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I'm getting ILM dejavu now.

and, yeah, none of this stuff gets talked about enough on ilm. sadly neglected era...

Really? I'dve thought at least Dee and Ned would fly the flag for it some times. I've brought up things like Japan and side projects, the Cocteaus etc before but got the impression no one was much interested as it'd been done to death.

Its odd, actually - the stuff that was common and everywhere to me, is now being spoken of in reverent tones by kids half me age as rare and amazing. I feel so old.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Howard Jones, Thompson Twins & early DM are OTM also.

― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I actually didn't know TFF were from Swindon!

They're not. They're from Bath, which is about 30-40 miles from Swindon according to my giant map of the UK on the wall and how far apart my fingers stretched between them.

― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Thursday, 18 January 2007 05:01 (seventeen years ago) link

thomas dolby - the flat earth
surely thats worthy of a mention here, its classic stuff (except hyperactive which is overplayed ..), also, his final proper album astronauts and heretics revisits the whole moody/synth-ness and has some great tracks on it...

Oh my god don't get me started on that one...we'll be here all night.

― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Thursday, 18 January 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

This far into the thread and no mention yet of the Blue Nile who actually pwn it. So let's put that right.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 January 2007 08:28 (seventeen years ago) link

XTC members work on new album
'Monstrance' will be released in April
XTC frontman Andy Partridge and keyboardist Barry Andrews have been working on an improvisational music project with drummer Martyn Barker.
Known simply as the Partridge-Andrews-Barker Project, the trio compiled more than eight hours of material during three live sessions in Swindon's Headroom Studio last November.
Engineer Merv Carswell and Future Sound Of London guitarist Stuart Rowe recently finished arranging the material into a two-disc set, 'Monstrance', to be released in the US on April 3 via Ape House.
According to a spokesperson, the album is "unusual but invigorating stuff."
The 'Monstrance' tracklisting is:
Disc 1:
'I Lovely Cosmonaut'
'Winterwerk'
'Black Swan Black'
'Mig'
'Oodoo'
'UR Tannoy'
'Little Field'

Disc 2:
'Pagoda Tailfin'
'Chain Gang'
'Torturetainment'
'The Floating World'
'Priapple'

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 18 January 2007 09:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I suspect this is likely to be amelodic and rhythm dominate.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Could be interesting.

― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't exactly set one's pulse racing.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 January 2007 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I still don't quite see why XTC belong here (except they are excellent).

Anyway, a-ha's excellent "Scoundrel Days" album deserves a mention. Way better than "Hunting High & Low". Also, Thomas Dolby's debut album is way more essential than "The Flat Earth" is.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Though they do earn some cred points by having had Mike Nocito as a member, one of the engineers behind The Cure's Pornography and apparently close pals with ex-Cure bassist Phil Thornalley, who replaced Clark Datchler on lead vocals when Datchler left the group in 1991

I believe Thornalley produced their debut album. (Possibly as a replacement, as the production sounds a lot like Alex Sadkin, and there is a cryptic "To Alex: Thanks... and goodbye" message inside)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/3721/alps9sw.jpg

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps not so cryptic; wasn't Sadkin killed in a car crash round about that time?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 18 January 2007 12:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Re: Dolby, not just _The Flat Earth_, but _The Golden Age of Wireless_. That album cries for a 2cd 'remaster w/ bonus' treatment.

― lumberingwoodsman (Chris Hill), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:35 (seventeen years ago) link

re Dolby - well the whole catalogue is now part of EMI and i have read that there is indeed a campaign to get exactly that, and seeing as the man himself is out there plugging his songs again on stage (the shows are brilliant - the revised versions of the classics really work) then i do indeed wonder if we are coming to a time when Dolby gets his time again.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Doesn't exactly set one's pulse racing.

I agree. Where the hell's Colin these days?

― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

please don't refer to XTC as "80's synth pop."

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps not so cryptic; wasn't Sadkin killed in a car crash round about that time?

Sure. About three or four months prior to their "Shattered Dreams" breakthrough, so it is not at all impossible he was set to produce them. Their sound had some Sadkin-like elements to them, notably the bass sound.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 19 January 2007 03:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Colin's pretty much retired from music, I'm afraid.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 19 January 2007 09:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I would check out Tuxedomoon, if you haven't already. I've been enjoying the heck out of "Desire" recently.

Also try out the Hosono/YMO/Sakamoto crowd of records if you're craving that 80s sound. They did some of the most interesting work. Selections of Virginia Astley's "Hope in a Darkened Heart" (produced by Sakamoto) are total brialliance.

― Tommy James (Tommy James), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Look, just forget it. Can't we talk about XTC some more?

― White Dopes on Punk (Bimble...), Saturday, 20 January 2007 07:57 (seventeen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Just discovered this thread, but I'm interested in this stuff currently.

Naked Eyes? I haven't heard a bad song by them.

Early stuff by Flowers / Icehouse - at least first two albums.

― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 14:12 (two years ago) link

Also...how could people have missed Scritti Politti?

― Night of Olay: The Resurrection (I M Losted), Tuesday, 30 November 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link

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