Tag Archives: Sire Records

Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 3]

Posted on October 12, 2023 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] The Hippie Generation had their classic morning-after song in Kris Kristofferson’s “Sunday Morning Coming Down.” The Punk Generation got their equivalent in one of Soft Cell’s greatest singles. Written with empathy for the new club kids … Continue reading →

Posted in BSOG, Live Music, Record Review, Want List | Tagged 1981, BSOG, David Ball, Marc Almond, Mike Thorne, Sire Records, Soft Cell, Vicious Pink Phenomena | 18 Comments

Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 2]

Posted on October 10, 2023 by postpunkmonk

[…continued from last post] Pinned to a lurching backbeat the band obviously loved [there are backbeats galore on this album], the solemn “Youth” showed the young slip of a 24 year old Marc Almond already looking backward at the ash … Continue reading →

Posted in Record Review | Tagged 1981, David Ball, Marc Almond, Mike Thorne, Sire Records, Soft Cell, Vicious Pink Phenomena | 6 Comments

Soft Cell’s “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret” Sidestepped Synthpop Clichés In 1981 To Stand Apart From The Crowd [pt. 1]

Posted on October 9, 2023 by postpunkmonk

1981 was full of new bands heavy on the synths bursting out all over the place in the UK. The seeds sown by Gary Numan and Sparks a few years earlier were sprouting like weeds by that time. That year … Continue reading →

Posted in Record Review | Tagged 1981, David Ball, Marc Almond, Mike Thorne, Sire Records, Soft Cell, Vicious Pink Phenomena | 2 Comments

Record Review: Laid Back – Sunshine Reggae/White Horse US 12″

Posted on June 2, 2023 by postpunkmonk

Back in the Post-Punk twilight of the early mid-80s [this loaded phrase almost makes me weep…], we would watch Night Flight every Friday and Saturday night on the USA Network before they went downmarket with the campy B-movies replacing the … Continue reading →

Posted in Record Review | Tagged 1983, Denmark, Laid Back, Sire Records | 13 Comments

Seymour Stein: 1942-2023

Posted on April 3, 2023 by postpunkmonk

I was all set up today to write about Ryuichi Sakamoto when last night fate threw us a curve ball with news of the death the Seymour Stein. There aren’t too many label heads who were more important to the … Continue reading →

Posted in obituary | Tagged 2023, Sire Records | 16 Comments

My Tragically Late Recognition of Associates Changed Everything [part 2]

Posted on January 24, 2022 by postpunkmonk

Part 2: The EPIPHANY… As we was in said last post, I had many opportunities to be exposed to both Billy MacKenzie and The Associates and I was curiously deaf to the evidence. Nothing clicked for me. Until that fateful … Continue reading →

Posted in Core Collection, Scots Rock, Surviving The 90s, Those First Impressions | Tagged 1990, Associates, Billy Mackenzie, Sire Records | 4 Comments

A Tale Of Two ‘Speak + Spells’

Posted on June 28, 2016 by postpunkmonk

By the Fall of 1981, I’d begun to get wind of Depeche Mode, whose album, “Speak + Spell” was being released on Sire Records. Being that I was enamored of all things synthesized, I was probably the target audience for … Continue reading →