4 promo cassettes TALK TALK Spirit of Eden + PRIMUS + Gumball +

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4 promo cassettes from the USA
Talk Talk (Mark Hollis) - Spirit of Eden
Primus - Pork Soda
Gumball - Super Tasty
Vox presents the Radio 1 Fm sessions vol 2 - with The Cranberries, Smashing Pumpkins, Supergrass, Tori Amos and more...
all in excellent condition - see pictures.
AllMusic Review by Bradley Torreano
Rock producer Don Fleming (Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees) was such a successful producer that he never quite got his due as a musician. While his friends reaped the benefits of the grunge revolution in the early '90s, Fleming was making equally good music to very little fanfare. Super Tasty might be his best album, all pop-punk gusto and very little filler. "Accelerator" begins the album in full fuzz guitar glory, and the next few songs do not let up on the catchy riff-rock that Fleming makes so effortlessly. There are moments where Fleming and producer Butch Vig quiet the loud guitars, showcasing the band's pop sense instead. "The Damage Done" is a perfect example, with Fleming's sweet, lazy voice humming gently over mid-tempo guitars and crisp drums. Unfortunately, this album fell through the cracks and never quite found its audience. Fans of this brand of early-'90s rock should do themselves a favor and find this album; it's a gem that needs rediscovery.
AllMusic Review by Steve Huey
Once audiences got a chance to hear Primus' instantly recognizable sound, driven by Les Claypool's bizarrely virtuosic bass riffs, their audience grew by leaps and bounds. It was enough to make their second major-label album, Pork Soda, one of the strangest records ever to debut in the Top Ten. Stylistically, it isn't much different from Sailing the Seas of Cheese, though the band does stretch out and jam more often. This can result in some overly repetitive sections, since Claypool's riffs are the basis for most of the compositions, but it also showcases the band's ever-increasing level of musicianship. Their ensemble interplay continues to grow in complexity and musicality, and that's really what fans want from a Primus record anyway. The material isn't quite as consistent as Seas of Cheese, though there are numerous high points; among them are "My Name Is Mud," on which Claypool plays his instrument like percussion, and "Mr. Krinkle," where he switches to a bowed upright bass. There are hints of lyrical darkness stripped of the band's usual goofiness (especially in the suicide lament "Bob"), but for the most part, the humor is again split between eccentric character sketches, cheery paranoia, and annoying novelties (with a slightly higher percentage of the latter than before). Still, despite occasional flaws, what makes Pork Soda a success is that the band keeps finding novel variations on their signature sound, even if they never step out of it.
AllMusic Review by Jason Ankeny
Compare Spirit of Eden with any other previous release in the Talk Talk catalog, and it's almost impossible to believe it's the work of the same band -- exchanging electronics for live, organic sounds and rejecting structure in favor of mood and atmosphere, the album is an unprecedented breakthrough, a musical and emotional catharsis of immense power. Mark Hollis' songs exist far outside of the pop idiom, drawing instead on ambient textures, jazz-like arrangements, and avant-garde accents; for all of their intricacy and delicate beauty, compositions like "Inheritance" and "I Believe in You" also possess an elemental strength -- Hollis' oblique lyrics speak to themes of loss and redemption with understated grace, and his hauntingly poignant vocals evoke wrenching spiritual turmoil tempered with unflagging hope. A singular musical experience.
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