Tag Archives: 2009

Record Review: Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age Of Wireless DLX RM

Posted on August 27, 2015 by postpunkmonk

Thomas Dolby: The Golden Age Of Wireless UK CD+DVD [2009] CD [DLX RM] Flying North Commercial Breakup Weightless Europa + The Pirate Twins Windpower The Wreck Of The Fairchild Airwaves Radio Silence Cloudburst At Shingle Street One Of Our Submarines … Continue reading →

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REVO Remastering: Peter Godwin – Torch Songs + Heroics [REVO 057]

Posted on July 23, 2015 by postpunkmonk

Peter Godwin: Torch Songs + Heroics 2xCD [2009] Disc 1 America In My Head [7″] Torch Songs For The Heroine [7″] Cruel Heart America In My Head [12″] Torch Songs For The Heroine [ballad] Cruel Heart [inst.] America in My … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Bruce Woolley + The Camera Club DLX RM [part 2]

Posted on July 15, 2015 by postpunkmonk

[continued from last post] Then it was time for an abrupt change of pace. The brief instro “W.W.9” was a co-write with Thomas Dolby, who assays the sort of synth and piano action here that pointed to the development of … Continue reading →

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Record Review: Bruce Woolley + The Camera Club DLX RM [part 1]

Posted on July 13, 2015 by postpunkmonk

Bruce Woolley + The Camera Club: Bruce Woolley + The Camera Club UK DLX RM CD [2009] English Garden Video Killed The Radio Star Dancing With The Sporting Boys Johnny No Surrender Flying Man You Got Class W.W.9 Clean Clean … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art [part 11]

Posted on May 7, 2015 by postpunkmonk

ALBUM 19: Lostboy! A.K.A. Jim Kerr | 2010 | designer:  Curious Curious stayed on when Jim Kerr prepared his solo project from Simple Minds the very next year. The highly textured looking cover was certainly low key, with rough paper texture images … Continue reading →

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Simple Minds Sidebar 1: Ranking The Cover Art [part 10]

Posted on May 6, 2015 by postpunkmonk

ALBUM 18: Graffiti Soul | 2009 | designer:  Curious The next Simple Minds album took a stately four years to materialize, and when it did, it was in a deceptively plain, black sleeve as designed by the Edinburgh design team Curious. … Continue reading →

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Rock G.P.A.: Simple Minds [part 75]

Posted on April 21, 2015 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from previous post] While past members were not the way forward for the band, the past music held the key to the way forward. Early Simple Minds were starting to get name checked, coupled with the fact that the last time … Continue reading →

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