to be released as a trio (the band consisted of up to seven members during previous releases). The album reached no. 2 on the UK Albums Chart and was later certified Platinum by the BPI. In the United States and Canada, the album was titled simply as ''Side Kicks'', and was only the second Thompson Twins album to be released there. The album was the first collaboration between the band and producer Alex Sadkin and was recorded at Compass Point Studios in the Bahamas. The singer Grace Jones (who had worked with Sadkin on three of her albums by that time) made a guest appearance on the track " Watching", though her vocals were not included on the track when it was remixed and released as a single in mid-1983. The album has several different versions according to different territories, containing differen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lies (Thompson Twins Song)
"Lies" is a song by the British band Thompson Twins. It was released as the first single from the album ''Quick Step & Side Kick'' (''Side Kicks'' in the U.S.), and the song peaked at number 67 on the UK singles chart. The single fared better in the United States, where it peaked at number 30 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in the spring of 1983. Along with the B-side track "Beach Culture", "Lies" also spent two weeks at number one on the American dance chart in January 1983, becoming the band's second number one on this chart ("In the Name of Love" had spent five weeks atop this chart in 1982). Content Singer Tom Bailey said, "We e and Alannah Curriewere just trying to be wacky and a little bit crazy and come up with an idea that we could be irreverent about. The chorus - that kind of catcall chorus, singing, 'lies, lies, lies' - it's the kind of thing you might see in a playground, a school, where someone's calling out like that. But we tried to make it more universal an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Set (Thompson Twins Album)
''Set'' is the second studio album by English pop band Thompson Twins. Released in February 1982, it was the second album they recorded for their own Tee Records, T Records imprint, which was released by Arista Records/Hansa. Compared to their first album, ''A Product Of... (Participation), A Product Of...'', ''Set'' featured a more polished sound, thanks to producer Steve Lillywhite. With their ever-shifting line-up, the Thompson Twins had now swelled to seven members, adding Matthew Seligman on bass guitar to free up Tom Bailey (musician, born 1956), Tom Bailey for full frontman duties and keyboards. Former sax player Jane Shorter was replaced by Alannah Currie, who was Bailey's girlfriend at the time (they later married and remained together until 2004). Three songs on the album do not feature Bailey on lead vocals, but are sung by Joe Leeway, who is also credited as writer or co-writer for five tracks. While not an official member of the band, Thomas Dolby was also on hand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Name Of Love (Thompson Twins Song)
"In the Name of Love" is a 1982 single written and performed by British pop band Thompson Twins, at the time a septet ( Tom Bailey, Alannah Currie, Joe Leeway, John Roog, Chris Bell, Peter Dodd, and Matthew Seligman). It was the first of twelve entries on the '' Billboard'' dance chart for the group. "In the Name of Love" went to number one on the dance music chart and stayed there for five weeks, and spent a total of twenty-one weeks on the chart. It peaked at number sixty-nine on the ''Billboard'' R&B chart. The track was newly remixed in 1988 by Shep Pettibone and included as "In the Name of Love '88" on the '' Greatest Mixes'' compilation album. The single peaked at #46 in the UK, spending 3 weeks on the chart. The single fared better in America, where it peaked at #1 on the US ''Billboard'' Dance/Club Play chart. Formats 7" Single (1982) #"In the Name of Love" #"In the Beginning" 12" Single (1982) #"In the Name of Love" (12" Dance Extension) #"In the Beginning" #"C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Love On Your Side – The Best Of Thompson Twins
Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest Interpersonal relationship, interpersonal affection, to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love for food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of a strong attraction and emotional attachment (psychology), attachment.''Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary'' (1998) Love is considered to be both positive and negative, with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another" and its vice representing human morality, moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as potentially leading people into a type of mania, Obsessive love, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duo (music)
A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists. It differs from a harmony, as the performers take turns performing a solo section rather than performing simultaneously. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is a "piano duet" or "piano four hands". A piece for two pianists performing together on separate pianos is a " piano duo". The term ''duet'' is also used as a verb for the act of performing a musical duet, or colloquially as a noun to refer to the performers of a duet. A musical ensemble with more than two solo instruments or voices is called trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, etc. History When Mozart was young, he and his sister Marianne played a duet of his composition at a London concert in 1765. The four-hand, described as a duet, was in many of his compositions which included five sonatas; a set of var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trio (music)
In music, a trio (from the Italian language, Italian) is any of the following: * a composition for three performers or three Part (music), musical parts * in larger works, the middle section of a ternary form (so named because of the 17th-century practice of scoring the contrasting second or middle dance appearing between two statements of a principal dance for three instruments) * an ensemble of three instruments or voices performing trio compositions. Composition A trio is a composition for three performers or musical parts. Works include Baroque trio sonatas, choral works for three parts, and works for three instruments such as string trios. In the 17th and early 18th century, musical genre trio sonata two melodic instruments are accompanied by a basso continuo, making three Part (music), parts in all. Because the basso continuo is usually played by two instruments (typically a cello or bass viol and a keyboard instrument such as the harpsichord), performances of trio sonata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands. Big bands started as accompaniment for dancing. In contrast to the typical jazz emphasis on improvisation, big bands relied on written compositions and arrangements. They gave a greater role to bandleaders, arrangers, and sections of instruments rather than soloists. Instruments Big bands generally have four sections: trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and a rhythm section of guitar, piano, double bass, and drums. The division in early big bands, from the 1920s to 1930s, was typically two or three trumpets, one or two trombones, three or four saxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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