The Pleasures of Electricity

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
2002 album sees a return to the minimalist smoked glass electronics & cold glamour of the Ultravox founder's 1980 album, 'Metamatic'. For fans of The Magnetic Fields, Ladytron, Nylon Pylon, Alpinestars & Felix Da Housecat.

The Pleasures of Electricity,John Foxx,Louis Gordon,United States Dist,Ambient,Electronic,Pop,Prog-Rock/Art Rock,Rock,Rock/Pop

Tracks:

A Funny Thing
Night Life
Camera
Invisible Women
Cities Of Light 5
Uptown/Downtown
When It Rains
Automobile
The Falling Room
Travel
Quiet City

Product Description

1. A Funny Thing
2. Nightlife
3. Camera
4. Invisible Women
5. Cities Of Light
6. Uptown/Downtown
7. When It Rains
8. Automobile
9. The Falling Room
10. Travel
11. Quiet City

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Interesting, compelling and a little strange.......2006-08-22

Whilst 'Crash & Burn' was hard-edged and dark, this is much more introverted and vulnerable. The Pleasures of Electricity is a strange album in many ways and very unusual. It is unlike anything else by John Foxx and just about unlike anything else I've heard.
The music "grooves" along in a quiet and beguiling way - sort of like a "Pastoral Kraftwerk". The music is very well crafted, melodic and it has a very infectious feel to it. "Invisible Women" has a quote from "Underpass" - the string synthesizer 'ritornello' from that song.

Many of the songs have a languid and unhurried feel to them. It is as if John Foxx has decided to spend some time with his ideas and music on this album and is happy to let the songs be as long as they need to be. The sound is less "hard-edged" than Metamatic or Crash & Burn, but much more organic and sophisticated than The Garden or In Mysterious Ways. It is a little like a calmer and more thoughtful version of The Golden Section, without the occasional and generally unnecessary intrusion of electric guitars.

The Pleasures of Electricity is a superb album in my opinion. It was rewarding for me the first time I listened to it and it continues to be a source of pleasure and mental stimulation for me. Great "armchair" listening, but, I dare say, it would sound awesome in a nightclub through a big sound system.

Hypnagogic Hallucinations.......2005-06-21

I have always been fascinated by John Foxx's surreal lyrics, and this collection of songs is nothing short of brilliant. A hypnagogic hallucination is a vivid, dreamlike hallucination that occurs as you are falling asleep. Some people see visions or hear people talking in that moment between waking and IBM Aptiva 63G - MT - 1 x PIII 500 MHz - RAM 64 MB - HD 1 x 10 GB - DVD - Mdm - Win98 - Monitor : none

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Electronics:

Electronics

Electronics a bit ironic perhaps because the music is probably at it's strangest on this song.

Some other standouts for me are -
Automobile
Travel
Quiet City

This is some great music from one of the founding fathers of electronica.

Nostalgia for the Future.......2002-05-13

Hmm, very Kraftwerk. In going back to a sound even older than that of his own first foray into Electronic music, 1980's 'Metamatic', John has produced an excellent record of timeless quality. And for lovers of 'Metamatic', the tracks here 'Invisible Women' and 'Quiet City' are clever reworkings of that past glory.

Equally at home on the CD players of oldies reminiscing on the golden age of synth rock, of DJs burning the uptodatest dancefloor tracks and of those looking for some serious chillout musik.

Pop Music:

Pop Music

pop music

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