New In The Record Cell
-
Last 7 Posts
- The Blow Monkeys Finally Get Decisive 4xCD “Animal Magic” Box In 2023
- Another Ultravox Artifact From A Parallel Universe Fell Through A Wormhole Last Friday And It’s For Sale, But Not For Long
- DEVO’s Gerald Casale Has New EP Of “The Invisible Man” With Martyn Ware Remix Video
- Duran Duran As A Consumer Product In New Life Magazine Special Edition
- Want List: Robert Palmer BSOG of Complete Island Albums UK 9xCD
- Record Review: Grace Jones – “Slave To The Rhythm” US CD
- a-ha’s “Hunting High & Low” Represented Late-Blooming Synthpop Getting In Under The Wire
Last 7 Comments
- postpunkmonk on Another Ultravox Artifact From A Parallel Universe Fell Through A Wormhole Last Friday And It’s For Sale, But Not For Long
- Dave Turner on Another Ultravox Artifact From A Parallel Universe Fell Through A Wormhole Last Friday And It’s For Sale, But Not For Long
- postpunkmonk on The Blow Monkeys Finally Get Decisive 4xCD “Animal Magic” Box In 2023
- Scott Klapman on The Blow Monkeys Finally Get Decisive 4xCD “Animal Magic” Box In 2023
- Tim on The Blow Monkeys Finally Get Decisive 4xCD “Animal Magic” Box In 2023
- postpunkmonk on The Blow Monkeys Finally Get Decisive 4xCD “Animal Magic” Box In 2023
- postpunkmonk on Rock G.P.A.: Visage [part 4]
Feed Me
Month By Month
Categories
Tag Archives: Mid-80s Malaise
Record Review: Midge Ure – The Gift DLX RM [part 1]
I have written extensively about my complex relationship to the art of Midge Ure. I have alluded to how his 1985 solo single, “If I Was” was perhaps the record second only to David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance,” for the greatest … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Designed By Peter Saville, Mid-80s Malaise, New Romantic, Record Review, Scots Rock
Tagged 1985, 2009, DLX RM, Mid-80s Malaise, Midge Ure, Solo Album, The Gift
17 Comments
Rock GPA: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark [part 24]
[continued from last post] So after losing 90% of their UK audience following, “Dazzle Ships,” OMD had been concerned with “breaking in America.” The heat was on and the large and lucrative American market had been, until their singing with … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Mid-80s Malaise, Rock GPA
Tagged 1985, Crush, Mid-80s Malaise, OMD
13 Comments
REDUX: …And Ye Shall Know Them By Their MULLETS!
July 9, 2012 I’ve written before about how I’m not really enamored of the eighties after 1983, which I maintain is when the actual decade really began to manifest itself. I consider ’80-’83 the fallout of the seventies, which was … Continue reading
The Mid-80s Malaise: 1983 – The Year David Bowie Became Fallible
What was it about the mid-80s that made it the harbinger of artistic disaster for so many artists that I had previously thought the world of? By 1985, there seemed to be a perfect storm of political and social currents … Continue reading
Posted in Core Collection, Mid-80s Malaise
Tagged David Bowie, Let's Dance, Mid-80s Malaise
15 Comments
Post-Punk Monk 