Replicas (Reis) [Original recording remastered]

Product Description
Replicas put the synths center stage, freezing Kraftwerk's liquid opulence into stark cubist blocks.

Product Description
Original UK Album plus Six Bonus Tracks. Remastered with Expanded Artwork.

Replicas,Gary Numan & Tubeway Army,Beggars UK - Ada,Pop,Popular Music,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Replicas (Reis) [Original recording remastered]

Average customer rating: The music is masterfully composed with wit, majesty, and soul Beautiful John Williams does his best Minimalist Impersonation with Fine Results Will one day be considered among the best he's written Almost Impeccable

A.I. - Artificial Intelligence: Original Motion Picture Score Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Similar Items: Minority Report Catch Me If You Can War of the Worlds Seven Years In Tibet: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Hook: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ASIN: B00005LLVS Release Date: 2001-07-03

Tracks:

1. The Mecha World
2. Abandoned In the Woods
3. Replicas
4. Hide And Seek
5. For Always
6. Cybertronics
7. The Moon Rising
8. Stored Memories And Monica's Theme
9. Where Dreams Are Born
10. Rouge City
11. The Search For The Blue Fairy
12. The Reunion
13. For Always (Duet)

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Packed with Big Ideas about the future of mankind and dispatched with a distant, often icy veneer, Steven Spielberg's Artificial Intelligence can scarcely camouflage its roots. It was begun by the late Stanley Kubrick in the mid-'80s; Spielberg collaborated briefly a decade later, bowed out, then inherited it upon Kubrick's death in '99. And while the late auteur's cold vision seems largely intact (if now infused with Spielberg's enduring Pinocchio fetish), it's safe to say that Kubrick's often challenging musical tastes would probably not have led him to composer John Williams's doorstep. Nonetheless, the acclaimed veteran again rises to the occasion, ably demonstrating that he's hardly been indifferent to 20-odd-years of minimalism and postmodernism and that, as always, the best film music is often a subtly crafted pastiche of sensibilities and styles. Setting the tone of the film's robotically enhanced not-so-distant future, "The Mecha World" crackles and glistens with Steve Reich's rhythmic urgency and John Adams's dense coloration, while "Abandoned in the Woods," "Hide and Seek," and "Rouge City" succeed by setting Williams's more traditional sense of melody against Phillip Glass's hypnotic arpeggios. There's also a sense that the composer has craftily evoked the ghost of Kubrick music past and 2001 in particular; "Replicas" and "Stored Memories" bring to mind Ligeti, while the mournful strings of "Cybertronics" seem a ghostly echo of Khachaturian's "Gayane Ballet Suite." David Foster's ballad "For Always" (in a solo rendition by Lara Fabian and a duet between Fabian and Josh Groban) seems twice-included strictly to enhance the album's radio allure. Completists should also note that Ministry's dark contribution to the film's Flesh Fair sequence, "What About Us?" is not included on this soundtrack, but is available on their Greatest Fits compilation. Arguably Williams's most musically adventurous score since his landmark Close Encounters, A.I. should take its place among the most distinctive of the composer's long and bounteous collaboration with Spielberg. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

The music is masterfully composed with wit, majesty, and soul.......2006-06-19

A.I. means Artificial Intelligence. But there is nothing artificial about John Williams' organically emotional score and his 17th collaboration with Steven Spielberg. A.I. studies the unique fellowship between human and machine and John has woven a musical interface. John's score pierces the mystery of a robot (mecha) child's short existence. His name is David and he never had a birthday, but was engineered to give and revieve the love of the family he is placed in. The music underlines and then transports David on his jounrey of discovery from his inception to his tanscendence and John does this with wit, majesty, and soul. John's music is of our world and of theirs and finally of a world shared by both orga and mecha. And like so many of John's scores from Spielberg's movies, you really don't need the images to have the story told to you. He is the greatest musical storyteller of all time.

Beautiful .......2006-02-20

This is a wonderful score. It features Josh Groban, Lara Fabian, and of course the master... John Williams.

I would definately say this is one of his best. It reminds me of some of the other Spielberg collaboration scores. Mainly, Empire of the Sun, and War of the Worlds. Lots of the score is wonderful emotional underscoring. It's very complex, and full of interesting scales and keys. Of course, there is plenty of gorgeous thematic material to make the score complete. Honestly, I have never heard a bad John Williams score. Come to think of it, I've never heard one that was less than brilliant and amazing. Really, give this a listen.

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John Williams does his best Minimalist Impersonation with Fine Results.......2006-02-05

If you're at all familiar with various work by John Williams, then you might be surprised at his soundtrack for the Spielberg movie A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Here Williams seems to shy away from his usual heroic, orchestral canvasses and focuses more on repetitive, rhythmic music with a much more subdued feel to it. Some people might be reminded of minimalist composer Phillip Glass but it's not always Glass that Williams emulates here, it's another major figure in the minimalist music movement, John Adams. Even if Williams emulates others at times, it's still pure John Williams throughout.

Of course Williams, just like Steven Spielberg, can't help but pour on the schmaltz once in a while. The main theme of the film is the one used for the song " For Always ". When this music is played by piano and orchestra it's quite beautiful. When the soprano Barbara Bonney sings it with wordless vocals, it's very evocative of the mood in the film. HOWEVER, I have no idea what John Williams was thinking when he basically turns this beautiful, simple theme into a corny pop song. Oh wait, I know exactly what he was thinking, he was trying to generate a pop hit! Ugh. When Lara Fabian sings " For Always " on track 5, you grind your teeth and barely make it through. When on track 13, Lara Fabian is joined by Josh Groban for a duet version of the same song, it becomes intolerable schmaltz at it's worst.

So yes, there is much satisfying work here by everyone's most lovable film composer John Williams, just don't listen to tracks 5 and 13 so your musical sensibilities won't be irreparably damaged!

The last word from me, A.I., terrific soundtrack that rivals Williams' best, sayonara!

Will one day be considered among the best he's written.......2005-12-29

This score is a masterpiece. Although many critics found Steven Spielberg's film to be uneven, I feel that the score perfectly gives it heart. The score helps to understand what the film is all about -- a boy's love for his "mother."

This score by John Williams will one day be considered among the best he's written. Highly underrated, yet greatly poignant.

I agree with other reviewers who have warned that this is not in the Star Wars / Indiana Jones vein. If you're looking for big, bombastic symphonic music, look elsewhere. This is very sentimental, but beautifully done music. It demonstrates John Williams' talent for matching the music to the film's intention. As his resume' demonstrates, John Williams can write music for just about every film, including a misunderstood "Spielberg/Kubrick" collaboration.

"The Reunion" (final track) is one of the best tracks of orchestra/piano music ever written. The lullaby-like song is the same melody as was used in "For Always," and it is achingly beautiful.

Appropriately, this final track is played in the film while David being (finally) reunited with his "mother."

Almost Impeccable.......2004-04-26

John Williams continues in the fine tradition of his previous work. This sondtrack is finely balanced, with delicate medleys, haunting themes, and some lullaby pieces that are almost enough to make one weep. Contrary to many of his previous works (Star Wars, Superman, et al,) Mr. Williams avoided writing loud, brassy fanfares that would have deeply conflicted with the dark, pensive nature of this film.
Several tracks stand out in this masterpiece. The twin versions of "For Always," one featuring Lara Fabian and the other featuring Josh Groban in a duet with Ms. Fabian are wonderfully pure. In solo form, Lara's voice is wonderfully smooth and has a subtle almost untrained quality that lends a genuineness to her singing. In the duet, Mr. Groban's silky smooth baritone perfectly offsets Lara's clear soprano. The penultimate song, titled "The Reunion" is a stunning, gorgeous lullaby of a piece that features a plaintive, almost childish piano theme. The simplicity is subtlely complex as the theme winds through an entire emotional range, from triumphant happiness to simple joy to black despair, and finally back into an almost heartbreaking lullaby.
Mr. Williams has displayed a wide variety of musical styles in this soundtrack. For fans of his that are desiring a "Star Wars" fanfare and overpowering orchestral pieces, this soundtrack is not for you. I personally prefer this collection to most of his other works.

Average customer rating: A Master At Work trendsetting music An Enjoyable Electronic Album Do you want New Wave or do you want the truth? An incredible album

Replicas Tubeway Army Manufacturer: Beggars UK - Ada ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music New Wave | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Pure Hybrid The Man-Machine Juju Dare!/Love and Dancing ASIN: B00000I2B0 Release Date: 1998-06-09

Tracks:

1. Me! I Disconnect from You
2. Are 'Friends' Electric?
3. Machman
4. Praying to the Aliens
5. Down in the Park
6. You Are in My Vision
7. Replicas
8. It Must Have Been Years
9. When the Machines Rock
10. I Nearly Married a Human
11. Do You Need the Service?
12. The Crazies
13. Only a Downstat
14. We Have a Technical
15. We Are So Fragile
16. I Nearly Married a Human [2]

Album Details

Original UK Album plus Six Bonus Tracks. Remastered with Expanded Artwork.

Customer Reviews:

A Master At Work.......2007-06-19

"Replicas" contains some of the best early work by Gary Numan, while he was still with his band Tubeway Army. The tracks are synth-heavy new wave, with more guitar than his later breakthrough "The Pleasure Principle".

"Are 'Friends' Electric" and "Down In The Park" are the songs most people rave about, although "You Are In My Vision" is also a standout. My personal favorite on the CD, however, is "Me! I Disconnect From You", a phenomenal two and a half minutes of music.

If you are thinking of buying this album - do it. You will be listening to an emerging genius, just hitting his stride. Five stars!

trendsetting music.......2007-05-06

Hard to believe, but I just recently heard this album for the first time. Supposedly a concept album, this collection of songs is a great snapshot of the early new wave music movement. Nobody (including me) knew it at the time, but Gary Numan was destined to be a trendsetter in composition and musical style. If your sole exposure to Gary Numan is his hit single "Cars" you owe it to yourself to listen to "Replicas" and "Pleasure Principle."

An Enjoyable Electronic Album.......2007-03-08

Gary Numan hit the jackpot in the UK in the late 1970s with the single "Are Friends Electric", contained in this album. Replicas contains some of Numan's all-time best work (the aforementioned single, "Me! I Disconnect From You", "Down In The Park", and the excellent instrumental "I Nearly Married A Human") and shows that he now has developed his trademark "fat" Minimoog sound fully.
Numan's previous debut album with Tubeway Army was a guitar-based, metallic, punky affair. Of course Numan was never a punk, as he fondly recalls in the liner notes from that debut.
Unfortunately this album has not all stellar tracks and some are downright dull and the album seems very long in length.
I suggest if you wish to purchase one Numan album, get his next album, The Pleasure Principle- one of the all-time greatest New Wave/Synth Pop affairs.

Do you want New Wave or do you want the truth?.......2006-12-05

This isn't even a Gary Numan record, it's from when he was still part of the band Tubeway Army. I have read a few reviews that talk about how the record was "trendy" or "sounds dated." But I think they might miss the point. Gary Numan (along with a handful of others) was a post-punk pioneer, that somehow inadvertenly created what is now known as "New Wave."
This record sounds like early primative electro or new wave, because that's what it is! This music is awash with analog synthisizers, and yet uses guitars and a real rhythm section (much like New Order would do a few years later.) But ultimately this record just rocks, and Gary Numan wrote some great and memorable songs. He just had a penchant for experimenting with the new technology that was available at the time, and now that that technology is not really widely used nowadays, it sounds like a record recorded at a particular place and time. (does that mean it's dated? I mean the Beatles sound like "60's music" but no one says they sound dated!)
This sound would become hugely influential with indie bands like Trans Am, and Wolf Parade, after analog synths became "trendy" again.
Gary Numan's lyrics are very heavily sci-fi influenced, and are on the bizarre side, but if you don't take this aspect too seriously, you will get much enjoyment out of it. Well, if you hate music with lots of synths, you'll hate it no matter what!

An incredible album.......2006-11-30

This is truly an amazing album. I hadn't listened to this in years and it seemed better to me now than it did a quarter century ago. This is his last album where there were some significant guitar work and it's really a brilliant combination of synth & power.

Average customer rating:

Replicas/The Plan Gary Numan Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Visi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD New Wave | New Wave & Post-Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Dance Pop | Compilations | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000007UBL Release Date: 1993-12-13

Tracks:

1. Me! I Disconnect from You
2. Are 'Friends' Electric?
3. Machman
4. Praying to the Aliens
5. Down in the Park
6. You Are in My Vision
7. Replicas
8. It Must Have Been Years
9. When the Machines Rock
10. I Nearly Married a Human
11. Do You Need the Service?
12. Crazies
13. Only a Downstat
14. We Have a Technical
15. We Are So Fragile
16. I Nearly Married a Human [2]
17. That's Too Bad [Single Version]
18. Oh! Didn't I Say
19. Out of Sight
20. That's Too Bad [Original Version]
21. Bombers [Original Version]
22. My Shadow in Vain
23. Machine
24. Thoughts No. 2
25. Something's in the House
26. Check It
27. Monday Troop
28. This Is My Life
29. Mean Street
30. Ice
31. Crime of Passion
32. Life Machine
33. Critics
34. Do Your Best (Friends)
35. Basic J
36. Bombers
37. Blue Eyes
38. D.D. Receiver

Album Description

1993 release on Beggars Banquet, a double slimline jewel casefeaturing his 1978 album 'The Plan' and his 1979 album'Replicas' with six bonus tracks: 'Do You Need TheService?', 'The Crazies', 'Only A Downstat', 'We Have ATechnical', 'We Are So Fragile' and

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Wendy Carlos: Secrets of Synthesis Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Beethoven | Beethoven, Ludwig van | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Monteverdi | Monteverdi, Claudio | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Domenico Scarlatti | Scarlatti, Domenico | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rossini | Rossini, Gioacchino | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Grossi | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Romantic | Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Computer | Electronic | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Symphonies | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Romantic (c.1820-1910) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Italian | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Experimental Music | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Classical Instrumental Music | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | The Sony BMG Masterworks Store | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000026FV Release Date: 1990-10-25

Average customer rating: Highly reccomended!

Replicas Rubato Terre Thaemlitz Manufacturer: Efa Imports ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music IDM | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Ambient | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B00001SIB4 Release Date: 1999-09-21

Tracks:

1. Stormtrooper In Drag
2. Down In The Park
3. Dream Of Siam
4. Friends
5. Sister Surprise
6. Cars
7. Cry The Clock Said
8. Praying To The Aliens
9. Slowcar To China
10. Jo The Waiter
11. Please Push No More

Customer Reviews:

Highly reccomended!.......2000-12-31

I happened to spot this disc in a funky record store with a handwritten note that it was highly reccomended. This was slotted with Gary Numans discs, and being a big Numan fan, I purchased it. Gary had already done a piano-ony version of "Down in the Park", but this builds upon and expands on that. It's a very full disc and the song selections are among my favorites (Storm Troopers in Drag, Down in the Park, Slowcar to China, Praying to the Aliens). This disc really brings the melodies to the surface but Terre also brings in some interpetation. Quite brilliant, when you consider the bulk of Gary's work is synthetic/electric by nature, hearing them in a stark setting of a piano-onl setting gives you a very different perspective on Gary's work that's both disquieting and familiar at the same time. I wouldn't hesitate to reccomend this to any real Numan fan, and I think it holds up as a wonderful CD of piano music for someone totally unfamiliar with Gary Numan!

Average customer rating:

Could You? Manufacturer: Pyrolytic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000CAEEKA Release Date: 2005-01-04

Average customer rating:

Replicas/The Plan 2cd Gary Numan Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000BRAV88 Release Date: 1996-11-21

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