Bis - The New Transistor Heroes & Return To Central '1997/2001/2014

Tracks list

:: TRACKLIST ::

The New Transistor Heroes [1997/2014]

1-01		Tell It To The Kids	3:07
1-02		Sweet Shop Avengers	2:41
1-03		Starbright Boy	3:39
1-04		Popstar Kill	2:34
1-05		Mr. Important	3:02
1-06		Antiseptic Poetry	3:05
1-07		Popyura	1:58
1-08		Skinny Tie Sensurround	3:51
1-09		Poster Parent	2:07
1-10		Monstarr	3:11
1-11		Everybody Thinks That They're Going To Get Theirs	2:29
1-12		Rebel Soul	5:02
1-13		Photo Shop	3:10
1-14		X-Defect	3:09
1-15		Lie Detector Test	3:44
1-16.1		Dinosaur Germs	1:48
1-16.2		Keroleen (Slow Version - Hidden Track)	4:29

2-01		Kill Yr Boyfriend (Grand Royal Version)	2:08
2-02		Keroleen (Unreleased Version)	2:16
2-03		Pop Song 1:59
2-04		Clockwork Punk	2:46
2-05		Wee Love	1:24
2-06		Team Theme	2:43
2-07		Cliquesuck	2:51
2-08		I'll Get You Back	1:10
2-09		Rollerblade Zero	2:44
2.10		Ninja Hi-Skool	1:49
2.11		Automatic Freestyle	2:26
2.12		Statement Of Intent (Original Version)	2:46
2.13		Girl Star (Remix)	3:31
2.14		Cookie Cutter Kid	3:58
2.15		(It's The) Ram Jam	2:06
2.16		Sweet Shop Avengerz (Hi-Fi Mix)	4:09
2.17		Tell It To The Kids (Hi-Fi Mix)	6:45
2.18		Monstarr (Hi-Fi Mix)	6:04
2.19		The Boy With The Thorn In His Side	3:24
2.20		We Are So Fragile	3:00
2.21		Photo Shop (Stripped)	3:02

Deluxe 2 x CD edition featuring rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks and
remixes. 


Return to Central [2001/2014]

1-01		What You're Afraid Of	7:11
1-02		Silver Spoon	4:16
1-03		Black Pepper	0:55
1-04		The End Starts Today 5:05
1-05		Protection	4:36
1-06		Two Million	6:36
1-07		Chicago	5:56
1-08		Metal Box	0:58
1-09		We're Complicated	5:11
1-10		Robotic 4:27
1-11		A Portrait From Space	4:32
1-12		Don't Let The Rain Come Down	3:55
1-13		Make It Through	3:52
1-14		Sound Of Sleet	5:33
1-15		Brainclouds	3:42
1-16		Heartless Particles	3:59
1-17		Return To Central	6:44

2-01		Robotic (Just Last Week) (Syndrum Mix) 4:21
2-02		Love Will Tear Us Apart 4:22
2-03		Hurt 6:40
2-04		Shack Up 5:12
2-05		Looking From A Hilltop 6:01
2-06		The European (7" Version)	3:48
2-07		Mamelodi Sundown	5:16
2-08		Situation	6:26
2-09		Love 2 Love U	6:42
2-10		The End Starts Today (Tommie Sunshine's 'Nail Me Down' Glasgow Summer
Freestyle Mix) 6:27
2-11		Telephone Operator 4:26
2-12		Cubis (I Love You) (12" Version)	5:56
2-13		Protection (Ectomorph Chromium Version) 5:49
2-14		Robotic (Adult. Almost Instrumental Mix) 4:57

Deluxe 2 x CD edition featuring rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks and
remixes.

By the time bis recorded their third album, 2001's Return to Central, they had
traveled a long way from the ramshackle, over-excitable trio they started out as
only a few years previous. They trade all their noisy shouting and amped-up
rhythms for a much more refined, almost sophisticated approach that follows
further down the electropop path blazed by their previous album's high point,
"Eurodisco." Manda Rin sets aside her yelpy exhortations in favor of silky
crooning, the boys in the band (John Disco and Sci-Fi Steven) craft song after
song that come off like ABC run through Sigue Sigue Sputnik with a stop at the
Pet Shop Boys for polishing, and there's enough dancefloor-friendly fun to make
up for the occasional stumble. Getting those out of the way first, when bis try
to get moody and dark on "We're Complicated," they sound just a bit detached and
over-produced, though the similarly serious "The End Starts Today" fares a
little better thanks to a more compelling melody and a riveting vocal
performance from Manda. The rest of the album is a delight, however, ranging
from blippy space disco ("What You're Afraid Of") to spacy Bond ballads ("A
Portrait from Space"), but hitting the hardest when sticking to uptempo,
propulsive dance-rock with synths. Tracks like the so bright you need shades
"Protection," the absolutely strutting "Silver Spoon," and the Manda Rin as a
Debbie Harry-esque killer android "Robotic" deliver all the fun of their earlier
raucous punk singles, but with far less screaming and way more sex appeal. It
took the trio a few tries, but with Return to Central they found their ideal
sound and wrote their most immediate, most effectively played and sung, and
overall best-sounding batch of songs to date. 

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