Product Description
Two CD set from the Renaissance for the Australian new wave act's 1978 & 1980 albums. 19 tracks total, including their hit 'Hey St. Peter'. 1997 Renaissance Records release. The full title of each album is 'Flash And The Pan' and 'Lights In The Night'. Also features the original cover art of each.Double slimline jewel case.
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Flash and the Pan/Lights in the Night
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- WALKING IN THE RAIN...
- Forever Changed
- Unusual Indeed
- Perfectly Weird
- Easybeats From Mars
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Flash and the Pan/Lights in the Night
Flash and the Pan
Manufacturer: Renaissance
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
 New Wave
| New Wave & Post-Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
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ASIN: B000005NN7
Release Date: 1997-01-14 |
Tracks:
- Hey St. Peter
- Man In The Middle
- Walking In The Rain
- The African Shuffle
- California
- Lady Killer
- The Man Who Knew The Answer
- Hole In The Middle
- Down Among The Dead Men
- First And Last
Tracks:
- Media Man
- Headhunter
- Restless
- Welcome To The Universe
- Make Your Own Cross
- Lights In The Night
- Captain Beware
- Atlantis Calling
Album Description
Two CD set from the Renaissance for the Australian new wave act's 1978 & 1980 albums. 19 tracks total, including their hit 'Hey St. Peter'. 1997 Renaissance Records release. The full title of each album is 'Flash And The Pan' and 'Lights In The Night'. Also features the original cover art of each.Double slimline jewel case.
Customer Reviews:
WALKING IN THE RAIN..........2006-07-21
... is the absolute standout track on this collection, a downtempo masterpiece long before it became a genre unto itself (although Grace Jones did a remake, the atmospheric version found here is definitive)... other notables include "Hey St. Peter" and "Lights In The Night".
Forever Changed.......2006-04-12
I hate to overhype these records, but a few of the songs here changed my life. I mean that. It was 1980 and I was 14, listening to the Rock and Roll Alternative, a radio show George Gimarc had on KZEW in Dallas. I was sprawled out on the hood of my mom's car on a hot summer night, the stars above me blazing. The song "Lights in the Night" came on the portable radio we had and it was then I knew music could save your soul. My brother got both records and we played them constantly. "Walking in the Rain." "First and Last." "Restless." A few stinkers, too. But most of this stuff is brilliant. I recently threw a few songs on my iPod and they are still fresh and ahead of any time. Why don't more people know about them? Throw them on the next mix-tape, er, CD you make for a friend.
Unusual Indeed.......2005-08-28
Flash and the Pan mixed the electronica of Kraftwerk, or even The ORB, with the sounds of 80s British Pop/Dance. But they produced this sound a good ten years before it 'went to the mall'. And worht noting is their late 70s/early 80s avant-gaurde sound isn't dated, like say The Psychedellic Furs.
Even today, it's still unusual in production, lyrics, and sound, but certainly no longer head-turning.
And like a previous reviewer stated; back in the day I didn't think anybody else knew of this group. One of my favorite memories was when a group of us sampled too much canabis in a van parked somewhere around the bottom of Mt. Diablo and just spaced out to the sounds of Lights in the Night.
Perfectly Weird.......2004-11-23
Even by todays standards this stuff is pretty strange. Flash and the Pan are funny, dark and surprisingly pop. Of the two albums, "Lights in the Night" ( which features an amazing title track )is the more cohesive and better produced, but the key songs on the debut are absolutely necessary listening. Luckily, you can get them both together for a decent price, and not miss a bizarre moment of this one-of-a-kind group.
Easybeats From Mars.......2001-08-26
Flash and the Pan was the brainchild/alter ego of Harry Vanda & George Young, who, besides having been the Easybeats, achieved great success as a producing team specializing in no-nonsense hard rock, like for instance on the records George's kid brothers released as AC/DC. But certainly nobody could've anticipated this outfit, with a sound that embodies the term 'quirky'. A synth-driven outfit specializing in bizarre and even disturbing 'pop' songs that sorta shotgun-marries Van Der Graaf Generator, Electric Light Orchestra, synthpop & disco in a ceremony that equally soils all the attendants, these boys scratch an itch you may not know you have. Vanda's bizarre and compelling vocals are all lisped through filters - wait, I KNOW it's 2001 and that 'filtered-vocal' bit has been done to death, but this is one of its earliest, cleverest uses...and it works. Behind Vanda, the band (besides Young, Les Karski & Ray Arnott) create melodic soundscapes that run the gamut from sunny to surging to sinister, with the synth & keyboard work firmly upfront. This reissue twofer features the first two Flash releases. The first has shorter, punchier tunes like 'African Shuffle' & 'Man in the Middle', but it's the moments of odd, sleepy menace that shine here, such as 'California' & 'Walking in the Rain'. Fortunately, the album's darker patches proved irresistable to the band, so the followup LIGHTS IN THE NIGHT is packed with similar atmospheric swirl patterns: 'Atlantis Calling', 'Restless', 'Captain Beware' and the strange and wonderful title track. A recommended purchase to those of you in the mood for something dark, different & accessible - although the third album, HEADLINES, is better still but currently unavailable.
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Flash and the Pan/Lights in the Night
Manufacturer: Renaissance
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00000E7GB
Release Date: 1997-01-14 |
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