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Knife/ Aztec Camera
Aztec Camera
Knife/ Aztec Camera
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
 
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Aztec Camera was part of the early 80's new wave movement. Lead by Scottish singer/songwriter Roddy Frame, they issued numerous albums well into the 90's. This CD is a two-on-one featuring their second album Knife from 1...  more »

     
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All Artists: Aztec Camera
Title: Knife/ Aztec Camera
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Wounded Bird Records
Release Date: 6/18/2002
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Style: New Wave & Post-Punk
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 664140518322

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Aztec Camera was part of the early 80's new wave movement. Lead by Scottish singer/songwriter Roddy Frame, they issued numerous albums well into the 90's. This CD is a two-on-one featuring their second album Knife from 1984 plus a six song EP, Aztec Camera, that features their unique studio version of Van Halen's 'Jump', the studio version of 'The Boy Wonders', plus four live versions of their best songs. Both of these albums made the Billboard charts. Wounded Bird Records. 2002.

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CD Reviews

Good british 80's pop
mskarmar | ocean view, de United States | 07/17/2002
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Aztec Camera (ie Roddy Frame) was making great british guitar pop in the 80's and then fizzled in the 90's after the album Love. This is a great reissue of their best album paired with the hard to find ep which includes a great version of Van Halen's 'Jump'. Mark Knopfler produced and the sound quality is present. This is solid music that shouldn't be forgotten....ps- check out the web site for wounded bird records (good reissue stuff)."
Good music.
JR Hercules | Somewheres, United States | 01/06/2003
(3 out of 5 stars)

""Knife" is the overlooked and long-out-of-print second album by Aztec Camera (really Roddy Frame). Not as good as the great debut, it still has a charm of its own. Worth having."
Perfect
Antonio Lopez Suanzes | Pozuelo de Alarcon, Madrid Spain | 07/17/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is the best album from Aztec Camera. Easily, one of the best ot the 80's. Many songs from this record are melted with some of my best moments in those years. They are beautiful pop jewels: All I need is everything, just like the USA, Still on fire, Knife, Backwards and Forwards (It's unbelievable that this last song is not incuded in "the best" album) ... Apart from the exceptional inspiration Roddy Frame delivers throughout the work, there are two things that I love and find almost unparalleled in any other pop cd from that decade: the sound of the guitars and the sense that this album is something more than a bunch of songs put together in a cd: there's a common feeling and sound behind the tracks that link them together, giving a unique sense to the work, making it whole and cohesive, and definitely more than the sum of its parts. Congratulations to the producer. It's for this reason that I don't agree with previous reviewers: the EP songs included only add up minutes. Quality, wholeness and integrity are mortally wounded."