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The Anvil | 
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| Artist: Visage
Label: Cherry Pop
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $9.98
You Save: $9.00 (47%)
New (23) Used (5) from $9.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 106899
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5013929420625
ASIN: B0013V2UKS
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
| • | Damned Don't Cry | | • | Anvil (Night Club School) | | • | Move Up | | • | Night Train | | • | Horseman | | • | Look What They've Done | | • | Again We Love | | • | Wild Life | | • | Whispers | | • | We Move [Dance Mix][*] | | • | Frequency 7 [Dance Mix][*] | | • | Damned Don't Cry [Dance Mix][*] | | • | Motivation [*] | | • | I'm Still Searching [*] | | • | Mind of a Toy [Dance Mix][*] |
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Album Description
The long overdue reissue of this classic 1982 album 'The Anvil', by the pioneers of the New Romantic movement, Visage. The album reached No.6 in the UK album charts.This CD reissue features 6 bonus tracks not included on the original 9 track release. These include dance mixes of the hit singles 'Mind Of A Toy' and 'The Damned Don't Cry' and the rare b-sides 'Motivation' and 'I'm Still Searching'. The CD booklet features sleeve notes, discography and all the single sleeves taken from the original album. As the leading lights of the New Romantic movement, Visage's legacy is lasting. The band's reputation for producing quality electronic pop lives on.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 Black Leather July 9, 2008
Darkness at its finest, still fresh after all these years. I have the antique original tape! 1982: Imagine listening to "The Damned Don't Cry" or "Wild Life," flying through the night in a very fast car under a full moon in Yellowstone, on a winding road disappearing over the horizon. Takes me right back to sweet mountain air surging through my veins, hair pulled in streamers by the wind, the mystery in the vast space under the stars. The hot springs wait, mists rising. In the blue light, hidden, historic gravestones of drifters are lost to time and memory, the sharp scent of sage blows down the valley. Death and life dance in the balance. "Sisters of Mercy" is about the only other group to get this sharp beauty. (Sadly, the added dance remixes are no good.) This is a classic, vintage, yet new, due to pure creative genius.
An upgraded reissue from the One Way Records reissue from 1997 May 18, 2008
Although Amazon as of the time of this writing has an incorrect track listing, be assured that the Cherry Pop reissue of this CD includes 15 tracks, the original 9 track LP plus the bonus tracks:
10. we move (dance mix)
11. frequency 7(dance mix)
12. the damned don't cry (dance mix)
13. motivation (b-side)
14. i'm still searching (b-side)
15. mind of a toy (dance mix)
So glad I can finally get a bunch of these 12" versions and b-sides on CD and get rid of my old vinyl. The only noticeable omission is the dance mix of the title track, "The Anvil"!
Perhaps Cherry Pop will reissue The first album "Visage" and again add bonus tracks to beef up the One Way Records release, which only had the dance mix of Fade to Grey as a bonus track. But what REALLY needs to be reissued with bonus dance mixes is the band's final LP, Beat Boy, which has never been on CD, and is basically the most sought after LP of the three, despite having been the least popular.
visage at its finest April 14, 2008
I would say that this is the ultimately best Visage album. I am so happy to see it has been reissued. The first time I looked on this site for this album it was 400.00! I was really getting close to buying it(that's how bad I wanted it). Well I am sure glad I waited, because now it's price has dropped dramatically! I am so excited! I love the new romantic music(even though Steve Strange doesn't think his music was that genre). It has that sound I adore, the synths, the riff of the guitars(this is the best of the best electronic music even to this day). I wish I were to have grown up when this band and many other synthpop bands were playing at clubs then(I was only a baby), I would have loved to see them perform live; but I am glad I can still be able to purchase their music, I just wish that you guys were selling more of their records. Anyway, I can't complain I am glad this cd is cheaper now because I love "The Horseman" one of my favorites on this disc along "What Have They Done" ,"Move Up" and "Wild Life", very well worth it for these songs alone. The other songs you can find on other Visage cds. So thankyou for my Visage! Love 'em!!! I have one more thing to say... if you're a fan get this it's a rare item!
Jenash
Nightclubbing March 26, 2008
This album begins with the anthemic "The Damned Don't Cry" (which by the way was the title of a Joan Crawford film noir flick, just one gay reference that this album conjures up). This is definitely late night gay prowling music if I ever heard it. "The Anvil" indeed was a hardcore gay club in New York. I especially like "Again We Love" and the closing "Whispers", a really lovely instrumental with, you guessed it, whispers in the mix. Visage - The Anvil is an unabashedly glamorous trip through the underground gay subculture as well as being an atmospheric early '80s snapshot of synthpop at its peak. In other words, this is perfect club music.
 Maybe I'll buy a safe deposit box. October 11, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Huh. Am I glad I worked in a music store in 1997 and bought this CD. And it was so easy to get then, we stocked it at the time. In 1983 I recall only liking Side A. Years later it's still far better than Side B, but the rest of the cuts have grown respectable with distance, possibly due to nostalgia for the synthesized music of that era. This CD edition towers super-hard over the original LP simply for including "We Move (Dance Mix)" (Right On...) and "Frequency 7 (Dance Mix)", the latter being a particularly amazing analog-synth instrumental freak-fest. I always imagine Midge Ure ditching decorum for these five minutes to help invent the future of electronic music.
I love "Frequency 7". And "The Damned Don't Cry".
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