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Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam 1981
By Bill Nelson
rock, electronic · 93 min · 27 tracks · Mercury Records
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Spare, character-led, grave and cool.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- cool
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Tracks
- A1Banal3:51
- A2Living in My Limousine4:08
- A3Vertical Games3:14
- A4Disposable5:52
- A5False Alarms2:50
- A6Decline and Fall4:41
- B1Life Runs Out Like Sand5:21
- B2A Kind of Loving4:14
- B3Do You Dream in Colour?3:45
- B4U.H.F.4:40
- B5Youth of Nation on Fire4:03
- B6Quit Dreaming and Get on the Beam3:39
- C1Annunciation2:10
- C2The Ritual Echo1:32
- C3Sleep3:26
- C4Near East2:18
- C5Emak Bakia3:29
- C6My Intricate Image3:24
- C7Endless Orchids3:22
- C8The Heat in the Room1:04
- D1Another Willingly Opened Window3:49
- D2Vanishing Parades3:27
- D3Glass Fish (For the Final Aquarium)2:58
- D4Cubical Domes2:38
- D5Ashes of Roses3:07
- D6The Shadow Garden4:10
- D7Opium1:47
27 tracks, 93 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Mercury Records
- Released
- 1981
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- GB
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