Golden Earring – Cut (Remastered & Expanded) (2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

Golden Earring - Cut (Remastered & Expanded) (2023) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz] Download

After spending much of the late ’70s and the early ’80s as a cult band, Golden Earring returned to an international level of popularity in 1982 with the hit single (and popular MTV attraction) “Twilight Zone.” This song and seven others are featured on Cut, a solid album that found Golden Earring starting to deviate from the pop/rock formula they perfect on No Promises…No Debts and Prisoner of the Night. Like those albums, Cut works its way through a series of guitar-based rock songs built on strong hooks. However, the band allows themselves to instrumentally stretch out a bit on some of the songs this time out. The most notable example is the midsection of “Twilight Zone,” where George Kooymans lays out an exploratory series of guitar solos that build to crescendo over the taut bassline provided by Rinus Gerritsen. The other songs on Cut aren’t as tightly crafted and hook-laden as those on the last few albums, but there are still plenty of strong tracks: “Baby Dynamite” is a power ballad about a fame-seeking girl that is built on a nicely harmonized chorus and “Lost and Found” is a strong mid-tempo rumination on the end of a relationship that boasts an impassioned yet subtle vocal performance from Barry Hay. However, the best non-“Twilight Zone” track on the album is the least typical: “The Devil Made Me Do It” is a witty, fast-paced pop-rocker about love gone bad built on an eccentric but effective combination of mock-gospel call and response vocals and an energetic horn section. Some of the tracks fall short of the mark (“Future” runs a decent riff into the ground by failing to develop it in an interesting way), but the album contains enough strong tracks to make it worth a listen for the Golden Earring fan.

Tracklist:

1-01. Golden Earring – The Devil Made Me Do It (Remastered) (03:20)
1-02. Golden Earring – Future (Remastered) (05:21)
1-03. Golden Earring – Baby Dynamite (Remastered) (05:11)
1-04. Golden Earring – Last Of The Mohicans (Remastered) (04:06)
1-05. Golden Earring – Lost And Found (Remastered) (03:56)
1-06. Golden Earring – Twilight Zone (Remastered) (07:55)
1-07. Golden Earring – Chargin’ Up My Batteries (Remastered) (04:17)
1-08. Golden Earring – Secrets (Remastered) (04:06)
1-09. Golden Earring – Twilight Zone – 7-inch single version (Remastered) (04:47)
1-10. Golden Earring – King Dark (Remastered) (03:32)
1-11. Golden Earring – The Devil Made Me Do It – 7-inch single version (Remastered) (03:16)
1-12. Golden Earring – Shadow Avenue (Remastered) (03:51)
1-13. Golden Earring – The Devil Made Me Do It – 7-inch US single censored version (Remastered) (03:33)
2-01. Golden Earring – Future (Early version 11-81) (04:46)
2-02. Golden Earring – Twilight Zone (Early version 11-81) (05:46)
2-03. Golden Earring – Don’t Be Silly (Monitor mix 1-82) (03:23)
2-04. Golden Earring – Lost And Found (Instrumental early mix 2-82) (04:35)
2-05. Golden Earring – Future (Alternate lyrics version 2-82) (04:06)
2-06. Golden Earring – Twilight Zone (Early mix 2-82) (08:09)
2-07. Golden Earring – Chargin’ Up My Batteries (Early mix 2-82) (04:47)
2-08. Golden Earring – King Dark (Early mix 2-82) (03:21)
2-09. Golden Earring – Last Of The Mohicans (Early version 2-82) (04:32)
2-10. Golden Earring – Jazz – Shadow Avenue (Basic track 3-82) (04:05)
2-11. Golden Earring – Secrets (Early mix 5-82) (04:02)
2-12. Golden Earring – The Devil Made Me Do It (Early mix 6-82) (03:28)
2-13. Golden Earring – Baby Dynamite (Early mix 6-82) (06:04)
2-14. Golden Earring – Twilight Zone (Instrumental early mix 2-82) (08:05)