Another Setting (studio album)
by The Durutti Column

Another Setting by The Durutti Column
Year: 1983
Overall rank: 12,333rd   
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67/100 (from 32 votes)
     
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Award Top albums of 1983 (168th)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (1,732nd)
Award Best albums of all time (12,333rd)

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The Durutti Column bestography

Another Setting is ranked 4th best out of 27 albums by The Durutti Column on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Durutti Column is LC which is ranked number 3592 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 407.

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Another Setting rankings

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Overall rank: 12,333rd | 1980s rank: 1,732nd | 1983 rank: 168th

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67/100 (from 32 votes)
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From 05/02/2017 17:24 | #190188
THE CURSE OF IMMORTALITY

Like all the best goth albums, this really isn’t a goth album. It’s way more than that. But it’s got a gothic heart at it’s core. The heart of a lonely, immortal vampire who has had to endure over and over again the death of his loves as even his power can only sustain them for so long. Some last two hundred years. Some last fifty. But eventually they all succumb. To death. As he lives on. His lament for these lost loves and their faded beauty fills this album. Eulogies for all the loves that he still holds dear in his heart. Each one of them. He tries desperately to fill these memories with the beauty & romance & gallantry of their fond years together. But, the memories are all bittersweet. Painted blue and tainted with death and decay. The drums plod like a weary pilgrimage that has been going on far too long with still miles to go. For that is how his life feels now. And endless mournful journey. Too brokenhearted and crushed to find a new love yet his life continues to go on. Forever. And he wonders how much longer he can endure this pilgrimage of broken hearts.

Grade: A+. Simply one of the best gothic albums of all time. While not quite at Pornography's or Closer's or even Siouxsie’s Kaleidoscope level, it’s pretty damn close. And this is easily Durutti Column’s best stuff. It’s far, far better than their more well know debut, The Return Of the Durutti Column. And it really is ripe for discovery of fans of dark 80s college rock. It's been buried far too long. And it trudges along on its trail of tears all the way to number four.
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Best Albums of 1983
1. Murmur by R.E.M.
2. Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes
3. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order
4. Synchronicity by The Police
5. War by U2
6. Speaking In Tongues by Talking Heads
7. Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
8. Kill 'Em All by Metallica
9. Let's Dance by David Bowie
10. Script Of The Bridge by The Chameleons
11. The Final Cut by Pink Floyd
12. Clics Modernos by Charly García
13. Soul Mining by The The
14. Piece Of Mind by Iron Maiden
15. The Hurting by Tears For Fears
16. Pyromania by Def Leppard
17. Holy Diver by Dio
18. Eliminator by ZZ Top
19. Script For A Jester's Tear by Marillion
20. Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
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