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TRACKNAME TIME ▒▓ ██ ▓█ ██ 01 | Drink To Moving On [03:21] ██ ██ 02 | Talk Amongst Yourselves [04:28] ██ ██ 03 | Playing In The Distance [04:03] ██ ██ 04 | Boner [04:22] ██ ██ 05 | Peanut Dreams [03:18] ██ ██ 06 | Cherry Tree [03:15] ██ ██ 07 | Coming Around [04:23] ██ ██ 08 | Daylight Goes [04:04] ██ ██ 09 | North Sound Off [03:54] ██ ██ 10 | Litter Bin [03:57] ██ ██ ██ ██ ------- ██ ██ 39:05 min ██ ██ ██ ██ ┌─┬─┬┐┌─┬─┬─┬─┐ ┌─┬─┬┐┌─┬─┐ ██ ██ │││││├┤││││└┤││ │││││└┤││└┤ ▄█ ▄██ ██ │ ┤┌┤││┌┤ ├┐│┌┤ │││││┌┤┌┤┐│ ■█████████████████████████████████████████ ██ └┴┴─┴─┴─┴┴┴─┴─┘ └┴┴─┴─┴─┴─┘ ▀█ ▀██ ██ ██ ██ ██ ██ AMG Review : ██ ██ Most of the bands taking part in the big post-punk ██ ██ revival of the mid-2000s come at the music from the ██ ██ indie-guitar side of things, even groups like Franz ██ ██ Ferdinand, whose inspirations were as likely to be ██ ██ wielding synths as Stratocasters. The debut album by ██ ██ London-based duo Grand National takes exactly the ██ ██ opposite tack: although the uniformly sweet pop songs on ██ ██ Kicking The National Habit sound influenced by the likes ██ ██ of The Police (Rupert Lyddon and Lawrence Rudd claim that ██ ██ they first worked together in a Sting tribute band), Men ██ ██ At Work, Duran Duran, and the rest of the more commercial ██ ██ side of the early MTV era, the arrangements are more ██ ██ electronic in nature. Songs like "Peanut Dreams", with ██ ██ its prominent, looping bass riff and hypnotic synth ██ ██ lines, echo the dancefloor experiments of New Order and ██ ██ the rest of the Factory Records stable circa 1985, but ██ ██ the catchy melodies and sweetly intoned choirboy ██ ██ harmonies sound more like Wham! or Go West. Grand ██ ██ National manages to balance what might seem like two very ██ ██ different musical styles, combining them in new and ██ ██ interesting ways on songs like "Talk Amongst Yourselves" ██ ██ and "Drink To Moving On". ██ █▓ ▓█ ▓▒ URL........: http://www.grand-national.net/ ▓█ ░░ ▓█ ░ ┌─┬─┬─┬┬┬─┐ ┌─┬─┬┬┬─┐ ▓█ █▄ │┌│││││││││ │││││││└┤ ▓█ ▄██████████████████████████████████████████████■ │├┤ ┤││││┌┘ │││┌┤ ├┐│ ▓█ ██▀ █▀ └─┴┴┴─┴─┴┘ └┴┴─┴┴┴─┘ ▓█ ██ ▒█ █▓ ▒█ █▓ Da-DudeZ are a bunch of friends who enjoy good music. ▒█ █▓ Since August 2004, our goal is to bring you the music ▒█ █▓ we like, mostly rock/metal/goth/alt/indie/punk. ▒█ █▓ ▒█ █▒ We are not focused on quantity nor speed, but we're ▒█ █▒ working hard on producing high quality releases. ▒█ █▒ All our releases are ripped using EAC (Secure mode), ░█ █▒ compressed with LAME (-V 0 --vbr-new), formatted with ░█ █▒ lotsa attention (tags, releases infos, ...) and checked ░█ █░ very carefully. ░█ █░ ░█ █░ We're currently looking for affils 10/100mbit EU. ░█ █░ Don't hesitate to contact us. You know where to find us! ▒█ █░ ▒█ █▒ GREETZ......: To all the 'just for fun' ripping groups ▓█ █▒ out there. ▓█ █▒ ▓█ █▓ ██ █▓ ██ ██▄ :[ ASCii by The L3b0wsk1z ]: ▄██ ████▄▄ ▄▄████ ▀███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▀ ████████████████████▄ ███████████████████▄▄ █████████████████████████ ███████████████████████▄ ███████████████████████▄ █████████████████████████ █████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███████ █████▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀███████ ██████ ███████ █████ ▀█████ █████ ▀█████ ████████ █████ ▄█████ █████ ▄█████ █████████ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░