Category Archives: BSOG

Midge Ure Has A Gift Box Ready For Our Ears

Posted on August 25, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Yow! The “Quartet” ultrabox has barely cooled from shipping [I’ve not started reviewing it yet owing to lack of time] and already the next step in the Midge Ure SDLX reissue program is ready to hit the pavement! In a … Continue reading →

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Ultravox “Quartet” Ultrabox Offers Alternate Look At Their Third Hit Album

Posted on May 31, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Like day follows night we’ve are writing about the Ultravox mothership making moves a day after we featured John Foxx’s latest movement. Now, the “Quartet” ultrabox has been an open secret for some months on the interwebs, but there was … Continue reading →

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Blow Monkeys Box Full Of “Animal Magic” Exerts Animal Magnetism [part 4]

Posted on May 4, 2023 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] …AND THEN SOME The first remix of “Sweet Murder,” the “Eek-A-Mix,” is still my favorite one. The band wisely roped in Jamaican DJ Eek-A-Mouse to transform the track from Reggae adjacent to a fully embracing a … Continue reading →

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Blow Monkeys Box Full Of “Animal Magic” Exerts Animal Magnetism [part 3]

Posted on May 3, 2023 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] EVERY LAST REMIX Disc four finally reached the last single from “Animal Magic” in remix form. I only ever owned the remix 12″ of “Don’t Be Scared Of Me” [MONK TX3] which came with five tracks, … Continue reading →

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Blow Monkeys Box Full Of “Animal Magic” Exerts Animal Magnetism [part 2]

Posted on May 2, 2023 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] MIX IT UNTIL IT HITS Disc three was where the program was deep in remixes of the five singles form the “Animal Magic” album. In fact, the disc was filled with remixes of just four of … Continue reading →

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Blow Monkeys Box Full Of “Animal Magic” Exerts Animal Magnetism [part 1]

Posted on April 28, 2023 by postpunkmonk

The Blow Monkeys: Animal Magic SDLX RM – UK – 4xCD [2023] Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3 Disc 4 Last month I finally ordered the Blow Monkeys’s DLX RM of “Animal Magic” in its slightly-sprawling-and-we-like-it-that-way 4xCD edition that was … Continue reading →

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Landscape Career Box “Landscape-A-Go-Go” Now Ready For Launch On July 21st

Posted on March 23, 2023 by postpunkmonk

In January we teased the first notice of the upcoming Landscape ultrabox without too much to know about it, other than the general gist of it, and since then we’ve had comments on that post from band member John L. … Continue reading →

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