Post Description

Artist : Bronski Beat
Title : The Age of Consent
Upmix Method : 225WADMIRA
Year : 1984
Type : DTS CD
Compression : 1411kb/s
File Type : Cue/WAV , burn with IMGBurn or Nero by rightclicking on the Cue file.


TRACKS

 1."Why?" - 4:04
 2."It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/Dorothy Heyward) - 4:43
 3."Screaming" - 4:15
 4."No More War" - 3:55
 5."Love and Money" - 5:07
 6."Smalltown Boy" - 5:02
 7."Heatwave" - 2:40
 8."Junk" - 4:17
 9."Need-a-Man Blues" - 4:20
 10."I Feel Love"/"Johnny Remember Me" (Pete Bellotte/Giorgio Moroder/Donna Summer/Geoff Goddard) - 5:59
 11."Smalltown Boy" (Full 12" version) - 9:04
 12.Why?" (Full 12" version) - 7:46


EXTRA INFO :

DTS CD's are only playable on installation that support
the DTS format. When you play them on a stereo setup,
you will only hear white noise, which can damage your
ears and speakers ! On the PC they are playable with all
regular players (Foobar, VLC, Media Player Classic), but
of course your PC needs to be connected to 6 speakers ;-)

A lot of listeners to 5.1 surround are sceptical about 
upmixes from stereo. In their opinion only studio made 5.1
is good. I hope they will think again after listening to
my upmixes. Of course I cannot make discrete channels like
they can in a studio where they record every instrument on
separate tracks, but the sound is excellent, there is a lot
of separation in the 6 different channels and the soundfield
is immersive. And FWIW 90% of the retail surround titles are
upmixes, mostly with only some reverb in the rears."

This album came very good out of the conversion with a lot going on between
front and rears and a lot of nice effects.

REVIEW ALLMUSIC

Review

by John Dougan

To say The Age of Consent is a great album of dance-oriented synth-pop music is to sell it extremely short; this is simply a great album, period. Jimmy Somerville's soaring tenor may take some getting used to, but the songs, many of them dealing with homophobia and alienation (none more eloquently than "Smalltown Boy"), are compelling vignettes about the vagaries of life as a gay man. Cynics predisposed to dismissing entire genres of music based on trendiness or a limited appeal ("dance music is for dancing, not listening") miss the point in lumping this in with more mindless forays into techno or neo-disco. As the Pet Shop Boys (the world's greatest disco band) proved a few years later, you can have substantive content and wrap it up in a compelling, visceral, dance-oriented package. Few bands understood this better, or earlier, than Bronski Beat. 


Enjoy this EoH Production !
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