ADAM ANT / VIVE LE ROCK (BONUS TRACKS) (EUROPEAN IMPORT)
ADAM ANT
vive le rock (bonus tracks) (european import)
CD Album
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Description

Adam Ant adopted a '50s-style rock & roll sound for his third solo album, achieving a pastiche with some of the effervescence, but none of the definition (or popularity), of Elton John's "Crocodile Rock." Producer Tony Visconti tried to give him some of the plastic rock legitimacy of Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie, but Ant was even goofier, and especially with his vocals smothered in harmony and echo and buried in the mix, he wasn't so much transformed into a rocker manqué as rendered anonymous on his own record. The best track was the year-old U.K. Top 40 hit "Apollo 9," which had some of the manic energy of the Adam & the Ants hits. If the rest of the album had re-created its dizzy spirit, Ant might have made the comeback he needed with Vive le Rock. Or maybe not -- it's possible that his moment had simply passed. In any case, the album flopped on both sides of the Atlantic, Ant was dropped by his record label, and he didn't make another album for more than four years. [Vive le Rock was reissued in 1996 with the added track "Mohair Locker Room Pin-Up Boys."] [This version of the album includes even more bonus material.] ~ William Ruhlmann, AMG

Details

Genre: Music > Pop > Pop
Released: Tue 29 Mar 2005
Catalogue Number: 5196382
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Track Listing

1.  Vive Le Rock
2.  Miss Thing
3.  Razor Keen
4.  Rip Down
5.  Scorpio Rising
6.  Apollo 9
7.  Hells Eight Acres
8.  Mohair Locke Room Pin-up Boys
9.  No Zap
10.  P.O.E
11.  Apollo 9 Reprise
12.  Human Bondage Den (Original Album Version)
13.  Vive Le Rock (Unreleased 12" Mix)
14.  Apollo 9 (Francois K 7" Mix)
15.  Doggy Style (Demo)
16.  Night They Vietcong (Demo)
17.  Big Big Man. Razor Keen (Demo)
18.  Rip Down (Demo)
19.  Apollo 9 (Francois K Splashdown Mix)
20.  Vive Le Rock (Unreleased Us 7” Mix)

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