Tag Archives: 2007

Scooped! When Personal CD Projects Get Superseded By Real Labels [part 1]

Posted on July 25, 2019 by

For anyone reading this who hasn’t been hanging around for nine years or more, I took the name Post-Punk Monk for blogging when my friend saw an elaborate boxed set of god® that I had made. He likened the one-man … Continue reading →

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30 Days: 30 Albums | Nick Lowe – At My Age

Posted on September 26, 2018 by

I finally managed to nab another of the scant Nick Lowe albums in the used bins where I stretch what little of my music buying dollar I have. I now own a less-than-impressive four Nick Lowe albums. One from his … Continue reading →

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Rock GPA: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark [part 55]

Posted on April 6, 2018 by

[continued from last post] At the same time as their return to the concert stages of Europe and the UK, 2007 also brought with it news that an OMD fan, who was a filmmaker at Aspect Television, got the approval … Continue reading →

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Rock GPA: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark [part 54]

Posted on April 5, 2018 by

OMD – Architecture + Morality And More | 2007 – 2 [continued from last post] When OMD reformed and toured their top selling “Architecture + Morality” album in 2007 it was probably a given that they would record the tour … Continue reading →

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

Posted on April 4, 2018 by

[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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Rock GPA: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark [part 52]

Posted on March 19, 2018 by

Onetwo – Instead | 2007 – 3 [continued from last post] Following a startling Pink Floyd cover version, another big shock occurred at the end of “Have A Cigar,” when Bob Kraushaar was just starting to let rip on a “hot” … Continue reading →

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Rock GPA: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark [part 51]

Posted on March 15, 2018 by

Onetwo – Instead | 2007 – 3 [continued from last post] The album opened with a Big Bang. “The Theory Of Everything Part 1” was a cinematic cauldron roiling with anxious dread and by far the most portentous track ever to … Continue reading →

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