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1. Jul 11,  · American alternative rock band Belly‘s debut album Star is being reissued by 4AD in this special double vinyl edition This gatefold vinyl set features the album (remastered) spread across two white marbled LPs, with updated artwork.

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2. Star, an Album by Belly. Released 2 February on Sire (catalog no. 9 ; CD). Genres: Dream Pop, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock.

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3. Feb 02,  · Yes of course tracks like 'Feed The Tree' and 'Gepetto' are fine examples of Donelly's gift for melody, but there's a dark underbelly to those lyrics, and this - Belly's debut album 'Star' - kind of upsets the notion that she was the more accessible member of her previous band, the spoonful of sugar to Kristen Hersh's stiff medicine so to speak/5(82).

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4. Product description. Belly - Star - CD isbronmatpaddnerlucatortelesinccons.coinfo On Star, Belly's million-selling debut album, former Throwing Muse and Breeder Tanya Donelly created an album of haunting, edgy, melodic folk-alterno-pop that in many respects was the precursor of today's crop of female singer/songwriters. With songs like the slow-burning "Gepetto" and monster hit "Feed The Tree", Donelly proved she had /5(46).

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5. Many of the songs on Star were originally written for the Breeders’s second album and several tracks were helmed by Pixies producer Gil Norton, so there’s a distinct post-punk quality to Belly’s music—which also includes shades of folk, country, and spaghetti-western isbronmatpaddnerlucatortelesinccons.coinfo, however, is more sensual and surreal than anything produced by the band’s immediate progenitors.

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6. Tanya Donelly's songwriting began to blossom on Throwing Muses' Real Ramona, and Belly's debut, Star, is where it reaches isbronmatpaddnerlucatortelesinccons.coinfo the trancy harmonies of dream pop as a foundation, Donelly expands the genre's boundaries, trimming away its pretensions and incorporating a flair for sweet, concise pop hooks and folk-rock inflections. She also spikes her airy melodies with disarmingly 9/

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7. May 15,  · Star, an Album by Belly. Released 25 January on 4AD (catalog no. CAD CD; CD). Genres: Dream Pop, Alternative Rock. Featured peformers: Tanya Donelly (guitar, vocals, writer), Thomas Gorman (guitar), Fred Kendal Abong (bass), Chris Gorman (drums, percussion, photography), Tracy Chisholm (engineer), Michael Lavine (portrait photography), Chris Bigg (design)/5(50).

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8. With their jangling, overdriven guitars and breathless, mysterious vocals, Belly suggests the hard/soft edge of electric girl groups and power pop bands like The Bangles, The Pixies, The Breeders and Throwing Muses (with a dark hint of early Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground)/5(47).

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9. Aug 07,  · Belly was an alternative rock band formed in by former Throwing Muses members Tanya Donelly (who was also in The Breeders) and Fred AbongDonelly named the band "Belly" because she thought the word was "both pretty and ugly."[2] Their EP, Slow Dust (), made it to number one on the UK indie chart. Soon after, their single "Feed the Tree" made the Top 40 in the UK Singles .

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