RECORD MIRROR singles reviews, 17th October 1981

Nick, you don't have any idea where to get that long version of Les Emotions Francaises, do you?

also, Nick:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aigtAQXM3c

ahh, thanks jed!

you don't have any idea where to get that long version of Les Emotions Francaises, do you?

it's the b-side to 'emotional disguise' and it's actual name is 'french emotions'. can't remember whether the uk 12 is the long version though, but will try and find my copy so that i can check!

okay i figured the 'les emotions francais' thing out. the UK 'emotional disguise' 12" only has the short 'french emotions' on the b-side, which clocks in at just two and a half minutes, as do all the other appearances of it afaict. there's also an extended instrumental version (4 minutes long) that appears on the US 12" and the two have just been stuck together to produce a long french version. these two also appear together in that sequence on the canada only 'images of heaven' EP:

https://www.discogs.com/release/371668-Peter-Godwin-Images-Of-Heaven

maybe they run into each other on that? that's the sleeve image the uploader has used anyhow.

Ok, That's helpful! Thanks, Nick.

just been looking at the weird career of the guy who produced the peter godwin stuff, a norwegian guy called georg holtgreen who started out in the uk acid folk band eclection in the 60s, went on to front the horrific 70s band sailor, then in the 80s went weirdo synth pop in a duo called data who made this awesome tune:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYcMjxhIlF8

Sailor were not horrific!

There's good sailor!? I just remember 'girls, girls, girls' making me feel queasy when I was a child. I know that the 'down by the docks' 12" has become a minor cosmic disco classic but even that's dodgy as hell

I remember "World wide traffic jam"

Sailor's "A Glass Of Champagne" remains fantastic.

I saw Data in early 1982 - I think they were supporting Kid Creole - and they were delightfully idiosyncratic and odd.

Virginia David, who joined Sailor in 1980, made a fantastic single in early 1983 called "Am I Normal?", produced by Andy Hill (Bucks Fizz) and co-written by Julian Marshall (Marshall Hain). I only knew about it because a friend was working in Andy Hill's studio at the time - he wrote to me and said it was the best thing that Hill had done. The lyrics are batshit crazy though:

Comes alive
Driving auto fast
Exhastavent
Loves to drive
Shifts away from that
What's got her pend
Waiting for the stop light
Nerves are very near
Asks herself a question
Suddenly sincere
Am I normal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyWPChIR9ss