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Tag Archives: 1978
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
Landscape Are Preparing Comprehensive Boxed Set Of God With “Landscape-A-Go-Go”
Last week I received an email from commenter Richard Anvil who managed to strike gold in his internet travels. We share many music obsessions and the great Technopop band Landscape was among them. He ran across a current Landscape website … Continue reading
Posted in BSOG, New Romantic, Records I Used To Own, Want List
Tagged 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, Landscape, Richard James Burgess
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Essential Logic’s “Logically Yours” Boxed Set Compiles Lora Logic’s Career and Brings It Up To Date [part 2]
The next album was the “Aerosol Burns” And Other Misdemeanours” collection. This was a collection of the ten A/B-sides from 1978 and 1981 not already accounted for on the first two LPs. “Aerosol Burns” was the debut, which felt like … Continue reading
Posted in Record Review
Tagged 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 2022, Essential Logic, Lora Logic, Poly Styrene, Rough Trade
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Essential Logic’s “Logically Yours” Boxed Set Compiles Lora Logic’s Career and Brings It Up To Date [part 1]
One of the fascinating players in the Post-Punk explosion was Lora Logic [a.k.a. Susan Murphy] who was moved to join X-Ray Spex as a teenager after seeing their want ad in the UK press. Like few female musicians of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, Essential Logic, Lora Logic, Polly Styrene, Rough Trade
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Want List: Robert Palmer BSOG of Complete Island Albums UK 9xCD
We were slow to acknowledge the many charms of Robert Palmer at first. In 1978, when he got his first US Top 40 hits on his ’78/’79 albums with “Every Kinda People” and “Bad Case Of Loving You” I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Want List
Tagged 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, BSOG, Edsel Records, Robert Palmer
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Keith Levene: 1957-2022
Saturday, I received the word from my friend and frequent commenter chasinvictoria that Keith Levene had died from liver cancer. When I think of the three guitarists from the Post-Punk era who helped to define the new concepts that would … Continue reading
New Wave Blind Spots: Squeeze
There’s almost 2500 posts at PPM and this is the first one on Squeeze. There’s a reason for that. In all candor, they were never a group that really excited me in any way. I know many at the time … Continue reading
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