The Mission U.K.

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Genre: Goth

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Perhaps Goth's answer to the Monkees, Britain's late-'80s Goth Pop sensations the Mission U.K. churned out hit after impossibly catchy hit of effects-drenched pseudo-darkness. Clad in their renaissance fair smocks and rope belts, they looked like lipstick-weilding dragonslayers though singer-songwriter Wayne Hussey's sunglasses and devil's-baritone aesthetic was a dimestore knockoff of the Sisters of Mercy's Andrew Eldritch. Still, sharply tuned, fiery bits of Cure-inspired Wizard Rock such as "Over the Hill and Far Away" and "Bridges Burning" were high-school hymns for that weird kid who toted a briefcase to class and wore heavy lipstick and eyeliner. The elegant, pretentious melodramatics of acoustic-bred gems like "Dance on Glass" and "Love Me To Death" may well have been this poor outcast's vicarious dates on lonely weekends.

- Kelly Bauman

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		Tower Of Strength (8:08)
		Wasteland (5:37)
		Stay With Me (4:37)
		Like A Hurricane (5:02)
		Into The Blue (4:11)
		Over The Hills And Far Away (3:59)
		Love Me To Death (4:40)
		Butterfly on a Wheel (5:55)
		Dance On Glass (5:13)
		You Make Me Breathe (The Barn Mix) (7:18)
		Bridges Burning (4:08)
		Deliverance (4:44)
		Paradise Will Shine Like The Moon (3:53)
		Garden Of Delight (Hereafter) (3:44)
		Sacrilege (4:46)
		Grapes Of Wrath (4:20)
		Blood Brother (5:15)
		Let Sleeping Dogs Die (5:51)
		Sea Of Love (5:23)
		And The Dance Goes On (4:09)

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		Sacrelige (5:39)
		Tower Of Strength (8:08)
		Butterfly On A Wheel (5:43)
		Deliverance (6:06)
		Beyond The Pale (4:49)
		Amelia (2:53)
		Hands Across The Ocean (3:50)
		Into The Blue (4:48)
		Severina (4:21)
		Like A Hurricane (4:51)