Complete your A Certain Ratio collection. but it is "Be What You Wanna Be" that just absolutely slays on this ep. Reply Notify me 1 Helpful.
Discover all of this album's music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download. Four to the Floor (1990). Album by A Certain Ratio. Shaft in Africa (Addis) by Johnny Pate (1973).
Sextet is the third album by English band A Certain Ratio, released in 1982 by record label Factory. It is the first album by the band not to be produced by Martin Hannett. The album spent eleven weeks in the UK Independent Chart, peaking at number 1. The album generally received critical acclaim.
Band Name A Certain Ratio. Album Name Looking for a Certain Ratio. Data de lançamento 1994. Labels Creation Records. Estilo de MúsicaPost-punk. Membros têm este álbum0.
The album failed to produce a hit, leading to the band's departure from the label The band appeared three times in session on BBC Radio 1's John Peel show – 1 October 1979 (from Maida Vale), 29 June 1981 (Langham) and 20 November 1982 (Maida Vale again). A Certain Ratio performed in the US for the first time since 1985 on 16 November 2008, headlining the Part Time Punks Festival at The Echo in Los Angeles. A Certain Ratio were managed by Tony Wilson. They are featured in the film 24 Hour Party People where Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan) describes them as "having all the energy of Joy Division but better clothes. Martin Moscrop was Musical Supervisor of 24 Hour Party People.
A Certain Ratio could have been forgiven for displaying a modicum of musicianly angst as the funk stance they had so doggedly pursued seemed to flow past them on a gushing stream to chart stardom. Bands from Sheffield, Leeds and Bristol suddenly grasped the fashion-led media.
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A Certain Ratio are an English post-punk band formed in 1977 in Flixton, Greater Manchester. After over seven years on Factory Records, they spent two years signed to A&M Records before returning to independent labels in the early 1990s. After being on hiatus since the late 1990s, they returned to sporadic live performances in the early 2000s and released a new album in 2008. The band played occasional live shows between 2002 and 2007, and performed in the US for the first time since 1985 on 16 November 2008, headlining the Part Time Punks festival at The Echo in Los Angeles, releasing a new album Mind Made Up the same month, on French label Le Maquis. They performed a headline set at the Offset Festival in.
Find the latest tracks, albums, and images from A Certain Ratio. Formed in the late 1970s, they were one of the bands (along with Gang of Four and The Pop Group) who forged the new musical hybrid which became known as punk-funk, a style which fused the energy and aggression of punk rock with the rhythms and musicianship of funk and soul.
