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China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms: Some People Think It's Fun To Entertain (1982) {1985, Reissue}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 3 Feb 2021 11:55:37

China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms: Some People Think It's Fun To Entertain (1982) {1985, Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 230 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 99 Mb
Scans Included | 00:39:30 | RAR 5% Recovery
New Wave, Synth-Pop | Virgin #CDV 2243

Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain is the debut album by English new wave group China Crisis released in 1982. It spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart and peaked at number 21 in February 1983. China Crisis are an English pop/rock band. They were formed in 1979 in Kirkby, near Liverpool, Merseyside with a core of vocalist/keyboardist Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon. China Crisis were part of a wave of new Liverpool acts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, led by OMD and also including Echo and the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, A Flock of Seagulls and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. China Crisis had moderate success in the United Kingdom in the 1980s with five Top 40 singles and three Top 40 albums. The band also achieved a modest level of commercial success in Western Europe and Australia, and some minor chart successes in the Americas.

Like fellow Liverpudlians O.M.D., China Crisis began life as a synthetic duo who performed brilliantly executed pop songs with quirky edges. And like O.M.D., they seamlessly mixed their love of guitar-based pop with (then) modern musical technology (i.e., synthesizers). Unlike O.M.D., China Crisis' legacy languishes somewhere between there and then with no sign of them ever being considered "hip." Not to say that that is their fault! Gary Daly (the quirky vocalist/keyboardist) and Eddie Lundon (the smooth vocalist/guitarist) made their fascinating debut, Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain, on a low budget, and their magic was already in place, especially on the Steely Dan-ish "No More Blue Horizons," the upbeat groove of "Some People I Know to Lead Fantastic Lives" and "You Never See It," the gorgeous "Christian," and their early hit "African and White." Their quirkiness doesn't quite translate on a few tracks ("Temptation's Big Blue Eyes" and "Are We a Worker"), but the charm of this album will win you over if you like smart, yet slightly eccentric, pop songs. It is plainly obvious that, no matter how uncommercial a particular song may be, the boys in China Crisis put their heart and soul into it, creating something uniquely their own, and building upon it. They would finally work their quirks effortlessly into the music on their sophomore release, but there's plenty for synth fans and '80s fans to find here.

~ Stephen Schnee, All Music

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Track List:

01. Seven Sports For All [3:18]
02. No More Blue Horizons [3:49]
03. Feel To Be Driven Away [2:56]
04. Some People I Know To Lead Fantastic Lives [3:33]
05. Christian [5:37]
06. African And White [3:47]
07. Are We A Worker [3:31]
08. Red Sails [4:43]
09. You Never See It [2:57]
10. Temptation's Big Blue Eyes [3:26]
11. Jean Walks In Fresh Fields [1:53]

Personnel:
Gary Daly - vocals, synthesizer
Eddie Lundon - guitar, vocals
Dave Reilly - drums, percussion

EAC Log

EAC extraction logfile from 20. April 2006, 21:07 for CD
China Crisis / Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun To Entertain

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Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : Yes

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44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo

Other options :
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Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Installed external ASPI interface

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Peak level 93.2 %
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CRC 56C45D6A
Copy OK

No errors occured

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