Decade: ten Years Of Fierce Panda (2004)

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Product Summary UPC: 00677516300223 Release Date: 4/6/2004 Buy.com Sku: 60625637 Item#: MMUMF5 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Arienette - Bright Eyes ~ Various Artists 2. No. 11 - The Bluetones ~ Various Artists 3. Bruise Pristine - Placebo ~ Various Artists 4. All You Good Good People - Embrace ~ Various Artists 5. Diamonds Are Forever - Lo-Fidelity Allstars ~ Various Artists 6. Porchlight - Seafood ~ Various Artists 7. Brothers And Sisters - Coldplay ~ Various Artists 8. Cerebra - Hundred Reasons ~ Various Artists 9. Rain - The Clientele ~ Various Artists 10. Hundredweight - Easyworld ~ Various Artists 11. Take The Long Road - The Music ~ Various Artists 12. Thwipside - Kaito ~ Various Artists 13. Soldier Girl - The Polyphonic Spree ~ Various Artists 14. My Body Is A Nightclub - (X, Y) ~ Various Artists 15. Bochum (Light Up My Life) - Six By Seven ~ Various Artists 16. Bling Bling Bling - This Girl ~ Various Artists 17. Tiny Vessels - Death Cab For Cutie ~ Various Artists 18. This Is The Last Time - Keane ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Decade: Ten Years of Fierce Panda celebrates the tenth birthday of one of the U.K.'s best independent labels. Like many ten year olds, Fierce Panda is gleefully all over the place, spanning the breezy Britpop of the Bluetones' "No. 11" (which, in retrospect, sounds like a major influence on the Decemberists' brand of bouncy chimbley-sweep pop) to the high melodrama of Bright Eyes' "Arienette" in its first two tracks alone. People who followed the British indie scene in the mid-'90s will be taken back to that era by singles like Placebo's "Bruise Pristine" and even more so by Embrace's "All You Good Good People." Likewise, the early Coldplay single "Brothers & Sisters" is a welcome reminder that the band wasn't always a huge hitmaking phenomenon; while all the elements that made them so big a few years later are all in place, it's sort of nice to hear the band operating on a smaller scale. However, when Fierce Panda gets too far away from its indie roots, it falters a bit; Lo Fidelity Allstars' "Diamonds Are Forever" and Hundred Reasons' "Cerebra" aren't the strongest moments in either the label's catalog or the bands' repertoires. Songs like the Clientele's "Rain" and the Polyphonic Spree's "Soldier Girl" represent what Fierce Panda does best: creative, quirky indie rock and pop, whether it's bright and angular like Kaito's "Thwipside" or soft and vulnerable like Death Cab for Cutie's "Tiny Vessels." Meanwhile, tracks such as Keane's "This Is the Last Time" -- which solidifies the band's growing reputation as Coldplay Mark Two -- prove that the label's ear for potentially big British bands is still sharp. Like any good label retrospective, Decade: Ten Years of Fierce Panda has just the right balance of looking back fondly, enjoying the present, and anticipating the future. ~ Heather Phares   Technical Info Release Date : 04/06/2004 Original Release Date : 2004 Catalog ID : 63002 Label : Fierce Panda (UK) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00677516300223    Related Videos In Search of Solid Ground... Draw The Line: David Gray