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
Landscape
From The Tea-rooms Of Mars… To The Hell-holes Of Uranus
(RCA ,1981)
Dry computer club Futurists, upon hitting implausible chart paydirt.
Bolan sang about the Ballrooms Of Mars. Bowie wondered that there might be life there. And a mythologically minded Gustav Holst simply vibed like crazy off the idea of it for his Planets Suite. But it took oddball jazzers-turned-too-old-synth poppers Landscape to connect the Red Planet with the tea rooms that undoubtedly exist there, not to mention the worrying Hell-holes found on its freezing gas giant sibling. Not that this album is concerned with off-world concerns, particularly; recorded in ten studios using an unusual group set up of trombone, analogue synths and drums shaped like human heads, these are songs concerned with the coming computer age and its effects on weak-willed humanity. You can smirk at the visions of futurity of thirty years ago - Face Of The 80s wasn't a title made to age well, and Computer Person is what Kraftwerk would have sounded like had they come from Surrey - but as pop hits about global nuclear destruction and a cross-dressing murderer, respectively, Einstein A Go-Go and its follow up Norman Bates remain admirably perverse chart entries. The phantasmagorical chipmunk cackling of The Doll's House keeps up the Psycho mood, and it ends with the cod-latin shimmies of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy-evoking title track. They wouldn't last much longer in their original guise, though singer Richard James Burgess went onto produce Spandau Ballet and, er, King, while bassist Andy Pask co-wrote the theme to The Bill and keys man John Walters writes about music for The Guardian. And providing the voice over for Norman Bates and the title track, late actor Ed Bishop.
Stuart Muirhead
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 17/05/2011
Further Listening
Landscape – Landscape (RCA, 1979)
Art Of Noise - Into Battle With The Art Of Noise (ZTT, 1983)
Yello – Solid Pleasure (Do It Records, 1981)
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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Come to a stoppage once more?
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yeah get your fingers out
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Moj0 comes in spurts, apparently..
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Not even got it in yer hearts for a gil scott heron disc of the day? are you asleep?
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Not even got it in yer hearts for a gil scott heron disc of the day? are you asleep?
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Not even got it in yer hearts for a gil scott heron disc of the day? are you asleep?
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Why not just call it disc of the month yer lazy bastards
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'ere they've done one now
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RE: Roland Bunce
Two, and no-one's responded. Maybe they'll get more comments if they stop posting records. It would appear that you MOJO posters are only excited by failure.
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There was a club in Jacksonville Florida that got its name from this album. they used the song title Einstein A Go Go.
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