Visage - The Anvil (1982) {Polydor}
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© 1988 Polydor / PolyGram | 800 022-2
New Wave / New Romantic / Synth Pop
When they recorded the follow-up to their surprisingly successful debut, the members of Visage appeared to be dealing from a position of strength. But the dance club-fueled, style-obsessed new romantic movement that had propelled the group to success in England was already crumbling, and frontman Steve Strange had begun to take his role as the movement's figurehead a little too seriously. The Anvil, rumored to be the subject of a multi-million dollar feature film (a project that never materialized), emphasizes Strange's penchant for melancholy and melodrama.
Where the band's debut undercut such pretensions with humorous tracks like the twangy "Malpaso Man," only one tune here – "Night Train," with a rubbery bassline and blasts of brass backing a tongue-in-cheek tale of intrigue – dares to take liberties with Visage's moody image. Still, with backing from the same core of post-punk all-stars (Ultravox's Midge Ure – who co-produced the album – and violinist Billy Currie, as well as Magazine keyboardist Dave Formula), Strange and drummer Rusty Egan sound just as good as before, and despite once again closing an album with a forgettable instrumental ("Whispers"), almost all the band's efforts on The Anvil are extremely well-crafted synth pop. Two, in fact, are essential new wave artifacts. The title track takes a despairing look around clubland, setting Strange's best-ever lyric to a grim parody of a hit in the meatmarket disco it describes; it suggests he'd become disillusioned with the scene that had spawned Visage. "The Damned Don't Cry," meanwhile, is even better, a ghostly groove that comes closer than anyone would have thought possible to recapturing the haunted magnificence of "Fade to Grey," the band's signature hit.
Personnel:
Steve Strange – lead vocals
Midge Ure – guitars, synthesizer, backing vocals
Dave Formula – synthesizer
Billy Currie – electric violin, synthesizer
Rusty Egan – drums, electronic drums, backing vocals
Additional personnel:
Barry Adamson – bass
Gary Barnacle – saxophone
Perri Lister – backing vocals
Lorraine Whitmarsh – backing vocals
tracklist:
01. The Damned Don't Cry
02. Anvil (Night Club School)
03. Move Up
04. Night Train
05. The Horseman
06. Look What They've Done
07. Again We Love
08. Wild Life
09. Whispers
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 10. December 2014, 12:09
Visage / The Anvil
Used drive : ASUS DRW-20B1LT Adapter: 2 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
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8 | 32:44.35 | 4:26.45 | 147335 | 167329
9 | 37:11.05 | 5:39.40 | 167330 | 192794
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EAC extraction logfile from 10. December 2014, 12:09
Visage / The Anvil
Used drive : ASUS DRW-20B1LT Adapter: 2 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 320 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %source%
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.32 | 4:44.45 | 32 | 21376
2 | 4:45.02 | 4:41.18 | 21377 | 42469
3 | 9:26.20 | 4:26.65 | 42470 | 62484
4 | 13:53.10 | 4:29.30 | 62485 | 82689
5 | 18:22.40 | 4:42.47 | 82690 | 103886
6 | 23:05.12 | 4:52.45 | 103887 | 125831
7 | 27:57.57 | 4:46.53 | 125832 | 147334
8 | 32:44.35 | 4:26.45 | 147335 | 167329
9 | 37:11.05 | 5:39.40 | 167330 | 192794
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Track 2
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Track 9
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==== Log checksum A3019F57F16F4A30114277965788DA126C9DBE4D449C8CE632F2EF7A05CEB7E7 ====
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