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Will SOMEBODY hit the G-D reset button??? It's like a pack of radar-damaged bats trying to find the 6" cave opening. Jeez, I love this place, but the quirk's are getting a mite aggravating!!!
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Be Bop Deluxe
Modern Music
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AMG Review of Modern Music
William Ruhlmann
All Music GuideThings had changed for Be Bop Deluxe by the time of the group's fourth album. The band that turned up in glam rock regalia on its 1974 debut, Axe Victim, was in suit and tie on the cover of Modern Music in 1976. Inside, the band's transformation into a sophisticated pop group seemed complete. Arrangements were still ornate, but the songs were dominated by their highly imagistic lyrics, and as often as not, Nelson was borrowing ideas from the Beatles. It didn't quite work, despite pleasant numbers such as "Orphans of Babylon" and "Kiss of Light," perhaps because a true pop sensibility requires a gift for simplicity that Nelson has never exhibited. The album charted high in England and made the Top 100 in the U.S., but it was Be Bop's peak, not its breakthrough.
Oh Mog! Where art thy spark?
I'll Take Mine Deluxe, Please...
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I'm more than a bit of a pop-rock junkie. Much as I dislike pigeon-holeing music into genres, my collection bulges with guitar licks and vocal impressarios much more so than classical or jazz or country. That said, time to share. Not one post on Mog as of yet for Be Bop Deluxe. Fronted by guitar virtuoso Bill Nelson, these guys blazed a searing path through mid-seventies pre-power-pop. Gorgeuos...
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