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Track List
01) Darklands
02) Deep One Perfect Morning
03) Happy When It Rains
04) Down on Me
05) Nine Million Rainy Days
06) April Skies
07) Fall
08) Cherry Came Too
09) On the Wall
10) About You
11) Some Candy Talking
12) Taste of Cindy (acoustic)
13) Psychocandy
14) Hit
15) Darklands
16) Down on Me
17) Deep One Perfect Morning
18) Fall
19) In the Rain
20) Happy Place
Cd 2
01) Kill Surf City
02) Bo Diddley Is Jesus
03) Who Do You Love
04) Everything's Alright When You're Down
05) Shake
06) Happy When It Rains (demo)
07) Happy Place
08) F.Hole
09) Rider
10) On the Wall (Portastudio demo)
11) Surfin' USA (April outtake)
12) Here It Comes Again (outtake)
13) Walk and Crawl
14) Some Candy Talking (NME version)
15) Mushroom
16) The Hardest Walk (Soundtrack version)
17) Don't Ever Change
18) Swing
19) Darklands (with Strings)
20) Interview (Janice long)
01) Darklands
02) Deep One Perfect Morning
03) Happy When It Rains
04) Down on Me
05) Nine Million Rainy Days
06) April Skies
07) Fall
08) Cherry Came Too
09) On the Wall
10) About You
11) Some Candy Talking
12) Taste of Cindy (acoustic)
13) Psychocandy
14) Hit
15) Darklands
16) Down on Me
17) Deep One Perfect Morning
18) Fall
19) In the Rain
20) Happy Place
Cd 2
01) Kill Surf City
02) Bo Diddley Is Jesus
03) Who Do You Love
04) Everything's Alright When You're Down
05) Shake
06) Happy When It Rains (demo)
07) Happy Place
08) F.Hole
09) Rider
10) On the Wall (Portastudio demo)
11) Surfin' USA (April outtake)
12) Here It Comes Again (outtake)
13) Walk and Crawl
14) Some Candy Talking (NME version)
15) Mushroom
16) The Hardest Walk (Soundtrack version)
17) Don't Ever Change
18) Swing
19) Darklands (with Strings)
20) Interview (Janice long)
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First Released
1987
Alternative Rock
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Feeling no doubt burdened by the various claims of being the new Sex Pistols, and likely fed up with accusations that the walls of feedback were their own trick, the Reid brothers underwent a bit of a rethink with Darklands. The end result must have fallen squarely between two camps -- hardly eligible for sunny commercial airplay, not quite as flailing as the earliest efforts -- but, from a distance, this is an appealing, enjoyable record. Songs were often longer while the album itself was shorter than Psychocandy, walls of sound were often stripped away in favor of calmer classic rock twang and groove, while William Reid took the lead vocal at points, showing he had a slightly sweeter, wistful tone in comparison to his brother. However, the changes on Darklands can be overstated -- the basic formula at the heart of the band (inspired plagiarism of melodies and lyrics alike, plenty of reverb, etc.) stayed pretty much the same, even if the mixes were cleaned up -- compare "Down on Me" to any Psychocandy cut for a good example of the difference. The use of drum machines in place of Bobby Gillespie's rumble tended to enforce the newer focus, but at the album's best, such a seeming dichotomy didn't cause too much worry. "April Skies" made for a great single, while the soaring-in-spite-of-itself "Happy When It Rains" was another winner, one that Garbage more or less made its own some years later for its own similarly titled hit. William's singing turns made for other highlights as well, notably "Nine Million Rainy Days," the overt misery of the title suiting the dark crawl of the song, and the lengthy lament "On the Wall." Darklands is no Psychocandy in the end -- nothing the band released later ever was -- but it's still a good listen.
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Feeling no doubt burdened by the various claims of being the new Sex Pistols, and likely fed up with accusations that the walls of feedback were their own trick, the Reid brothers underwent a bit of a rethink with Darklands. The end result must have fallen squarely between two camps -- hardly eligible for sunny commercial airplay, not quite as flailing as the earliest efforts -- but, from a distance, this is an appealing, enjoyable record. Songs were often longer while the album itself was shorter than Psychocandy, walls of sound were often stripped away in favor of calmer classic rock twang and groove, while William Reid took the lead vocal at points, showing he had a slightly sweeter, wistful tone in comparison to his brother. However, the changes on Darklands can be overstated -- the basic formula at the heart of the band (inspired plagiarism of melodies and lyrics alike, plenty of reverb, etc.) stayed pretty much the same, even if the mixes were cleaned up -- compare "Down on Me" to any Psychocandy cut for a good example of the difference. The use of drum machines in place of Bobby Gillespie's rumble tended to enforce the newer focus, but at the album's best, such a seeming dichotomy didn't cause too much worry. "April Skies" made for a great single, while the soaring-in-spite-of-itself "Happy When It Rains" was another winner, one that Garbage more or less made its own some years later for its own similarly titled hit. William's singing turns made for other highlights as well, notably "Nine Million Rainy Days," the overt misery of the title suiting the dark crawl of the song, and the lengthy lament "On the Wall." Darklands is no Psychocandy in the end -- nothing the band released later ever was -- but it's still a good listen.
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