Play [Import]

Magazine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: EMI Gold Imports
• ASIN: B0000071TW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,847 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Give Me Everything

2. A Song from Under the Floorboards

3. Permafrost

4. The Light Pours Out of Me

5. Model Worker

6. Parade

7. Thank You (Falettinme de Mice Elf Agin)

8. Because You're Frightened

9. Twenty Years Ago

10. Definitive Gaze

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two CD edition of the British Post-Punk band's 1980 live album includes a bonus disc containing additional live material. Play + features their 1980 Melbourne Festival Hall gig in its entirety for the first time and a bonus disc of their 1979 Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall show, which is all also previously unreleased. Howard Devoto formed Magazine after leaving Buzzcocks in 1977. Although their time together was brief, Magazine was to become one of the most important and pioneering English Post-Punk bands. Their songs have been covered by artists such as Radiohead and Morrissey - with the former acknowledging them as an important influence on their work. Virgin. 2009. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars High Energy Place to Start, May 29, 2001

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Lincoln J Lounsbury (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Play (Audio CD)

For a few years in the late 70s and early 80s Magazine recorded some of the most intelligent music of the punk/new wave era. PLAY captures live the best of their first three albums. If you normally shy away from live albums (because they're usually so lame), don't be afraid of this one. This is one of those live albums like Cheap Trick's Live at Budokan or Black Flag's Who's Got the 10 1/2? that shows off how great the band really was and stands as an excellent album in its own right. Magazine fans argue over which of the first three albums are the best (I prefer Secondhand Daylight) - but this classic live album is a great high energy place to start if you're just getting into Magazine. If you're already a fan and don't own this - buy it! And once you've maxed out on Magazine records don't forget Howard Devoto's later work with Luxuria.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This One Burns, November 25, 2003

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roger g williams (Vienna, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Play (Audio CD)

This is an amazing live performance that somehow gets little respect. Perhaps because Robin Simon (ex-John Foxx era Ultravox!) has just replaced John McGeogh on guitar? I don't know, but this version of "The Light Pours Out of Me" is simply majestic - what a riff!

Don't pass on this - it's truly indispensable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars YOU WANT THIS MAGAZINE CD!, January 24, 2003

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Edwin A Johnson (Lincoln, Nebraska United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Play (Audio CD)

Howard Devoto and company pound out the tunes on this one LIVE!
Excellent sound and quality for a live show.

FYI...Magazine + Ultravox = Visage.