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Re: Soundtracks of Our Lives week ending 5 December 2015 CE
Dec 06, 2015, 10:59
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again/A Broken Frame
More DM this week, seem to be on a bit of a synth pop kick at the minute.
Hadn't heard 'Construction' in years. Can see why now, it's a bloody terrible record. OK, it showed the first instances of their sub dark quasi industrial gleanings, but other than the singles, it's pants. Everything Counts is a great pop moment, even if the slightly kak handed lyric is a little cringe worthy at times, the sentiments they were trying to convey still hold true, probably more so these days. I curiously googled what other peeps thought was the best/worst DM albums. The only consensus is that the sub angst goth/industrial stuff was thought of as better than their synth pop inception. Now for me, it's the other way around. Speak & Spell and A Broken Frame are far and away better records than say, Some Great Reward or Black Celebration.
Leave In Silence (quieter) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFJultihvB0
My Secret Garden (Excerpt) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvqamBFluis

Julian Cope - Jehovahkill
Can't get enough of this at the minute. The only thing I'd change about this record is the production. I'd like a dirtier/ looser/ lower fi mix for some of the track, but I still find myself singing along to pretty much all of it. Slow Rider - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjcLYiq-SoM

Various - Mojo Brain Damage Cover Mount
Think of all the free cover mount comps I'be had over the years, this is by far the one that gets the most spins, it has what all good comps have, a really good flow between tracks. I used to make comps all the time once upon a time, but now in the age of 'shuffle', not so much. It's a dying art these days.
Coffin Daggers - Interstellar Overdrive (Live)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cSOQMRPkPE

Various Artists / Neo Romantix Years
Enjoyable covers album where most tracks are not the obvious carbon copy rehashes of the originals. Some of the tracks have reached past the halfway point before I've had that 'aaaaahhh it's that' moment.
https://hivmusic1.bandcamp.com/album/neo-romantix-years-upr-025-cd
Youth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA-NvqJru3A

Crash Course In Science - Near Marineland
Posthumous cobbled together album release for proto techno/electro pioneers. Heard the track 'Jump Over Barrels' on the Trevor Jackson Metal Dance II Comp and was blown away. How had something this cool from 1979 not hit my radar before. Fits right in with The Normal, Fad Gadget and The Cabs etc... The band had apparently released several singles but never got around to completing and album. There's a box set out there for completists, but it's one of those 'on demand' releases, so pretty pricey.
Jump Over Barrels - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97HW46hCWJQ

Simple Minds - Reel To Real/ Empires and Dance
Y'know, if Simple Minds had split after 'New Gold Dream' as far as I'm concerned, they'd have left a near perfect legacy. I can just about take Sparkle in The Rain, but the rest, meh!
Couple if interesting, looser live version below.
Jim Kerr looks impossibly young.
Premonition (live French TV) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkx8KtdU1g4
Celebrate (French Live TV) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HNW-Id3Q2I
Premonition and Factory - Live NYC Hurrah's -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbri7mwGxJ8
Scots TV 1980 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqCl3QCXFl4

Have a great week y'all.
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