Monaco
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Monaco – shine (Live Mancester 1997)
Biography
1) Monaco, a duo consisting of New Order bassist Peter Hook and David Potts. Their biggest hit
What Do You Want From Me?, came from their 1997 debut album Music For Pleasure. The album was a big hit and sold over 500,000 copies. In 2000 they released the follow-up Monaco, although a lengthy delay and minimal promotion led to it being nowhere near as much of a commercial success as the first album. This and New Order’s reformation led to Monaco’s break-up.
Monaco was a side project of New Order bassist Peter Hook. Together with David Potts, the other remaining member of Revenge (1989-1993), the band was formed in 1995. The group is best known for the 1997 single “What Do You Want From Me?” and the album from which it was taken, Music for Pleasure, which sold over half a million copies.
Resemblance to New Order
Because New Order was on hiatus during the mid-90s, Monaco was able to find success partly because they made music similar to that of New Order. This similarity of sound derives from the fact that their music were in the dance-rock-pop genre, just as was New Order’s music; Hook carried over his recognizable style of playing melody high up on the bass; Potts’ vocal timbre and delivery sometimes resembled that of New Order’s vocalist Bernard Sumner.
Follow-up album fails
In 1999, Polydor Records rejected Monaco’s follow up album, the self-titled Monaco, due to the radically changing trends in music at the time in a money saving move reducing their artists to the more popular music.
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Music For Pleasure
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Monaco
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What do You Want From Me?
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The Hope Sessions EP
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talpoep
what do you want from me is awesomeee :3 [4]
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Elpoetamaldit0
Influence by Joy Division from Argentina http://www.lastfm.es/music/Sol+Oscuro
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DJSMusicfactory
The 90's classic!!! :-D
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vitor_lol
Blue has such a brilliant atmosphere
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DJSMusicfactory
Love this classic band!!! :-)
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bashiechan
Hey guys, I'm selling my CD copy of Get Ready on eBay for dirt cheap, starting at a mere 99p. Snap it up here, why dontcha :) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251007728490?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649 - I'm also selling 'Music For Pleasure' by Monaco, New Order bassist Peter Hook's short lived side-project, again starting at £0.99. Link here: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251007735535?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
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Banniny
what do you want from me is awesomeee :3 [3]
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lorrabaquio
shine forever........
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Mi-Di
what do you want from me is awesomeee :3 [2]
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Electro_catze
what do you want from me is awesomeee :3
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MangGaga2
►♪
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EstefaniaZ
ooohh what i discovered after many time!! love monaco!
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Bolshevized
Monaco: the world's greatest New Order cover band. (Though that's not exactly fair. Monaco proved Peter Hook was perhaps the most essential part of New Order's sound.)
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chrisxanthus
Beautiful!!
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natalie0790
Never heard a em
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fabiocandelori
this sucks man!
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mvldk666
much, much love to MONACO "UK"
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fitzsimonsmike
When I think of the hours I've spent hoping they'd reform and release a new album... *sigh*
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Zizzon
I wouldn't call them a one-hit wonder. -.-
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