Old football manager games. 23May/14 The Beta Band-Heroes To Zeros-(REG101CD)-CD-FLAC-2004-k4 Description: a r t i s t:: The Beta Band t i t l e:: Heroes To Zeros d a t e:: 2004-00-00 l a b e l:: Regal g e n r e:: Electronic s o u r c e:: CD b i t r a t e:: 867 kbps avg e n c o d e r:: FLAC 1.2.1 -8 -V t r a c k s:: 12 p l a y t i m e:: 42:11 s i z e:: 266.5MB tracklist 1 Assessment 4:34 2 Space 3:59 3 Lion Thief 3:27 4 Easy 2:32 5 Wonderful 4:39 6 Troubles 2:34 7 Out-Side 4:06 8 Space Beatle 3:41 9 Rhododendron 1:36 10 Liquid Bird 3:23 11 Simple 3:47 12 Pure For 3:53 Download Links: or:.
“The trouble with doing your own thing is you end up on your own” thankfully hasn’t been the case for The Beta Band, who sing this lyric in Simple off their latest album Heroes To Zeros. Doing their own thing in fact defines the band against all the same-sounding fame-seeking acts around today. And far from ending up on their own, they have amassed a merry band of followers from around the world. Even John Cusack played Dry The Rain off their debut album The Three EPs in the film adaptation of High Fidelity. The Beta Band have frustrated a lot of journalists who get a blank stare when asking what the band’s “influences” are.
Said journos just don’t understand that The Beta Band are nestled snugly in their own pigeonhole; so there’s no need for namby-pamby cross-referencing or crows of, “Yah, that song evokes the angry roar of The Stooges with a dappling of Morrissey,” like some Jilly Goulden of music critics. Even with their latest album, the genre-warpers and surrealists of sound are at it again – barking dog samples and boingy electronica, orchestras and electro bass, bongos and xylophones, all with the ever-plaintive singing of Steve Mason creamed on top. However, it is true that Heroes To Zeros is alarmingly guitar-driven, making it more mainstream than their usual experimentalist tendencies. There are clangy staccato strums in Assessment, upbeat acoustic rhythms in Easy, and dark electric in Liquid Bird.
But even if the guitar takes centre stage, it does so behind a whole menagerie of sounds and samples. The album has 18 months of Beta Band brain behind it – the foursome have happily had time to tinker with every note; a far cry from their rushed second album, The Beta Band, which they themselves proclaimed was rubbish.In contrast, each song’s soundscape in Heroes To Zeros is beautifully crafted.
My favourite is Wonderful – the delicate dissonance in the repetitive line “she’s so wonderful” makes way for an adulatory chorus with reverbed voice and golden guitars and pianos. Out-Side has tumbling aggressive drums with a two-beat rhythmic dog bark, but come the chorus the beats abruptly halt and are replaced by the rising angelic line, “I love your way.” The tubular Space Beatle also has a euphoric rise in the chorus with the line “I love you to pieces” after a liquid organ carries the verses. With this latest offering, the creative quartet have made their music more accessible to the general crowd while maintaining their distinct sound. In my opinion, the Beta Band are definitely a Better Band for it.
Numerology 369 rapidshare. Their sound veering from post-grunge balladry to funk and ambient breakbeat to Madchester acid house, the Beta Band emerged on the British scene as (nominally) a pop group with few similarities to any other act going. Formed around three friends originally from Edinburgh - vocalist Steve Mason, drummer Robin Jones, and DJ/sampler John Maclean - the group later drafted bassist Richard Greentree. Scant months after forming, the Beta Band added a formidable ally in gaining exposure: manager Brian Cannon, the designer responsible for virtually every Oasis sleeve released to that point. The group's first EP, 1997's Champion Versions, featured mixing by the Verve's Nick McCabe. Two additional EPs followed in early 1998, The Patty Patty Sound and Los Amigos del Beta Bandidos.
After collecting all three EPs on an album, the Beta Band began recording for their proper debut, a self-titled effort released in 1999. While prepping for the release of their sophomore effort, Hot Shots II, in summer 2001, the Beta Band scored the opening slot on Radiohead's monumental summer tour of the United States. Initial recordings for their next LP began around the same time; after self-producing the record and subsequently passing it over to Nigel Godrich for a final mix, the group released Heroes to Zeros in spring 2004. Just a few months later, the Beta Band announced they would disband at the end of 2004, citing the frustration of much critical praise but no commercial impact.
The Best of the Beta Band - a two-disc package containing one of their last performances - was released in 2005. Mason went on to release material as King Biscuit Time (which had actually debuted in 1998), Black Affair, and his own name. John Bush. ORIGIN Edinburgh, Scotland. GENRE. FORMED 1997.
This article needs additional citations for. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (July 2016) Heroes to Zeros by Released 26 April 2004 (UK) 4 May 2004 (US) 12 May 2004 (Japan) Recorded Rockfield Studios, Length 42: 18 REG101 (UK) ASW 78005 (US) TOCP 66278 chronology (2001) 2001 Heroes to Zeros (2004) (2005) 2005 Heroes to Zeros is the third and final studio album by, released in 2004.
The cover illustration was created by writer and artist. The Beta Band logo for the album was created by comic book artist, later to be reused on.
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Hearts around the globe may have skipped a breakbeat or two with the unexpected appearance of, a 6 cd retrospective comprising every note the much-missed group committed to vinyl, along with a healthy two disc dose of rarities and largely unreleased material, as well as stray b sides. Retailing at little more than the price of a single cd, the expansive set should appeal to a new generation of fans and those of us who witnessed them first hand who, if like me, bought everything they ever did on vinyl and wore out their copies through excessive spinning and frequent moves from one unsafe address to another until arriving at semi-detached sanity. Minor gripes about the release: there appears to be no evidence of remastering, and aside from some entertaining liner notes in the accompanying booklet by non-founder member Richard Greentree, little or no involvement from the band itself. The rarities perhaps rely too heavily on radio broadcasts, with several songs duplicated more than once, the set concluding with highlights from the last gig at Shepherd's Bush Empire - the full set had already been released as a bonus disc with The Best Of compilation. The debut Breezeblock session from 1998 (posted on this blog) would have been a far worthier inclusion in my humble opinion. But the package does include the sketchy demo tape that features Gordon Anderson which ultimately clinched the deal with Parlophone, as well as the 1997 Radio 1 Steve Lamacq session containing the ultra-rare Shepherd's Dub and the version of Dry The Rain which was my introduction to the band and had not heard since the original broadcast. With The Aliens seemingly orbiting distant galaxies and Mr.
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Greentree presumably settled in a career in carpentry in Pompey, only Steve Mason continues to raise his public profile - this year saw the release of his strongest solo set to date with Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time. Whether The Regal Years is a taster/tester for the eventual - and in today's musical climate, inevitable - reunion remains to be seen. And with Velvet Underground out-takes still being excavated from the vaults half a century after the fact, it's probably only a matter of time the fans will be treated to super deluxe editions of The Betas three albums with appropriate demos and out-takes. Until whenever, here's a session that you won't find on the box set, recorded for a French radio station in front of a small audience just a matter of months before the break up. This was the second time the band had visited the Parisian studios, the first around the time their eponymous debut album in 1999. Both these sets surfaced briefly as bootleg cds about five or six years ago, along with other artists that had recorded sessions for the show.
Sound quality is excellent, the performance is spot on (as you'd expect), marred only be some clumsy track splitting.
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