Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rod the Mod finds his solo footing, headed for stardom, with the Faces in his wake.
6:00 AM GMT 22/06/2011
Features Disc of the day
Simple Minds
Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
(Virgin, 1981)
Music that really is “dancing about architecture”!
MOJO’s OK Computer CD and Groove Armada’s electronica-inclined Late Night Tales collection (hats off for acknowledging League Unlimited Orchestra’s Love And Dancing remixathon) has inspired this ’80s flashback. So enter if you dare a retro-futurist citiscape of glimmering steel and incipient, Ballard-esque alienation, where love songs (cf. Love Song) are spiralling towers of melancholy, Mick McNeil’s glacial keyboards call the tune and the rubbery trancebeat provided by the soon-to-disband Derek Forbes/Brian McGee boiler-room induces a Can-like fugue state. Modernism and architecture are obvious touchstones – Theme For Great Cities is as explicit as an instrumental can be – but the yearning for a world remade and regret for what might be left behind illuminate Gong bloke Steve Hillage’s cold, drifty production and the oft-mocked Jim Kerr’s mystic techno-babble. Boringly, Simple Minds became a rock band soon after, but they left these strange and beautiful monuments behind.
Danny Eccleston
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 08/01/2008
Further Listening
Gary Numan – Replicas (Beggars Banquet, 1979)
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Virgin, 1982)
The Human League – Reproduction (Virgin, 1979)
Previous Disc of the day
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Earl Brutus - Larky
Last salvo of Ginsters Pasty-Warholism from Britpop ramraiders.
12:04 PM GMT 08/06/2011
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Loudon Wainwright - T-Shirt
An overlooked small wonder from an unpredictable career.
6:00 AM GMT 03/06/2011
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Landscape - From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
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Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol 1-3
Epic Danish jams, for when the neighbours get you down.
6:00 AM GMT 12/05/2011
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Two Beads At The End = Where's Your Head At? Am I the only person in creation that sees that those scamps in Basement Jaxx owe royalties to everyone favorite San Pedro Corn Dogs?
Like they said "Our band could be your life".
D Boon R.I.P
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erm, shouldn't this comment be underneath Double Nickels On the Dime? True, I've often confused the two albums but...
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