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Marianas.Trench.Masterpiece.Theatre.Directors.Cut.2010.NTSC.BONUS.MDVDR-AURORA
RELEASE INFO
Date.....: 30/11/2010 Source...: NTSC DVD5
Genre....: Rock Aspect...: 16:9
Runtime..: 60 mins Files....: 63x50MB
Link.....: http://www.amazon.ca/Masterpiece-Theatre-Directors-Marianas-Trench/dp/B0049MGITC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1291154518&sr=8-3
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French [ ] DD 2.0 [ ] French
German [ ] DD 5.1 [ ] German
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Director's Cut DVD includes:
Music Videos:
1. Cross My Heart
2. All To Myself
3. Beside You
4. Celebrity Status
5. Good To You (Feat. Jessica Lee)
Also featuring behind the scenes, band commentary and more.
RELEASE NOTES
It takes some real cojones to include the word 'Masterpiece' in your album title, but
Josh Ramsay isn't too worried. "I suppose I could be digging myself into a hole calling
the record Masterpiece Theatre," he chuckles, "but it's tongue-in-cheek. And I'm not the kind of person
that people would assume as being an egomaniac. I hope not, anyway. "Given his feverish imagination and
comprehensive musical gifts, Ramsay could probably get away with a little egomania. And with the release
of Masterpiece Theatre, the frontman of Vancouver's Marianas Trench makes a iron-clad case for a prodigious
set of talents - both his own and those of his bandmates, guitarist Matt Webb, bassist Mike Ayley, and drummer
Ian Casselman. Marianas Trench had already elevated itself above the rest of the pack with a 2006
debut, Fix Me, that
showcased a knack for colouring outside the lines of factory-issue millenial punk, shrewdly-built pop, and super-adrenalized
modern rock. The single and in particular the video "Shake Tramp" was enough to demonstrate these qualities, coupled with
Ramsay's uninhibited urge to be the complete song-and-dance man.
Two years later, Marianas Trench has re-emerged with Masterpiece Theatre. And not surprisingly, it's a
work of soaring ambition and decisive technical prowess that easily might not have happened. "It's one thing when you're
Chad Kroeger and you just finished writing 'How You Remind Me'," Ramsay states. "I didn't have some mega-platinum song
to back up my argument with, so I was lucky that the band and the label trusted me enough to do it.
"By "it", Ramsay means
he was allowed to indulge a high-concept fantasy for the band's sophomore album, which is built, for
starters, around a song called
"Masterpiece Theatre". Adopting Brian Wilson's notion of the 'pocket symphony' and then running with it, the three distinct versions
of 'Masterpiece Theatre' dotted across the record feature an almost perfect balance between the vocal theatrics of Queen and the
more hymnal qualities of the Beach Boys.
By the time 'Masterpiece Theatre' is reprised for a final, climactic time, every other song on the
album is quoted and incorporated into
an intricately constructed dramatic revue that swings from pristine pop, to propulsive riff rock, to
quasi-doo wop, to robotic new wave, and
finally into a wholly satisfying thematic payoff. "Beside You" is a panoramic exercise in big
emotions, with a dash of the
Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town". "Acadia" begins with a clipped, bright acoustic guitar,
and blossoms into something like the Who
reconsidered by U2, reimagined for the net generation. In the crunchy "All to Myself", the power
ballad "Lover Dearest", and the strident "Good to You"
(in which he duets with Kate Voegele), Ramsay pulls out the kind of honeyed vocals more attuned to
modern RnB than white, adolescent rock. "I always had
that aspect in my voice but the first record just didn't have songs that were conducive to me
singing that way," he states. "I think it's from growing up listening
to a lot of Michael Jackson. With these songs, it made sense to stretch out a little more." On
"Cross My Heart" and "Celebrity Status", the band conjures up a kind of
perfect pop crossover. Producer Dave 'Rave' Ogilvie was responsible for the latter track, which cops
a move he used on Marilyn Manson's "Beautiful People" with three
drummers (Casselman, Ramsay and Shane Wilson) playing at once - much to Ramsay's delight. "He's just
worked with so many great artists which makes his well of tricks
and ideas so vast," he says.
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