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Steel Cage Match: Simple Minds VS OMD Boxed Sets Due October 4th!

Posted on August 20, 2019 by

Holy frijoles! You take a day off blogging to work extra hard, and all heck breaks loose with one’s favorite bands. Let’s discuss this in the order that I found out about it. Today both OMD and Simple Minds have … Continue reading →

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Gorge Yourself On Disco: Spandau Ballet’s “Diamond” Boxed Set Edition [part 4]

Posted on May 4, 2017 by

[…continued from previous post] And after “Coffee Club,” this album manifested several other, radically different forms. This was the crucial factor that made “Diamond” such an arresting, almost stupefying album. Their first album was generally of a consistent piece; rock … Continue reading →

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Gorge Yourself On Disco: Spandau Ballet’s “Diamond” Boxed Set Edition [part 3]

Posted on May 3, 2017 by

[…continued from previous post] The next track on the program was the upbeat dance track “Instinction.”I think I had already seen the video on MTV by the time I had this, so having heard the superhuman Trevor Horn remix of … Continue reading →

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Gorge Yourself On Disco: Spandau Ballet’s “Diamond” Boxed Set Edition [part 2]

Posted on May 2, 2017 by

[…continued from previous post] Let’s get the topic right out of the way. I can never get enough of “Chant No. 1 [I Don’t Need This Pressure On]!” The 4:00 single/LP version is awe-inspiring enough to act as a tease. … Continue reading →

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Gorge Yourself On Disco: Spandau Ballet’s “Diamond” Boxed Set Edition [part 1]

Posted on May 1, 2017 by

Spandau Ballet: Diamond Boxed Set 4×12″ [1982] Chant No. 1 [I Don’t Need This Pressure On][Remix] 8:04 Instinction [Remix] 6:58 Paint Me Down [Remix] 6:24 Coffee Club [Remix] 6:48 She Loved Like Diamond [12″ Version] 3:41 Pharaoh 6:35 Innocence And … Continue reading →

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New Gold Dream Goes Superdeluxe

Posted on May 19, 2016 by

Simple Minds: New Gold Dream [81, 82, 83, 84] Super Deluxe Boxed Set 5xCD+DVD UK [2016] Disc 1 – Album remastered King Is White And In The Crowd Hunter And The Hunted Glittering Prize New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84) Somebody Up … Continue reading →

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David Bowie Memory Palace [part 39]

Posted on April 6, 2016 by

2014 [continued] Since I was coming to “The Next Day” almost a year late, by the time I purchased, I encountered the “Extra” disc at the same time as the album proper. I did appreciate that the new songs were … Continue reading →

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