A Weekend in the City
Product ID: 38990304
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Product Description The follow-up to their smash debut, "Silent Alarm", is every bit as bright, powerful, and catchy, with the addition of more muscle, attitude, depth, and a bit of polish courtesy of their producer, Jacknife Lee (U2, Snow Patrol). Inspired by lead singer Kele Okereke's interest in what he calls "the living noise of a metropolis", this record captures every detail of daily life in a modern city from the ebullient to the mundane. From the quiet desolation of commuting to casual sex, from going out on a Friday night to the long ride home early in the morning, these are songs desperate to understand the meaning that pulses under the moments of our every day. desertcart.com Bloc Party may have arrived in an outbreak of like-minded British bands set upon shooting holes in the Union Jack while knocking out a sharp post-punk soundtrack, but it didn't take long for the foursome to set itself apart from the pack. Fronted by Nigerian-born singer Kele Okereke, the group's 2005 debut, Silent Alarm , soared as much on crystal ambition as it did on ridiculously danceable pop melodies. This follow-up is darker, more cluttered, and harder to digest. That doesn't make it less striking. Exploring themes of racism, terrorism, sexuality, addiction, and death--the usual fodder for a cosmopolitan three-day bender-- Weekend in the City is an album that plays to Bloc Party's strengths: tempo-shifting rhythms, inventive art-rock arrangements, and lyrics that twist and turn on a whim. "The Prayer" and "Uniform" are particular standouts, capturing moments when Okereke lets self-importance fade and majestic beats take charge. --Aidin Vaziri
| Asin | B000M06K5C |
| Date First Available | February 7, 2007 |
| Label | Wichita |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Wichita |
| Number Of Discs | 1 |
| Original Release Date | 2015 |
| Product Dimensions | 5.94 x 0.94 x 0.31 inches; 3.25 ounces |
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Great Album
Amazing album, got this copy to frame for my room. If you haven't heard it, give it a listen. These guys are my favorite band, and this album in particular is fantastic. The melodies and rhythms are good, Kele has a beautiful voice (and Gordy does great back-ups), and everything has a feeling of being complete. If you like to read into song meanings then listen to the lyrics, because almost every song has some kind of story behind it and it's not always obvious.
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Took me a while
It took me a while to really start to like this album, but after about ten listens, I decided it was probably excellent, and I have now decided it is excellent. I liked Silent Alarm from the first time I heard it. Weekend in the City is not like that and you shouldn't expect it to grab you like Silent Alarm probably did. If you have never listened to Bloc Party then you should buy Silent Alarm. If you have listened to Bloc Party and are willing to put a little effort into your music listening then you should try this album out.
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One of Many versions of this album
Bloc Party is one of those prolific bands that is constantly writing material. Between albums they write a new song - they release it as a new single. When they go in to write for an album, they write enough material for two albums and then release a constant stream of singles and EPs with unreleased b-sides. As a fan I love this, because they always have something new or something I haven't heard yet.This is the Japanese (Import) version of their latest full length 'A Weekend In The City'. The cool thing about this version is that it has two Bonus tracks: "We Were Lovers" and "England". Both songs are great and are as good as any of the songs that build up the "core" of this album. "We Were Lovers" starts as a pretty and intricate song that breaks out into a driving rocker about half way through. This follows the pattern of many of the songs on this album - they build to a release. I think this works well. "England" is a more moderate tempoed song that stays mostly constant and has a good catchy riff.The "core" group of songs that make up this album are the same no matter where it was released. It is a very cohesive album of songs that all fit well together. There are some solid stand out tracks - 'Uniform', 'Song for Clay'; and some great singles - 'Hunting for Witches', 'I Still Remember'.*I just wanted to make sure to point out that the Bonus Tracks here are different than the ones that came on the Best Buy and the Target Exclusive versions of this album. The Target version contains the Bonus Tracks 'The Once And Future King' and 'Secrets'. These are also really good songs, especially 'The Once And Future King'. 'Emma Kate's Accident' and 'Version 2.0' are on the Best Buy version. I have bought all three of these versions of this album ( and also a number of the singles) so I could get all these great b-sides. I've found about 12 b-side tracks after searching through all the different versions of this album and its accompanying singles!'A Weekend In The City' is a great sophomore effort from a great (dance-rock?) band. Fans of good music will like this one. Fans of Bloc Party like myself, will enjoy hunting down all the great b-sides. Wikipedia.org has a good breakdown of their discography which will help you find all their hard to find tracks. Also look at some of the international Amazon websites for sinlges and versions that may not be on the U.S. Amazon site. Happy Hunting.
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Bloc Party at their peak
My favorite Bloc Party record and arguably their peak. Less abrasive than ‘Silent Alarm’, while building on the melodic elements of that record, and more of a ‘band’ sound than records that followed. Not to say those aren’t good records, but it’s tough to follow this gem.
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Back to the 2010's...
One of my favorite driving CDs.
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Badass Album
Silent Alarm was a terrific album but Weekend in the City just seems like a mature step forward. They took their sound in a new direction and it is great. Weekend in the City shows that Bloc Party is going to be an amazing band for a long time.
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Just so so (In my opinion)
The album starts off very softly but then the opening song progresses into something you can really get up and move to. It's exhilerating an spectacular."Hunting for Witches", while still an extremely good songs, reminds me a little too much like "Helicopters" from the band's original album "Silent Alarm". The fact that it's also the 2nd track (same position as Helicopters) is slightly jarring. If you own both albums take a listen, you'll be shocked and slightly annoyed. To me, while "Hunting for Witches" does stand as a marked improvement from "Helicopters" the fact that the two songs are soooo similar, is slightly annoying, but I digress."The Prayer" is quite possibly one of the best songs on the album. You can practically feel the artist pleading for the power to be a star and then feel the emotion as he imagines his own future greatness. Really inspiring stuff."Uniform" stands well but tends to go off on awkward tangents at time that one fines a little unnecesary.All the other tracks save for the last one, seem mediocre at best. Just not all that great, but still not necessarily bad either.The very last album, which describes a real drug for antidepression is one of those song that can really get to you. One of the band's former detractors, who name escapes me at the moment, said that this is the song that made him cry into a cushion for about 15 minutes.
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Fabulous, where fabulous is hard to find
It's been forever since I've been excited about a CD. Not having heard their first album, I came to Bloc Party with just the two or three tunes they play on rotation on KCRW. Beautiful, beautiful, mature stuff. Anthems really. Plenty of that deliciously self-important post-punk. Layered guitar and lyrics resplendent with subtext.
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Urbaner moderner Rock zur Lage der Gesellschaft!
Wow was für einen Zweitling haben uns hier Bloc Party beschert??? Erstens gilt festzuhalten, die Jungs haben sich weiter entwickelt und sich nicht wiederholt. Zweitens haben sie mal so eben ein überambitioniertes Album aus dem Ärmel geschüttelt und es ist ihnen super gelungen. Drittens diese Texte, um es kurz zu machen, der Wolf im Schafspelz. Hier geht es um Mord, um Totschlag, Drogen, Depressionen, Heimatlosigkeit, missverstandende Liebe, Terrorismus und um den alltäglichen Rassismus. "A weekend in the city" ist ein Wochenende in jeder grossen Stadt der Welt, gezeichnet wurde dieses Gesellschaftsbild in Eastlondon. Kele Okereke hat die heutige Grosstadtjungend u. höheren Alters beobachtet, den Verfall von Werten und das Zunehmen von Nationalismus (Sein Cousin wurde letztes Jahr erstochen, weil er ein farbiger ist/war). Wie gesagt, Bloc Party hält der heutigen Gesellschaft den Spiegel vors Gesicht und spricht mir dabei unheimlich aus der Seele. Das ganze ist musikalisch perfekt untermalt, Rock, Elektronic, Synthesizer, polternden Drum'n'Bass, so ungefähr als wenn Prodigy und The Cure zusammen ein Album machen würden. Die ersten Durchgänge sind verwirrend, spannend und aufregend, aber nach mehrmaligen durchhören kommen die Hits zum Vorschein und davon gibt es massig. Ich könnte noch stundenlang weiter schwärmen von diesen Rockalbum so gut gefällt mir das Teil. Jeder der auf Nichtmainstreamrock steht wird mich verstehen, hier handelt sich es wirklich um einer der spannendsten, innovatisten Rockalben der letzten Jahre, welches auch nach dem 50. mal hören nicht langweilig wird. Und dann immer wieder diese Texte: "The newscaster says the enemy's among us / As bombs explode on the 30 bus", "the second generation blues"....Ich sage abschliessend es gern noch mal, das hier ist ganz ganz grosse Musik und definitiv ein Meisterwerk, welches am Jahresende die Polls anführen wird. So muss moderne Rockmusik klingen, danke Bloc Party.
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Recomendadisimo
Me encanta este disco pienso que es uno de los mejores albumes del grupo, simplemente calidad y muchas emociones en cada cancion!!
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Muy Bueno
Un vinilo con una presentación bonita y moderna. Muy recomendable para personas amantes del rock y el indie . .
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Beautiful
I absolutely love this album. I love Silent Alarms obviously but I think each album is beautiful in its own way. I think I'll love any album of Bloc Party's no matter what direction they take and the main reason for this being Kele's vocals and the backing music. In this album especially then backing music is soft and delicate. I think the other albums are great and upbeat but I am happy that they produced a more delicate one. I mainly love 'Sunday' from this album, it's great to listen to when songs like 'Helicopter' from Silent Alarms are too upbeat for the sort of day you're having etc. I think if all of their albums were the same they would come repetitive and people need to grow with the band and adjust to the different types of albums they are producing. All of their albums are and always will be brilliant. It doesn't matter if their new albums aren't the same as their old ones because their old albums will always be there for fans to listen to. They are one of my favourite bands. I heard they announced their new album recently, and I will listen to it and expect to hear something new, beautiful and fresh.
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impressionnant
on pouvait être inquiet, BP allait-il réussir à passer la barre du second LP sans chuter ?Résultat : oui et en beauté, un album magnifique, des textes interessants, une production impec. Vraiment un très bel album à écouter très fort.
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