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Brett Anderson - Live at Union Chapel-Ltd Edition -2007
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Artist...............: Brett Anderson
Album................: Live at Union Chapel
Genre................: Acoustic
Source...............: CD-My Rip
Year.................: 2007
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode)
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg bitrate: CD1 - 221kbps CD2 - 227kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Ripped On............: 30/04/2008
Other................: Not In Database - Manually Tagged
Total File Size......: 136MB
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CD1
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1. (00:04:15) Brett Anderson - Love Is Dead
2. (00:03:29) Brett Anderson - Song For My Father
3. (00:02:35) Brett Anderson - Clowns
4. (00:03:10) Brett Anderson - Ebony
5. (00:05:03) Brett Anderson - Everything Will Flow
6. (00:04:13) Brett Anderson - Saturday Night
7. (00:03:35) Brett Anderson - Back To You
8. (00:05:16) Brett Anderson - Down
9. (00:03:52) Brett Anderson - High Rising
10. (00:04:17) Brett Anderson - The Asphalt World
Playing Time.........: 00:39:46
Total Size...........: 63.06 MB
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CD2
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1. (00:03:29) Brett Anderson - The Living Dead
2. (00:05:13) Brett Anderson - Europe Is Our Playground/The Big Time
3. (00:05:27) Brett Anderson - Indian Strings
4. (00:02:29) Brett Anderson - The Colour Of The Night
5. (00:04:22) Brett Anderson - To The Winter
6. (00:03:19) Brett Anderson - By The Sea
7. (00:06:00) Brett Anderson - The 2 Of Us
8. (00:06:37) Brett Anderson - The Wild Ones
9. (00:03:04) Brett Anderson - So Young
10. (00:04:29) Brett Anderson - Trash
Playing Time.........: 00:44:27
Total Size...........: 72.57 MB
NFO generated on.....: 30/04/2008 08:08:15
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Brett Anderson - Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Artist...............: Brett Anderson
Album................: Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Genre................: Acoustic/Piano/Strings
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2007
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode)
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Ripped On............: 02/05/2008
Other................: CD1 In Database , CD2 Manually Tagged
Total File Size......: 208MB
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CD1
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1. (00:05:22) Brett Anderson - To the winter
2. (00:03:33) Brett Anderson - Love is dead
3. (00:03:18) Brett Anderson - Song for my father
4. (00:04:40) Brett Anderson - One lazy morning/She's in fashion
5. (00:04:23) Brett Anderson - Saturday Night
6. (00:03:22) Brett Anderson - Back to you
7. (00:03:03) Brett Anderson - By the sea
8. (00:04:07) Brett Anderson - The power
9. (00:04:15) Brett Anderson - The asphalt world
Playing Time.........: 00:36:03
Total Size...........: 82.61 MB
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CD2
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1. (00:08:20) Brett Anderson - My Insatiable One / Clowns / It was a Very Good Year
2. (00:03:48) Brett Anderson - Europe is Our Playground
3. (00:04:43) Brett Anderson - Indian Strings
4. (00:05:06) Brett Anderson - Everything will Flow
5. (00:05:46) Brett Anderson - He's Gone
6. (00:04:49) Brett Anderson - 2 of Us
7. (00:03:38) Brett Anderson - Next Life
8. (00:05:31) Brett Anderson - Still Life
9. (00:04:11) Brett Anderson - So Young
10. (00:04:27) Brett Anderson - Wild Ones
11. (00:04:06) Brett Anderson - Trash
Playing Time.........: 00:54:26
Total Size...........: 124.67 MB
NFO generated on.....: 02/05/2008 08:04:12
Live At Union Chapel
This fantastic double-disc live CD from Brett Anderson's show at London's iconic Union Chapel in July 2007 is part of a limited edition set of only 1,500 CDs produced on the night of the concert and features exclusive artwork. This is Brett Anderson at his very best, playing beautiful stripped down versions of his new solo material including the exquisite Song for My Father and Love is Dead as well as Suede classics So Young, The Asphalt World, Europe is our Playground and Trash and many more. This is a truly inspirational performance captured on CD and a true collectors item for any Brett Anderson or Suede fan.
Live At Queen Elizabeth Hall
Brett Anderson brings you another fantastic double-disc live CD from the sell out show at Londons Queen Elizabeth Hall in October 2007.
The CD is part of a limited edition set of only 1,500 CDs produced on the night of the concert and features exclusive artwork. This is Brett back to his best, this time with a full string ensemble, playing beautiful stripped down versions of his new solo material including the fantastic Love is Dead and Song for my Father as well as Suede classics She's in Fashion, Wild Ones, So Young, Trash and many more. This is another truly inspirational performance captured on CD and a true collectors item for any Brett Anderson or Suede fan. This is the third and final CD in Brett's 2007 live trilogy. First in the trilogy was live at Shepherds Bush, second was live at Union Chapel, London (only 50 left!). Don't miss out on this!
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Brett Anderson has an impressive career spanning more than 15 years fronting some of the most prolific and much loved bands in the UK.
He first came onto the radar as front man of the iconic ‘Suede’ who were a hugely popular band in the 90s, releasing hits such as ‘So Young’, ‘Beautiful Ones’ and ‘Filmstar’. After Suede disbanded he fronted ‘The Tears’ before going it alone and releasing solo material. Brett has a delivered a diverse and impressive catalogue of work to perform live and has an extremely loyal, worldwide fan base showing that his music still reaches out, appealing to a vast array of listeners.
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I didn't manage to find the Shepherds Bush CD before it sold out,however here's the other 2 ,grab both as you won't be duplicating anything as each song is performed in a unique style as only Brett could achieve,this guy's a one off IMO
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http://www.brettanderson.co.uk/
http://www.myspace.com/brettandersonofficial
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Anderson
Live At Union Chapel
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/150881568/balauc.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/150883649/balauc.part2.rar
Live At Queen Elizabeth Hall
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/150888156/balaqeh.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/150892626/balaqeh.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/150892878/balaqeh.part3.rar
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Brett Anderson - Wilderness
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Artist...............: Brett Anderson
Album................: Wilderness
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD-My rip
Year.................: 2008
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode)
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Ripped On............: 04/09/2008
Tracker................: Phoenix
Release Date .......: 1st September
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:04:11) Brett Anderson - A Different Place
2. (00:03:39) Brett Anderson - The Empress
3. (00:03:03) Brett Anderson - Clowns
4. (00:03:21) Brett Anderson - Chinese Whispers
5. (00:04:41) Brett Anderson - Blessed
6. (00:02:57) Brett Anderson - Funeral Mantra
7. (00:03:14) Brett Anderson - Back to You
8. (00:03:01) Brett Anderson - Knife Edge
9. (00:04:36) Brett Anderson - P. Marius
Playing Time.........: 00:32:42
Total Size...........: 74.92 MB
NFO generated on.....: 04/09/2008 13:43:50
“I made this album with the purest of intentions: to create a beautiful suite of songs untethered by second-guessing markets and playlists and music biz bullshit. I have no record company, no publisher and a smaller audience but I have never been more confident and focused about what I am doing as an artist”
Brett Anderson, June 2008.
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Recorded and mixed in 7 days and featuring only voice, strings and piano, “Wilderness” is the new album from Brett Anderson and heralds an amazing new chapter in his life. The album will be released this autumn but Brett will preview the record live this Monday, July 7 at London’s Mermaid Theatre, where he will be accompanied onstage by cellist Amy Langley and special guest Emmanuelle Seigner, both of whom feature on the album.
Throughout his career it would be fair to say that Brett Anderson has never done anything by halves. At strategic points he has performed such a volte- face with his music that it has sometimes been hard for fans and critics to know what he is going to do next. This record is no exception, and is the most astounding record Brett has made in his entire career.
His first record, the era-defining ‘Suede’, became the soundtrack to a new generation, a generation disaffected by much of the music and culture around it, and one hungry for the visceral thrills intrinsic in the best timeless pop. They found it in Suede who would come to be the group who informed not only their vast audience but the whole of the music industry, creating a seismic shift away from the domination of American rock music in the UK.
From then on, Brett Anderson would display an intelligence and sense of artistry which would single him and his group out from the herds who followed. A tellingly dramatic shift in personnel on the eve of their brilliantly grandiose second album ‘Dog Man Star” threatened to derail them but they returned with a new vigour and focus and became even more successful than ever. For a while they were imperious, ruling the charts and the music press with a sense of experimentation and style which was completely their own.
Listen back to the records today and here indeed is the sound of a group thrillingly ahead of the pack. Everything they did was immaculate and fitted into a glorious lineage encompassing Bowie, T.Rex, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Roxy Music – not in sound but in inspiration and that peculiarly English sense of otherness, of being on the outside, of playing around within pop’s often limited strictures. More than just pop songs, for many Suede’s music was a lifeline to another world and to this day their work stands alone in capturing an expressly British aesthetic.
When the group split Brett reunited with ex Suede guitarist Bernard Butler to form The Tears, and their album “Here Come The Tears” was released in 2005. Brett also collaborated with Stina Nordenstam and Jane Birkin.
In 2006, he released his debut solo album, the intensely personal “Brett Anderson”, which captured an artist at a turning point in his life. Of course the gorgeous melodies were still there but this time they were coupled to lyrics which showed an artist coming to terms with huge life changes and new experiences. This was an altogether different artist from the one who had so adroitly captured various other lives through a looking glass in his earlier work. The focus was moving inwards.
And now comes “Wilderness”, the most haunting record you will hear all year. Detailing a love affair, the record displays all the heightened emotions of love and thus is joyous, bleak, euphoric, and reflective – and very beautiful. It’s a record that is intense and stands outside of the mainstream and is all the better for it. Like all classic albums, its an album Brett Anderson had to make at this point in his life.
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Barely a year since his debut solo album, and Brett Anderson, once the vaudeville voice of the now terminally uncool Suede, despite the fact that they were hyped and hyperboled far beyond their immense talent then rubbished for the exact same characteristics - returns with a new record. “Wilderness”, his eighth album, is neither a shocking revelation, nor a clunker of artistic irrelevance : it’s another strong slice of Brett Noir, certainly.
If this record - and its no such thing, being the first album being released exclusively on something as unsexy as a USB stick - is a film, it’s a 40’s romantic spy thriller set in post-war Berlin : the album takes its cue from Anderson’s recent set of acoustic shows from last year. The thrilling reinventions of those nights, casting epic guitar squalls such as the 10-minute “Asphalt World” into a succinct, beautiful candlelight heartbreakers, turned Brett’s body of work inside out : as if the guitar and the clattering, glam-rock machine rhythms were some brave face, an escapist front to deflect the heartbreak at the core of the experience. This album is, to those unfamiliar with the shows, a brave new gesture from Anderson. He eschews the well know band-format of his previous work, relying on a smoky palette of guitar, piano and epic strings that casts the work into music designed solely to be listened to in low-lit rooms, in desolute commutes, in moments of exhausted reflection. The familiar traits are here, Andersons distinctive vocabulary, his unique phrase and imagery soaks this record in sorrow, and the soaring voice recasts Anderson as a singular vision : a modern day Marc Almond, or perhaps more accurately, a contemporary Leonard Cohen or Scott Walker, casting out tales of woe and betrayal.
Unlike the husky voiced Cohen, or the emotional acting of a dozen lesser artists that make their forte merely doing slow miserable versions of old hits thinking it adds gravitas to their pity, “Wilderness” is a short, direct statement of versimilitude. At a mere 35 minutes, it’s easily Anderson’s shortest, and most intimate record. And whilst Anderson himself betrays that, at 40, he appears to finally be settling into the most stable and contented he’s yet been personally (on “Blessed”), it’s the retakes of former single “Back To You” and the b-side “Clowns” that are most familiar. “Back To You” (now recast as a duet) is probably the best thing he’s done in the past decade, and here it’s a skeletal husk, a near admission that these things that must happen for him to return to his former love will never occur : a list of ever more incredible things, like planets dying, and hell freezing over, before he’ll ever come back to you. Other songs such as “Empress” fall, regrettably into the lyrical shorthand that is Anderson on autopilot, a list of “she is this, she is that, we are the pigs, she is the old hat” that detracts only because of familiarity. That said, by any standard, “Wilderness” is a brave record, a new start, a fresh direction for Anderson to explore as he carves out a unique territory of music and makes it his own.
Like all great artists, Anderson takes his strengths, and uses them to explore new avenues, new worlds, new places. Like any great artist, Anderson is still searching, and for that alone - despite this short records considerable power and the strength of the material and song writing within - he is to be commended.
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For the few that might be interested , here's the new album straight out the wrapper, gonna see this genius in concert in a couple of weeks
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http://rapidshare.com/files/142594014/baw.rar
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Brett Anderson - Brett Anderson
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Artist...............: Brett Anderson
Album................: Brett Anderson
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: CD -My Rip
Year.................: 2007
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode)
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Ripped On............: on 24/08/2008
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Tracklisting
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1. (00:03:31) Brett Anderson - Love Is Dead
2. (00:03:21) Brett Anderson - One Lazy Morning
3. (00:03:01) Brett Anderson - Dust and Rain
4. (00:02:48) Brett Anderson - Intimacy
5. (00:03:58) Brett Anderson - To the Winter
6. (00:04:02) Brett Anderson - Scorpio Rising
7. (00:04:09) Brett Anderson - The Infinite Kiss
8. (00:02:18) Brett Anderson - Colour Of The Night
9. (00:03:33) Brett Anderson - The More We Possess The Less We Own of Ourselves
10. (00:02:32) Brett Anderson - Ebony
11. (00:05:16) Brett Anderson - Song For My Father
Playing Time.........: 00:38:29
Total Size...........: 88.17 MB
NFO generated on.....: 24/08/2008 14:01:39
If the Brett Anderson of today has one main problem, it's that he's not the Brett Anderson of yesterday. The 25 year old Brett Anderson for instance was impossible to ignore for his fiery androgyny, confrontational lyricism and devil may care detachment. That Brett Anderson was also affiliated to virtuoso guitarist Bernard Butler, cementing one of indie's great partnerships, responsible even, some might say, for Britpop itself.
And that's where his points of reference stop for many -- testament to the infamy of Suede's debut but not saying an awful lot for the relatively consistent body of work he has amassed since then. Even his and Butler's rewarding 2004 reformation as The Tears didn't capture imaginations. Without factoring in serious drug addiction and his fall from favour you'd expect bitterness then.
And Brett Anderson the debut solo album is not short on that. He is bitter about love, he is bitter about addiction, he is bitter about the passé materialism of the world around him.
The music is fairly standard without a collaborator to rely on, notwithstanding some lovely string-laden textures throughout, but the lyrical content and particularly its delivery stands firm. He still sounds like a rain lashed Bowie with a broken heart doing Morrissey, nasally, and that is enough to carry songs like "Love Is Dead", "Song For My Father" and the bold "The More We Possess The Less We Own Of Ourselves" through with a character that remains his own, regardless of age.
Code:
http://rapidshare.com/files/139749751/bast.rar
Superb stuff
Brett Anderson - (ex Seude , The Tears)2 rare Live albums , 2 studio albums
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