M - History: Pop Muzik 25th Anniversary
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Album Details: History: Pop Muzik 25th Anniversary
- Release Date:
- 05/25/2004
- Label:
- Metro Music
- UPC:
- 698458112828
Pro Reviews: History: Pop Muzik 25th Anniversary
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Multiinstrumentalist and studio wizard Robin Scott is M and if all you know of his work is the synthpop, new wave hit "Pop Muzik", History: Pop Muzik The 25th Anniversary will be quite the surprise. There's guitar, worldbeat, moments much more serene than "Pop Muzik" hinted at, and believe it or not, swear words The five tracks from M's debut, New YorkLondonParisMunich, give you your fill of "Pop Muzik"'s robotic boogiewoogie, but after that Scott became less fun and more paranoid with something to say. His observations are often too simple (big business = scary, intolerance = bad) but it's all from the overly stylish '80s which somehow makes it more forgivable and the musical backing is always interesting, elaborate, and well structured. As sour and cold as Scott's midperiod became the collection does a good job of picking the highlights. Pulling the great "Join the Party" off Official Secrets Act and selecting a totally different batch of songs from Famous Last Words makes this a better selection for Scott aficionados than 1996's Pop Muzik: The Very Best of M, but it sacrifices some of the great pop from the debut. Towards the end of the disc you get a taste of Scott's quirky and breezy work with the female Zulu tribe Shikisha, including the excellent "Spiritualman" which the 1996 collection passed on. Liner notes from Scott himself are nice to have but the lack of trackbytrack info makes it hard to figure out what comes from what album. CDs can only hold so much and enigmatic artists make compiling hard. History: Pop Muzik had to sacrifice some of the gloss but two excellent compilations with very different tracklists show there's enough substance to Scott to warrant buying this wellchosen overview along M's poptacular debut. - David Jeffries, All Music Guide |
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Known to the world as the new wave one-hit wonder M, Robin Scott scored one of the first commercially successful electro-pop/dance singles with 1979's international number one smash "Pop Muzik." Scott attended Croydon Art College in the late '60s, wh...Full M Biography
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