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An Alternative History of "Pop" Music: Part 2, 1982 -

Started by jamiefairlie, January 20, 2021, 05:43:47 AM

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Quote from: Brundle-Fly on April 10, 2021, 12:40:56 PM
It was a shortlived genre but very enjoyable. Revived in the late nineties by Lionrock.
Yes! I was thinking of putting something off An Instinct for Detection on here, a few years down the line.

jamiefairlie

The Siddeleys - Theft

https://youtu.be/ysiDVyCv_4g



Taken from their Peel session recorded on 18 May, which appears to be the last studio work they did before splitting.

daf

The Lilac Time ‎– If the Stars Shine Tonight



Featured on the album 'Paradise Circus' - released in October 1989

QuoteIn early 1989, The Lilac Time's record company Fontana asked the band to begin recording their second album. The band wanted the record to be a double album entitled Tree, with one album consisting of singer-songwriter Stephen Duffy's songs and one of instrumentals, primarily composed by his brother Nick. Fontana refused, and the record instead became a single album, with the revised title of Paradise Circus, made up of twelve tracks written by Stephen and one by Nick.

As the recording sessions progressed, Fontana became unhappy with the music that the band had committed to tape and insisted that they return to the studio to cut more commercial songs which could be released as singles, while also urging them to "Americanize" their sound—something that was reportedly parodied by Duffy in his composing the song "American Eyes". [arf!]

 

According to Duffy, the wife of one of the Phonogram executives attached to the band disliked the sound of the pedal steel guitar, which the band had used liberally on the album. As a result, the record company insisted that the instrument be removed or lessened in volume by way of a remix, which served to both annoy the band and delay the album's release.

jamiefairlie

The Wedding Present - What Have I Said Now?

https://youtu.be/l-66q31s1Uw



Taken from their second album, Bizarro, it reached number 45 in the Festive Fifty.

The Lounge Lizards- Voice of Chunk (live TV version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm3rEZiJFIc


The Lounge Lizards, lead by sometime actor and painter John Lurie started out as jokey spoof jazz band, but soon found an interesting niche with the kind of warm, repetitious, riffy material on display here, on some 1989 US TV show presented by Jools Holland. As has been so often the case on Later..., Holland's jovial and flippant attitude clashes awkwardly with basically serious people. I don't know why doesn't just let his guard down a bit.

Brundle-Fly

Distractions - Paul McCartney.  Released on DP in1989.



Words fail me. The most exquisite woodwind arrangement and...LOVE?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcSR3u_uQLQ

jamiefairlie

Wire - In Vivo

https://youtu.be/c5R5dg0FzSs



Released as a single in July and also included on the album "It's Beginning To And Back Again".

jamiefairlie

A.C. Marias - One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing

https://youtu.be/28Iu7HdFg6I



Another member of the extended Wire family, Angela Conway (A.C. Marias) first release was the "Drop" single, released in July 1981 on Wire's Dome label, and featuring the band's Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis. This is the title track from her only album, also featuring Gilbert as well as Magazine's Barry Adamson.

daf


Brundle-Fly

Quote from: daf on April 11, 2021, 08:45:49 AM
DP?

Sorry. I was Saturday night rollingly "distracted", I meant to type 'Released on Parlophone.'

Brundle-Fly

Done By The Forces Of Nature - Jungle Brothers. Released on Warner Bros in 1989.





This album was a good companion for 3 Feet High And Rising by De La Soul. Quite Wu-Tangy too.

Jungle Brothers were formed through the high school friendship of Nathaniel "Afrika Baby Bam" Hall and Michael "Mike G." Small. Mike brought family friend DJ Sammy B into the mix and the Jungle Brothers were born. Members: Nathaniel Hall, Michael Small, and Sammy Burwell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8PzteyPpyE&t=1s

jamiefairlie

And Also The Trees - Misfortunes

https://youtu.be/E2SA0isOceY



Taken from their fourth album, Farewell to the Shade, and also released as a single

Johnny Yesno

The Cure - Out of Mind



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xa8pdFuJ9Uc

Yet another track in the 'broken psychedelia' strand of Cure compositions (as jamiefairlie calls it), Out of Mind is the companion to the excellent Babble (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAf-P_s2fOk) on the b-side of the Lullaby 12". I'm still a proud owner of the pink vinyl limited edition of this and I remember having such high hopes for the Disintegration album. Sadly, Disintegration is where the Cure and I parted company. I was so disappointed with its boring songs and drab production, I could have cried. It nearly went in the bin. Nevertheless, Out of Mind would have been a fine end to a decent music career, and that's how I think of it now.

Brundle-Fly

Hippy Children - Circus. Home demo from 1989.



This sounds like Gorillaz outtake.

An unreleased song by  Damon Albarn back in 1989. The song 'Hippy Children' was written by Damon and his then manager Graeme Holdaway under the name Circus during the days the Blur frontman recorded and wrote material at the Beat Factory studio in London's Euston area. Hippy Children' is about the 60s generation during Margaret Thatcher's 1980s. Featuring Damon on vocals it's the song that clinched him a deal with Food Records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd3HvRU6U3o

daf


daf

XTC ‎– The Loving



Released in August 1989 - did not chart

QuoteIn early 1988, XTC began rehearsing material for their next LP. At the suggestion of A&R executive Jeremy Lascelles, young American producer Paul Fox was recruited based on the strength of a Boy George remix that the label commissioned of him. Partridge disliked the original track but enjoyed Fox's remix: "It was really shiny, powerful and impressive." 

XTC, accompanied by the Moulding and Partridge families, arrived in Los Angeles on 12 May and stayed at the Oakwood Apartments in north Hollywood. Rehearsals began on 16 May with Pat Mastelotto of Mr. Mister joining the group as session drummer.



One of the recurring in-jokes during the sessions was a spin-the-wheel dial used for determining takes. The wheel's labels were "Great – best take ever" / "better than the Beatles" / "pretty good" / "okay" / "not so good" / "possibly acceptable" / "pretty bad" / "weak" / "horrible" / "dreadful" / and "the worst shit I'd ever heard". Another in-joke was the "Colonel Cunt Hat" and "Thumb of Decision" that anyone would wear if it was thought that they had a poor attitude.

Pat Mastelotto : "Andy stepped out of the room -- we'd thought he'd come right back in ... But he was gone, like, an hour. We were sitting there, going, "Shit, do we move ahead? We can't move ahead -- he hasn't signed off on it yet." There was this weird store across the street with really nasty porn stuff, and he made this hat with a strategically placed part of the female anatomy ... along with a Hitler mustache. He'd also made braids and stuck them here [motions to shoulders], and a riding crop, and he came back into the studio, after all this time, and goes [cod Nazi voice], "Ze Colonel is ready! Ze Colonel vill decide now vot is the take!"



"The Loving" was, according to Partridge, a rewrite of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love". The inspiration for the music came from the Supremes' "The Happening" and Honeybus' "I Can't Let Maggie Go". He added that he "wanted something anthemic like 'All the Young Dudes'". The song initially began as a "Madonna feel -- kind of a rock beat, very tight-sounding" until they later did "a few more takes of it, completely live -- the opposite of what we'd done earlier"

Released the exact same month as Tears for Fears 'Sowing the Seeds of Love' - which got to #5, while this didn't even crack the top 100!

Johnny Yesno

#1306
Helios Creed - Monster Lust



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHP0d2zj_yk

From the former Chrome guitarist's second album Superior Catholic Finger.

Johnny Yesno

Helios Creed - Late Bloomer



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdkrr7BGDXc

From the former Chrome guitarist's third solo album The Last Laugh.

Johnny Yesno


Johnny Yesno

Front Line Assembly - Bloodsport



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpTQd3TtDoU

From Front Line Assembly's fourth studio album Gashed Senses and Crossfire. The first three were a bit lacklustre in my opinion but this one is really great. This track even commits the cardinal sin of rhyming 'fire' with 'desire' but does it in a cool way.


jamiefairlie

Bob - Convenience

https://youtu.be/rXLE_0aruec



Formed in London in 1986. their debut single "Prune (your tree)" came out later that year. This is their fifth single and it reached number 31 in the Festive Fifty. They went on to release two albums before their demise in 1992.

Johnny Yesno

Delerium - Hidden Mask



https://youtu.be/BapFSgF7kg0?t=1765

Bill Leeb was a busy man in 1989. As well as Front Line Assembly, he was working on Delerium who released two albums in 1989, the first of which was Faces, Forms and Illusions. Delerium released four great albums before Leeb decided to turn them into a shit Deep Forest clone.

Johnny Yesno

Delerium - Coup De Tat



https://youtu.be/HUk4upy0LL8?t=1196

From Delerium's second album Morpheus. If you only check out one Bill Leeb album, I implore you to make it this one. I had one of the most incredible acid trips listening to this album on the day I bought it. I had a quick listen to the first track and thought 'Oh, yeah! Better save it for later!', with the result that I had no idea where it was going later on when I was really high.

Johnny Yesno

Skinny Puppy - Worlock



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y83YQiznQQY

One of two singles from Skinny Puppy's fifth studio album Rabies.

Johnny Yesno

Clock DVA - The Hacker



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO70w27i1Kk (STROBE WARNING)

From their fourth studio album Buried Dreams, which represented a turn towards a digital future dystopia aesthetic and subject matter. It's complete hokum but extremely well done.

Humanoid-Stakker Humanoid (Snowman Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaqj9jVUWs0

The original version of this was a hit in 1988, but I had to put something in to mark the start of the Deep Heat series of compilations which blew the young me's head off: and this remix was I think not widely available until the release of this compilation.
Humanoid was Brian Dougans, later a member of Future Sound of London. On his own remix of his hit "Stakker Humanoid", he incorporated elements from Howard Blake's soundtrack to The Snowman animation.

jamiefairlie

CUD - Only (A Prawn in Whitby)

https://youtu.be/x1N1ScitnYk



Formed in Leeds in 1987. The original line up included vocalist Carl Puttnam, guitarist/keyboardist Mike Dunphy, bassist William Potter, and drummer Steve Goodwin. This is their fifth single and it reached number 15 in the Festive Fifty.

Oz Oz Alice

Skullflower - Solar Anus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXG4_BVde14

This was the first single from Skullflower's smash hit debut Form Destroyer, Skullflower being the project of Matthew "Funtime" Bower who you will be familiar with from his many appearances in Smash Hits and his controversial Playgirl photo shoot in the early 90s. This Bataille referencing banger also features drums played by Stephen Thrower from fellow teen heartthrobs Coil.

Johnny Yesno

The Jesus Lizard - Bloody Mary



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS_lsBQS35o

From the first ep Pure by Duane Denison and former members of Scratch Acid David Yow and David Wm. Sims. Mac McNeilly was yet to join on drums, so there's a drum machine instead. If you ever wondered how important the drummer is to a composition, Bloody Mary is good lesson. The version on Pure is a bit anaemic, particularly when you compare it to this live version, which does have Mac on it:

The Jesus Lizard -Bloody Mary (Live): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7azI6OH9E

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

The B-52's - Deadbeat Club



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

When you think of The B-52's you don't, for good reason, tend to think of them as a band who were prone to bittersweet nostalgia. But this song, from their major commercial breakthrough, Cosmic Thing, is an absolutely beautiful paean to being young and happily directionless. Just bumming around with your little gang in a nowhere town, doing nothing and feeling everything.

It perfectly captures that late adolescence glow of not having to worry about the present or the future, while at the same time being aware of a cruel, nagging feeling at the back of your mind: this won't last forever, in fact it's almost over.

I reckon it's one of the best things they ever did. A perfect pop song.