In 2001, Depeche Mode released Exciter , produced by Mark Bell (of techno group LFO ). Bell introduced a minimalist, digital sound to much of the album, influenced by IDM and glitch . ” Dream On “, ” I Feel Loved “, ” Freelove ” and ” Goodnight Lovers ”…
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At the 2001 APRA Awards ceremony “Beds are Burning” was shown on video and introduced by Australian Democrats Senator Aden Ridgeway as an Indigenous spokesperson on Reconciliation.
One of the album’s songs, ” Six Months in a Leaky Boat “, was listed as the fifth-best New Zealand song of all time in the 2001 Australasian Performing Right Association, but the song became controversial in the UK because it was perceived as a criticism of the Falklands War…
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In 2001, when Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) surveyed 100 music industry people for their Top 10 Best Australian songs of all time, “Beds Are Burning” was voted No. 3 behind The Easybeats ‘ ” Friday on My Mind ” and Daddy Cool ‘s ” Eagle Rock “.
A-ha made a return appearance at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in 2001, performing a new song, “Differences”, as well as ” Hunting High and Low “.
In December 2000, INXS performed a concert with singers Suze DeMarchi and Jon Stevens sharing the spotlight.
Following their musical pursuits in the 1990s, U2 sought to simplify their sound; the Edge said that with Pop , the group had “taken the deconstruction of the rock ‘n’ roll band format to its absolute ‘nth degree”. For their tenth album, All That You Can’t Leave Behind , the…
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The first decade of the 21st century saw a sustained period of activity from Alice Cooper, the decade in which he turned 60. He toured extensively releasing a steady stream of studio albums to favorable critical acclaim. Beginning in 2000 with Brutal Planet , a return to horror-filled heavy metal,…
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2000 also saw the Furries contribute two tracks, Free Now and Peter Blake 2000, for the Liverpool Sound Collage project, which was nominated for a Grammy . They undertook this remixing of unreleased Beatles recordings at the invitation of Paul McCartney , whom they had met at the NME Awards…
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live album The Real Thing in 2000