Skyscraping [CD-single]
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Stunning Return-To-Form 1997 LP. Features Contributions from Heaven 17 Vocalist Glenn Gregory. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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Skyscraping
Bushtucker
Manufacturer: Griffin Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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ASIN: B000001LHB
Release Date: 1995-05-16 |
Tracks:
- Skyscraping
- Gaia
- Pygmy Jungle
- Train Of Thought
- Greatest Show
- Hello Moon Can You Hear Me...Hello Moon Can You Hear Me?Many Moons Ago/Look To T
Average customer rating:
- The best since Lexicon of love
- so so album
- Nothing Stunning or Returning...
- Just Hold My Hand...
- A big disappointment
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Skyscraping
ABC
Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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- Abracadabra
- Up
- Alphabet City
- Beauty Stab
- How to Be A...Zillionaire!
ASIN: B000005S2H
Release Date: 1998-06-30 |
Tracks:
- Stranger Things
- Ask A Thousand Times
- Skyscraping
- Who Can I Turn To?
- Rolling Sevens
- Only The Best Will Do
- Love Is Its Own Reward
- Light Years
- Seven Day Weekend
- Heaven Knows
- Faraway
Album Details
Stunning Return-To-Form 1997 LP. Features Contributions from Heaven 17 Vocalist Glenn Gregory.
Customer Reviews:
The best since Lexicon of love.......2005-12-30
ABCs career have been characterized by ups ("Lexicon of love", "Alphabet city") and downs ("Beauty stab" and "up"). But "Skyscraping" is definately one of their best - if not their best album since groundbraking "Lexicon of love". "Their" is maybe the wrong word since "Skyscraping" is ABC only in the form of Martin Fry.
"Skyscraping" should be a treat for everyone who liked "Lexicon of love". Tracks such as "ask a thousand times", "who can I turn to", "stranger things", "only the best will do", "faraway" and last but not least the fantastic title-track (hear that chorus!!) "skyscraping" are wonderfully produced, has clever lyrics and show that Martin Fry is an intelligent writer with a perfect and unique voice.
Heaven 17 members helped Martin Fry on this album and this seems to have been a creative partnership. Musically "Skyscraping" pays homage to Roxy Music and the early new romatics scene (a scene in which ABC themselves was vital) and if you like music from the 80's this album should appeal to you. Whenever I listen to this album melancholy hits me - somehow it makes you remember all those wonderful people you have met on your lifes journey.
The albums fluctuates a bit in quality and received mixed reviews in the press. Everyone I know loves the album - and it seems that the total lack of marketing was the real reason this album failed. Give it a few listens, remember what ABC was all about (good, strong and catchy pop-songs with intelligent lyrics) and you will have a companion for life.
so so album.......2004-05-15
ABC is the band that flourished in the eighties.This one is the comeback CD.But the chemistry that lifted the band quite high cannot be found anywhere.Maybe this is the solo CD for Fry.from that point,you will be satisfied to hear this CD.Fry's vocal is the ABC.Total sound production is a little bit shabby and out of date.Perhaps this one is the present for Fry's die-hard fans only.Not for every music fans.This fact means that this is not an excellent ABC album,but a so so album.
Nothing Stunning or Returning..........2000-12-12
After waiting for quite a few years for a new ABC album I am greatly disappointed in the "new"sound. Albeit no music group can stay the same forever;I understand ABC cannot sound like it did back in '82 with their brand of Motown-Brit soul, lush use of strings and rhythms that echoed the closing of the disco era. However, where ABC should have gone forward, it's as though they went back in time with regards to using other former rock pop bands' sound or material. A few tracks towards the end of the disc border on re-hashed Roxy Music material a la Love Is the Drug era (the wailing sax and rock). Tracks 2,5, and 7 are indestinguishable with the heavy laden dose of electro-pop,techno-guitar sound that many techno groups used in the early '90s...The end result is watered down remnants of what otherwise should have been more sophisticated pop-soul from ABC with an up-to-date sound.
Fry's vocals are still powerful and soulful as ever. But, I think that's where the problem lies; His vocal style is not suitable for dry-ordinary, pop-rock music.It's like placing a melo-dramatic Broadway stage actor onto the set of a regular t.v. drama series(the fish out of water cliche).It's also similar to singer Tom Jones performing a humble and low-key Christian song in the middle of a Las Vegas lounge act.You get the picture...
Another version of this import contains extra tracks.No thanks. Not if they sound like the rest of this so-called comeback...
Pass...
Just Hold My Hand..........2000-03-21
Skyscraping finds Martin Fry (almost) on his own, since this is really simply a solo album with help from his friends. Glenn Gregory from Heaven 17 e.g. lends a hand giving the sound often a lush feeling. On too many tracks Martin seems to be trying too hard to give the sound some edge. It is the more relaxed efforts that shine and shine they do in epic proportions. Stranger Things is as catchy a pop tune as they come, yet could be classified as easy listening. The title track, however, is the album's gem. One can listen to it again and again without getting tired of it. With enough marketing ammunition this track could easily become a huge hit appealing to a wide spectrum. Really, the album is worth purchasing for that single song. There are other good songs on the album, but programming the CD is still a must.
A big disappointment.......1999-08-05
Having been one of only about eight people on the entire planet to own all of the ABC albums and willingly admit to doing so, I really looked forward to the release of a new ABC album - particularly since their last album, Abracadabra, was easily their best.
Unfortunately, with Mark White out of the picture, ABC falls flat. Even the best moment on the album, "Stranger things", sounds stilted and artificial, the equivalent of trying to bake a cake based solely on a picture of one. Sure, Messrs. Fry and Gregory toss in a few recognizable motifs from ABC past, but this just adds insult upon injury.
Save your money. Buy the remastered editions of the first four albums instead.
Average customer rating:
- The best since Lexicon of love
- so so album
- Nothing Stunning or Returning...
- Just Hold My Hand...
- A big disappointment
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Skyscraping
ABC
Manufacturer: Blatant
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
New Wave
| New Wave & Post-Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Abracadabra
- Up
- Alphabet City
- Beauty Stab
- How to Be A...Zillionaire!
ASIN: B000006T2U
Release Date: 1997-01-01 |
Tracks:
- Skyscraping
- Light Years
- Skydubbing
- Stranger Things [Live]
Album Details
Stunning Return-To-Form 1997 LP. Features Contributions from Heaven 17 Vocalist Glenn Gregory.
Customer Reviews:
The best since Lexicon of love.......2005-12-30
ABCs career have been characterized by ups ("Lexicon of love", "Alphabet city") and downs ("Beauty stab" and "up"). But "Skyscraping" is definately one of their best - if not their best album since groundbraking "Lexicon of love". "Their" is maybe the wrong word since "Skyscraping" is ABC only in the form of Martin Fry.
"Skyscraping" should be a treat for everyone who liked "Lexicon of love". Tracks such as "ask a thousand times", "who can I turn to", "stranger things", "only the best will do", "faraway" and last but not least the fantastic title-track (hear that chorus!!) "skyscraping" are wonderfully produced, has clever lyrics and show that Martin Fry is an intelligent writer with a perfect and unique voice.
Heaven 17 members helped Martin Fry on this album and this seems to have been a creative partnership. Musically "Skyscraping" pays homage to Roxy Music and the early new romatics scene (a scene in which ABC themselves was vital) and if you like music from the 80's this album should appeal to you. Whenever I listen to this album melancholy hits me - somehow it makes you remember all those wonderful people you have met on your lifes journey.
The albums fluctuates a bit in quality and received mixed reviews in the press. Everyone I know loves the album - and it seems that the total lack of marketing was the real reason this album failed. Give it a few listens, remember what ABC was all about (good, strong and catchy pop-songs with intelligent lyrics) and you will have a companion for life.
so so album.......2004-05-15
ABC is the band that flourished in the eighties.This one is the comeback CD.But the chemistry that lifted the band quite high cannot be found anywhere.Maybe this is the solo CD for Fry.from that point,you will be satisfied to hear this CD.Fry's vocal is the ABC.Total sound production is a little bit shabby and out of date.Perhaps this one is the present for Fry's die-hard fans only.Not for every music fans.This fact means that this is not an excellent ABC album,but a so so album.
Nothing Stunning or Returning..........2000-12-12
After waiting for quite a few years for a new ABC album I am greatly disappointed in the "new"sound. Albeit no music group can stay the same forever;I understand ABC cannot sound like it did back in '82 with their brand of Motown-Brit soul, lush use of strings and rhythms that echoed the closing of the disco era. However, where ABC should have gone forward, it's as though they went back in time with regards to using other former rock pop bands' sound or material. A few tracks towards the end of the disc border on re-hashed Roxy Music material a la Love Is the Drug era (the wailing sax and rock). Tracks 2,5, and 7 are indestinguishable with the heavy laden dose of electro-pop,techno-guitar sound that many techno groups used in the early '90s...The end result is watered down remnants of what otherwise should have been more sophisticated pop-soul from ABC with an up-to-date sound.
Fry's vocals are still powerful and soulful as ever. But, I think that's where the problem lies; His vocal style is not suitable for dry-ordinary, pop-rock music.It's like placing a melo-dramatic Broadway stage actor onto the set of a regular t.v. drama series(the fish out of water cliche).It's also similar to singer Tom Jones performing a humble and low-key Christian song in the middle of a Las Vegas lounge act.You get the picture...
Another version of this import contains extra tracks.No thanks. Not if they sound like the rest of this so-called comeback...
Pass...
Just Hold My Hand..........2000-03-21
Skyscraping finds Martin Fry (almost) on his own, since this is really simply a solo album with help from his friends. Glenn Gregory from Heaven 17 e.g. lends a hand giving the sound often a lush feeling. On too many tracks Martin seems to be trying too hard to give the sound some edge. It is the more relaxed efforts that shine and shine they do in epic proportions. Stranger Things is as catchy a pop tune as they come, yet could be classified as easy listening. The title track, however, is the album's gem. One can listen to it again and again without getting tired of it. With enough marketing ammunition this track could easily become a huge hit appealing to a wide spectrum. Really, the album is worth purchasing for that single song. There are other good songs on the album, but programming the CD is still a must.
A big disappointment.......1999-08-05
Having been one of only about eight people on the entire planet to own all of the ABC albums and willingly admit to doing so, I really looked forward to the release of a new ABC album - particularly since their last album, Abracadabra, was easily their best.
Unfortunately, with Mark White out of the picture, ABC falls flat. Even the best moment on the album, "Stranger things", sounds stilted and artificial, the equivalent of trying to bake a cake based solely on a picture of one. Sure, Messrs. Fry and Gregory toss in a few recognizable motifs from ABC past, but this just adds insult upon injury.
Save your money. Buy the remastered editions of the first four albums instead.
Average customer rating:
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Skyscraping
ABC
Manufacturer: Musicrama/Koch
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00000DZWR
Release Date: 1998-05-05 |
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