Bryan Ferry - Olympia (Extended Edition) (2010) [FLAC]

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Bryan Ferry - Olympia (Extended Edition) (2010) [FLAC]
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Technical Information
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Artist...............: Bryan Ferry
Album................: Olympia
Year.................: 2010
Genre................: Rock/Pop Rock
Type.................: Studio
Duration.............: 56:37
Number of Songs......: 12
Artwork..............: Included

Audio Format.........: Lossless
Ripper...............: dBpowerAMP 15.1
Encoder..............: FLAC 1.3.0 (Level 5)
Hz...................: 44,100
Channels.............: Stereo
Reader...............: LiteOn iHAS524
Source...............: CD (not my rip)


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General Information (courtesy of Wikipedia)
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Olympia is the thirteenth studio album by the British singer Bryan Ferry, released by Virgin
Records on 25 October 2010. Co-produced by Ferry and Rhett Davies, Olympia is Ferry's first
album of largely original material since 2002's Frantic.

The album features a wide range of contributors, including co-songwriter David A. Stewart of
Eurythmics, Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay of Roxy Music, the electronic group
Groove Armada, David Gilmour, Marcus Miller, Scissor Sisters, Nile Rodgers, Jonny Greenwood
of Radiohead, Steve Nieve, and Flea.

The album features some songs previously recorded by Ferry in collaborations with other artists.
"You Can Dance", a version of which appeared as "U Can Dance" on DJ Hell's 2009 album Teufelswerk,
is the record's first single. A version of "Shameless" previously appeared as a collaboration with
Groove Armada on their album Black Light earlier in 2010. The album also features covers of Tim
Buckley's "Song To The Siren" and Traffic's "No Face, No Name, No Number." The album came out in
three versions: the regular one with 10 songs, the "Extended edition" containing two additional
tracks and the "Collector's edition" with all the 12 tracks, a 40-page booklet and second CD
containing remixes.

In 2011 the single Alphaville was sent to a number of radio stations and appeared on BBC Radio 2's
playlist and 106.9FM WHCR's

The album art features the fashion model Kate Moss and refers to the Édouard Manet 1863 painting
of the same name.

Reviewing for AllMusic, critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote of the album "Such command of mood
is a tell-tale sign of a quiet perfectionist, but Olympia doesn't feel fussy; it's unruffled
and casually elegant, its pleasing familiarity reflecting the persistence of an old master honing
his craft."

And reviewing for Rolling Stone, critic Jon Dolan wrote of the album "Ferry could do a record
with the Star Wars cantina band and it would come out pretty much the same: a bunch of lush,
languorous Euro-glam ballads about love's labour's lost, all of them slathered in a sexy-vampire
croon that makes lines about being "faithfully entwined in a shameless world" seem like some deep
shit."


Tracklist:

01. "You Can Dance" (Bryan Ferry, David A. Stewart) 4:29
02. "Alphaville" (Ferry, Stewart) 4:56
03. "Heartache by Numbers" (Ferry, Scissor Sisters) 4:56
04. "Me Oh My" (Ferry) 4:30
05. "Shameless" (Ferry, Andy Cato, Tom Findlay) 4:36
06. "Song to the Siren" (Tim Buckley, Larry Beckett) 5:56
07. "No Face, No Name, No Number" (Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood) 4:40
08. "BF Bass (Ode to Olympia)" (Ferry, Phil Manzanera) 4:09
09. "Reason or Rhyme" (Ferry) 6:52
10. "Tender Is The Night" (Ferry, Stewart) 4:35
11. "Whatever Gets You thru the Night" (John Lennon) 3:19
12. "One Night" (Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King, Anita Steiman) 4:00

Time: 56:37