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Bent can refer to two artists.

1. Bent is a two-piece downtempo act from Nottingham, England consisting of Neil “Nail” Tolliday and Simon Mills. They gained critical acclaim from their debut album, Programmed to Love, in 2000.

The song “Invisible Pedestrian” of the album “Programmed to Love” was featured in an Absolut Vodka commercial that aired in 2003, and more famously, a U.S. Volkswagen bus commercial in the late 90’s. Also aired on TV advertisement was “Private Road” also from “Programmed to Love” in the “Bank of Carlsberg” clip in December 2001.

Programmed to Love was followed by “The Everlasting Blink” (2002), “Ariels” (2004) and recently with “Intercept!” in October of 2006. This album has seen the band move to a more disco-pop inspired sound

There are at least two other artists with the name Bent - a Heavy Metal band, and an Icelandic rapper. It is unfortunate that last.fm cannot disambiguate them.

Aah, the difficult, yet all important third album: the first could go either way, but having proven themselves the second was a test to show if the first wasn’t a fluke; but the third, well that’s a whole different story…

Thankfully for Bent, in Ariels they’ve nothing to worry about. Joining Programmed To Love and The Everlasting Blink on the coffee table is another worthy companion full of surprises and enriched by beautifully lush ‘n’ dreamy numbers, like the Carpenters-esque “Sunday 29th” sung by longstanding cohort Kathy Heath. Less overtly electronic than what’s gone before, here songs and acoustic instruments replace synths and samples, along with some quite captivating vocals.

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1	Swollen full track	1,473
2	I Love My Man full track	1,316
3	Magic Love full track	1,243
4	Private Road full track	830
5	As You Fall full track	771
6	Sunday 29th	553
7	So Long Without You	543
8	Beautiful Otherness full track	426
9	As seen from space full track	317
10	Cylons in Love	314
11	I Can't Believe It's Over full track	311
12	To Be Loved full track	294
13	Always	278
14	Stay out all night full track	271
15	After All The Love	236

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last week

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m-salami wrote:
11 days ago

Weely top Mary!

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Melisa-Light wrote:
24 days ago

my love))

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LikeACarillon wrote:
25 days ago

they should put out another album. i'm missing them, but loving what they made so far.

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hlynur83 wrote:
last month

always!! :)

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m-salami wrote:
last month

the electrinic band is a good one... look at this...: http://www.discogs.com/search?q=bent&type=all&btn=Search

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alicenroses wrote:
last month

There's more than one. I like the electronic band better.

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janvere1984 wrote:
September 2009

Me encantarón! Gracias LastFm

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owiwan wrote:
September 2009

Where is "I Remember Johnny"! One of the best tracks...

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rauthkinn wrote:
September 2009

A ribbon for my hair!!!

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Ruderalis wrote:
September 2009

Always!!))

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quietquake wrote:
September 2009

Why isn't 'Always' at the top of the most played list? One of my all time favourite songs! That bass line... DAMN! Sooooo good!

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djentero wrote:
September 2009

Bent - Swollen (Entero Remix) ---- Visit www.djentero.com to listen the track

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hullchick wrote:
August 2009

What a lovely relaxing band these guys are there best track has got be Always in my heart beautiful,it reminds me of when i got with my boyfriend 3yrs ago i feel in love..........

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hullchick wrote:
August 2009

what a lovely,relaxing band these are,the best track of theres has got to Always in my hear.,gets me every time i put it on.........it reminds me of when i got with my boyfriend phil 3yrs ago blows my mind.

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Scuthuna wrote:
August 2009

nice band =) romantic songs always making me remembering some bright recent events...

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zeergoed wrote:
July 2009

Hey for those who don't know, You can still download their 'Download For Love' album for free (and legally) from: http://bent.heltperfekt.com/dtl/dtlindex.htm You have to download each song individually - songs are listed on the left.

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a-ost wrote:
July 2009

Anyone knows where to pre-order their Best Of compilation?

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a-ost wrote:
July 2009

Akean89: вокалисты на всех альбомах приглашённые.

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michaelmcguk wrote:
June 2009

"Bent celebrate 10 years of making music with the release of their "Best Of" compilation on 20th July." - direct from 'Bent mailer'. Bonus disc looks grooooovy.

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