Category Archives: Deadpan Women

Female New Wave singers with unemotional delivery. I love ’em enough to categorize them!

Cristina Monet Zilkha’s Legacy Served Well With New CD Remaster Of “Sleep It Off” And Biographical Book/Website

Last Friday was the release date of the CD that I never expected to see, but I should know better than to underestimate the powers of Rubellan Remasters. They are the plucky reissue label [run by one person – Scott … Continue reading

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Want List: Model Citizens Comprehensive Reissue Coming To LP + CD

Not long ago we were discussing the comprehensive reissue program that the label Modern Harmonic had lavished on NYC band The Dance, when the lead singer, Eugenie Diserio, left a welcome comment stating that the precursor band she sang in … Continue reading

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Superproducer Trevor Horn Recounts “Adventures In Modern Recording” In His Autobiography

I’m not sure that I ever mentioned this one here, but this might have been a case where my wife saw the book was out and ordered it for the library where she works. Due to a shipping snafu, she … Continue reading

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Record Review: xPropaganda’s “The Heart Is Strange” Charms The Savage Breast UK BR [pt 2]

[…continued from last post] The pre-release single from the album was the other pure pop number here. The delightfully defiant “Don’t [You Mess With Me].” Right there as the lead song on side two, if you’re of an LP persuasion. … Continue reading

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Record Review: xPropaganda’s “The Heart Is Strange” Charms The Savage Breast UK BR [pt 1]

It’s been tricky listening to this album even though I’ve had the Blu-Ray disc for over three months! Many of those weeks saw all of the music and things to play it on out of our home and in storage. … Continue reading

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Record Review: Propaganda – “Wishful Thinking” UK DLX RM CD [part 2]

My entrée to the world of Propaganda had been their 12″ single of “Duel;” one of the most vivid examples of the Hegelian dialectic between the Apollonian and the Dionysian rendered into song. The same song as performed and arranged … Continue reading

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Record Review: Propaganda – “Wishful Thinking” UK DLX RM CD [part 1]

Propaganda: Wishful Thinking DLX RM – UK – CD [2012] Abuse 3:30 Machined 6:54 Laughed! 8:54 Loving 0:47 Jewelled 7:44 Loved 6:43 Abuse 4:18 Thought 2:38 Strength To Dream (Outtake 04.02.84) 2:29 p:Machinery (The Beta Wraparound) 10:47 The Murder Of … Continue reading

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