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REDUX: Want List: The Fingerprintz Singles
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
Posted in Designed By Peter Saville, Remastering, Want List
Tagged 12" singles, 1979, 1980, 1981, 7" singles, Fingerprintz, Jimme O'Neill
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Savage Republic Captured The Paradox of Post-Punk In SoCal ’81
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
Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 3]
[…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
Posted in BSOG, Live Music, Record Review, Want List
Tagged 1981, BSOG, David Ball, Marc Almond, Mike Thorne, Sire Records, Soft Cell, Vicious Pink Phenomena
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Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 2]
[…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
Posted in Record Review
Tagged 1981, David Ball, Marc Almond, Mike Thorne, Sire Records, Soft Cell, Vicious Pink Phenomena
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Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 1]
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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Tagged 1981, David Ball, Marc Almond, Mike Thorne, Sire Records, Soft Cell, Vicious Pink Phenomena
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REDUX: The Trouser Press Years
May 20, 2016 I have to admit that I was never one to follow the rock press very much. First of all, in America, this usually meant Rolling Stone or Creem Magazine; neither of which ever did anything for me. By … Continue reading
To Get The Complete Suburban Lawns, You Have To Do It Yourself
I always liked The Suburban Lawns. I remember hearing “Gidget Goes To Hell” on WPRK-FM college radio in 1981, and made further note of their song “Janitor” when I.R.S. Records came sniffing around, because who else in 1981 would have … Continue reading
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