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Ultimate Sky | 
| Creator: Michigan
Label: A Different Drum
Category: Music
List Price: $14.99
Buy New: $10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 75940
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 601171121329
EAN: 0601171121329
ASIN: B0006PIQ0A
Release Date: November 20, 2004
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Condition: GREAT FULL LENGTH CD, CD IS BRAND NEW AND IS STILL SEALED!!!
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| Tracks:
| • | Sad Queen | | • | Control of Me | | • | A Ride in Time | | • | Red Dawn | | • | Sorrows | | • | My Own Denial | | • | The Oceans Wide | | • | Destinys Line | | • | The Collector | | • | At Times | | • | The Final-Song |
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Album Description
Michigan is a band that stands tall in the synthpop / alternative pop crowd, with well written songs, emotional presentation, and top-notch programing. This is the band's second album and deserve twice as much attention as their debut. Fans of intense, passionate, edgy synthpop in the same vein as Mesh or De/Vision will love "Ultimate Sky". For the synthpop fans of the 80's, think of an edgy, emotional, well-polished Depeche Mode protege which builds on that classic foundation while kicking the music into the next century.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 3 more reviews...
My favorite new CD this year and I buy hundreds... November 8, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have bought everything from Bon Jovi to Best of Simple Minds this year... I have very eclectic tastes but love 80's modern rock. I have Iris, the killers etc... and this band came in first with Apoptygma Berzerk's "You and me against the world" in second place... I loved Depeche Modes new album and Erasure came out with an incredible album that seemed like something from 1994 but this was a HUGE and JOYOUS suprize... What an incredible sleeper band... another one of those I probably would have lost my but on if you could invest in bands like you can stocks... Invest... Totally worth it. (get their first one as well.)
Masterpiece October 30, 2005
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I love Iris de/vision mesh etc now I love michigan. Holy cow this is a good album. Some of the new synth music is cheesy. This album holds up to the standards of omd, depeche mode, alphaville, etc. If you like good synth rock buy this album. Reminds me of cause & effect and Iris. If you like just good talented music get this one. I love it.
A Knockout Electronic Alternative Release Worthy of Crossover Attention August 29, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Here is a perfect example of a record that could be an entry point for many a music fan into the world of synthpop and etc. I like to collectively call "electronic alternative" (at risk of invoking two often misunderstood music-critic tags.) Perhaps nowhere in the West is electronic-based popular music more misrepresented, pigeonholed, and so forth than right here in the U.S. The average opinion of anything that's both pop/alternative and electronic is that it's either A) top 40 syrup, B) bad 80s music, or C) a quirky sideproject by a current college radio rock/alt band that gets the stamp of approval because, well, when the guys in the band aren't being quaint, they rock. This sort of thinking is quite understandable -- this is how the scene is "presented" -- i.e. it's not.
So as a DJ of one of the few electronic-alt only radio shows in the US (Transmission Control, 91.3 FM Trenton, NJ -- a non-commercial station, obviously) I'm not only interested in playing great synthpop, electro-industrial, etc., I'm also always on the lookout for 100% integrity crossover material. With this album, I've spun nearly every track on my show.
Fact: those "Postal Service"-style side projects I mentioned are a good thing, but it's even better when a dedicated synthpop band cuts a nearless flawless record like "Ultimate Sky" by Michigan. Sure, the liner notes need some editing, and occasionally the words veer toward the vague (they're from Sweden -- their English is a lot better than my Swedish, to be sure!) It doesn't distract, because the songs have meaning, crisp, straight-ahead rhythms, zero cheese, and the ability to actually rock - literally. The song structures here are *not* Erasure (no insult here, just a fact) -- they're verse/chorus alternative rock done with very expressive analog-ish synth sounds and guitars. If you can get into The Killers/The Format/et al of today, the Psychedelic Furs/Bunnymen of then and now, or the sounds of Mesh/etc. (insert your own examples here), you can crank this up and maybe discover an entirely new scene happening right under our noses (if you haven't already.)
It'll grow on you... fast! January 23, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Some CD's you buy don't stay in your CD player very long, while others manage to stay in there for quite a while before you want to take them out. This is one of those CD's that has that kind of lasting power and replay value. It's a great album, with a range of upbeat offerings and some slower songs to round out the album. Songs such as "Red Dawn", "Sorrows", "The Ocean's Wide", "Destiny's Line" and "The Final Song" are personal favorites. If you like strong melodic vocals and electronic pop music, such as Camouflage and De/Vision, then this CD is right up your alley!
 Not From Michigan January 23, 2005
I'll be honest with you. I was never interested in this band because I thought they were going to be another another wannabe synthpop band hailing from Michigan. I've been so fond of the European synthpop out lately (Sryian, Wave in Head, De/Vision) that I didn't think this could satisfy me. But a friend of mine got it and told me how good this album was. I decided to give it a try and since some of my other fav bands are from the U.S.A. (Iris, Echoing Green) I thought I would give Michigan a try and I've not been dissapointed. They combine the best of bands like De/vision and Mesh. Great Syntpop with Dark Elements but also poppy if that makes sense. Highly Recommended.
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