Utopia - Swing To The Right (1982)
Utopia - Swing To The Right (1982)
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Scans | 276MB (+5%)
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock | Label: Rhino RNCD70875 | Released: 1996
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC+CUE+LOG | Scans | 276MB (+5%)
Genre: Rock, Progressive Rock | Label: Rhino RNCD70875 | Released: 1996
Swing to the Right is a Utopia (featuring Todd Rundgren, Roger Powell, Kasim Sulton, and Willie Wilcox) album from 1982. It followed the well-intentioned Beatles parody/homage Deface the Music. Swing to the Right swings into hard-edged commentary on corporate raiders, warmongers, political villains, and despicable music industry moguls. There is little in the way of progressive rock on this album, which is limited to Swing to the Right.
Utopia wandered into the wilderness with Deface the Music, losing much of the audience they won with Adventures in Utopia. If its follow-up Swing to the Right is any indication, the band didn't really care, since they doggedly pursue a weird fusion of new wave pop, arena rock, and soul, all spiked with social commentary. According to some reports, Bearsville didn't want to release the album, relenting only after considerable pressure from Rundgren, who defended it as the group effort it certainly is. In fact, Swing to the Right marks the beginning of Utopia Mach III, when each member pulled equal weight as composers and frontmen – at times, it's hard to tell who contributed what, or even who takes lead vocals. Admittedly, Rundgren's efforts are the strongest – "Lysistrata" condenses a Greek play into a three-minute pop gem, and "One World," a silly but catchy "love is all you need" chant. Both songs accentuate the anti-Reagan theme of Swing to the Right, which is clearly telegraphed by the album's title. True, the message can be a little fuzzy, yet each song has a loose anti-conservative theme, including their cover of the O'Jays' "For the Love of Money," which also provides a musical keynote for this new wave-soul-inflected record. Unfortunately, this all reads better than it plays. Apart from the aforementioned Rundgren numbers and (possibly) the title track, no songs make a lasting impression, as Utopia's pop instincts fail them for the first time since Oops! Wrong Planet. As a Reagan-era curiosity, however, it's intermittently fascinating.
Utopia - Swing To The Right (1982)
Tracks:
01. Swing to the Right
02. Lysistrata
03. The Up
04. Junk Rock
05. Shinola – 5:21
06. For the Love of Money (Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, Jackson)
07. Last Dollar on Earth
08. Fahrenheit 451
09. Only Human
10. One World
Credits:
Todd Rundgren – vocals, guitar
Roger Powell – keyboards, synthesizer, vocals
Kasim Sulton – bass, keyboards, vocals
Willie Wilcox – drums
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Utopia / Swing To The Right
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EAC extraction logfile from 4. January 2011, 6:59
Utopia / Swing To The Right
Used drive : TSSTcorpCDDVDW SE-S224Q Adapter: 1 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 : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
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Additional command line options : -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s
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1 | 0:00.00 | 4:21.15 | 0 | 19589
2 | 4:21.15 | 2:44.12 | 19590 | 31901
3 | 7:05.27 | 4:08.53 | 31902 | 50554
4 | 11:14.05 | 3:08.52 | 50555 | 64706
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7 | 23:33.30 | 4:12.27 | 106005 | 124931
8 | 27:45.57 | 2:47.50 | 124932 | 137506
9 | 30:33.32 | 5:11.50 | 137507 | 160881
10 | 35:45.07 | 3:26.03 | 160882 | 176334
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