Tag Archives: 1982

Vicious Pink Phenomena Caught In Live Snapshot From 1982 As A Download

Posted on March 30, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Gloryoski! I recently found a still zipped DL on my file server that dated back to about a year ago, when there was much moving of the needle on the Vicious Pink legacy with their fabbo “West View” compilation. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Immaterial Music, Live Music, Record Review | Tagged 1982, 2021, Bandcamp, Vicious Pink Phenomena | 3 Comments

Landscape Career Box “Landscape-A-Go-Go” Now Ready For Launch On July 21st

Posted on March 23, 2023 by postpunkmonk

In January we teased the first notice of the upcoming Landscape ultrabox without too much to know about it, other than the general gist of it, and since then we’ve had comments on that post from band member John L. … Continue reading →

Posted in BSOG, New Romantic, Want List | Tagged 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, boxed set, Cooking Vinyl, Landscape, Richard James Burgess | 23 Comments

Landscape Are Preparing Comprehensive Boxed Set Of God With “Landscape-A-Go-Go”

Posted on January 19, 2023 by postpunkmonk

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 | 21 Comments

Cherry Red Issuing New Musik 4xCD Box With All Three Albums + More

Posted on December 28, 2022 by postpunkmonk

We’ve always got time for New Musik; Tony Mansfield’s enormously appealing Technopop project that happened at just the right time in the ’79-’82 period, where analog synths were jostling up against new digital technologies like sampling to give him a … Continue reading →

Posted in Want List | Tagged 1979, 1981, 1982, Cherry Red, New Musik, technopop, Tony Mansfield | 25 Comments

Essential Logic’s “Logically Yours” Boxed Set Compiles Lora Logic’s Career and Brings It Up To Date [part 2]

Posted on December 19, 2022 by postpunkmonk

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 | Leave a comment

Essential Logic’s “Logically Yours” Boxed Set Compiles Lora Logic’s Career and Brings It Up To Date [part 1]

Posted on December 15, 2022 by postpunkmonk

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 →

Posted in Record Review | Tagged 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, Essential Logic, Lora Logic, Polly Styrene, Rough Trade | 3 Comments

40 Years Of Spoons “Arias + Symphonies” Demands Close Inspection of Canada’s Best Album [part 4]

Posted on November 4, 2022 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Some songs are simply so splendid that they inhabit a level of emotional sweep that few others can reach. “Nova Heart” is one such song. Beginning with an insouciant 808 rhythm, the deception of its casual … Continue reading →