Tag Archives: 2005

The Night Of The Proms: Middlebrow Eurokitsch?…Or The Final Frontier Of Your Obsessive Collection?

It was during the medium-high internet record collecting years around the turn of the century, that I became aware of a European phenomenon called “The Night Of The Proms.” This was begun in 1985 in Belgium by two students and … Continue reading

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Billy MacKenzie Remixed [part 7]

[…continued from last post] 2003 brought a shake up to the already established Billy MacKenzie canon of posthumous releases. Nude records had cone out of business at the time, giving One Little Indian some of their catalog titles. In 2003, … Continue reading

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Billy MacKenzie Fandom In The Aftermath: It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst of Times [part 5]

Part 5: Death As A Career Move… The next seven or eight years following Billy’s death saw all manner of his recordings get a release from various labels and concerns. While MacKenzie was gone and would no longer create music … Continue reading

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30 Days: 30 Albums | Ursula 1000 – Here Comes Tomorrow

A few years ago, when tracking down anything…and I mean anything that Cristina Monet might have done in the interminable slog following her 1983 “Sleep It Off” opus, I came across the Ursula 1000 album “Here Comes Tomorrow” ca. 2005, … Continue reading

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Rock GPA: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark [part 53]

[continued from this post] While the Onetwo album had been gestating since the early 2000s, to be released in 2007, there had already been a seismic occurrence with the tentative reformation of OMD in 2005 for the purposes of a … Continue reading

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Record Review: KAS Product – By Pass DLX RM

KAS Product: By Pass DLX RM FRENCH CD [2005] Loony-Bin Seldom, Often Smooth Down Mingled & Tangled Tina Town T.M.T. Devil Fellow W. Infatuation Taking Shape Tape Scape Sweet & Sour Crash Party It was 2006 when I first chanced … Continue reading

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Collecting Simple Minds In The 21st Century [part 4]

[continued from previous post] We proceed in listing the many singles in many territories that Simple Minds issued like dandelion seeds in the 21st century. Part 4 Simple Minds Home CD#1 EUROPE CD5 | Sanctuary Records ‎– SANXS388 | 2005 Home [edit] 4:03 Bird On A Wire 3:50 … Continue reading

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