Tag Archives: 1980

REVO Remastering: A Young Person’s Guide To Ultravox

Posted on February 19, 2019 by

Ultravox: A Young Person’s Guide To Ultravox 2xCD-R [2018] Disc 1 [Foxx] Satday Night In The City of The Dead Slipaway Wide Boys My Sex Young Savage RockWROK Fear In The Western World Distant Smile The Man Who Dies Every … Continue reading →

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REDUX: A Young Person’s Guide To: The Dickies – Nights In White Satin

Posted on December 10, 2018 by

July 30, 2014 The Dickies: Nights In White Satin UK 7″ [1979] Nights In White Satin Waterslide [remix] Back in the New Wave era we had a crate load of irreverent, smart-assed cover versions. Cover versions usually follow new genres. … Continue reading →

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Record Review: B-52’s – Wild Planet

Posted on November 20, 2018 by

B-52’s: Wild Planet US CD [1989] Party Out Of Bounds Dirty Back Road Runnin’ Around Give Me Back My Man Private Idaho Devil In My Car Quiche Lorraine Strobe Light 53 Miles West of Venus After the musical neutron bomb … Continue reading →

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Want List: Visage DLX RM […finally!]

Posted on November 2, 2018 by

Visage: Visage DLX RM US CD [2018] Visage Blocks On Blocks The Dancer Tar Fade To Grey Malpaso Man Mind Of A toy  Moon Over Moscow Visa-Age The Steps We Move Fade To Grey [US Dance Mix] Mind Of A … Continue reading →

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First Impressions Often Lie

Posted on October 30, 2018 by

Today my thoughts have gone to revisit those times when I have been disastrously wrong about something that upon revisiting, I will experience a 180 degree opinion switch on. Since I’ll never be Post-Punk Pope [I have no pull with … Continue reading →

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30 Days: 30 Albums | Orchestral Manœuvres In The Dark – Access All Areas

Posted on September 30, 2018 by

This album was conspicuously absent during the OMD Rock G.P.A. as it was always the most peripheral release of the band. I included all of the self-released live albums by the group but not this one. This was a BBC … Continue reading →

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Record Review: John Foxx – Metamatic DLX RM [part 9]

Posted on August 3, 2018 by

[continued from last post] All of the brief instrumentals were done and disc three concluded with a bevy of demos and alternate takes of familiar material. The demo of “No-One Driving” featured a very Moroderesque synthpulse kicking it into high … Continue reading →

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