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Programmed to Love | 
 enlarge | Artist: Bent
Label: Ministry of Sound Us
Category: Music
Buy New: $50.99
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 123740
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 824669500127
EAN: 0824669500127
ASIN: B00005QG9S
Release Date: October 23, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Exercise 1 | | • | Private Road | | • | Cyclons in Love | | • | I Love My Man | | • | I Remember Johnny | | • | Swollen | | • | Welly Top Mary | | • | A Ribbon For My Hair | | • | Invisible Pedestrian | | • | A New Wig For Me | | • | Always |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Though they've been compared to everyone from Air to Radiohead, Nottingham, England's Bent are mostly defined by their determination to sound like everyone. With that goal in mind, they've stuffed Programmed to Love with an array of samples from vocalists and snippets from jazz, rock, hip-hop, and God knows what else. Stylistically they flirt with downtempo, but just as often the music winds up further afield, embracing trip-hop, ambient, and post-club anthems. "Private Road" mixes a chilly female vocal with cracked samples and a swaying rhythm, but later the album falls into sillier, Lemon Jelly-like territory with "I Remember Johnny." It all works, making for a record that stays fresh with repeated listenings. Besides, Bent have received the ultimate 21st-century compliment already, as the vaguely big-beat thump of "Invisible Pedestrian" has shown up in a car commercial. With that sort of cachet, can mainstream success be far behind? If not, so be it, as Love finds room for more imaginative fun while being more accessible than anything in recent memory. --Matthew Cooke
Album Description
Now available in the U.S. from Ministry Of Sound USA. Bent garnered critical praise in almost all of the UK press. Fans of Air, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Dusted and the like are sure to love this album. 11 tracks total. 2002.
Album Details
Simon Mills and Nail Tolliday, the Nottingham, UK Electronica Artists who Go by the Name Bent, Released this Compilation in 2001, Encompasing Previous EP Releases.features Different Cover Art from the USA Version, and Different Tracks.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 Very pleased!!! December 22, 2008
G. Twine
I am really glad I made this purchase. The CD arrived carefully packaged and in great condition. Plus, I'm loving the music. Really cool CD!
Dreamy and LIght as Air November 24, 2007
Arlene Caballero (Jersey, NJ)
If you enjoy listening to Spacey yet Etherial music this is the album to get. Although till this day I have not realized this album came out it 2000, I can tell you the year has no effect on the sounds. Yes there are your many riffs and cuts from pieces, well samples of other songs placed here and there all over the album. This is no cause for alarm, the album finish is well put together. I thought at first listen that that is all it would be samples...but upon letting the album play you will hear vocals and lyrics to actual songs. The songs are very melodic and dreamy. I think my overall favorite would have to be " A new wig for me". It sounds repetitive to listen to but it is definitely catchy.
**ps. They have a new album out....2006 though not 07, which I am very surprised is not yet on Amazon...or maybe I have looked deep into it yet. It is also good.
 It all came from hearing them in a bar September 10, 2007
K. Jackson (Birmingham,AL)
And before I knew it I was asking the waitress who was that playing on the cd and here we are. Nice, chill, and laid back is the best way to descibe what I get from the disc.
Bent March 15, 2006
Rhett Morgan
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Music has a great aftertaste. One of the few albums that i can listen to over and over.
Interesting.....yet different May 12, 2005
Petar Vodogaz (Sydney, NSW Australia)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I was looking through my local music store perusing through the B Section and came across Bent: Programmed To Love CD. I said, 'what the heck', and purchased this CD. Until today I have not had a chance to listen to this album and I am both surprised and intrigued by this group's form of music. What is most enticing is that Bent does not come under one genre or form of music but takes from the pop, new age, easy listening as well as trance fusion and brings it all together into one package.
What one must have when they listen to this type of music is patience and understanding...patience is needed because to fully understand and enjoy this CD one must listen to the whole album more than once. It grows on you, as it did me.
This is 'Bent's' first album and I will be endeavouring to get their others soon on order from Amazon. The picks from this CD for me was 'Chocolate Wings' and 'Invisible Pedestrian'.
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