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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.
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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The Everlasting Blink
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Programmed to Love
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Ariels
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Intercept!
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Swollen
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I Love My Man
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Magic Love
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Private Road
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As You Fall
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Beautiful Otherness
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As seen from space
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I Can't Believe It's Over
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To Be Loved
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Stay out all night
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Shoutbox
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claudia_l wrote:
Similar tunes : the hotel costes g r o u p >> > ☆ The Hôtel Costes Group Playlist ☆ : only: full tracks | free downloads ;
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m-salami wrote:
Weely top Mary!
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Melisa-Light wrote:
my love))
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LikeACarillon wrote:
they should put out another album. i'm missing them, but loving what they made so far.
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hlynur83 wrote:
always!! :)
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m-salami wrote:
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:
There's more than one. I like the electronic band better.
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janvere1984 wrote:
Me encantarón! Gracias LastFm
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owiwan wrote:
Where is "I Remember Johnny"! One of the best tracks...
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rauthkinn wrote:
A ribbon for my hair!!!
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Ruderalis wrote:
Always!!))
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quietquake wrote:
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:
Bent - Swollen (Entero Remix) ---- Visit www.djentero.com to listen the track
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hullchick wrote:
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:
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:
nice band =) romantic songs always making me remembering some bright recent events...
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zeergoed wrote:
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:
Anyone knows where to pre-order their Best Of compilation?
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a-ost wrote:
Akean89: вокалисты на всех альбомах приглашённые.
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michaelmcguk wrote:
"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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Another mix...!
22 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/bentworld
Here's another one... you don't get a mix in over a year and then 2 come along at once!This one removes the word "mellow" and is a lot chunkier... :-)http://www.
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parkone tagged Bent with ‘downtempo’. Thursday afternoon
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