Tag Archives: Japan

Ultimate Virgin Compilation: New Gold Dreams

Various: New Gold Dreams UK 3xCD [2013] Disc 1 Public Image Limited – Death Disco 12” Version (June 79) 
Magazine – Permafrost (Apr 79) 
Fingerprintz – Dancing With Myself (Jan 79) 
Essential Logic – Wake Up (May 79) The Men … Continue reading

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Read This Now – Immediately!

I have been known to stumble around the topics and themes present in this article, but the limitations of time that restrict this blog to frantic typing during my lunch hour, cannot help but pale next to a considered opus … Continue reading

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New Wave Compilations: Best Of 12″ Synth Gold

Various: Best Of 12″ Synth Gold UK [1990] Thompson Twins: Love On Your Side [ext.] Blancmange: Living On The Ceiling [ext.] Heaven 17: Play To Win [ext. ver.] Visage: Mind Of A Toy [ext. ver.] Japan: Life In Tokyo [“Assemblage” … Continue reading

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CD-3 Files: Japan – Ghosts

Japan: Ghosts UK CD-3 [1988] Ghosts [single edit] The Art Of Parties [version] Visions Of China This was another of the initial launch of catalog titles that Virgin Records used to launch the CD-3 format in the UK with. With … Continue reading

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New Wave Compilations: Cash Cows

This is not specifically a New Wave Compilation, but the timing of this label comp plants it with one foot in the mid 70s and one foot in the early 80s. Virgin Records were undergoing a shedding of skin from … Continue reading

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Not Bryan Ferry …But An Incredible Simulation!

In these days of a new Bryan Ferry solo opus, [“Olympia”], thoughts turn to the smaller fish that follow, like pilot fish, in the wake of the great grey whale of art that is Mister Ferry. Like his contemporary, David … Continue reading

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