Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Showing posts with label video. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2012

Falling and Laughing: Orange Juice and the birth of indie pop

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Orange Juice's debut single, "Falling and Laughing", released in the spring of 1980, signalled the return of unabashed romanc...
Friday, April 20, 2012

The Human League make it big: Dare and Don't You Want Me

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"Sound of the Crowd" was the first fruit of Phil Oakey's songwriting partnership with Ian Burden, formerly the bassist in Gra...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

2-Tone's other bands: The Beat, Madness and The Selecter

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heOn songs like "Hands Off, She's Mine" (The Beat's second Top 10 hit from early 1980), the bubbling bass braid itself aro...
Saturday, November 5, 2011

Double Negative: Vic Godard and Subway Sect

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"Parallel Lines", one of Vic Godard's greatest songs, comes from a similarly 'rigorously apolitical' (Howard Devoto...
Sunday, October 23, 2011

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures & Closer

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Released at the height of British summertime - June 1979 - the album caught the eye as well as the ear: the cover, designed by Factory's...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Devo & the video for "Whip It"

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The band moved to Los Angeles, capital of the entertainment business, and with 1980's Freedom of Choice made a record even more calcul...
Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Devo's first singles and debut album "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We are Devo!"

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As expressed in the anthem "Be Stiff", Devo's proudly neurotic, uptight attitude was a revolt against the take-it-easy baby bo...