RED FLAG: The Bitter End

Red Flag

The Bitter End

© 2002 plan b records (766994000722)

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Riveting technopop for the masses...Red Flag's The Bitter End is a melodic masterpiece. Superb singing and lyrics are set to expertly crafted music.

notes

Red Flag made the top 10 Billboard charts in 1988 with their memorable song Russian Radio. The next year Red Flag's debut album, Naive Art, released by Enigma, earned them another top 10 single, If I Ever. Red Flag's music became a favorite in dance clubs around the world. MTV put Red Flag's video, Russian Radio, in heavy rotation later that year. Touring extensively, Red Flag played with acts Devo, Thomas Dolby, and Book of Love. They appeared on the TV show American bandstand where they performed Russian Radio.

Since then, Red Flag released 11 albums, 14 CD singles, two box sets and appeared on numerous compilations. Their music has been featured on MTV reality shows. The band has played concerts around the world in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Peru. The music of Red Flag has evolved from New Wave Dance synthpop to darker and highly textured industrial melodies. Their work has inspired countless bands and garnered fans around the globe.

The untimely death of Mark Reynolds in 2003, brought to a halt the creative output of Red Flag. In time, Chris Reynolds has has opted to carry on the banner of Red Flag. Chris, acting alone, is the composer, arranger, singer, and producer of Red Flag's yet to be named new album. "Given good exposure, this album will take the world by storm when I release it." he said. "The time was right for me to write again. I kept coming up with these vivid melodies and great ideas for new songs kept coming to me. I'd find myself waking up in the middle of the night to compose elements of the songs before I forgot them. I'm almost finished with all the tracks and it rocks!"

Red Flag's album is expected to release by summer.

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  • Gives me shivers! I can't get enough of it!
    author: Hugonaught

    I hadn't heard of this band until a couple of years ago when a friend played their album The Crypt on a long drive. I was hooked-frankly everyone I've turned on to Red Flag's music has loved it. As for this album, The Bitter End, it is just awesome!! From the first song A Life Worth Living to my favorite song on the album, Wind and Sea all the way through the last song The Bitter End, I am carried away by the music. The album is sort of a tear-jerker, I mean you know how you get kind of choked up when you watch a movie with some really emotional parts...well this album really encites emotions in a way that music rarely does-you just have to hear it to experience what I mean. I highly recommend this album as well as Fear of a Red Planet and The Crypt. I love their other albums but these 3 are my favorites and this band rates among my all time favorite bands. Overall I am not really sure where to catagorize their music style or describe their music they are in a class of their own in my opinion.

  • Buddhalicious technopop for the masses
    author: A music fan

    The night finds me in a peculiar mood to say the most, so i'll begin saying that Red Flags 'The Bitter End' has been everything i expected. I love the album cover, the colors and the images make me want to show it off to my friends like the pair of numchucks i bought last week. The only trouble is that the inside cover has a strange industrial smell for whatever reason. Red Flag is such a cool band because their sound is rare and is becoming near extinct. This album almost inspires me to do a Depeche Mode bashing review but i'll try to do otherwise. The Bitter End is moody and almost comparable to other Red Flag albums but still manages to find it's own uniqueness. The lyrics have an element of maturity that surpasses other bands that still dwell in the realms of teenage mope rock. Even if some of the lyrics are bent with a touch of angst, the sounds are memorable and make for great night time driving music. It surprises me how many of my friends dig Red Flag, i find myself having to explain who they are and then i always get asked how i found such a band. Never-the-less i am a big Red Flag fan and recommend any of their albums.

  • I love Red Flag!!
    author: Jules

    This new album is absolutely wonderful!! I love all the songs,lyrics,music!! My favs are the pyramid song,thin air,nobody's perfect,and barbed wire cuts. I now have all their albums from Naive Art, Naive Dance,The Crypt,Fear of a red planet,the lighthouse,eagle and child,caveat emptor,ep,megablack series, fear series, the bitter end, and now finally today i got Who are the skulls?. Wow! You can see I love Red Flag!! Thanks Mark and Chris!!

  • The lighter side of Red Flag
    author: Shervin Nooshin

    If you enjoy the more recent style of RED FLAG sound, you will like this album. This album is sounds somewhere in between 'CRYPT' and 'THE FEAR OF THE RED PLANET', yet more mellow and not as dark. The album is in a typical RED FLAG fasion as all lyrics are about love, loss, life and reality. The album is semi dark, sad, and on the slow side. The only song that you may find yourself dancing to is "The Pyramid Song". My other favorate tracks on this album include: "A life Worth Living", "Metropolis Kiss", "One Plus One" and "The Bitter End".

  • Another GREAT album!!!
    author: The Rose Phantom

    I talked about Great Atmosphere in the FOARP review, and I will talk about it again with the brilliant masterpiece The Bitter End! With it's classy cover art & awesome songs with AWESOME atmosphere (the right kind of atmosphere in my book) like, A Life Worth Living, Metropolis Kiss, The Map Of Her Heart & Thin Air, just to name a few. As you listen to each track you are reminded that this is the definition of cool music...right here, Red Flag! The Bitter End!! BUY & enjoy!!! This is another album/masterpiece by RF that I'd call an inspiration to my new-age-Dark-wave project, revideolized www.myspace.com/revideolized ~The Rose Phantom~

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