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Defector [Extra tracks] [Original recording remastered]

~ Steve Hackett
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  • Audio CD (19 Sep 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
  • Label: Charisma
  • ASIN: B000AM1THQ
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 9,312 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Song Title Time Price
Listen  1. The Steppes (2005 Digital Remaster) 6:05£0.69
Listen  2. Time To Get Out (2005 Digital Remaster) 4:12£0.69
Listen  3. Slogans (2005 Digital Remaster) 3:57£0.69
Listen  4. Leaving (2005 Digital Remaster) 3:04£0.69
Listen  5. Two Vamps As Guests (2005 Digital Remaster) 1:55£0.69
Listen  6. Jacuzzi (2005 Digital Remaster) 4:36£0.69
Listen  7. Hammer In The Sand (2005 Digital Remaster) 3:10£0.69
Listen  8. The Toast (2005 Digital Remaster) 3:43£0.69
Listen  9. The Show (2005 Digital Remaster) 3:40£0.69
Listen10. Sentimental Institution (2005 Digital Remaster) 2:44£0.69
Listen11. Hercules Unchained (2005 Digital Remaster) 2:44£0.69
Listen12. Sentimental Institution (Live) 3:02£0.69
Listen13. The Steppes (Live) 6:33£0.69
Listen14. Slogans (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster) 4:19£0.69
Listen15. Clocks - The Angel Of Mons (Live) (2005 Digital Remaster) 5:54£0.69

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Best known as the main guitarist for Genesis from 1971 to 1977, Steve Hackett has long been regarded as one of the leading progressive rock guitarists of his generation. This remastered pressing of his 1980 album features 15 tracks including the 5 bonus tracks "Hercules Unchained", "Sentimental Institutions" (live), "The Steppes" (live), "Slogans" (live) & "Clocks" (live).

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4.0 out of 5 stars Hacketts chart summit, 5 Feb 2007
What an album from Steve Hackett ! Starts off with the superb 'The Steppes' which always reminds me of the advert for Denim in the 70s ! The music runs seamless into 'Time to get out' and the odd sounding "slow" song (Steve was always big on humour when live !) 'Slogans'. My favourite track on the album comes next - Pete Hicks' vocals and harmonies on 'Leaving' are fantastic and lead nicely into the acoustic treat 'Two vamps as guest' which reprises the theme from 'Leaving'. Side two of the original album somewhat sagged for me but does contain an upbeat instrumental 'Jacuzzi' and a film-theme sounding 'Hammer in the sand'. 'The Toast' relegated to a b-side is quite atmospheric whilst 'The Show' (described as a "plodding dirge" in one review I read at the time) is pure disco - quite a change in style for Steve. Not half a big change in style as the last track on the album 'Sentimental Institution' which sounds like an electrically recorded 40s song ! Weird but it works.

This cd reissue contains some bonus tracks including 'Hercules Unchained' the rocky b-side to the single release on 'The Show'. Vintage Hackett.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars One great track, but that's pretty much it, 8 Mar 2006
By B. Ritchie (Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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The liner notes say that Steve still counts this is one of his personal favourites, but I'm afraid I found it a huge disappointment after the glorious Spectral Mornings. It feels less colourful than his previous work - sometimes wintry (which is not necessarily bad, of course), sometimes just nondescript.

On the plus side, The Steppes is incredible; one of the darkest and most menacing things Steve has produced, and for me the closest he's come to sounding like my hero Terje Rypdal. Jacuzzi is the one bright and summery track, the sort destined to end up as a theme tune to a holiday programme. Hammer in the Sand is a quite haunting piece for piano and strings (and just a faint whiff of guitar-synth). But that's about it; the rest sounds either like re-runs of things he's done before (and usually better), or just sounds beneath his capabilities completely (I'm thinking of The Show in particular here.)

This remaster adds four live tracks (including the 1940s pastiche Sentimental Institution, which was a hoot to see, not that that comes across here) and the (then) uncharacteristically rocky Hercules Unchained.

So, if I dislike this album so much, why did I buy the remaster? Well, partly because I got a deal on the first four remasters, but also because I really wanted to hear proper remaster of The Steppes; and I think it was worth it for that alone.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Another for the Hackett collection, 27 Oct 2009
By N. Goldsmith "goldsmith52" (Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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If you're a collector of Hackett this will not disappoint. The wailing guitar, that distinct vocal of Pete Hicks and the retro track are all there (Sentimental Institution). This, his 4th solo and gold selling album is not his best and "that" track that you can't help put on repeat is not there ("The Virgin and The Gypsy" track 2 on "Spectral Mornings")but there are the classic Hackett tracks -'Time To Get Out' and 'The Show'. I sometimes feel Genesis were all the poorer for missing his input. I feel it's the direction that they really should have gone in. All in all a really good CD, just not a spectacular one.
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