You Will Have Your Revenge

Product Description
Includes 4 bonus tracks. "Two boys from London and a girl from Reading with an album called “You Will Have Your Revenge”, Baxendale are a serious group alright, but serious about making glorious Day-Glo euphoric electro-pop stuffed with so many ridiculous hooks and transparent truths you can't help but fall stupidly in love with them. ‘Music For Girls’ features the magnificent line, “Keep your bittersweet symphonies / I’ll break your legs if you stop me dancing”, while when halfway through the monster adrenaline rush of ‘Battery Acid’ Tim ‘dies’ and resurrects himself, it’s saved from becoming a hideous, cringeworthy parody just by the sheer exuberance he exudes. Like Pulp at their dizziest heights or a juvenile Pet Shop Boys run riot in a vat of fizzy sherbet, this is warm humanity for the dance fraternity, frenzied disco for indie kids. Who ever said dance music was all faceless and cold?" (review by Emma Hogan - NME)

You Will Have Your Revenge,Baxendale,Le Grand Magistery,Indie Pop,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Average customer rating:

You Will Have Your Revenge ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002UXKLY Release Date: 2001-07-31

Average customer rating: Very good synth-pop More Attitude than Wit Pure Pop

You Will Have Your Revenge Baxendale Manufacturer: Le Grand Magistery ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004YA81 Release Date: 2000-08-11

Tracks:

1. Music For Girls
2. (I've Blown It) Big Time
3. The Future...
4. Hanging Out With Her
5. Switzerland
6. I Love the Sound of Dance Music
7. Contacts Lenses
8. Je Serai Espionne
9. Neato
10. The Nineteen Sixties
11. Battery Acid
12. Electric Trains
13. Don't Smooch
14. You Know the Rules
15. Better Teeth
16. Me & My Piano

Album Description

Includes 4 bonus tracks. "Two boys from London and a girl from Reading with an album called “You Will Have Your Revenge”, Baxendale are a serious group alright, but serious about making glorious Day-Glo euphoric electro-pop stuffed with so many ridiculous hooks and transparent truths you can't help but fall stupidly in love with them. `Music For Girls' features the magnificent line, “Keep your bittersweet symphonies / I'll break your legs if you stop me dancing”, while when halfway through the monster adrenaline rush of `Battery Acid' Tim `dies' and resurrects himself, it's saved from becoming a hideous, cringeworthy parody just by the sheer exuberance he exudes. Like Pulp at their dizziest heights or a juvenile Pet Shop Boys run riot in a vat of fizzy sherbet, this is warm humanity for the dance fraternity, frenzied disco for indie kids. Who ever said dance music was all faceless and cold?" (review by Emma Hogan - NME)

Customer Reviews:

Very good synth-pop.......2004-10-15

Taking their cue from the Pet Shop Boys, with a bit of Belle & Sebastian, perhaps. Infectious pop with the synth beat, but unlike a lot of the synth pop sounds I've heard, not all the songs sound alike. The lead male singer does sound a fair amount like Neil Tennant (not a negative at all). I'm not big on the tunes sung by the female lead (fortunately on only 4 of the 16 tracks). Most of the rest is very good though. Anything else by these popsters available? Another plus, most of the good songs are in the 4-5 minute range.

More Attitude than Wit.......2001-03-20

A pop trio from London, Baxendale worship at the feet of Pulp and Pet Shop Boys. Their debut, You Will Have Your Revenge, opens with its highlight track, "Music for Girls", which doubles as an ironic statement of purpose: "If this is really music/I wouldn't want it in my world/if this is really music ...this is music for girls." The "girls" referenced are most likely lovers of eurotrash disco with more attitude than wit and would be, in all likelihood, uh, boys. Not American boys, mind you, but English boys, pale, disenfranchised, and sexually ambiguous. This American man finds them - the band, that is - mildly amusing. I'd enjoy them even more if they didn't equate disco with kitsch (they don't subvert it, or revel in it, as Pet Shop Boys), and if they had a singer, Tim Benton (also the writer), who didn't sound as pleased with himself as he does on most of these 16 tracks. Reservations noted, there are four standout cuts: "Music for Girls", the Pulp-rip "Neato", the happy OMD of "Don't Smooch", and the epic blowout of "I Love the Sound of Dance Music (Parts 1 + 2)", where, after ten minutes of bleep thump bleep, they decide that it's only all right.

Pure Pop.......2000-08-27

Baxendale makes pure pop music that is unapologetically sugary-sweet. Lead singer and songwriter Tim Benton's lyrics and delivery coax you into a beautiful world of extended childhood where you may find yourself falling in love with a girl as the both of you play video games ("Neato") or fret when she smooches another guy ("oh baby, baby please / don't smooch in front of me" - "Don't Smooch"). When Tim isn't singing, Senay Sargut takes the mic to fret about cute boys ("You Know the Rules") and technology ("The future..."). The music itself is not, for the most part, stuff we haven't heard before; synth-pop that bounces and makes you feel like doing the same. But you will find few groups who are able to make the formula so endearing. There are, of course, times when it seems that the trio go a little too far out of their way to insert a hook and other times when the whimsical lyrics stumble uncomfortably close to just plain dumb. "You will have your revenge" doesn't play as an album. It isn't hard to tell that this release is a conglomeration of previously released material and is, as a result, a little uneven. A few songs lose their appeal after the first few listens, but the great songs -and there are quite a few- will stay with you for a long time to come. The US release also includes four bonus tracks that weren't on the European version. Three of them are the best tracks of the album. If you're a fan of pop music in the vein of Pet Shop Boys, Pulp or A-ha, this disc is a must for your collection. It'll make you feel like a kid again.

Average customer rating: ...and a sweet revenge that is!

You Will Have Your Revenge Baxendale Manufacturer: Low ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00004SD4E Release Date: 2000-05-01

Tracks:

1. Music for Girls
2. (I've Blown It) Big Time [*]
3. Future
4. Hanging Out With Her
5. Switzerland
6. I Love the Sound of Dance Music, Pt.1-2
7. Contact Lenses
8. Je Serai Espionne
9. Neato
10. Nineteen Sixties
11. Battery Acid
12. Electric Trains
13. Don't Smooch [*]
14. You Know the Rules [*]
15. Better Teeth [*]
16. Me and My Piano [*]

Album Details

Debut Album from the Purveyors of Proper Pop Music, Unafraid to Use Theri Dancing Shoes. Massive on the Indie Underground (Zine Network Etc) and Getting the Thumbs Up from Peel, Melody Maker, Nme, Lamacq, Hefner, Denim, etc.

Customer Reviews:

...and a sweet revenge that is!.......2000-07-30

this disc is POP with big capital letters. These songs are sharply written with a good dose of humour. the music sounds like saint ettienne on a trip with bis remixing the pet shop boys, but has an edge that makes these people original. the pop don't stop!

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