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Product details

  • Audio CD (23 Nov 1998)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: ZTT Records
  • ASIN: B0000253J9
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 99,317 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. A Time To Fear (Who's Afraid) 4:44£0.69
Listen  2. Beat Box (Diversion One) 8:32£0.69
Listen  3. Snapshot 1:02£0.69
Listen  4. Close (To The Edit) 5:36£0.69
Listen  5. Who's Afraid (Of The Art Of Noise) 4:20£0.69
Listen  6. Moments in Love10:15Album Only
Listen  7. Momento 2:11£0.69
Listen  8. How To Kill 2:43£0.69
Listen  9. Realization 1:45£0.69

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The Art of Noise's first full-length release, from 1984, isalso their best and most intriguing. Containing the dance club smash "Beat Box (Diversion One)", the MTV favourite "Close (To the Edit)" and the influential, near-ambient "MomentsIn Love", WHO'S AFRAID is a revolutionary album that changed the course of modern electronic music. Its effects were felt equally in postmodern avant-garde circles and the hippestof dance clubs.
Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, J.J. Jeczalik and Gary Langan's work has both melodic and rhythmic sophistication and, perhaps more importantly, a playful sense of humor. "Snapshot" cheekily quotes The Who's "Baba O'Riley", and the key rhythmic element of "Close (To The Edit)" is the sound of a car ignition. WHO'S AFRAID also has darker moments, like "A Time For Fear", which prominently features tapes of the 1983 US invasion of Grenada, and the foreboding, ambient pieces that end the second side.

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3.0 out of 5 stars very odd, 19 Aug 2003
Being a young impressionable nipper when this album was released,already owning the single "close to the edit"
I was amazed!! I was buying depeche, Human League, OMD etc... But I was not prepared for this album, Its mad, strange noises, short catchy melodies, left me thinking what the hell are these weirdo's thinking. But keep listening and some of the gem,s will stick! The single "close to the edit" fart noises and all is ok, but snapshot & backbeat still have it. As for Moments in love, its a timeless master piece (still on chill out albums today).
Only get this album if you liked, strange 80's stuff ,kraftwerk etc..
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5.0 out of 5 stars Meaningless?.........Nonsense!, 29 April 2008
By Justin Burton (Toronto, ON, Canada) - See all my reviews
"Who's Afraid.." remains one of my all time favorite albums. I bought the CD version when it was issued in the latter half of the '90s, but I still prefer my original vinyl copy (I guess I got used to the crackles!).
It's still as fresh, witty, wierd and (occasionally) irresistibly danceable now as it was then.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Can I Say Something?!, 26 Aug 2007
By Reginald L. Davenport (Springville, UT United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise! (Audio CD)
My mother purchased this album (LP format) for me in 1984. I played it so much that I literally wore out the label, the album cover and some parts of the vinyl itself. Luckily I was able to get another copy and my only disappointment was that the label design was not of the style that was on the vinyl when the album was initially released (Island Records had gone to a new graphic design). This was the beginning of my fascination with England (I had seen the music video for "Beat Box" before getting the album and was amazed!) At the risk of sounding just like the other reviewers "Moments In Love" has to be one of the greatest slow songs ever made. I would be keen to use the song at my wedding! The awesome thing about the album is the group's ability to take ordinary sounds and generate really good musical compositions. My other favorite is "Who's Afraid (Of The Art Of Noise)". It is so much fun to listen and dance to! The same goes for "Realization".
Get the album. You'll love it!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Meaningless, empty drivel -- file under 'Sonic Demonstration' albums
This is an album I bought as an LP in 1984, and as a CD some time in the recent past.

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