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 enlarge | Artist: The Art Of Noise
Label: Msi Music/Super D
Category: Music
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 273096
Format: Import, Sacd
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5055041804907
ASIN: B0000W40G8
Release Date: January 19, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Love | | • | A Time for Fear (Who's Afraid) | | • | Beat Box (Diversion One) | | • | The Army Now | | • | Donna | | • | Memento | | • | How to Kill | | • | Realisation | | • | Who's Afraid (Of the Art of Noise) | | • | Moments in Love | | • | Flesh in Armour | | • | Comes and Goes | | • | Snapshot | | • | Close (To the Edit) | | • | (Three Fingers Of) Love |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
A handful of the most pretentious artists in post-punk England also happened to be among the most talented. Keyboardist Ann Dudley, producer Trevor Horn, and his ZTT cohort Paul Morley (who made tea and thought up overblown song titles) were clearly onto something with influential sequencer and car-ignition-driven cut-ups like "Beat Box (Diversion One)" and "Close (to the Edit)." This collection of early Art of Noise material evokes a period when pop artists were crass enough to exploit their own hype and naive enough to believe they could still create art in the process. And, sometimes, they did. --Bill Forman
Album Description
Remixed into 5.1 surround sound, this collection shows the Art Of Noise at their dynamic and inspirational best.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Compilation April 16, 2008
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0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great compilation if you are looking to buy one Art of Noise CD. The main reason to get this one is to have the commonly known version of Moments in Love, which is actually a remix previously available on 12".
Descend into the heavens of noise !!! September 9, 2007
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Piano and harmony yield to drums and rhythm introduce synthesizer that draws its long brush strikes of notes and brings a metalophone of some nearly crystalline type and then we can leave to another layer with some wind instrument that amplifies into the few syllables of a feminine voice surrounding us and more martial beating comes and more flutes and more pipes, and sounds now and then fly and strut across the stage. The crowd of instruments, noises and voices amplify step by step, stage by stage, ledge by ledge up into the sky of our mind that opens the twenty or so ears we have there to capture every single sound and sound thread. Cuba arrives with its challenge to imperialism and its fearless fear in front of it. Pure noise, pure noise, pure noise, with voices, with voices, with voices, and some erratic and very hard metallic instrumental sound. The menace from the US is aired and opens a new space of voice, voice, voice, and noise, noise, noise, but where is the music if not in the way these are mixed crystal clear and the fear comes back, strong, powerful menace and the US menace and a new clearing in that somber attack. I don't believe it, they tell you and the noise can start. Nothing but voices and drums or beating sound of all times. Pure rhythmic beat, repetitive in loops that never end and more or less superimpose one onto the other and voices that invade that pulsing texture with some guttural sounds or consonantic syllables. What on earth are a synthesizer and a saxophone doing in that mashing mush of tempos? Bringing some musical sentences that can then be exploded and sliced up into shreds by the beating and the sounds as if some rumbling engine were revving up in our heads. And the piano tries to conclude with some melodious sentences but isn't it too late to just be that? Some smaller pieces are amazing as pure noise but "Momento" uses an organ and bird songs in a fascinating way indeed. "Who is Afraid (of the Art of Noise)" is probably one of the best pieces with a lot of industrial noise, bird songs, voices, and musical instruments, all of them distorted, processed and edited in the best tradition of noise music to create a texture, a rhythmic pattern, even a certain harmony that all evoke the sound (double meaning intended) trap of our daily noisy life. Have you ever listened to all the sounds you can actually hear in a public place like a railway station or an underground station? The synthesizer playing like a violin or some light organ in "Moments of love" opens some divine vision of angels and archangels keeping the demons of noise away by the sole slow fluttering of their wings. And they speak, adding a couple of syllables to this extremely deep sound and sonorous universe created in front of our ears in which we are abducted with the soft violence of a forced invitation. And they get us close to the edge and if you do not feel as if you were standing on a spike of stone two hundred feet over the ground with nothing to touch or grasp and hold, with vertigo searingly burning its presence into your brain, you have no musical ear, you're just plain deaf. And finish your trip to the deepest and lowest depths of heavens with three fingers of Love noise-style to lace your afternoon coffee and catapult you over the infinity of modern life made of nothing but noise upon noise articulated into some architecture by the passions that knot your bowels with all kinds of retentions and probably detentions too from the beauty of reality.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Daft... April 13, 2007
D. S. HARDEN (L.A.,CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A great selection of music from the Art of Noise (AON). I remember when I heard "Close to the Edit" the first time in '84. These English people had a hit on their hands - and me as a fan. My favorite song from AON is "Moments in Love." Let me be frank - it was a perfect slow song until that weird transition about 3/4 of the way through the song. Nonetheless, it's a song I will never forget! Five stars for AON and 'Daft!'
 those rare moments in music April 24, 2006
yorgos dalman (Holland, Europe)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Moments in love"... moments of sheer beauty, and a little anguish perhaps. 'nuff said. Dream along.
 Umm... O-kay. But.... September 20, 2005
Robert Harvey (Lancaster, CA USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The first track, Love, is the track that got substantial play on all of the "smooth jazz" radio stations. This track is sublime. The remainder of the album is exactly as the name implies...a series of squeaks, chirps, groans, and burps; arguably artsy, in its own eclectic way. If you like that sort of thing, you'll love this album. But if you have heard the first track on the radio, don't buy the album on the strength of that song, as it is not at all representative of the remainder of the album, and you will be disappointed.
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