Wednesday, August 25, 2010

"Hard, Fast and Beautiful" by Cinerama

Song title: Hard, Fast and Beautiful
 
Artist: Cinerama
 
Album title: Va Va Voom
 
Year: 1998
 
Genre/Style: Whatever the Pet Shop Boys and Erasure is (Gay New Wave?)
 
Record label: Cooking Vinyl
 
City/Country of Origin: The UK
 
Personal notes: I heard this song on KURE (ISU's Campus Station) here in Ames.  The lyrics contain the sentimental tripe that really turns my crank.  Since this is one of Cinerama's earlier tunes, it doesn't contain a lot of the weirder/braver instrumentation that makes the band click.  Also, considering that Cinerama has a revolving door policy for band members (save frontman David Gedge), their sound changes drastically from album-to-album.

 

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