Tag Archives: 1979

Redux: I Was A Token New Waver…

Posted on October 9, 2018 by

July 25, 2014 I’ve written in the past about the curious phenomenon of False New Wave®, which got pretty rampant during the salad days of the trend. We were treated to the spectacle of rawk stars a generation older adopting … Continue reading →

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Record Review: John Foxx – Metamatic DLX RM [part 7]

Posted on July 23, 2018 by

[continued from last post] With the first half of disc two acting like a sister album to “Metamatic” with ten new songs, the last half of the disc mops up alternative versions and mixes from the album [with one exception]. … Continue reading →

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Record Review: John Foxx – Metamatic DLX RM [part 1]

Posted on July 10, 2018 by

Eight years ago, I predicted a 3xCD DLX RM of John Foxx’s “Metamatic” but in my naïveté, I had imagined that it was going to manifest by 2013. It’s taken five more years, but it has been out for about … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Sparks – No. 1 In Heaven DLX RM [part 2]

Posted on September 7, 2017 by

[…continued from previous post] “Tryouts For The Human Race” began like bubbles of Syndrums® rising up from the blue depths, faster and faster as the approaching and relentless sequencers announced that yes, Giorgio Moroder was indeed in the room. What … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Sparks – No. 1 In Heaven DLX RM [part 1]

Posted on September 6, 2017 by

Sparks: No. 1 In Heaven DLX RM EURO CD [2013] Tryouts For The Human Race – 6:06 Academy Award Performance – 4:59 La Dolce Vita – 5:52 Beat The Clock – 4:22 My Other Voice – 4:53 The Number One … Continue reading →

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REDUX: A Thousand Number One Albums In The UK

Posted on August 30, 2017 by

November 25, 2013 Today on the BBC was a feature examining the thousand albums that have topped the British charts since their point of origin in July 1956. I wondered how many of those best sellers would fall  under the … Continue reading →

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Song Of The Day: David Werner – What’s Right

Posted on July 10, 2017 by

In 1979 I was still listening to FM Rock. I had started the previous year and while the preponderance of nascent Classic Rock [just as it was fully calcified and ready to spread like a virus across the FM airwaves] … Continue reading →

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