From the Promised Land [Import]

Play Dead | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 7, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Anagram Gothic
• ASIN: B000Q7ZBOC
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #432,148 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Isabel

2. Torn on Desire

3. Walk Away

4. Pleasureland

5. Return to the East

6. No Motive

7. Holy Holy

8. Weeping Blood

9. Break [*]

10. Bloodstains [*]

11. Solace [*]

12. Pale Fire [*]

13. Sacrosanct [*]

14. Conspiracy [*]

15. Bloodstains Pleasure [*]

16. Solace [*]

17. Holy Holy [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic gothic rock outing, May 23, 2008

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A. Salas "fennis2000" (Brooklyn, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From the Promised Land (Audio CD)

Play Dead was an excellent british band that flourished in the 80s indie/post-punk/gothic rock areas..... with a number of solid releases.

From the Promised Land is perhaps their best, and this is an excellent version of it: remastered, in original track-order, and packed with b-sides and remixes.

Buy this and realize that all that mall-rock metal that kids are calling "goth" these days is nothing but commercial "emo" garbage.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Holy! Holy!, February 5, 2008

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Warren BONES (Sydney) - See all my reviews
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Play Dead are one of the most under-rated bands of the 80's and this is their finest work. I hesitate to call them a goth band, their appeal should be far wider than that, but if you like Killing Joke or The Sisters of Mercy then you are sure to like this. What I enjoy about this album in particular is the bass work - it drives most of the songs and is very funky on a lot of tracks. The guitar is as sharp as broken glass and the pummeling drums drive it forward like a freight-train. The distinctive, almost wailing vocals top it all off to perfection. Pleasureland is one of my all-time favourite songs yet here it fails to stand-out much from the excellent pieces around it. John Fryer's production is almost flawless.

This CD features the full album, followed by a fairly comprehensive set of bonus tracks from the era. These tracks lend more variety to this release, with the synth-bass driven Conspiracy and Sacrosanct, which points the way to the band's next release [Company of Justice - also brilliant].