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China Crisis - What Price Paradise (1986) {1989, Japanese Reissue}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 29 Apr 2023 10:26:28

China Crisis - What Price Paradise (1986) {1989, Japanese Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 403 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 220 Mb
Full Scans | 00:50:12 | RAR 5% Recovery
Synth-Pop, New Wave | Virgin Japan Ltd. #VJD-28219

After making a bid to become the '80s version of Steely Dan on the delightful Flaunt the Imperfection, China Crisis offered a fuller and more pop-oriented follow-up the next year. With the duo of Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley (replacing Walter Becker) sharing the producer's chair, the songs on What Price Paradise feature warm, intricate arrangements and prominent brass and strings. But while more than one Langer/Winstanley offering of this era overwhelmed its subject with such treatment – Elvis Costello's ill-fated Goodbye Cruel World is a good example – the sophisticated and melodic songs here prosper from the attention to detail. The Motown-ish bounce of "Worlds Apart" and "June Bride" is made even more infectious by punchy horn charts, while "Hampton Beach" offers sweeping melodrama, as Gary Daly's delicate vocals are surrounded with just the right touches. Even the songs that hint at the previous album's jazzy complexities, like disc opener "It's Everything," are more accessible and inviting here and, on "Arizona Sky," China Crisis seemed to have the big American hit that singles like "King in a Catholic Style" didn't quite deliver. Released at a time when many of the group's U.K. new wave contemporaries were being flushed off the charts – most for good – What Price Paradise was yet another strong outing from this too-often underrated band.

~ Dan LeRoy, All Music

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Track List:

01. It's Everything [0:05:09.37]
02. Arizona Sky [0:05:24.66]
03. Safe As Houses [0:04:26.13]
04. Worlds Apart [0:03:34.73]
05. Hampton Beach [0:04:46.89]
06. The Understudy [0:05:45.50]
07. Best Kept Secret [0:04:08.40]
08. We Do The Same [0:04:21.00]
09. June Bride [0:03:49.60]
10. A Day's Work For The Dayo's Done [0:04:17.06]
11. Trading In Gold [0:04:28.76]

Personnel:
Gary Daly - vocals
Brian McNeill - synthesizer, vocals
Eddie Lundon - guitar, vocals
Gary "Gazza" Johnson - bass guitar
Kevin Wilkinson - drums, percussion

Log EAC

Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 2. April 2010, 19:02

China Crisis / What Price Paradise

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Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

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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

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
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11 | 45:43.65 | 4:28.57 | 205790 | 225946

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Peak level 95.8 %
Range quality 100.0 %
Test CRC 9FE83A7B
Copy CRC 9FE83A7B
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CUETools Log

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