Shriekback - Oil And Gold Album

Performer: Shriekback
Title: Oil And Gold
Country: UK & Europe
Catalog Number: 207 206
Label: Arista
Released: 1985
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop
Rating: 4.5
Votes: 130

Shriekback Europe Arista New Wave Synth Pop 1985

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Tracklist

1	Fish Below The Ice	4:20
2	Only Thing That Shines	4:00
3	Health And Knowledge And Wealth And Power	4:42
4	Nemesis	3:40
5	Everything That Rises Must Converge	3:49
6	Hammerheads	4:13
7	This Big Hush	6:00
8	Faded Flowers	3:53
9	Coelocanth	4:08
10	Malaria	4:25

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
03.207206.45	Shriekback	Oil And Gold ‎(LP, Album)	Dacapo, Arista	03.207206.45	Portugal	1985
7 90276-1, 90276-1	Shriekback	Oil And Gold ‎(LP, Album, AR)	Island Records, Island Records	7 90276-1, 90276-1	US	1985
7 90276-1, 90276-1	Shriekback	Oil And Gold ‎(LP, Album, SP)	Island Records, Island Records	7 90276-1, 90276-1	US	1985
VG 60028	Shriekback	Oil And Gold ‎(LP, Album)	Arista	VG 60028	Greece	1985
CID-90276	Shriekback	Oil And Gold ‎(CD, Album)	Arista, Island Entertainment Group, Inc.	CID-90276	Canada	1985

Credits

Artwork [Tactical Art] – Al McDowell, Da Gama, John Warwicker-Le Breton
Engineer [Engineering] – Austin Ince, Gavin MacKillop, Hans Zimmer, Ian Caple, Simaen Skolfield
Management – Great Ltd., John Owen Williams, Paul Smith
Management [[Logistics] – Jolyon Burnham
Mastered By [Cutting] – Kevin Metcalfe
Mixed By – Gavin MacKillop
Photography By – Nick Knight
Photography By [Deep Fish Photography] – Peter David, Planet Earth Pictures
Producer – Barry Andrews
Written-By [All Songs Written By] – Andrews, Marsh, Allen, Barker

Notes

Released with an inner sleeve containing the lyrics and printed in an experimental font.

Studios: Gaslight-Incubation, Rockfield-Rhythm Spawning
Lillie Yard, Snakeranch, Music Works-Overdubbage
Workhouse, Trident 2, Livingstone and Maison Rouge-Mixing.

Published by Point Music Ltd. 1985.

℗ 1985 Arista Records Ltd.
© 1985 Arista Records Ltd.
Distributed by the Ariola Group of Companies
Distributed in the U.K. by Polygram Record Operations Ltd.

Printed in Western Germany by TOPAC,
Gesellschaft für Tonträger-Verpackung mbH, Gütersloh
Imprimé en République Fédérale d'Allemagne

Barcodes

Barcode (Text): 4 007192 072064
Barcode (Scanned): 4007192072064
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, stamped): 207206 A-1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, stamped): 207206 B-1
Matrix / Runout (Runout side A, etched): THE GUN IS KING TOWNHOUSE 020
Matrix / Runout (Runout side B, etched): HAND BUILT BY DALEKS [Dalek symbol] TOWNHOUSE 020
Label Code: LC 3484
Rights Society: GEMA STEMRA BIEM
Price Code (Germany): -320
Price Code (France): AE 280
Other (Inner sleeve Category): 207 206-8
Pressing Plant ID (Label side B, embossed): [Bass clef]

Companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Arista Records Ltd.
Copyright (c) – Arista Records Ltd.
Published By – Point Music Ltd.
Recorded At – Gaslight
Recorded At – Rockfield Studios
Overdubbed At – Lillie Yard Studio
Overdubbed At – Snakeranch Studios
Overdubbed At – Music Works
Mixed At – The Workhouse Studios
Mixed At – Trident 2
Mixed At – Livingston Studios
Mixed At – Maison Rouge
Mastered At – The Town House
Printed By – TOPAC
Pressed By – Sonopress
Distributed By – Ariola Group Of Companies
Distributed By – Polygram Record Operations Ltd.

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Reviews (6)

Glei

One of THE best albums of the 80s. Dark, yet poppy, and there's not a throwaway track on the whole album. Definitely the album of theirs to try first.

Early Waffle

any chance of there being a 12' release of The Big Hush....

interactive man

GREAT album with some simple PERFECT music: This big hush, Faded flowers, Hammerheads, Coelocanth are immediate blasts. Atmospheric, melodic, very associative pop. Simply PERFECT!!! Try get it, highly recommended!!!

Voodoolkree

Beware of the Cherry Red reissue of this masterpiece. This CD screamed out for years to be remastered and enhance the too-low volume and flat dynamics of the original CD version. Leave it to Cherry Red to screw up another reissue and not remaster the tapes! They did "remaster" the bonus disc for some reason, but didn't bother with the main album. Can't understand this one at all.

Eyalanev

There's no way the first disk from the Cherry Red release was not altered in some way. Listening to Malaria and This Big Hush from both the 85 release and the 2011 back-to-back and it's very evident that the 2011 release has been "touched". The hiss from the original is gone, the sound is less "cramped" and the stereo effect is more pronounced. The 85 original is louder and the bass and drums more pronounced. The same theme runs through the entire disk. Over-all, it's better sound, but I wish they had kept the drums turned up a bit.

Taulkree

About remastering: There's almost no ways such as enhancing the original flat dynamics once after the presenting master tape provides something flat dynamics. Any and every later dynamics manipulation distorts the originality and the soundquality as well. So it is with the equalisation. There's NO better soundquality recording as the original one even if it's boosted, enhanced, dynamycs-expanded or whatever. All the remastering process has a serious soundquality-distortion impact on the questioning material. NO exception. That's simply why I haven't heard any better remasters compared to the "original" issues by now. Avoid remasters! It's simply a lie based upon a gigantic hype of tech-faliures and missleads. I'm an audiophile engineer and sound engineer and so.... So I know what it's all about.