Year : 2003 (20th Anniversary Box Set Edition 2023)
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 649 mb
Bio:
The Darkness are an English rock band from Lowestoft, Suffolk, formed in 2000. The band consists of Justin Hawkins (lead vocals, guitar), his brother Dan Hawkins (guitar, backing vocals), Frankie Poullain (bass, backing vocals) and Rufus Taylor son of Queen drummer Roger Taylor on drums.The Darkness came to prominence with the release of their debut album, Permission to Land, in 2003. Backed by the singles "I Believe in a Thing Called Love", "Growing on Me", "Get Your Hands off My Woman", and "Love is Only a Feeling",the album was certified quadruple platinum in the United Kingdom, with sales of over 1,300,000.In 2004 the band won three Brit Awards: Best British Group, Best British Rock Act, and Best British Album.After extensive touring in support of their debut album, Poullain left the band in 2005, and was replaced by former guitar technician Richie Edwards. The band's second studio album, One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back, was released in November 2005. The following year, Justin Hawkins departed from the band after successfully completing a course of rehabilitation from alcohol and cocaine abuse.As a result, the remaining members formed Stone Gods, and continued to perform and record without Hawkins, who subsequently fronted his own project, Hot Leg.On 15 March 2011, The Darkness announced reunion shows, with original bassist Frankie Poullain, including Download Festival 2011, and the Isle of Wight Festival 2012. Their third album, Hot Cakes, was released on 20 August 2012. Ed Graham has since left the band, feeling the strain of touring was impacting his personal life, in which he had pressing issues. In 2015 a fourth studio album was announced, entitled Last of Our Kind, scheduled to be released in June of that year.
Album:
2023 marks the 20th Anniversary of ”Permission To Land” – THE DARKNESS‘ the chart-topping, award-winning, multi-platinum debut album originally released on July 7, 2003, and helped the Classic Rock resurgence this Millennium.To celebrate, Britain’s beloved rock band celebrate this landmark with “Permission To Land… Again“, a special 4-CD/DVD release including the original album remastered, rare B-sides, bonus unreleased demos, as well as live albums from their iconic shows at London’s Astoria (2003), Knebworth (2003) and Wembley Arena (2004). There will be as well a 2CD edition with a reduced track listing, but this box-ser is the complete experience.20 years later, listening to ‘Permission To Land… Again’, I feel the band’s genuinely impressive ear for melody a little more. The totality with which The Darkness embraced flamboyance is part of the reason their debut album succeeds. Their sense of humor is all over the record, but it’s a sense of humor that doesn’t base itself on mere parody. And they rock…Sifting through the demos and rarities packaged alongside the original album reveals little in the way of fascinating alternative directions the band might have pursued. On the early demos of songs that eventually made the album, the biggest deviations come in the form of a spoken word introduction set to an elfin chime at the beginning of the demo of ‘Black Shuck’, a glitzy synth part that clutters the chorus of ‘I Believe In A Thing Called Love’, and a slower, chunkier version of ‘Love On The Rocks With No Ice’ that benefits from the added heft.Similarly, the B-sides and bonus tracks in the new boxset offer mainly a re-affirmation of The Darkness’ straightforwardness. Rather than use away-from-the-spotlight releases as a chance to take away the pressure to conform to a certain sound (intriguing cowboy rock & roller ‘Curse Of The Tollund Man’ being the exception) they use them to double down.This can be for better – ‘Planning Permission’’s preposterous expression of love through the metaphor of building a conservatory, the rollicking stomper ‘The Best Of Me’ and the Powerage-indebted ‘Physical Sex’ – and for worse; often Hawkins’ effort to ramp up the rock & roll lands him at little more than caveman horniness as on the icky ‘Makin’ Out’.The most charitable way of viewing the B-side ‘How Dare You Call This Love’ meanwhile – sample lyric “You’re so young it’s obscene / I can’t wait for the day you turn 16” – is as a blunt satire of rock stars’ historic tendencies towards relationships with underage women.Thankfully such moments are in the minority. Taken as a whole the material collected here hasn’t aged an inch, the group were so at odds with the zeitgeist when they arrived in the first place, that they’re essentially able to sidestep the issue of sounding dated anyway.Most of all it merely strengthens the argument that The Darkness were a band who knew from the very start that they were to be all about immediacy; early pub gigs, by all accounts, were performed with the same bombast with which the band would later headline arenas.Of the three separate live recordings compiled on ”Permission To Land… Again”, supporting Robbie Williams on his huge summer 2003 shows at Knebworth, a high-intensity Astoria show and a triumphant Wembley headline set, it’s the first that makes the most interesting listening. Here, the band are heard playing to a crowd of 100,000, few of whom one assumes were actually there to see them, and in real time you can hear Justin Hawkins winning over vast swathes of them. Towards the end he asks outright who amongst them has been converted, receiving a great roar in response. “Everybody else, repeat after me,” he declares. “’I. AM. WRONG.’”
Line Up:
Justin Hawkins - vocals, guitars
Dan Hawkins - guitars, backing vocals
Frankie Poullain - bass, backing vocals
Rufus Tiger Taylor - drums
Tracklist:
CD1: "Permission To Land" + bonus tracks (demos)
01. Black Shuck
02. Get Your Hands Off My Woman
03. Growing on Me
04. I Believe in a Thing Called Love
05. Love Is Only a Feeling
06. Givin' Up
07. Stuck in a Rut
08. Friday Night
09. Love on the Rocks with No Ice
10. Holding My Own
Bonus Demos Tracks:
11. Black Shuck (Demo)
12. I Believe in a Thing Called Love
13. Out of My Hands
14. Live 'Til I Die
15. Love on the Rocks with No Ice
16. Nothin's Gonna Stop Us
CD2: Singles, B-Sides, and non-album tracks
01. I Believe in a Thing Called Love (2002 Version)
02. Love on the Rocks with no Ice (2002 Version)
03. Love is Only a Feeling (2002 Version)
04. Get Your Hands off My Woman (2003 Edit Version)
05. The Best of Me
06. I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Single Version)
07. Out of My Hands
08. Makin' Out
09. Curse of the Tollund Man
10. Get Your Hands off My Woman... Again (2004 Version)
11. I Love You 5 Times
12. Get Your Hands off My Woman... Again (2004 Edit Version)
13. Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)
CD3: Live 2003
01. Growing on Me (Live at Knebworth, 2003)
02. The Best of Me (Live at Knebworth, 2003)
03. Makin’ Out (Live at Knebworth, 2003)
04. Get Your Hands Off My Woman (Live at Knebworth, 2003)
05. Stuck in a Rut (Live at Knebworth, 2003)
06. I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Live at Knebworth, 2003)
07. Love on the Rocks with No Ice (Live at Knebworth, 2003)
08. Bareback (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
09. Black Shuck (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
10. Love Is Only a Feeling (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
11. Get Your Hands Off My Woman (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
12. Friday Night (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
13. I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
14. Buffet (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
15. Givin’ Up (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
16. Love on the Rocks with No Ice (Live at The Astoria, London, 2003)
CD4: Live At Wembley 2004
01. Grief Hammer (Live at Wembley, 2004)
02. Givin’ Up (Live at Wembley, 2004)
03. Stuck in a Rut (Live at Wembley, 2004)
04. Dinner Lady Arms (Live at Wembley, 2004)
05. Growing on Me (Live at Wembley, 2004)
06. Makin’ Out (Live at Wembley, 2004)
07. Physical Sex (Live at Wembley, 2004)
08. Love Is Only a Feeling (Live at Wembley, 2004)
09. Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (Live at Wembley, 2004)
10. Buffet (Live at Wembley, 2004)
11. Black Shuck (Live at Wembley, 2004)
12. Friday Night (Live at Wembley, 2004)
13. I Believe in a Thing Called Love (Live at Wembley, 2004)
14. Get Your Hands Off My Woman (Live at Wembley, 2004)
15. Love on the Rocks with No Ice (Live at Wembley, 2004)
16. Do They Know it’s Christmas (Live at Wembley, 2004)
17. Christmas Time (Don’t Let the Bells End) (Live at Wembley, 2004)
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