专辑英文名: Last Communique from 1985-2006
歌手: The Weathermen
音乐风格: 电子
资源格式: MP3
发行时间: 2007年
地区: 比利时
语言: 英语
简介:
唱片公司：PIAS
专辑风格：Dance-Pop；Synth Pop
压缩比率：192kbps
专辑介绍：
The Weathermen are a semi-satirical Belgium-based electronic and pop band.
The Weathermen began as a joke. A couple of belgians recorded some music and then sent it to a local record company via the US under the pretence they were a couple of enigmatic Americans trying to invade the european music scene. It worked and they got signed to Play It Again Sam (PIAS) Records who put out their first 12" Old Friend Sam in 1985. They recruited the assistance of Tuxedomoon's visual specialist Bruce Geduldig who adopted the alias of Chuck B, a debauched playboy vocalist. He brought even more humour and satire to the already amused Weathermen. More singles followed moving the band away from alternative dancey electronic music into slighty satirical pop music but it wasn't until the 1987 that the song Poison brought them real attention. With jewel tracks such as Punishment Park and the Black Album in its whole, they did the soundtrack of a dark and tongue-in-cheek movie, something like the Marx Brothers remixing William Gibson.The group by this time had slimmed down to 'Chuck' and 'Jimmy-Joe Snark III'; in actual fact mild-mannered producer and keyboardist Jean-Marc Lederman who had worked in his day-job with the likes of Fad Gadget,The The and Kid Montana.
PIAS厂牌介绍：
PIAS是一个国际性厂牌,它最初由Kenny Gates 和 Michel Lambot于1983年在布鲁塞尔创办,现在这家公司已经在包括荷兰,英国,德国,发过,西班牙,澳大利亚,瑞典,美国设立了分公司
PIAS旗下有许多多产的优秀组合,像Little Barrie, The Legendary Pink Dots, Young Gods, The Neon Judgement, La Muerte, Sigur Rós, Mogwai, DJ Format, Front 242, Soulwax, Tiga, Vitalic, Mark B, Editors, Voicst, Click Click and Scala & Kolacny Brothers.
厂牌的名字PIAS,是"Play it again, Sam" 的缩写,来源于电影Casablanca中的一句台词的(错误?)引用,实际上在电影中演员说的是"Play it once, Sam."
Play It Again, Sam这个名字同样也是一个1972年的由伍迪.艾伦坡主演,Herbert Ross导演的百老汇戏剧的名字
PIAS和另一家在芝加哥成立的电音厂牌Wax Trax! Records在1988的合伙创立了两个子厂牌Play It Again Sam Records U.S.A. and Wax Trax! Europe,PIAS USA由Wax Trax!在北美的分公司管理运营,而Wax Trax! Europe由PIAS管理运营.这两个子厂牌都在1991年初解散了,Caroline Records接收了PIAS USA的名字
在2006年初Music Week的头版报道说PIAS将要与rival Wall of Sound合并从而变成一家超级独立厂牌.但是此后没有透露更多的细节,Music Week建议这家厂牌的名字可以叫做'Wall Of Sam'
"Play it again Sam"同样也被一家名叫Superior Software的公司用来再版他们的旧的作品,最早的Play it again Sam包括4个游戏,这4个游戏每个都曾夺得过受大众欢迎程度的第一,但是之后这个系列的作品质量有所下降,只卖出了很少一点
