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Bread and Circuses
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Track Listing
- Pauline
- Tomorrow
- Dance 11
- Hilary
- Street Fight
- Royal Infirmary
- Black Horses
- Dance 1
- Blind Elevator Girl
- Osaka
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #217034 in Music
- Released on: 2000-01-17
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
perfect
a factory records obsessive, brought home a copy of this album one beuatiful may afternoon in 1986. made a cup of tea, stuck The Durutti Column on the Sanyo record deck and then the most unspeakably perfect music came pouring out of the loudspeakers, through ears, and into heart, which was forever changed
The opening track Pauline is a violin thing and like summer, but there are winter moments too here, almost like a film soundtrack. Tomorrow is a masterpiece blind elevator girl is true world music , a temporal space- mosaic
Vincent Gerard Reilly is God.
If you like lift music, this album will elevate you to untold heights
Am I alone in loving this album?
Of course, no one has ever heard of poor little Vini Reilly's 'Durutti Column'. Lost bedsit prince he may be, overshadowed by his New Order labelmates and Morrissey collaborations, but this album is still the most beautiful of any of his, or Factory's, output, and so deserves to finally have the dust blown off it, be 'discovered', and held up for the influential stunner it is by all those late twenty/early thirty something navel-gazers who are currently listening to Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Arab Strap, Labradford, and even, dare I say it, Lilac Time. Vini bet them all, and this is the album that did it. Sad arse I may be, but it has to be said!
BUt is it the best?
All reviewing her are Vini die-hards. But what would this album be without Royal Infirmary?
