Tag Archives: 1981

REDUX: Go-Go’s: Beauty + The Beat 30th Anniversary Edition

Posted on April 12, 2024 by postpunkmonk

December 15, 2015 Go-Go’s: Beauty + The Beat DLX RM 2xCD US [2011] Disc 1 – Album Our Lips Are Sealed How Much More Tonite Lust To Love This Town We Got The Beat Fading Fast Automatic You Can’t Walk … Continue reading →

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REDUX: Record Review: Adam + The Ants – Prince Charming

Posted on March 20, 2024 by postpunkmonk

October 26, 2015 Adam + The Ants: Prince Charming US CD [1981] Scorpios Picasso Visita El Planeta De Los Simios Prince Charming 5 Guns West That Voodoo Stand And Deliver Mile High Club Ant Rap Mowhok S.E.X.– The Lost Hawaiians … Continue reading →

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REDUX: Want List: The Fingerprintz Singles

Posted on March 19, 2024 by postpunkmonk

October 7, 2015 Among the 30 releases that arrived in the mail on Monday, was a record that was pretty significant to me. The Fingerprintz “Shadowed” 12″ single. I bought what was the new Fingerprintz album, “Beat Noir” when it … Continue reading →

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Savage Republic Captured The Paradox of Post-Punk In SoCal ’81

Posted on February 7, 2024 by postpunkmonk

When I think back to 1981, I was listening to a lot of WPRK-FM. College radio from Rollins College; a tony private college in Winter Park, Florida that had much better programming than the offerings from the State University that … Continue reading →

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Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 3]

Posted on October 12, 2023 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The Hippie Generation had their classic morning-after song in Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” The Punk Generation got their equivalent in one of Soft Cell’s greatest singles. Written with empathy for the new club kids … Continue reading →

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Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 2]

Posted on October 10, 2023 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Pinned to a lurching backbeat the band obviously loved [there are backbeats galore on this album], the solemn “Youth” showed the young slip of a 24 year old Marc Almond already looking backward at the ash … Continue reading →

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Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 1]

Posted on October 9, 2023 by postpunkmonk

1981 was full of new bands heavy on the synths bursting out all over the place in the UK. The seeds sown by Gary Numan and Sparks a few years earlier were sprouting like weeds by that time. That year … Continue reading →

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