This is an elaborate treat that snuck past a lot of critics and potential audience when it was released back in 1995. The packaging for the CD came with some serious multimedia perks; certainly ahead of its time. The built-in CD-ROM features allow the listener/viewer the option of going through the whole disc with its own CD player software, occasionally alerting the viewer to videos where applicable. There are three altogether, but always available are some basic television images flashing on the computer...   [ read more ]

CD $17.08

Matador Europe-only single from 'The New Romance' features "This Is Our Emergency" from the upcoming Matador album, plus "Speakers Push The Air," "All Medicated Geniuses," and "Blue Lights," which was recorded for XM 104.9 radio in London last December. (The original version of the second song is on the Lookout album 'Good Health,' while studio versions of the third and fourth songs are on the 'The New Romance.')

CDep $9.99

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Unfortunately, you will never see the Promise Ring the way they were in the days of Thirty Degrees Everywhere, but you can at least appreciate the good parts of what they have become. Their emotionally tense and sentimental edge has pretty much entirely disappeared; everything is happy, bouncy, and catchy as hell, which isn't always a bad thing. This excessively poppy direction that the Promise Ring boys take throughout this entire record was heavily hinted at on their three-song EP {^Boys & Girls...   [ read more ]

CD $13.28