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# Artist: BLANCMANGE
# Year: 1984/2008
# Styles: elctropop/new wave
# Album: Mange Tout
# Format: eac-ape.covers
BLANCMANGE Mange Tout (2008 issue UK 'Deluxe Edition' 2-CD album set comprising the 11-track 'Mange Tout' digitally remastered album including the huge hits 'Blind Vision' & 'Don't Tell Me', as well as 'That's Love That It Is', their version of Abba's 'The Day Before You Came' and an Bonus Extended Version of 'Game Above My Head'; plus an Bonus 12-track CD featuring all the 12" mixes of the hits and the non-album B-sides [most of which appear on CD for the first time]; complete with a picture booklet containing full annotation, photos and the 12" sleeves).
Another top notch album from Blancmange!
Don`t Tell Me,Blind Vision and of course the Abba cover version where all great singles but the other tracks don`t disappoint either and on my new version of this CD I get the 12"mixes as well!
Very under rated duo who deserved to be around alot longer. rateyourmusic.com
Second album for the weird duo. In terms of artistic quality, this one fares better than the previous one. With its three singles (Don't Tell Me, Blind Vision, and The Day Before You Came), this is indeed a strong album, far more varied : a lot of instruments enter Blancmange's electronic world at this point (tablas, strings, horns...) and the songs seem more crafted. Also, they do try some new things, here : acappella with 'See The Train', experimental and filmic track ('All Things Are Nice') and blown-away funk ('Murder')... There is even one of the funniest songs ever heard ('My Baby'), so tongue-in-cheek... Still, their 'The Day Before You Came' must be the ONLY Abba cover superior to the original ! Blancmange's music has always been seen as lightweight dance pop, but there was far more to it : well-crafted eastern style pop songs with a real Talking Heads influence and a gift for melody and grooves... Very good album. rateyourmusic.com
Now, THIS is how to do it. From the double disc tracklisting, to the beautifully rendered artwork and packaging, to the price...everything about this reissue of an unheralded mid-80s classic is spot on.
The other two titles in this three-pronged reissue programme from Edsel have much to recommend them, but their treatment of Blancmange's second album is nothing short of amazing.
Mange Tout was easily the highest-charting of the duo's albums, debuting inside the Top 10 and hanging around on the UK chart for 4 months. In a sign of how trends in pop music change, no fewer than 3 of its tracks had already been released as singles by the time of its appearance in May 1984, and two of them ("Blind Vision", "Don't Tell Me") went as far as the Top 10. In effect, the period of summer '83 to summer '84 was Blancmange's commercial apex...they were a quirky, catchy, extremely British strand of Smash Hits-friendly pop. This second LP found them at their least introspective; well, on the surface that is how it would seem. The warm visual textures of the album sleeve, the bubbly and exotic sounds on the hits, the grinning-fools shtick of their TV appearances of the era....all tend to hide Mange Tout's moodier, darker aspects.
It's a record which can be easily divided into *singles* and *other stuff*. The other stuff was where messrs Luscombe and Arthur really let their imaginations run riot; "Murder" is a six-minute brooding cacophony of industrial noises, troubling imagery and frantic vocals, while "All Things Are Nice" (which would have made an appropriate title had they not wished to be cleverly punsome) utilises historical newsreel voiceovers and similarly intense, relentless electronic rhythms as "Murder" (its bizarre but wickedly funny "Version", a B-side to one of the album's singles, is brilliantly included on this 2CD set). "See The Train", a short acappella track, is also strange but wonderful, and further evidence of Blancmange's expanding creative talents.
"Time Became The Tide" is this album's "Waves", a downtempo string-laden ballad. "Game Above My Head" is rescued from B-side obscurity to form what was originally a nigh-on perfect Side 1 with the three existing hits and "Time...". An ever-so-slightly perfunctory tune called "My Baby", and their cover of ABBA's "Day Before You Came" round up the second half of the album. It's refreshing to see the context surrounding the exhuming of a fairly unloved ABBA song in 1984 has not been blighted by revisionism in the sleevenotes, too. At the time the Swedish band were all but removed from pop culture, the name that dared not be mentioned. It would be two years before Erasure first included Gimme Gimme Gimme in their live set, and six more years after that before the ABBA-esque EP. Blancmange effectively made the track their own; a beautifully judged reading with a subtly multi-layered percussive backdrop that, in its extended version on Disc 2 is even more stunning.
Yes, about the second CD....this is the only Blancmange reissue to be granted double-disc status, which itself is a shame, but no matter. Just about everything that could be included - 12" mixes, B-sides, 12" mixes of B-sides, alternate mixes, US mixes - is here. Of course, some of the material is of questionable artistic quality ("Get Out Of That" always comes in for some stick), but it's a delight to find it all included regardless. By keeping (nearly) all the bonus material onto the second disc, it also allows the original 10-track album to remain more or less unspoiled. At 11 and 12 tracks respectively, there's also a degree of symmetry and balance to this particular set, which the incomplete, 75-minute single discs for Happy Families and Believe You Me somewhat lack.
Just one minor quibble is yet another error in the sleevenotes concerning Steven Luscombe's offshoot project. It was the *West* India Company!
Anyway, this is possibly the finest example of a deluxe reissue I have yet to see. Fans will be besides themselves at the amount of care and detail which has gone into every aspect of this double CD. www.amazon.co.uk
All Artwork Included At 300dpi
CD1 - Mange Tout:
1. Don't Tell Me
2. Game Above My Head
3. Blind Vision
4. Time Became The Tide
5. That's Love That It Is
6. Murder
7. See The Train
8. All Things Are Nice
9. My Baby
10. The Day Before You Came
11. Game Above My Head - Long Version - Bonus Recording
CD2 - B-Sides And Remixes:
1. Blind Vision - Long Version
2. Heaven Knows Where Heaven Is
3. On Our Way To?
4. That's Love That It Is - Extended
5. Vishnu - Full Length Version
6. That's Love That It Is - Remix
7. Vishnu - Instrumental
8. Don't Tell Me - Extended
9. Get Out Of That
10. Feel Me - Live Version
11. All Things Are Nice - Alternate Version
12. The Day Before You Came - Extended
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# Artist: BLANCMANGE
# Year: 1984/2008
# Styles: elctropop/new wave
# Album: Mange Tout
# Format: eac-ape.covers
BLANCMANGE Mange Tout (2008 issue UK 'Deluxe Edition' 2-CD album set comprising the 11-track 'Mange Tout' digitally remastered album including the huge hits 'Blind Vision' & 'Don't Tell Me', as well as 'That's Love That It Is', their version of Abba's 'The Day Before You Came' and an Bonus Extended Version of 'Game Above My Head'; plus an Bonus 12-track CD featuring all the 12" mixes of the hits and the non-album B-sides [most of which appear on CD for the first time]; complete with a picture booklet containing full annotation, photos and the 12" sleeves).
Another top notch album from Blancmange!
Don`t Tell Me,Blind Vision and of course the Abba cover version where all great singles but the other tracks don`t disappoint either and on my new version of this CD I get the 12"mixes as well!
Very under rated duo who deserved to be around alot longer. rateyourmusic.com
Second album for the weird duo. In terms of artistic quality, this one fares better than the previous one. With its three singles (Don't Tell Me, Blind Vision, and The Day Before You Came), this is indeed a strong album, far more varied : a lot of instruments enter Blancmange's electronic world at this point (tablas, strings, horns...) and the songs seem more crafted. Also, they do try some new things, here : acappella with 'See The Train', experimental and filmic track ('All Things Are Nice') and blown-away funk ('Murder')... There is even one of the funniest songs ever heard ('My Baby'), so tongue-in-cheek... Still, their 'The Day Before You Came' must be the ONLY Abba cover superior to the original ! Blancmange's music has always been seen as lightweight dance pop, but there was far more to it : well-crafted eastern style pop songs with a real Talking Heads influence and a gift for melody and grooves... Very good album. rateyourmusic.com
Now, THIS is how to do it. From the double disc tracklisting, to the beautifully rendered artwork and packaging, to the price...everything about this reissue of an unheralded mid-80s classic is spot on.
The other two titles in this three-pronged reissue programme from Edsel have much to recommend them, but their treatment of Blancmange's second album is nothing short of amazing.
Mange Tout was easily the highest-charting of the duo's albums, debuting inside the Top 10 and hanging around on the UK chart for 4 months. In a sign of how trends in pop music change, no fewer than 3 of its tracks had already been released as singles by the time of its appearance in May 1984, and two of them ("Blind Vision", "Don't Tell Me") went as far as the Top 10. In effect, the period of summer '83 to summer '84 was Blancmange's commercial apex...they were a quirky, catchy, extremely British strand of Smash Hits-friendly pop. This second LP found them at their least introspective; well, on the surface that is how it would seem. The warm visual textures of the album sleeve, the bubbly and exotic sounds on the hits, the grinning-fools shtick of their TV appearances of the era....all tend to hide Mange Tout's moodier, darker aspects.
It's a record which can be easily divided into *singles* and *other stuff*. The other stuff was where messrs Luscombe and Arthur really let their imaginations run riot; "Murder" is a six-minute brooding cacophony of industrial noises, troubling imagery and frantic vocals, while "All Things Are Nice" (which would have made an appropriate title had they not wished to be cleverly punsome) utilises historical newsreel voiceovers and similarly intense, relentless electronic rhythms as "Murder" (its bizarre but wickedly funny "Version", a B-side to one of the album's singles, is brilliantly included on this 2CD set). "See The Train", a short acappella track, is also strange but wonderful, and further evidence of Blancmange's expanding creative talents.
"Time Became The Tide" is this album's "Waves", a downtempo string-laden ballad. "Game Above My Head" is rescued from B-side obscurity to form what was originally a nigh-on perfect Side 1 with the three existing hits and "Time...". An ever-so-slightly perfunctory tune called "My Baby", and their cover of ABBA's "Day Before You Came" round up the second half of the album. It's refreshing to see the context surrounding the exhuming of a fairly unloved ABBA song in 1984 has not been blighted by revisionism in the sleevenotes, too. At the time the Swedish band were all but removed from pop culture, the name that dared not be mentioned. It would be two years before Erasure first included Gimme Gimme Gimme in their live set, and six more years after that before the ABBA-esque EP. Blancmange effectively made the track their own; a beautifully judged reading with a subtly multi-layered percussive backdrop that, in its extended version on Disc 2 is even more stunning.
Yes, about the second CD....this is the only Blancmange reissue to be granted double-disc status, which itself is a shame, but no matter. Just about everything that could be included - 12" mixes, B-sides, 12" mixes of B-sides, alternate mixes, US mixes - is here. Of course, some of the material is of questionable artistic quality ("Get Out Of That" always comes in for some stick), but it's a delight to find it all included regardless. By keeping (nearly) all the bonus material onto the second disc, it also allows the original 10-track album to remain more or less unspoiled. At 11 and 12 tracks respectively, there's also a degree of symmetry and balance to this particular set, which the incomplete, 75-minute single discs for Happy Families and Believe You Me somewhat lack.
Just one minor quibble is yet another error in the sleevenotes concerning Steven Luscombe's offshoot project. It was the *West* India Company!
Anyway, this is possibly the finest example of a deluxe reissue I have yet to see. Fans will be besides themselves at the amount of care and detail which has gone into every aspect of this double CD. www.amazon.co.uk
All Artwork Included At 300dpi
CD1 - Mange Tout:
1. Don't Tell Me
2. Game Above My Head
3. Blind Vision
4. Time Became The Tide
5. That's Love That It Is
6. Murder
7. See The Train
8. All Things Are Nice
9. My Baby
10. The Day Before You Came
11. Game Above My Head - Long Version - Bonus Recording
CD2 - B-Sides And Remixes:
1. Blind Vision - Long Version
2. Heaven Knows Where Heaven Is
3. On Our Way To?
4. That's Love That It Is - Extended
5. Vishnu - Full Length Version
6. That's Love That It Is - Remix
7. Vishnu - Instrumental
8. Don't Tell Me - Extended
9. Get Out Of That
10. Feel Me - Live Version
11. All Things Are Nice - Alternate Version
12. The Day Before You Came - Extended
EAC extraction logfile from 24. September 2008, 8:26 for CD
Blancmange / Mange Tout (2008)
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Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
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44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
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