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Garden [Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import]

John FoxxAudio CD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Audio CD (September 11, 2001)
  • Original Release Date: 1981
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered, Import
  • Label: Edsel Records UK
  • ASIN: B00005N53B
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #263,583 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

 
1. Europe After the Rain
2. Systems of Romance
3. When I Was a Man and You Were a Woman
4. Dancing Like a Gun
5. Pater Noster
6. Night Suit
7. You Were There
8. Fusion/Fission
9. Walk Away
10. The Garden
11. A Long Time [Miles Away B-Side][*]
12. This Jungle [Europe After the Rain B-Side][*]
13. Swimmer 2 [Dancing Like a Gun B-Side][*]
14. Swimmer 1 [Dancing Like a Gun Extra Track][*]
15. Young Man [Endlessly B-Side][*]

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered second solo album from the former leader of Ultravox, released in 1981. On this sophomore release, Foxx expanded on his arty take on the German electronic sounds of his debut, Metamatic, adding lush, almost beautiful atmospheric colorings to the songs, creating a commercial sound without compromising his music. Reaching number 24 in the UK album charts, this album features the hit singles 'Europe After The Rain' and 'Dancing Like A Gun'. 'he Garden is remastered by Foxx himself, with expanded artwork and sleevenotes by Record Collector's Daryl Easlea. The five bonus tracks include non-LP b-sides, 'A Long Time', 'This Jungle', 'Swimmer 1', 'Swimmer 2' and 'Young Man'. Edsel.

 

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Electronic brilliance and bliss, April 30, 2005
This review is from: Garden (Audio CD)
Listening to "The Garden" is almost like listening to an electronic opera or orcheastra, with it's breath taking harmonies, perfect beats and dreamy vocals of John Foxx.

This album is a perfect companion to "Metamatic". New wave at it's best.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars much more catchy and memorable than "metamatic", February 5, 2007
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This review is from: Garden (Audio CD)
As a fan of more melodic and danceable new wave over the experimental synth stuff of the late 70s, I prefer this album over Foxx's first post-Ultravox solo CD, "Metamatic." This is where I see him joining in on the synthpop sound indicitive of the early 80s. Here we have some new wave gems that fit in snuggly with the music of the new romantics. So if you love groups like Devo, the Human League, and Ultravox (yes, the Midge Ure years), and are looking for artists who created that sound back then but may have slipped past your radar, then don't hesitate to pick up this John Foxx CD. And while you're at it, grab the two follow-ups, the synthdance brilliance of 1983's "The Golden Section" (moving in a more Depeche direction), and 1985's "In Mysterious Ways".
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10 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This album is so brilliant - it would out shine a 1000 stars, December 11, 2001
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Carlo Adan (Midland, MI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Garden (Audio CD)
The piece "The Garden" is an awakening from The Great and Perfect Primordial Sleep. John Foxx translates his dreams into songs and they are all surreal like a Salvador Dali song - if he wrote them - but he didn't so The Foxx has to make them. Extra's on this album are the 2 Swimmer tracks (which are torpedoes of deliberate audio immersion. Walk Away is a song you cannot Walk Away from unless you get tired climbing it's endless starcases up to the Maxfield Parrish Synthesizer solo - which is impossible if you are big fan of huge MACROVOX sounds of tunes like You Were There and the dream-cloaking device wildness of Night Suit. I became someone-else when I heard this.
... Forever.
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