Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Chance (1980) {1999, Remastered & Expanded}

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Artist: Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Title: Chance
Year Of Release: 1980 / 1999
Label: Cohesion #MANN 012
Genre: Progressive Rock, Art Rock
Quality: EAC Rip -> FLAC (Img+Cue,Log) / MP3 CBR320
Total Time: 54:27
Total Size: 422 / 204 Mb (Full Scans)
WebSite: Album Preview

Manfred Mann's 1980 album is a strange mix of topical songwriting, progressive rock, and power pop -- from its opening seconds, the Earth Band is pressing serious messages and social commentary on their listenership amid swirling prog rock keyboards and catchy guitar hooks and choruses. The whole package is challenging in ways that should have put them on the cutting edge of rock music at the outset of that decade, but one suspects that Mann and company were too musically adept and sophisticated for their own good -- a little dumbing down and maybe a little less musicianship on display would have made them more accessible to the coming MTV generation. As it is, the album has held up remarkably well across a quarter century, however, even if it now seems an uncomfortably accurate warning of the way the world would go, in terms of politics and society, in the decades to come. It would also be three years before another Earth Band album was forthcoming, and that one would be steeped in world music sounds. Chance was reissued in Japan and elsewhere in 2006 in an expanded edition (in a mini-LP CD format in Japan) with four bonus tracks adding 14 minutes to the original album's running time -- these include one outtake, "A Fool I Am," and the single versions of "Adolescent Dream," "Lies (Through the 80s)," and "For You."

~ Bruce Eder, All Music

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Chance (1980) {1999, Remastered & Expanded}

Track List:

01. Lies (Through The 80s) [04:37]
02. On The Run [03:53]
03. For You [05:41]
04. Adolescent Dream [02:43]
05. Fritz The Blank [02:52]
06. Stranded [05:50]
07. Hello, I Am Your Heart [05:19]
08. No Guarantee [03:50]
09. Heart On The Street [04:57]
Bonus Tracks:
10. A Fool I Am (Single B Side) [04:17]
11. Adolescent Dream (Single B Side) [02:24]
12. Lies (Through The 80s) (Single Version) [04:15]
13. For You (Single Version) [03:53]

Personnel:
Manfred Mann - keyboards, vocals ("Adolescent Dream")
John Lingwood - drums
Pat King - bass, bass pedals
Mick Rogers - guitars
Steve Waller - guitars, vocals ("This Is Your Heart")
Chris Thompson - vocals ("Lies Through The 80s", "On The Run", "For You")

With:
Trevor Rabin - guitars
Robbie McIntosh - guitars
Geoff Whitehorn - guitars
Dyan Birch - vocals ("Guarantee" and others)
Willy Finlayson - vocals ("Heart On The Street")
Peter Marsh - vocals ("Stranded")
Carol Stocker - backing vocals
Barbara Thompson - saxophone

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