Faith No More displayed an even more experimental effort on its next album, Angel Dust , released in June 1992. One critic wrote that the album is “one of the more complex and simply confounding records ever released by a major label” and another that the single “‘A Small Victory’,…
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In the meantime, however, in 1991, the ” My Legendary Girlfriend ” 12-inch became NME ‘ s single of the week. Stuart Maconie described it in his review as “a throbbing ferment of nightclub soul and teen opera”. Another 1991 single, ” Countdown ,” began to be mentioned in the…
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Scream in Blue (Live) , their June 1992 live album produced by Keith Walker, contained material from concerts between 1982 and 1990, including “Progress” from their Exxon Valdez protest gig. It peaked at No. 3 on the ARIA albums charts; Top 50 in Austria, Sweden and Switzerland; and appeared on…
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On May 21, Luna Sea released their first major label studio album, Image , on MCA Victor .
and on May 20 performed their last indie concert, the third kurofuku gentei gig at Machida Play House.
It was followed by the band’s debut tour Image or Real in May,
In May 1992 Soda embarked on a tour of Spain with shows in Madrid , Oviedo , Sevilla , Valencia , and Barcelona . The lackluster results of the Spanish tour, compared to the fervor they were accustomed to in Latin America, left a sour taste in their mouths. Nevertheless,…
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upon returning that May, the band immediately began work on new music.
Samu Haber established Sunrise together with Finnish singer-songwriter Jan Hohenthal in April 1992 in Espoo , Finland. They performed at a variety of pubs, small festivals and private parties until 1998, when Haber moved to Spain. The other band members at that time were Sami Heinänen (bass) and Antti Tuomela…
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after a UK tour supporting Curve , they released their first single, a re-recording of “Sunshine Smile”, in April of that year.