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
Heaven 17
Penthouse And Pavement
(Virgin, 1981)
From Sheffield, synth pop and funk to stick it to Thatcher. Currently being played live!
Yuppie types in the early '80s liked Heaven 17's debut for its aspirational, smell-of-money ambience, corporate presentation and songs called Play To Win, Penthouse And Pavement and - best of all - Let's All Make A Bomb. Band member Martyn Ware was dismayed when greedheads complimented him on how well he'd encapsulated their schtick - when all the while the group were satirising monetarism and the Reagan/ Thatcher fantasy f*ck-y'all that went with it. Having split from The Human League, Ware and co-conspirator Ian Craig Marsh had recruited sonorous Glenn Gregory and got busy while their former bandmate Phil Oakey was making '81's pop masterpiece Dare in the same studio at the same time - and Penthouse And Pavement probably suffered from the latter album's world-crunching success. But here, with the megapowered slapbass of young John Wilson to the fore, soul, funk and electronic influences mix on gleefully subversive songs - see the title track's anti-work message, the Dr Strangelove-like nuclear war tune Let's All Make A Bombs or the religion-baiting We're Going To Live For A Very Long Time - and its potency as early-'80s documentary and enduring pop statement is clear. The 2006 expanded version adds Kraftwerk-y 45 I'm Your Money and its B-side, a screwy cover of Buzzcocks' Are Everything, while March 2010 saw Gregory and Ware (Craig Marsh has gone AWOL) playing the album in its entirety. Maybe the now-greying city boys will get it, finally.
Clive Prior
Posted by Danny_Eccleston at 6:00 AM GMT 18/03/2010
Further Listening
BEF – Music For Stowaways (Virgin, 1981)
Heaven 17 – The Luxury Gap (Virgin, 1983)
OMD - Architecture & Morality (DinDisc, 1981)
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