Tag Archives: 1977

TVLKINGHEVDS:77 Ultrabox Prepping For Launch

Posted on September 20, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Okay. so I’ve been busy. Work and home is buzzing with activity, not to mention faint signs of a social life, so can you blame me for just finding out today from commenter schwenko that there’s a new ultrabox vying … Continue reading →

Posted in 5.1, Core Collection, Live Music, Want List | Tagged 1977, 2024, Blu-Ray, boxed set, Jerry Harrison, surround sound, Talking Heads | 7 Comments

Maybe It’s Time To Compile That Box Set: Produced By Midge Ure? [part 2]

Posted on September 11, 2024 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from this post] Today we’ll continue and hopefully finish looking at the career of PPM icon Midge Ure as a producer of other peoples records. We got into this a few weeks ago and I knew the timing was … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, New Romantic, Scots Rock, Want List | Tagged 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, Midge Ure | 23 Comments

Maybe It’s Time To Compile That Box Set: Produced By Midge Ure? [part 1]

Posted on August 29, 2024 by postpunkmonk

Today we’ll start looking at the career of PPM icon Midge Ure as a producer only. I swore that I’d already posted on this before, but inasmuch as I may have mentioned it, the nuts and bolts of it remained … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, New Romantic, Scots Rock, Want List | Tagged 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, Midge Ure | 3 Comments

Simple Minds Superfans Can Invest In A New Gold Dream: Songwriting + Sound Recording Royalties For 1977-1981 Material Now Up For Sale

Posted on April 25, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Last week I got a eye-popping email from my old buddy JT. As a person with a career in the music industry as a musician and engineer, he keeps an eye peeled on the horizon for things which can evade … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Uncategorized | Tagged 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, Simple Minds | 12 Comments

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 →

Posted in BSOG, New Romantic, Want List | Tagged 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, boxed set, Cooking Vinyl, Landscape, Richard James Burgess | 23 Comments

Those First Impressions: Johnny + The Self-Abusers – “Saints + Sinners” UK 7″

Posted on March 21, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Johnny + The Self-Abusers: Saints + Sinners – UK – 7″ [1977] Johnny + The Self-Abusers was not the first name the band that would eventually become Simple Minds ever had. That would be the even weirder Biba-Rom! But Johnny … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Record Review, Scots Rock, Those First Impressions, Want List | Tagged 1977, 2023, Johnny + The Self Abusers, Soul Jazz Records | 3 Comments

REVO Remastering: Ultravox! – Live At the Rainbow 1977 + [REVO 105]

Posted on September 16, 2022 by postpunkmonk

The appearance of the Ultravox! [exclamation point, please!] “Live At The Rainbow 1977” album as an Island/UMG release in 2022, of all years, was a least expected event for certain. Sure, there were reissues every 7-10 years of the first … Continue reading →