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| | Once Around the World | | | Music Artist : | | It Bites | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | EMI Europe Generic | | Release Date : | | 1988-03-21 | | Store Price : | | $12.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $12.98 | | Usually ships in 1 to 2 days | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Midnight
2. Kiss Like Judas
3. Yellow Christian
4. Rose Marie
5. Black December
6. Old Man and the Angel
7. Plastic Dreamer
8. Once Around the World
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 YOU ONLY WISH YOU HAD THIS MUCH TALENT!!!
Submitted on: 2006-05-15 |
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| I suspect anyone who listens to all of their material (only 3+ studio efforts) won't like every song - but I guarantee THOSE peolple that have done so DO have some of the songs stuck in their heads for surprising long periods! Screaming on... and Underneath your... were 2 of many for me. DO NOT OVERLOOK their 15 min. opus "Once around..." Francis Dunnery is an excellent vocalist and guitarist with fantastic support and collaboration from the others. I COMMAND YOU TO INVESTIGATE THIS MUSIC!!! |
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 Good pop/prog blend
Submitted on: 2005-06-02 |
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| Yes these guys are poppy but they also manage to infuse elements of prog and make their sound unique and interesting. This is a progressive band that should have got more recognition. This is what Genesis should have done in the 80s instead of the "Illegal Alien" garbage. |
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Bad timming
Submitted on: 2002-11-25 |
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In the 80's there wasn't much prog-rock to listen to.You either had to go back to the old Yes or Genesis albums or put up with Marillion.
But then came IT BITES.After a first pop-rock album-the big lad in the windwill-It bites released ONCE AROUND THE WORLD,their masterpiece.Some of the songs are still pop-rock "normal size" songs:Black December,Kiss Like Judas,...but then you've got some estonishing PROG tracks like Old man and the Angel, Once Around...,Haunting the whale,...
The lead singer-guitarist Francis Dunnery must be a Peter Gabriel fan, even if he uses his Gabriel-sound-like voice in a very different and not as obvious way as FISH.He's also a great guitarist, with very distinctive gimmicks and solos.The production of the album is way ahead of its time and miles away from the marillion's firsts albums.
It might seem like I'm comparing IT BITES with MARILLION but it's only really the prog approach and the fact that both bands are from the 80's.It Bites is much more modern and creative than Marillion, also much more ROCK (they will prove it on the next album Eat Me In St Louis and on their LIVE album).
I really believe that if IT BITES would have hold on for a couple more years, they would have been as popular as DREAM THEATER or SPOCK'S BEARD (even if they're not as technical as those two) and that their small success was only a question of bad timming.
IT BITES is really a great PROG BAND and this album should be a classic! |
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A work of pure and unadulterated genius
Submitted on: 1999-05-07 |
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| Few and far between are those of us who 'got it'. This band were so far out of any potential pigeonhole, it was almost as if a new genre had been defined. The trouble with being too clever by three quarters is that you only seel records to people who really like to LISTEN to music. These days Francis Dunnery is giving astrology readings, and writing occasional solo albums at his home in Vermont. From Egremont to Vermont... The other band members recently reformed as Unicorn Jones. Dunnery can be found on the Internet if you search for "Francis Dunnery". |
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Is this the best album of the 80's?
Submitted on: 1998-07-12 |
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| Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.... Okay, I'm a huge fan of this release - it has over the years become a pivotal point in my collection. Anyone familiar with Francis Dunnery's later solo work would find little here to interest them lyrically, but the music strength was always the trump played by this band. What was most unexpected when this album turned up back in 1988 was the depth of musicianship that was merely hinted at on their earlier release "Big Lad In The Windmill": cue the arrival of extended and complex song structures and a healthy dose of instrumental masturbation from all concerned. They were too clever by three-quarters and it shows. Nobody knew what to make of them; too pop for the rock fans, too indulgent (and long) for rock radio to comfortably swallow. The highlight of this release is unquestionably the 14 minute title track - quite how they managed to get the whole thing hanging together at all, never mind as well as this, still baffles me ten years later. Although doomed to extinction with the departure of frontman Dunnery shortly after the release of the subsequent album, It Bites are still fondly remembered by those who saw past the early radio-friendly sheen and this album stands as testimony for what they achieved. If you're gonna dabble with their back catalogue, this is the one to own - a minor classic. |
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