Paradise Discotheque

by Crime & the City Solution

Paradise Discotheque cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 September 1990
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 38:35
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Led by Simon Bonney, the Australian group's final studio album of their original run is a dramatic, cinematic exploration of punk blues and art rock. Concluding with an ambitious four-part suite, the record perfectly encapsulates their dark, Berlin-era gothic romanticism.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, menacing, theatrical, bleak, funereal

Tracklist

  1. I Have the Gun (3:34)
  2. The Sly Persuaders (4:10)
  3. The Dolphins and the Sharks (4:43)
  4. The Sun Before the Darkness (5:15)
  5. Motherless Child (3:49)
  6. The Last Dictator 1 (4:40)
  7. The Last Dictator 2 (5:01)
  8. The Last Dictator 3 (4:33)
  9. The Last Dictator 4 (2:48)

Credits

  • Crime & the City Solution - primary artist, arranged by, composed by
  • Bronwyn Adams - lyrics by, performer [crime and the city solution are]
  • Simon Bonney - lyrics by, performer [crime and the city solution are]
  • Alexander Hacke - performer [crime and the city solution are], sleeve
  • Chrislo Haas - performer [crime and the city solution are]
  • Mick Harvey - performer [crime and the city solution are]

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