Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Random 80's Wednesday
This Other Eden - Sweet Wine (12" Single, 1990)
William - Club Song (7" Single, 1984)
Billy Franks - Watershed (Saint of Contradiction EP, 1986)
Mummy Calls - Mary I Swear (7" Single, 1983)
William - Club Song (7" Single, 1984)
Billy Franks - Watershed (Saint of Contradiction EP, 1986)
Mummy Calls - Mary I Swear (7" Single, 1983)
Friday, March 15, 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Bonk - The Smile and the Kiss
7" Single, released in 1983
Bonk - The Smile and the Kiss (A-Side)
Bonk - Big Love (B-Side)
Bonk was an early alias of Barry Flynn, who would continue to release a clutch of quality singles under The Chant of Barry Flynn, The Big Supreme, and, finally, just Flynn. A long time ago I put together a compilation called "Pot Shots" which I should probably revisit at some point.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Fingertips - Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy
Monday, March 4, 2019
Shadow Talk - People Watching People
7" Single, released in 1984
Shadow Talk - People Watching People (A-Side)
Shadow Talk - Heaven Up Here (B-Side)
Sunday, March 3, 2019
Quick, before I change my mind!
So what happened was this...
...I've been back in Guernsey for family reasons since last September, with all my music essentially in storage except the old box or two of vinyl (mainly singles) my parents had at their house and no sign of my old USB turntable either.
Back between 2010 and 2013 I digitized a lot of this stuff, and then found out later I had done it wrong (one audio channel only) due to what I assumed was some limitation of the USB turntable I had. So even though my turntable mysteriously turned up in our shed after my brother (who had borrowed it) left it there, I wasn't really motivated to do anything with it. Not to mention I had little time either between jobs and family.
Then about six weeks ago I happened to pick up a couple of vinyl selections I really wanted to hear, so one evening I cleared some space in the kitchen and fiddled around with the settings on the turntable. I finally figured out that the soundcard set up on my laptop was treating the turntable as a mono input and I had to go in and change it. Then - voila! - everything worked pretty well. So I did those, then bought a few more singles from Vinyl Tap and eBay. I've been able to leave the turntable on the kitchen table and hook up the laptop on a fairly regular basis.
So now in addition to some pretty awesome new stuff I will be posting for the first time, I'm also going back through some, maybe all of the singles that were not recorded correctly first time around. These are going to have the tag "reposted in 2019" included so you will know if I've had it up before. Plus most of my older singles have outdated links so it's a good time to refresh those. There's a few albums here too but my best ones tended to travel back to the US with me.
Life has a habit of changing on me pretty rapidly so we'll see how long this lasts.
...I've been back in Guernsey for family reasons since last September, with all my music essentially in storage except the old box or two of vinyl (mainly singles) my parents had at their house and no sign of my old USB turntable either.
Back between 2010 and 2013 I digitized a lot of this stuff, and then found out later I had done it wrong (one audio channel only) due to what I assumed was some limitation of the USB turntable I had. So even though my turntable mysteriously turned up in our shed after my brother (who had borrowed it) left it there, I wasn't really motivated to do anything with it. Not to mention I had little time either between jobs and family.
Then about six weeks ago I happened to pick up a couple of vinyl selections I really wanted to hear, so one evening I cleared some space in the kitchen and fiddled around with the settings on the turntable. I finally figured out that the soundcard set up on my laptop was treating the turntable as a mono input and I had to go in and change it. Then - voila! - everything worked pretty well. So I did those, then bought a few more singles from Vinyl Tap and eBay. I've been able to leave the turntable on the kitchen table and hook up the laptop on a fairly regular basis.
So now in addition to some pretty awesome new stuff I will be posting for the first time, I'm also going back through some, maybe all of the singles that were not recorded correctly first time around. These are going to have the tag "reposted in 2019" included so you will know if I've had it up before. Plus most of my older singles have outdated links so it's a good time to refresh those. There's a few albums here too but my best ones tended to travel back to the US with me.
Life has a habit of changing on me pretty rapidly so we'll see how long this lasts.
The Recognitions - This First Dance
Big Store - The Price of a Secret
7" Single, released in 1983
Big Store - The Price of a Secret (A-Side)
Big Store - Taking The Stage Again (B-Side)
Flip Me!
Michael Anderson and Jim McKinven, both previously with Altered Images, joined forces with vocalist Tina Winters for this one off single. Interestingly, it was co-written with Peter Capaldi before his acting career took off.
Saturday, March 2, 2019
The Big Supreme - Remind Me
7" Single, released in 1987
The Big Supreme - Remind Me (A-Side)
The Big Supreme - What Love Means (B-Side)
Friday, March 1, 2019
Tight Fit - Secret Heart
7" Single, released in 1982
Tight Fit - Secret Heart (A-Side)
Tight Fit - Just A Moment Away (B-Side)
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Random 80's Wednesday
Part one of the great Bandcamp / Sideroom Singles linkfest:
Pel Mel - No Word From China
Pop Mechanix - Jumping Out A Window
Stephen Cummings - Speak With Frankness
Tactics - Coming In On My Coat Tails
Seven Ballerinas - Sometimes I Feel
Look Blue Go Purple - Cactus Cat
Pel Mel - No Word From China
Pop Mechanix - Jumping Out A Window
Stephen Cummings - Speak With Frankness
Tactics - Coming In On My Coat Tails
Seven Ballerinas - Sometimes I Feel
Look Blue Go Purple - Cactus Cat
Bandcamp Down Under
I've been getting a lot of downloads of my Camras In Paris single which is good, after focusing mostly on UK and US bands over the last few years I've finally gotten around to buying a few Aussie singles and so this month I've decided to try and highlight a few good bands I've come across.
To help with this endeavor (finding Australian pop/new wave music is like looking for US made TVs in China I've decided) I have combined two of my music sources, the excellent Aussie blog - currently on hiatus perhaps - Side Room Singles which I'm sure I've mentioned before, and my current music download site of choice, Bandcamp.
If you've looked at Bandcamp at all you might notice that it's freakily difficult to find specific things unless you have the exact name. I found a private new wave release on there a few years ago, forgot to wishlist it, and could never find it again. This is because the description/search tags are provided by the artists themselves and you can only search one at a time. So I can look up "new wave", or "80's" or even "80's new wave" but I can't combine the tags to look for both together. The work around is to use multiple tags in a Google search. It also doesn't help that the release date might be the original release date or the date it became available on Bandcamp so sometimes putting in a year itself doesn't help.
Anyways, my point is there is a lot of music on the site if you dig around for it, so I will be posting a bunch of links throughout the month. My username on there is fiftypercent so you can check out what I have wishlisted or have in my collection.
Side Room (Bruce Dale) has a great collection perhaps slightly more leaning towards the indie pop/twee area and going back further than I usually do, to the late 70's even. But I've been listening to the playlists in the car and found a lot of good stuff.
Send me any recommendations chaps!
To help with this endeavor (finding Australian pop/new wave music is like looking for US made TVs in China I've decided) I have combined two of my music sources, the excellent Aussie blog - currently on hiatus perhaps - Side Room Singles which I'm sure I've mentioned before, and my current music download site of choice, Bandcamp.
If you've looked at Bandcamp at all you might notice that it's freakily difficult to find specific things unless you have the exact name. I found a private new wave release on there a few years ago, forgot to wishlist it, and could never find it again. This is because the description/search tags are provided by the artists themselves and you can only search one at a time. So I can look up "new wave", or "80's" or even "80's new wave" but I can't combine the tags to look for both together. The work around is to use multiple tags in a Google search. It also doesn't help that the release date might be the original release date or the date it became available on Bandcamp so sometimes putting in a year itself doesn't help.
Anyways, my point is there is a lot of music on the site if you dig around for it, so I will be posting a bunch of links throughout the month. My username on there is fiftypercent so you can check out what I have wishlisted or have in my collection.
Side Room (Bruce Dale) has a great collection perhaps slightly more leaning towards the indie pop/twee area and going back further than I usually do, to the late 70's even. But I've been listening to the playlists in the car and found a lot of good stuff.
Send me any recommendations chaps!
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Camras In Paris - Visions Of You
Camras In Paris - Visions Of You (A-Side)
I don't know much about Camras In Paris, an Australian new wave band that released one single on Centre Records in 1986.
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