Light at the End of the World [Import]

Light at the End of the World [Import]

Track Listings

1. She Is The Dark

2. Edenbeast

3. The Night He Died

4. The Light At The End Of The World

5. The Fever Sea

6. Into The Lake Of Ghosts

7. The Isis Script

8. Christliar

9. Sear Me III

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
1999 album for the Peaceville label by this top dark metal act, a return to the fundamentals that made them a force to be reckoned with. 'Light At The End Of The World' is their sixth album. Nine tracks. 1999 release.

Light at the End of the World,My Dying Bride,Heavy Metal

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AMAZING GRACE!

Vintage Vince and Andy - Welcome Back Erasure!

STOP! Stand there where you are...and DON'T buy this version of the CD!!!

Light at the End of the World
Erasure
Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000OLHGD4
Release Date: 2007-05-22

Tracks:

Sunday Girl
I Could Fall In Love With You
Sucker For Love
Storm In A Teacup
Fly Away
Golden Heart
How My Eyes Adore You
Darlene
When A Lover Leaves You
Glass Angel

Album Description

Recorded in Autumn 2006 in a converted home studio in Maine, LIGHT AT THE END OF THE WORLD is ERASURE'S return to pop form after 2006's critically-acclaimed acoustic album, UNION STREET. Features the single, "I Could Fall In Love With You". Andy Bell declares: "This album is to show people that our pop isn't finished... it's saying we can still do it, we can still write great songs".

Customer Reviews:

AMAZING GRACE!.......2007-07-25

I love Erasure and have for over 20 years. I listen to Erasure and Marc Almond exclusively, as I find them full of heart and soul that is profoudly moving. At first I was thrown off by this album since it is so different. It took me about 2 weeks to fall in love with it but now I am hooked! The songs have wonderful music and the words are so sexy! It's great to dance to! The songs are equally profound as in the past and do touch my soul like only Erasure can do. Very highly recommended. Golden Heart and How My Eyes Adore You are my favorites. I love this album and it is one of the best yet!

Vintage Vince and Andy - Welcome Back Erasure!.......2007-05-31

I've been an Erasure fan since the beginning -- unlike many who got on board much later, I actually remember the rare Thomas the Train cover for "Oh L'Amour" -- and I have to say this is a terrific album! After the interesting but ultimately unsatisfying reinvention for "Union Street" and the equally interesting but not terribly original "Other People's Songs" -- and let's not even talk about "Loveboat", this is a much-needed return to their vintage synth-driven sound.

More upbeat and peppy than "Nightbird" (which I also loved), "Light at the End of the World" sounds like a cross between "Cowboy" and "Wild!" to me -- with a little bit of "Chorus" and "I Say I Say I Say" thrown in for good measure. "Sucker For Love" sounds like an updated version of "La Gloria", and it's even more fun. "Sunday Girl" is a perfect synthpop masterpiece. "I Could Fall In Love With You" puts me in mind of "Don't Say Your Love Is Killing Me", and so it goes on with all Vince's vintage bleeps, buzzes, and knob-twiddling. By the way, if you've got quick ears, you'll also here echoes of "Always", "Treasure", "Snappy", "Crown of Thorns", and even "March On Down The Line". Listen closely! :)

It sounds like he's dusted off some of the old analog keyboards and sequencers, to great effect. Andy's vocals are in tip-top shape, only stretched a little on the deepest notes (like the notes he used to lose himself in so beautifully on "You Surround Me"). A fantastic album, and it couldn't come at a better time.

Welcome back, Erasure!

STOP! Stand there where you are...and DON'T buy this version of the CD!!!.......2007-05-23

Immediately search for the album again and get the 'limited edition' version with the two bonus tracks. It's less money than this version--and the two bonus tracks are two of Erasure's best!!!

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What's so wrong with the 'classic' label?
Have fun for a change!
One of their best albums!!!!
Not their best and certainly not their worst.
Great Effort for the old guys

Light at the End of the World
Erasure
Manufacturer: Mute U.S.
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ASIN: B000OLHGCU
Release Date: 2007-05-22

Tracks:

Sunday Girl
I Could Fall In Love With You
Sucker For Love
Storm In A Teacup
Fly Away
Golden Heart
How My Eyes Adore You
Darlene
When A Lover Leaves You
Glass Angel
Be My Baby (bonus track)
I Don't Know Why (bonus track)

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After something of a departure--two live discs and the unplugged Union Street (2006)--Erasure returns to full electronic form. From the languid opening wash of "Sunday Girl," Andy Bell and Vince Clarke make no bones about wearing old hats. Most of Light at the End of the World works within the familiar confines of the vintage Erasure formula, drunk on everyman synthesizers, listing through painfully vague and obvious rhymes. ("I get really repetitive because I don't read enough!" Bell admits.) Backed a long-studied love of pop, gospel, and the dance floor, Bell and Clarke revel in this stuff. "Sucker for Love" and "Fly Away" dabble most obviously in such pap, but the band still packs a few surprises, if only for the devoted. "Storm in a Teacup" tackles the alcoholism of Bell's mother in a rare confluence of straightforward storytelling and concrete imagery, and despite being an insincerely fictitious character study, "Darlene" moves with a syncopated, driving bounce that Erasure has rarely, if ever, found in 22 years of mid-tempo electro-meandering. If you don't like Erasure already, you probably won't take a shining to Light at the End of the World. If you do, let's hope their world spins on. --Jason Kirk

Product Description

Limited edition version features two bonus tracks.

Customer Reviews:

What's so wrong with the 'classic' label?.......2007-07-24

Erasure have crafted their best album in years, possibly since Chorus in 1991. So many reviewers, professional and amateur, have written off this CD as 'classic' Erasure, scolding them for being, well, Erasure. From the opening synth call of Sunday Girl to the lift that is I Don't Know Why, this album is gloriously exciting, well-written and clever. Each song fits together intricately and while Sunday Girl, I Could Fall in Love with You (with its beautiful video) and Storm in a Teacup, first stood out for me, I keep finding new favorites as I continue listening to the CD. There are no throwaway tracks on this CD. In this age of random-play iPods, it is seldom that I listen to complete CDs in order anymore. Being able to have thousands of songs at one's disposal can make great music disappear into the electronic shuffle. This CD, however, has captured my attention in a way that no other recent pop releases have, whether by Erasure (or Andy Bell) or other artists (Pet Shop Boys, Kelly Clarkson). I will be listening to the CD for a long time. It defines Erasure today, and any obvious nods to their past sound only serve to prove that their sound is strong and enduring, unlike the "top" music of today, which I am very grateful they didn't try to emulate (hello, Robbie Williams and Madonna) just to go to the top of the charts.

Have fun for a change!.......2007-07-21

Every 10 years Erasure produces a very good album. In 1987 it was the "Innocents" with the big top 40 hits. Then in 1997 came "Cowboy", IMHO thier best, now late in the game of pop music-2007 comes "Light" filled with danceable singalongs that still can touch my heart.

A revival of sort back to the day of glitteringly produced synth pop that your granny may tap her feet to. "Sucker for Love" really revives this almost forgotten style. They were the first openly gay band who sold really well. Now,being out, "drags" bands down.(no pun intended)

Most of the songs work really well. Andy Bell keeps it personal, sharing his trials of life. "Fly Away" makes me feel good about my own losses in life.We are all in this together.I love you after all these years, Andy!!! "Glass Angel" has an urgency that gives a dark ending to an upbeat album. I hope these guys have another great album in 2017!

One of their best albums!!!!.......2007-07-10

This is one of their best albums and the two bonus tracks in the Deluxe Edition are better than most of the tracks in the standard edition. Buy it now!!!!

Not their best and certainly not their worst........2007-07-07

This is not a bad album, but it is not their best. I agree that this returns to the dancier pop sounds of Chorus and prior albums. Still, it is missing that that depth and originality that will make these songs classics similar to A Little Respect, Blue Savannah, I Love To Hate You or Always.

What you have here is a polished, enjoyable but somewhat samey sounding album. I love this band, and I really want to love this, but it just seems like an average album to me. I guess all fans will have their favorites. I lean more towards the synthy sweetness of I Say X 3 and the ambient explorations of the Erasure album. Regardless of my thoughts on this album, I am thrilled that Vince and Andy continue to make music and tour the US.

Highlights of this release for me are Storm In A Teacup, Fly Away and When A Lover Leaves You.

Great Effort for the old guys.......2007-07-06

Light at the End of the WOrld is a very, very admirable effort from the Erasure boys. It is very much in the vein of some of their earlier efforts and more upbeat and dancey than recent offerings from the kings (queens?) of europop.

THe single, I could Fall in Love is just stunning in its overproduced, electronic whirlwhind sound and feel. YOu can't sit still when it plays. Several other tracks have "potential hit" markend on them as well...Sunday Girl for instance.

If you loved older Erasure albums, but have been bored by the newer, softer sounds, this is your chance to have some fun with the boys Clarke and Bell once again.

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excellent CD
It doesn't get better than this!
STIG ROSEN...Simply........Outstanding
Doesn't get any better then this!
This is great!

Love Changes Everything

Manufacturer: Dptv Media
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ASIN: B0002IQGPS
Release Date: 2004-08-24

Tracks:

This Is the Moment [From Jekyll & Hyde]
Being Alive [From Company]
Bui-Doi [From Miss Saigon]
Why God Why? [From Miss Saigon]
Last Night of the World [From Miss Saigon] - Joanna Ampil, , Stig Rossen
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Customer Reviews:

excellent CD.......2007-07-03

I only wish there were more songs from Les Mis. I've seen 6 different Les Mis casts, and Stig Rossen (London cast, June 1997) was the best Jean Valjean I've seen by far. I bought this CD solely based on the fact that I was blown away by his voice when I saw him in Les Mis. You'll love the other songs on this CD just because his voice is so good.
P.S. Don't know why the Amazon description says "by Kalle Magnusson", don't be confused...Stig Rossen sings all of the songs.

It doesn't get better than this!.......2007-03-17

This is a superior CD. Mr. Rossen is a gifted singer and delivers each song with perfect expression. This CD is a gem!

STIG ROSEN...Simply........Outstanding.......2007-02-15

This CD is a Gem ...it is a must for everyone who loves beautiful music.The renditions come to life again.."Love Changes Everything" , Beautiful..."This is the moment"....Powerful. This young man has the perfect range and "coloratura" in his voice, his diction is incredible, his own "persona" is in each and every song..."Why God" from miss saigon makes you re-live the drama in this song through Stig,s voice...."all i ask from you" Magical!!!.......to summarize if you are a Michael Ball fan (i am!!) this is as a wonderful venture as all his recordings...Get it ..you wont regret it!!..Stig has a space in my kingdom of outstanding performers..cant wait for his next recording!!!

Doesn't get any better then this!.......2006-07-06

I took a chance when I bought this CD, and am so glad I did. His voice is so beautiful; so smooth, expressive, powerful, with a tremendous range. The songs were obviously carefully chosen, and he interprets each one so well that they sound brand new. This really is a beautiful album, if you're a fan of Michael Crawford or Michael Ball, add Stig to your list.

Every song on this album is terrific, but his rendition of Gesthemene is really outstanding, better than most others I've heard.

This is great!.......2005-04-01

This CD has Broadway songs sung by a great singer. I especially like his rendition of STARS from LES MISERABLES. This song is not on many CD's besides the cast albums of Les Miserables. He is a very good singer. While you may like the original versions better, you won't be sorry if you buy this CD.

Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures

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A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion
One of the most extraordinary works ever written
Music to Amaze Your Ears

Langgaard: Music Of The Spheres/Four Tone Pictures

Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000B0N
Release Date: 1997-04-22

Tracks:

Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Sunbeams On A Coffin Decorated With Sweet Smelling Flowers -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinklying Of Stars In The Blue Sky At Sunset -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like Light And The Depths
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Refraction Of Sunbeams In The Waves
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Like The Twinkling Of A Pearl Of Dew In The Sun On A Beautiful Summer's Morning
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Longing - Despair - Ecstasy
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Soul Of The World - Abyss - All Soul's Day
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): I Wish...!
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Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Flowers Wither
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Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): Bells Pealing: Look Here He Comes!
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The Gospel Of Flowers - From The Far Distance -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The New Day -
Sfaerernes Musik (Music Of The Spheres): The End: Antichrist - Christ
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): I. Like Words For A Summer's Day Saga
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): II. A Scent Of Mull And Mud
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): III. A Golden Flake Hovers Above
Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures): IV. The Flowering Summer Was Linked To The Harvest

Amazon.com

Rued Langgaard (1893-1952) was the odd duck of Danish music. He remained doggedly Romantic at a time when Romanticism was out, and he had his own funny little experiments with music that noboby particularly liked. We owe a debt to Chandos and Danacord for keeping Langgaard's music current. Music of the Spheres (1916-18) predates Gyorgy Ligeti by 50 years with its bright, pointillistic assertions and groups of ideas that evolve to their own inner logic. As demonstrated in Tonebilleder (Four Tone Pictures), Langgaard's music has an openness that allows his tone clusters to expand, contract, or simply repeat (as Ligeti would do much later). Discover Langgaard. --Paul Cook

Customer Reviews:

A work of awesome proportions and intimate emotion.......2006-12-11

This Chandos disc containing two pieces by Danish composer Rued Langgaard is one of the most pleasant surprises this fan of modern-classical music has come across. Langgaard (1893-1952) was an outsider and eccentric in Danish music life, a virtuoso organist who succeeded only in his late forties at getting a position, and a composer of wild tales of the Antichrist coming into the world who found it almost impossible to get his music played. In the late 1960s, his music was rediscovered by scholars and his importance in Danish musical history is now certain, but he is still little-known in the modern-classical scene. We should be grateful to the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra & Choir and Gennady Rozhdestvensky for their performance and to Chandos for releasing the recording.

"Music of the Spheres" for soprano, chorus, orchestra, and distant orchestra (1916-1918) is stunning. The innovations here are considerable: exploiting the performance space in the use of two orchestras, writing for an "open" piano where glissandi are produced directly on the strings, and of course the clusters and polyphonic webs, massive and seemingly motionless blocks of sound reminiscent of Gyorgy Ligeti. Indeed, the Hungarian composer exclaimed that he was a Langaard imitator when Per Norgard showed him a copy of the score in 1968. But the purity of the string writing reminds me of Alexander Knaifel, and the massive proportions of the orchestral writing at its loudest is somewhat like Sandstroem's "The High Mass".

But, as is often said, it wouldn't matter how much Langgaard were ahead of his time in "Music of the Spheres" if the music wasn't great. And it is, one of the most moving half-hours of orchestral music I'm acquainted with. Langgaard was a Romantic in a time when Romanticism was out of fashion, and the proportions of what the listener may recognize as struggle, momentary defeat, and victory are just as powerful as in Mahler.

"Music of the Spheres" is an exceptional piece in Langgaard's total output. The "Four Tone Pictures" for soprano and orchestra are somewhat more typical of his art. Written on poems by J. Blicher-Clausen, Ivan Turgeniev, and Holger Drachmann, they are fairly tame lieder. These suggest that the modern-classical fan can pass on most of Langgaard's music, but "Music of the Spheres" is so good that at least this disc should be in your collection.

One of the most extraordinary works ever written.......2003-11-21

Music of the Spheres, by the eccentric Danish composer Rued Langgaard, really is the work that has everything. Written between 1916 and 1918, it uses a multitude of techniques that would not be rediscovered until after the wars. Multifarious tone clusters, floating micropolyphony, a piano played directly on the strings, an entire offstage orchestra, blurred choral singing, prefigurations of minimalism: you name it, this work has it. Yet it also has Scriabinesque ecstasy, Straussian opulence and a wacked-out religious subtext in which Christ and Antichrist clash in the violent climax to the whole work.

None of this would matter, though, if the music weren't any good. But it is good--probably the best thing Langgaard ever wrote (so far I've heard about 30 of his works, and none of them matches this one). The various short episodes flow one into another with perfect clarity and logic, the orchestration is superlative, and the dramatic writing at the climax is sonically overwhelming. Fortunately, Chandos match this work with a tremendous performance by the Danish National Radio Symphony and Choir, conducted by that indefatigable servant of underperformed music, Gennady Rozhdestvensky. This recording should be considered the best currently available, and it outstrips the rivals with ease.

Any other work isn't likely to fare so well in comparison to this, but the Four Tone Pictures are by no means eclipsed. Opulent songs in a Straussian harmonic language--though lacking the German composer's gift for melody--they are the perfect way to come down from the musical high of Music of the Spheres.

Music to Amaze Your Ears.......2003-07-23

Rued Langgaard was the man that time forgot. Completely neglected in his native Denmark because he did not fall within the prevailing neo-classic aesthetic set by Nielsen, Langgaard was rediscovered in the 60s when Per Norgard gave a score of Music of the Spheres to Gyorg Ligeti at a competition and after a minute Ligeti announced, "it seems as though I am a Langgaard imitator." Though Langgaard was essentially a conservative late romantic composer, he was capable of some real moments of innovation. He not only presaged Ligeti's color style, but also elements of minimalism, most especially in his string quartets.

Music of the Spheres is Langgaard at his most original. This work is a stunning series of small tone pictures. From the very beginning of the work, with the shimmering cluster of string harmonies over ominous timpani, through out the work, experiment reigns. Langgaard is always tonal, but in this work shows a fascination with orchestral sound and tonal clusters that was probably about 50 years ahead of the times. And yet, in the middle of the work there are sections that could come directly from Schonberg's early Gurrelieder or even the symphonies of Gade. It is a truly astonishing aural sound feast and should be a staple of the repertoire.

The accompanying Tone Pictures, four tone poems on nature themes, are also quite beautiful, though much more conventional as music. Here is Langgaard the Romantic and he is quite a good Romantic actually. The orchestrations are lush, the harmony sensuous and there is just enough oddness to mark the work as Langgaard's and no one else's.

This Chandos disc is exemplary in sound and the performance by Rozhdestvensky is definitive I think. Even if you are afraid of unusual or experimental work, this is a disc that you can take to your heart. It is stunning and beautiful and has my highest recommendation.

Light at the End of the World
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Flashes of brilliance

***Awesome CD***A Must Have***

Forgotten (by me) Gem

Good '90s AFOS CD

this is great music

Light at the End of the World
A Flock Of Seagulls
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ASIN: B00004LMMD
Release Date: 2000-03-18

Tracks:

Burnin' Up
Magic
Setting Sun
Rainfall
Ordinary Man
You're Mine
Walking In The Garden
Hearts On Fire
Life Is Easy
Say You Love Me
The Light At The End Of The World
Seven Seas

Customer Reviews:

Flashes of brilliance.......2007-02-16

Well, as they say, nothing lasts forever. Unfortunately, the lifespan of AFOS was probably shorter than the lifespan of a real seagull.

While there are moments of this disc where there is some new creativity exhibited by Mike Score, as in "Setting Sun", it just isn't enough to equal the beauty and brilliance of AFOS in its prime, like "Listen" or "AFOS."

If you are a true fan, like I am, you will appreciate this album. That being said, the songwriting is a bit sophomoric at times. Too much emphasis on the wonder and beauty of love, not enough of the edgy menace prevalent on early classics like "You Can Run" or or "Nightmares."

Perhaps some of these tracks should have left out the lyrics and let the listener enjoy the instrumental portion (again, another great feature of early AFOS).

Overall, I do like this disc, especially because Mike Score did keep some of the sonic elements of the original group.

Seeing as how the date of this review is 2/15/07, and this disc was released in 1995, here's hoping the brief VH-1 reunion of the original lineup spurs one more creative effort out of AFOS with an accompanying tour (regretfully, I never had the pleasure of seeing AFOS live).

***Awesome CD***A Must Have***.......2006-06-12

This is one awesome CD! Much overlooked and underated by far! Mike Score is absolutely one of the best singer/songwriters I have ever heard. The whole CD is written about Love...what better to write about than that? "Burnin'Up", "Magic", "Setting Sun", "Rainfall", "You're Mine" ;(a love song written for his daughter), "Walking in the Garden", "Hearts on Fire", "Life is Easy", "Say You Love Me"...all love songs. The instrumentals are equally as good. Both pull their weight nicely. The title track "The Light at the End of the World" has an Indian flair and "Seven Seas" has a beautiful classical feel to it. Mike's diverse talent shines on this album. This is one CD I have 4 copies of. It is definitely a must have.

Forgotten (by me) Gem.......2006-05-10

I bought this CD ten years ago after seeing AFOS perform in a little bar/coffee house in Huntington, West Virginia, called The Drop Shop. I was attending Marshall University at the time, and some from friends from work and I thought it would be cool to go see a band from "yesteryear". This was '96, of course, so it'd been at LEAST ten years since AFOS had done anything that registered with the listening public. They were touring to support this album, "...Light...", and I was blown away with the songs on this disc. I was able to sneak into the stage area in the back of the club and listen to them warm up, and they were working on "Setting Sun". I was absolutely spellbound. "Sun" is an absolutely fabulous piece of work. After I got this disc, I couldn't take it out of my CD player. It was all I listened to for close to two months. I know that an obscure CD from AFOS doesn't get much attention on here, but I had to contribute my two cents. Overall, this is a solid album. Some favorites of mine include "Setting Sun" (obviously), "Magic", "Burning Up", "Say You Love Me", and "Heart's On Fire". These, to me, are the standout tracks. It didn't get a lot of attention, but I believe this disc has some staying power should it make its way into your CD collection.

Good '90s AFOS CD.......2005-02-28

I bought this CD not too long after it came out, when I heard from (forgot the source) they were releasing new music. I was pretty impressed! Only Mike Score is the original member on this CD, but he's gathered together some solid musicians to back him up. The guitar player stands out especially, as he is obviously a very talented solo guitarist, providing an endless amount of cascading solo lines throughout each song. A much different style than original guitarist Paul Reynolds. The drums and bass however seem to stick to the original Ali Score/Frank Maudsley straightforward tempo style, which gives the CD more of a reminiscent sound. The lyrics are based heavily on "love" themes, as I was wondering if Mike Score had finally found the love of his life when he recorded this CD! This is probably the only deterrant to this CD I can think of, as Score's "love piffle" gets a bit old by the time you get to the 10th song or so. There are many solid songs on here however, in particular "You're Mine", which I was seriously waiting to hear on the airwaves during the year of the release- unfortunately that never happened. You can hear the fabulous guitar work on this number too. "Rainfall" and "Burnin Up" are two other songs that stick out also. Most AFOS fans will miss the outer-space and futuristic theme elements that this CD lacks, though "Ordinary Man" takes a stab at portraying the grind of modern working class society.

this is great music.......2004-10-03

I am a classic rock fan to the core, but after listening to the cd that AFOS first put out I had to find out what else they had released. I discovered they had a greatest hits cd and Light at the End of the World. Having really liked their greatest hits I thought I would give Light a chance. This is a great cd. Mike Score gave the guitarist a little more freedom than in the past and the results are fun to listen to. I like every song on this cd, although it took time for me to like the title song. If you like music that isn't to heavy, and has great melodies this is a cd you should have in your collection. I keep coming back and listening to their music over and over, whether it be this cd or their earlier stuff, it's all good!

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Light at the End of the World
Erasure
Manufacturer: Mute UK Indie
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000O5BOSI
Release Date: 2007-08-14

Tracks:

Sunday Girl
I Could Fall In Love With You
Sucker For Love
Storm In A Teacup
Fly Away
Golden Heart
How My Eyes Adore You
Darlene
When A Lover Leaves You
Glass Angel
Be My Baby (Bonus Track)
I Dont Know Why (Bonus Track)

Album Details

The Album Opens with 'sunday Girl' Where the Simplicity of the Lyrics and Melody Are Merged to a Swirl of Electronics with Stunning Effect. Track after Track, from the Hopeful 'golden Heart' to the Regretful 'fly Away', the Songs Are Matched Beautifully to the Emotional Sonic Backdrops that Rise and Fall on Bell's Breathy and Assured Vocals. 'when a Lover Leaves You', the Penultimate Track, Perhaps Best Sums Up Spirit of the Entire Album. With Bell Torn Between Two Lovers, Yearning for the One, and Worried for the Other, Clarke Devises a Gorgeous Synth-pop Samba to Ease the Pain. 'dance Away the Heartache,' to Coin a Phrase, Indeed. Classic Erasure.

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Light at the End of the World
Erasure
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ASIN: B000O78YR0
Release Date: 2007-05-28

Tracks:

Sunday Girl
I Could Faill In Love With You
Sucker For Love
Storm In A Teacup
Fly Away
Golden Heart
How My Eyes Adore You
Darlene
When A Love Leaves You
Glass Angel
I Could Fall In Love With You (Monteverde Extended Mix)
I Like It (Japan Only)
I Could Fall In Love With You (Video/ Japan Only)

Album Description

Enhanced Japanese pressing of the 2007 album from Synthpop duo Erasure features three bonus tracks: 'I Could Fall In Love With You' (Monteverde Extended Mix), 'I Like It' and the Enhanced Video for the album's first single 'I Could Fall In Love With You'. Leave it to Erasure to hole up in a cottage in the woods of Maine, surrounded by ocean, forest and mountains to produce one of the most computer-based, modern albums of their career. Vince Clarke, Andy Bell and producer Gareth Jones (Depeche Mode, Wire, Clinic, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) spent six weeks in Autumn 2006 recording the songs the comprise Light At The End Of The World. This album proves Erasure's creative vitality, musical influence and cultural relevance is just nearing its peak more than twenty years and twenty million albums into their historic collaboration. EMI. 2007.

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Symphony 9: Introduction to Dvorak
Dvorak
Manufacturer: Naxos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Classics Explained: Pastoral Symphony
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ASIN: B000069HGK
Release Date: 2002-09-17

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Absolutely Medieval
Good Stuff.

The Light at the End of the World
My Dying Bride
Manufacturer: Peaceville UK
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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The Dreadful Hours
Songs of Darkness, Words of Light
The Angel and the Dark River
A Line of Deathless Kings
Like Gods Of The Sun

ASIN: B00013VHIA
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

She Is the Dark
Edenbeast
Night He Died
Light at the End of the World
Fever Sea
Into the Lake of Ghosts
Isis Script
Christliar
Sear Me III

Album Description

2003 limited edition digipak reissue of 1999 album features nine tracks. Peaceville.

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Absolutely Medieval.......2006-02-19

This is a marvelous album. This album, while still operating within the Doom/Death sound of other MDB albums (except 34%), has a unique feel to it. One of favorite MDB songs is called Edenbeast. It reminds me of three things 1) Medieval/ancient Egypt 2) Eyes Wide Shut (when cruise walks into the masquarade ball) 3) a dark temple where weird rituals are being performed. This song is worth buying the entire album.

But back to the album. It is true that after 34.8% complete, this is a return to the MDB everyone knows and loves. I would not say though that this album sounds like Turn Loose....or The Angel.. While it isn't as experimental, it definitely sounds more mature... This album is heavy and uses keyboards to the same and sometimes better effect than the violin used in earlier albums. In fact, the guitars prove that you don't even need the violin to deliver the kind of atmosphere which is dispondent, sorrowful, and deeply touching, which MDB do so well.

However, it is not a perfect album. While the first 4 songs of the album are fantastic, the second half leaves a lot to be desired. It's almost as if they MDB ran out of ideas. Christliar is particular plods along with no real destination.

Nevertheless, essential for anyone who likes MDB's other works and for anyone who wants a dose of good, clean, well-written, thoughtful music.

Good Stuff........2005-03-05

This album from MDB is very good. It is classic doom metal done almost to perfection. This album consists of a very emotional vocals/lyrics, (although Aaron does throw in some growls every now and then on this album) and slow guitar riffs/drums. The best songs on this album are The Light at the End of the World, Edenbeast, and Into the Lake of Ghosts. If you are a doom metal/metal fan, this album is for you.

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Light at the End of the World
Erasure
Manufacturer: Mute
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000NIWIN6
Release Date: 2007-05-22

Tracks:

Sunday Girl
I Could Fall in Love With You
Sucker for Love
Storm in a Teacup
Fly Away
Golden Heart
How My Eyes Adore You
Darlene
When a Lover Leaves You
Glass Angel

Album Description

Recorded in Autumn 2006 in a converted home studio in Maine, LIGHT AT THE END OF THE WORLD is ERASURE'S return to pop form after 2006's critically-acclaimed acoustic album, UNION STREET. Features the single, I Could Fall In Love With You. Andy Bell declares: "This album is to show people that our pop isn't finished... it's saying we can still do it, we can still write great songs".

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