Tag Archives: 1977

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 →

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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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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 →

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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 →

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Want List: Ultravox! Live At The Rainbow 1977 Streaming Only Album

Posted on February 2, 2021 by postpunkmonk

Ultravox!: Live At The Rainbow 1977 – UK – STREAM [2021] Against all odds, the recent news of this live Ultravox! recording from 1977 has emerged of late to bamboozle This Monk with its bounty of vintage ‘Vox goodness. There … Continue reading →

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Moroder Week: Day 7 – Donna Summer – I Feel Love 12″

Posted on February 12, 2020 by postpunkmonk

What else could we end Moroder Week with but the truly seminal single “I Feel Love,” by Donna Summer? I can only typify the effect of this song’s appearance in 1977 as cataclysmic? I was still listening to Top 40 … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Iggy Pop – The Idiot US CD [part 4]

Posted on January 20, 2020 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] I’ll never forget what I once saw on a journey from Cleveland to Chicago in 1998 on Interstate 90. I was accompanying a Cle-based friend of JTs and we were headed to Chicago to see Kraftwerk … Continue reading →

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