The Normal
The Normal is the recording artist name used by English music producer Daniel Miller, a film editor at the time, who is best known as the founder of the record label Mute Records.
Background
In 1977, Miller had split up with his girlfriend. A friend suggested that he read a book he himself had just finished. The book was Crash (1973) by J.G. Ballard. He felt that Ballard's writing took him five minutes into the future; the novel was to be a major influence in the music he would produce as The Normal. Miller was disillusioned by the fact you needed to learn three chords to be in a punk band, so he decided to purchase a synthesiser. His thinking was that you only needed to learn to press one key on a synthesiser. After buying a Korg 700s synthesiser from Macari's music shop in London, Miller recorded and released a single under the name The Normal. This was "T.V.O.D."/"Warm Leatherette". Both tracks were minimalist electronic songs influenced by the Crash novel. He wanted the sound of the recordings to be visual, like driving along a highway between large buildings then going through a tunnel. The single was recorded in Daniel Miller's house using a TEAC four track tape recorder and the Korg mini700s synthesiser.
Arrow poison
Arrow poisons are used to poison arrow heads or darts for the purposes of hunting and warfare. They have been used by indigenous peoples worldwide and are still in use in areas of South America, Africa and Asia. Notable examples are the poisons secreted from the skin of the poison dart frog, and curare (or 'ampi'), a general term for a range of plant-derived arrow poisons used by the indigenous peoples of South America.
Poisoned arrows have featured in mythology, notably the Greek story of Heracles slaying the centaur Nessus using arrows poisoned with the blood of the Lernaean Hydra. The Greek hero Odysseus poisons his arrows with hellebore in Homer's Odyssey. Poisoned arrows also figure in Homer's epic about the Trojan War, the Iliad, in which both Achaeans and Trojans used toxic arrows and spears.Baldr's death in the Norse myths features poison arrows. The modern terms "toxic" and "toxin" derive from the ancient Greek word for "bow", toxon, from Old Persian *taxa-, "an arrow".
Poison Arrow
"Poison Arrow" is a song by the British new wave band ABC, released as the second single from their debut studio album, The Lexicon of Love (1982).
The single was released in the UK on 5 February 1982 on 7" and 12", with the same mix appearing on both formats; however a subsequent U.S. 12" remix (also known as the "Jazz Remix") appears on several ABC compilations and as a bonus track on reissues of The Lexicon of Love. An alternate, lounge music-styled version of this song, entitled "Theme from Mantrap," was released as the B-side of "Poison Arrow" in the UK and "The Look of Love" in the US. The UK 12" single additionally included an instrumental version of "Theme From Mantrap" under the title "Mantrap (The Lounge Sequence)". The band's first UK hit "Tears Are Not Enough" was the B-side of "Poison Arrow" in the US.
Chart performance
The song reached number 6 on the UK Singles chart while also climbing to number 4 in Australia and serving as the group's first entry on the US Billboard Hot 100, rising to number 25.
The Normal
ALBUMS
- Electrospective: Electronic Music Since 1958 released: 2012
- The New Romantics released: 2009
- New Wave: The Platinum Collection released: 2008
- My Astral Dreams released: 2008
- A Man and a Machine released: 2008
- Essential New & Electro Wave released: 2007
- Mute Audio Documents released: 2007
- Mute Audio Documents Rarities released: 2007
- Mute Audio Documents 1 released: 2007
- Only After Dark: The Sound of the Rum Runner released: 2006
- Only After Dark: Nick Rhodes & John Taylor Present... released: 2006
- Essential Electro Wave released: 2005
- Just Say Sire: The Sire Records Story released: 2005
- Süddeutsche Zeitung | Diskothek: 1978: Ein Jahr und seine 20 Songs released: 2005
- England's Dreaming: 25 Tracks Before, During & After Punk released: 2004
- Nag Nag Nag released: 2004
- Death Disco: Songs From Under the Dance Floor 1978-1984 released: 2004
- Virgin Mega Music: Goth released: 2003
- Aktion Mekanik released: 2003
- Essential 80's: New Wave released: 2003
- This Is Electroclash released: 2003
- Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01 released: 2002
- Me Without You released: 2002
- Real Retro Electronic Beats Classix released: 2001
- Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years released: 2001
- 20 Jahre U4 released: 2000
- Machine Soul: An Odyssey Into Electronic Dance Music released: 2000
- Nine O'Clock Drop released: 2000
- Dressed in Black, Volume 1 released: 1999
- Club Wave 1 released: 1999
- Electropop Essentials released: 1999
- New Wave Club Class-X, Volume 8 released: 1997
- Warm Leatherette / T.V.O.D. released: 1997
- New Wave Club Class-X, Volume 4 released: 1995
- <
> Fetish Compilation, Volume 1 released: 1995 - Just Can't Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the '80s, Volume 1 released: 1994
- Hardest Hits, Volume 2 released: 1994
- Electrocity, Volume 1 released: 1992
- Nervous Systems released: 1992
- Just Say Yes, Volume 6: Just Say Yesterday released: 1992
- The Indie Scene 78: The Story of British Independent Music released: 1991
- Indie City 1 released: 1988
- Some Bizzare Album released: 1981
- Woon Y Tunes, Volume 2 released:
Electrospective: Electronic Music Since 1958
Released 2012- Doctor Who Theme (New Stereo remix 2002)
- Here Come the Warm Jets
- The Things Dreams Are Made Of
- Planet Earth
- West End Girls (7" mix)
- Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)
- Around the World (radio edit)
- Inertia Creeps
- Kelly Watch the Stars
- Rose Rouge (edit Remaster 2012)
- Everything in Its Right Place
- Star Guitar (edit)
- Dare
- Love Is Gone (Fred Riester & Joachim Garraud radio edit remix)
- One (original mix)
The New Romantics
Released 2009- Fade to Grey
- Living on the Ceiling
- Chant No 1 (I Don't Need This Pressure on)
- Don't You Want Me
- Ashes to Ashes
- The Model
- Poison Arrow
- Don't Go
- Cars
- More Than This
- Einstein a Go-Go
- Quiet Life
- Planet Earth
- Enola Gay
- I Ran
- The Sound of the Crowd
- Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go (12" version)
- Visions of China
- Vienna
New Wave: The Platinum Collection
Released 2008- Never Let Me Down Again
- I Travel
- Planet Earth
- Underpass
- Situation
- Electricity
- Bye Bye Till the Next Time
- Every Day Is Like Sunday
- Never Take Me Alive
- Gigantic
- Can't Get There From Here
- Life During Wartime (live)
- Pretty in Pink
- Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
- Hanging on the Telephone
- No More Heroes
- Rain
- (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
- Chercher Le Garçon
Essential New & Electro Wave
Released 2007- Peaches
- Alice
- 10:15 Saturday Night
- The Sound of the Crowd
- She's Lost Control
- Is Vic There?
- I Can't Live in a Living Room
- Making Plans for Nigel
- Visions of China
- Turn to Red
- Echo Beach
- Death Disco
- (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing
- Electricity
- Don't Tell Me
- Dreiklangs-Dimensionen
- Walking on Your Hands
- Suedehead
- The Cutter
- Someone Somewhere (In Summertime)
- Girls on Film
- Our Darkness
- She's in Parties
- Ignore the Machine
- Walls of Jericho
- Los Niños Del Parque
- Fade to Grey
- Torch
- Lady Shave
- Whip It
- Once in a Lifetime
- Don't Go
- Money
- Heart of Glass
- Zanna
- Wild Thing
- Public Image
- Bostich
- Sex Without Stress
- Collapsing New People
- Hard Times
- Tears Are Not Enough
- Situation
- O Superman
- Take One
- Punish Me With Kisses
- Strange Little Girl
- Never Understand
- Human Fly
- Going Underground
- President Gas
- One Hundred Years
- Bela Lugosi's Dead
- Marian
- Golden Soldiers
- What We All Want
- Stand and Deliver
- Burning Down the House
- African Reggae
- Hungry Like the Wolf
- Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
- Happy Birthday
- Marliese
- What Difference Does It Make?
- Atmosphere
- You, the Night & The Music
- L.A.
- Baby Turns Blue
- No Tears
- Dead Eyes Opened
- Death Disco
- Flying Turns
- Are Friends Electric?
- The Bus
- Paranoimia
- The Robots
- I Love You
- A.G.N.E.S.
- Let Your Body Learn
- My Spine (Is the Bass Line)
- Coitus Interruptus
- Warm Leatherette
- Eisbär
- Der Mussolini
- Nag Nag Nag
- Euroshima (Wardance)
- 8:15 to Nowhere / Great Balls of Fire
- Cavern
Mute Audio Documents 1
Released 2007- T.V.O.D.
- Warm Leatherette
- Memphis Tennessee
- Let's Dance
- Back to Nature
- The Box
- Judy in Disguise
- Chip 'n Roll
- Ricky's Hand
- Handshake
- Kebabträume
- Gewalt
- Soundtrack 1 (Loop edit of 1" 30" at 33rpm)
- Soundtrack 2 (Loop edit of 1" 30" at 33rpm)
- Soundtrack 3 (Loop edit of 1" 30" at 33rpm)
- Mode of Infection
- Knife Ladder
- Can't Look Straight
- Flashcards
- Insecticide
- Fireside Favourites
Only After Dark: Nick Rhodes & John Taylor Present...
Released 2006- Being Boiled (Fast version)
- Computer Game (Theme From the Invader) / Firecracker
- Always Crashing in the Same Car
- Sister Europe (album version)
- Changeling
- Only After Dark
- Underpass
- Warm Leatherette
- The 'In' Crowd
- The True Wheel
- Are 'Friends' Electric?
- The Robots (single edit)
- I Feel Love
- I Am the Fly
- Shot by Both Sides
- Private Life
- The Passenger
- Slow Motion
Süddeutsche Zeitung | Diskothek: 1978: Ein Jahr und seine 20 Songs
Released 2005- Outdoor Miner
- I Want Your Love
- Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
- Denis
- This Love Affair
- Another Girl, Another Planet
- Warm Leatherette
- Elle et moi
- Love Don’t Live Here Anymore
- Sufôco
- Unbeschreiblich weiblich
- I Wanna Be Sedated
- Heaven in the Afternoon
- You Are, You Are
- Angelina
- Identity
- Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
- Because the Night
- Accidentally Like a Martyr
- Everybody Needs Love
England's Dreaming: 25 Tracks Before, During & After Punk
Released 2004- Search and Destroy
- Accident
- My Generation
- Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment
- This Perfect Day
- Never Never
- Gut Feeling / Sloopy (live)
- Orgasm Addict
- Mr. Suit
- Beyond the Valley of a Day in the Life
- Forming
- I Hate the Rich
- Car Crash
- Time Damage
- We Got the Neutron Bomb
- Wild Weekend
- R.A.F.
- T.V.O.D.
- The Set Up
- I'm a Bug
- Young Girls at Market
- Hysterie Connective
- Identity
- Nicotine Stain
- The Great British Mistake
Death Disco: Songs From Under the Dance Floor 1978-1984
Released 2004- Death Disco
- Haile Unlikely
- I Love a Man in Uniform
- Journey
- Warm Leatherette
- United
- The Jezebel Spirit
- Yashar (John Robie remix)
- Bob Hope Takes Risks
- Put the Punk Back Into Funk (Parts I & II)
- Do the Wrong Thing
- Meccanik Dancing (Oh We Go!)
- Why Can't I Touch It?
- Theme for Great Cities
- Hard Times
- (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
- Let's Be Adult
Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01
Released 2002- Just a Second (Starts Like That)
- Cars (variant)
- I Want More
- Freestyle Dumping
- Arvio
- Tascel_7
- Super Bad (Soul Substitute) (lb remix)
- Firspk
- Being Boiled
- Direct Drive (edit)
- Mean Old Devil
- Peanuts
- Turn On
- Trixie
- Warm Leatherette
- Big Muff
- Senderwahl
- 011
- At the Golden Circle, Stockholm, Volume 1, 1965
- Ended
Me Without You
Released 2002- White Horses
- I Got You Babe
- (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
- Just Can't Get Enough
- Skin Deep
- The Cutter
- The Sweetest Girl
- Strange Feelin'
- Cocaine in My Brain
- January February
- I've Never Been to Me
- 'Cello Song
- Warm Leatherette
- Whole Wide World
- White Riot
- Kings of the Wild Frontier
- Another Girl, Another Planet
- (Drawing) Rings Around the World
<> Fetish Compilation, Volume 1
Released 1995
-
The <
> Main Title - The Sparrows and the Nightingales
- Warm Leatherette
- Le regisseur du châteaux
- In Your Hand
- Women Respond to Bass
- Voulez-vous coucher avec moi
- ... Can Manage...
- Desire (Tronic mix)
- In Ecstasy
- Lightning Man
- Sweet Torture (whip edit)
- Emotional
- Heart on the Line
- Je t'aime
- Take Control
- Hallucinations
The Indie Scene 78: The Story of British Independent Music
Released 1991- Teenage Kicks
- Alternative Ulster
- Ain’t Got a Clue
- The Murder of Liddle Towers
- Where Were You
- Bingo Masters Breakout
- Part-Time Punks
- All I Want
- Eddie & Sheena
- Don’t Care
- Jilted John
- I Think We’re Alone Now
- Where’s Bill Grundy Now
- True Confessions
- Big Time
- Ever Fallen in Love (With Someone You Shouldn’t’ve)
- All the Time in the World
- Desire Me
- Five Minutes
- Don’t Ring Me Up
- Sleeping Gas
- Glass
- Warm Leatherette
- Bombers
Indie City 1
Released 1988- Tupelo
- People Are People (Different mix)
- Death Valley '69
- Nag Nag Nag
- Radio Drill Time
- Motorhead
- Blue Boy
- Candy Skin
- Never Been in a Riot
- Armalite Rifle
- I'm in Love With the Girl on the Virgin Manchester Megastore Checkout Desk
- We Could Sent Letters
- Smash It Up
- Death on a European
- Mindless Violence
- Lean on Me
- The Official World Cup Theme
- Transmission
- The Spangle Maker
- Warm Leatherette
Woon Y Tunes, Volume 2
- Rise or Fall
- Cracking Up
- That Great Love Sound
- Pda
- C.S.S. Suxxx
- 2/4
- Warm Leatherette
- Nature of the Experiment
- My Son Spells Backwards
- What Would Morrissey Say?
- Kandy Pop
- Gay Bar (Electric Six Cover)
- Hot Topic
- Every Little Thing
- Friends of P.
- Little Girls
- Tidalwave
- This Is Our Emergency
- The Truth About Cats and Dogs (is That They Die)
Poison Arrow
Poison Arrow
Miles from home,
'Round here they'll never miss me.
Everybody disappears one by one,
And no one hears a thing.
The razor wire makes me uneasy,
It catches the moon,
Shes smiling to see me.
Fear could never keep me here,
But fate could always keep me here.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Miles from home,
No one will ever miss you.
Paranoid are friends are frisked,
We sleep in shifts,
And no one dares to dream.
Black birds fly over our heads,
But we're so alive,
Just being misread.
Fear could never keep me here,
But fate could always keep me here.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Don't look now,
Another poison arrow pointed at you.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
(It's killing me)
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
(It's killing me)
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
(It's killing me)
They got you under lock and key,
And it's killing me.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,
Got you where they want you now.
Lost and never found,
It's a long way down,
We are the paper targets,
Dear departed,