Track Listings (14) - Disc #1| All Artists: Dead Can Dance Title: Dead Can Dance Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: 4ad / Wea Original Release Date: 1/1/1984 Re-Release Date: 3/22/1994 Album Type: Original recording reissued Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Jazz, New Age, Pop, Rock Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, British Alternative, Jazz Fusion, Progressive, Progressive Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 093624554622, 093624554646, 652637270525 |
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SACD Hybrid Remastered CD of the self titled Dead Can Dance. On the evidence of this, the band's first record, Dead Can Dance can clearly be seen as a "Goth" group in the vein of Bauhaus, et al. The band's sound here is m... more » |
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Album Description SACD Hybrid Remastered CD of the self titled Dead Can Dance. On the evidence of this, the band's first record, Dead Can Dance can clearly be seen as a "Goth" group in the vein of Bauhaus, et al. The band's sound here is much more clearly based in the "contemporary"--Dead Can Dance uses traditional song structures, the group's instrumentation is almost entirely synthesized, and co-vocalist Lisa Gerrard's voice rarely gets into the truly ethereal, other-worldly realms that it would on later albums. Perhaps the most surprising single song on the album is "East of Eden." Built on a picked (and heavily echoed) guitar line and a rolling drum pattern, it is probably the only track in the DCD catalogue that can be described as relentlessly perky. 10 tracks. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsPrimal Mark Champion | San Antonio, TX United States | 04/19/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "The DCD debut sounds almost nothing like its successors, but it in many ways betters them all. The production is of the time - - heavily chorused bass, a drum machine, echoey guitars and voice (and everything else) - - but the album even today transcends the time. Along with the early Cocteau Twins and Xymox (er, Clan Of . . .) it defined the 4AD ethos and spawned a lot of mimics. But there is something primal about this album. Tracks like "A Passage In Time'; "Threshold"; "Fortune"; the beautiful, haunting, (and oceanic) "Ocean" - - there still is nothing out there sounding quite like them. Beautiful cover, too. Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard created a masterpiece the first time out, and if you can get past this one there are some great ones to follow. The CD reissue appends the album's successor, THE GARDEN OF ARCANE DELIGHTS EP (but not its distinguished cover) and it's just as good, particularly "Carnival Of Light" with Gerrard's soaring vocals, and "In Power We Trust The Love Advocated" with its shimmering keyboards and Perry's Jim Morrison-like intonation. It all still astounds." The greatest album ever made DCD worshipper | Dublin Ireland | 02/02/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "First of all, this album contains the song Ocean, and if every other song was terrible, that one asset would be enough to make this the greatest album in history. This is far and away DCDs finest work, that the subsequent albums have never quite lived up to, although Spleen and Ideal comes close. The level of originality on this record is truly staggering. I remember hearing this for the first time in the 80s, and I was completely shocked that music like this could have been taught up by a mortal. I will never stop loving this. I remember thinking that this band was too good to hit the big time, but that it would take the world another twenty years to realise the greatness of Dead Can Dance, and I am beginning to think I was right." This is a welcome, appreciated work that may be problematic Bachelier | Ile de France | 10/18/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "Dead Can Dance's debut self-titled album has elements of a partnership still finding voice, and the great promise of things to come. The primary refreshing element here was that the group was not afraid to experiment, and unlike many post-punk or natal-gothic bands, was not afraid of polished vocals informed by both polyphony and plainchant. In addition the band's use of unfamiliar instruments, particularly with percussion, is also a welcome departure from the narrow constraints of independent and DIY music of the early 80s.
However, fans of latter DCD, particularly "Aion," may find this original album cacophonous and discordant, for it is clear that both Joy Division and The Swans were on the turntables of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry during these early years. Early Dead Can Dance fans often enjoy the first three albums in rotation with the omnipresent The Cure and the vocally similar Switchblade Sister. Latter DCD fans often enjoy a rotation with Enigma and Cocteau Twins, although I believe the band itself would eschew such bucket selections, as their own musical growth and trajectory are what made them distinct in the first place. This is a welcome, appreciated work that may be problematic for some." |
