Category Archives: NWOBJP

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Want List: Carmel’s “Wild Country” Album Her First Original Studio Album In 27 Years…And Nobody Told Me!

Things have been very quiet on the Carmel front since her 2015 single “Sad Situation” b/w “Second Wife Blues.” It was a Bandcamp release that I still haven’t yet purchased from the 3-mile want list, but for reasons unknown, I … Continue reading

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Rock G.P.A.: The Blow Monkeys [part 3]

The Blow Monkeys Limping For A Generation 1984 3.5 The first Blow Monkeys album arrived over two years following that debut indie single. Changes had occurred in the band with original drummer Angus Hines being replaced with Tony Kiley by … Continue reading

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Record Review: Antena – Camino Del Sol BENELUX CD

Antena: Camino Del Sol – BEN – CD  [1989] The Boy From Ipanema Camino Del Sol To Climb The Cliff Silly Things Sissexa Achilles Bye Bye Papaye Noelle A Hawai Les Demoiselles De Rochefort Spiral Staircase Unable It was some … Continue reading

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Song Of The Day: The Blow Monkeys – Atomic Lullaby

Today I have this early single by The Blow Monkeys coursing through my circuits. The last few Saturdays have seen me drawn to the middle period house phase of the band where they were the only British New Wave band … Continue reading

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Record Review: Carmel – The Drum Is Everything [part 2]

[…continued from last post] Side one of the album winds down with a real anomaly. “The Prayer” was another of the six and a half minute tracks that anchored the album, but while “More, More, More” and “Bad Day” were the … Continue reading

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Record Review: Carmel – The Drum Is Everything

Carmel: The Drum Is Everything GER CD [1986] More, More, More Stormy Weather The Drum Is Everything I Thought I Was Going Mad The Prayer Rockin’ On Suicide Rue St. Denis Willow Weep For Me Tracks On My Tears Bad … Continue reading

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Matt Bianco: Half A Minute

Matt Bianco: Half A Minute UK 12″ [1984] Half A Minute [ext. ver.] Matts Mood II [ext. ver.] When I bought the debut album by Matt Bianco in 1984, the cut that leaped off the wax to lodge deepest in … Continue reading

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