Posts by analogbear40

cosmiccobra2 said:The Beatles - The Beatles (1986)

Who knows, who knows...😉

Kudos on the suggestion!

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Charles Ramos4 said:I won't say anything else about the quarters, but honestly, I’ve been expecting something like this from you for quite a while now. You've really been wearing me down lately with those suggestions—it's getting to the point where even Arthur Brown6 has voiced more opinions on this than you have in the same timeframe. 😁

Carol Walker (and a few others) 👍

Even though I usually try to steer clear of my absolute favorites when picking suggestions—I tend to stick to those borderline obscure genre finds—I occasionally have to tackle the "IMHO" classics. In this specific case, it’s because I recently picked up the X5 box set, and it really reminded me just how fascinating their evolution was during those first few years of their career.

The truth is, choosing *New Gold Dream* would be the most logical move, but that one’s already been picked clean and tossed aside long ago. Honestly, though, *Sons & Fascination / Sister Feelings call* is sitting right there on the edge... practically within arm's reach.

Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination / Sister Feelings Call (1981)











Tracklist

Sons And Fascination

A1 In Trance As Mission
A2 Sweat In Bullet
A3 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall
A4 Boys From Brazil
B1 The Cure - Lovesong
B2 This Earth That You Walk Upon
B3 Sons And Fascination
B4 Seeing Out The Angel

Sister Feelings Call

C1 Theme For Great Cities
C2 The American
C3 20th Century Promised Land
D1 Wonderful In Young Life
D2 League Of Nations
D3 Careful In Career
D4 Sound In 70 Cities

Credits

Bass – Derek Forbes
Design, Art Direction – Assorted Images®, M. Garrett*
Drums – Brian McGee
Engineer [At Farmyard Studios] – Hugh Jones
Engineer [At Regent's Park Studios] – Alan Jakoby
Engineer [Live Sound] – Billy Worton, Douglas Cowan*
Guitar – Charles Burchill*
Keyboards – Michael MacNeil
Lacquer Cut By – Bilbo (3)
Lyrics By – Jim Kerr*
Management – Bruce Findlay, Robert White (5)
Music By – Simple Minds
Photography By [Polaroid] – Sheila Rock
Producer – Steve Hillage
Vocals ["Next Chorus"] – Jacqui (6), Ken Lockie
Voice – Jim Kerr

Notes

The first 10,000 copies of 'Sons And Fascination' actually came with a free LP called 'Sister Feelings Call'. It was a nice little way to say thanks to the fans—they just shrinkwrapped both LPs together and sold them for the price of a single album. Think of it like a "buy one, get one" deal you might see at a local record shop.

If you look at the front of the 'Sons And Fascination' sleeve, there’s a sticker letting you know if you’ve got the limited edition double LP. This version also included two inserts: the first, titled "The New Album by Simple Minds," gave some background on the record, the band's discography, and upcoming tour dates. The second, "Simple Minds Information Sheet," was basically a rundown of the official merch.

Down the road, they decided to split them up, with 'Sons And Fascination' being sold at full retail and 'Sister Feelings Call' moving as a budget release.

All the tracks, including any promo videos or visual presentations (if they're out there), can be found in the main link.

Here are the other versions currently available.....

Sweat In Bullet (extended version)

The Cure - Lovesong (extended version)

This Earth That You Walk Upon (12" instrumental)

Sons And Fascination (special BBC version)

Seeing Out The Angels (instrumental remix)

Theme For Great Cities (unofficial video)

The American (12" extended version)

Disintegration is easily The Cure's crowning achievement. For so many people, it’s tied to those incredible memories from their concert in Denver back in May of '89... unfortunately, that's not my story, much to my own regret... but I guess I have no one to blame but myself here. 😠

On the flip side, I dealt with a massive letdown when I headed over to RCA Records to pick up their LP release... honestly, I don't think any official licensed vinyl has ever sounded quite that terrible—it's practically legendary at this point for all the wrong reasons. 🙄

Sukora - Tower (1998)



Sukora - Tower (continued) (1998)

Tracklisting

1 Untitled 58:13
2 Untitled 0:07
3 Untitled 0:07
4 Untitled 0:07
5 Untitled 0:07
6 Untitled 0:09

A quick heads-up for anyone interested...

If you aren't using high-quality headphones, trying to experience this thread will feel like an impossible mission...

It's just... something else...

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I honestly don't get why the poll drops right at midnight tonight...🤔🙄

Look at Post #2046 from last Friday morning at 3:42 AM. That’s when Dennis Hall41 suggested J. Mitchell - Blue, which got added to Friday morning's poll and ended up winning.

So, here I am, sitting down at my computer at 2:39 AM (local time) hoping to submit my suggestion for tomorrow morning—or whenever the list goes live. But instead, I find this: it feels like the goalposts are being moved every five minutes just because someone had a sudden thought. It's pretty frustrating, really.

The rule should be simple: we always allow the winner's album to be posted within about ten days, but when someone tries to drop a suggestion a few hours after midnight, sometimes it sticks and sometimes it doesn't. It's inconsistent.😁

We really ought to respect the fact that some of us operate on a completely different biological clock than others. We aren't all programmed to be early birds.☕

Anyway, I'm going to post my suggestion now, and I'm politely asking that it gets included starting tomorrow morning, just like last time. Otherwise, the whole system feels a bit broken.

So... I have to say, I am genuinely caught off guard by these results—from my own perspective, at least.

It felt somewhat predictable that one of the biggest pop sensations of 1984, whose legendary status hasn't faded one bit, would pull in a respectable number of votes and even outperform my expectations. But for a true new wave album from an artist primarily revered as a top-tier guitarist and producer, who only later gained recognition as a solo songwriter and never truly lived in the shadow of the mainstream charts, to rank this high among the forum members? Who would have thought...

Regardless, I am thrilled that Joni Mitchell came out on top. Out of all these incredible releases, her legendary album Blue is truly untouchable; its status remains cemented as one of the greatest of all time.

OK Computer was, and remains, the king of everything quality released in the 90s, but since Joni was in the running... she just sits one level higher.

Arthur Brown6 said:Nelson's Chance Encounters in The Garden of Lights is actually quite intriguing to me.

......I skimmed this pretty quickly, just seeing "Chance Encounters" as the title.......it caught my eye.......and I wanted to build on that because I’ve spent the last few days diving deep into almost his entire discography. I have to admit, in all my years listening to music, I’ve rarely encountered someone who is such a quintessential "profile artist," if that makes sense.

.....Over a 40-year career, he’s put out more than 120 releases.....mostly studio albums.....plus a massive amount of compilations, some of which are sprawling 3, 4, or even 5-CD sets....and that’s not even counting the Be Bop Deluxe era......so when you really crunch the numbers, the total is way higher.

......But anyway.....the point I was getting at is that while scrolling through his titles, I don't think I've ever been quite this impressed by them, especially something like this one.......both the album titles and the songs themselves, which serve as such strong themes......especially since there is so much instrumental work.

.....Honestly, maybe it isn't surprising that everything is so sonically—and literally—shaped by his words and imagery (like the album art)......after all, the man is a painter and a photographer in addition to everything else he does......

Honestly, I just love how Discogs classifies albums...
.......they’re super helpful most of the time, though occasionally they just wander off in every possible direction at once...

.....Take the record I just suggested for "Album of the Week"—Bill Nelson - The Diary of a Wimpy Kid (1982)....To me, it's pure New Wave with this incredibly distinct sound design that feels totally hazy and atmospheric...

.....On Discogs, the original US LP (1982) is tagged as electronic / experimental...
.....Right under that, the first US CD release is listed as electronic / rock, with styles like new wave / art rock / ambient...
.....Then you have the 2005 reissue with bonus tracks—new wave / electro / synth pop...which I actually think is probably the closest fit to what the original release truly represents...

Bill Nelson - The Love that Whirls ( Diary of a Thinking Heart) (1982)





Tracklisting

1 Empire of The Senses (Vibraslap – Jan Nelson) 4:49
2 Hopa for The Heartbeat 3:53
3 Waiting for Voices 1:37
4 A Private View 5:28
5 eros Arriving 3:34
6 The brid of Christ in Autumn 2:24
7 Flesh 3:29
8 He and Sleep Were Brothers 4:41
9 When Your dream of Perfect beauty Comes True 3:36
10 Flaming Desire 4:53
11 Portrait of Jan with Flowers 2:12
12 The Crystal Escalator in The Palace of god Department Store3 : 20
13 echo in Her Eyes ( The Lamps of Oblivion ) 2:01
14 The October man ( Drums – Bogdan Wiczling ) 6:42
bonus Tracks
15 Haunting in my Head 4:27
16 Hopa for The Heartbeat ( remix ) 3:34
17 The Passion 3:09

Engineer, Mastered by, Artwork by [ cover Concept ], Music by, Lyrics by, performer [ All Instruments and Voices ] – Bill Nelson

"Recorded between spring and Winter 1981 AT Ric-Rac Studios (Leeds), and Rockfield Studios (Monmouth). The material on this album constitutes approximately half of The total recordings made AT various intervals between april and November 1981. The remainder will hopefully appear in various forms throughout The Coming Months."

This is a complete one-man studio project. Music / Lyrics... I played practically every single instrument you hear on this record.
If you can argue that certain albums in the pop-rock world possess a specific kind of "sound design," then this is definitely one of those records.

Empire of The Senses

eros Arriving

He and Sleep Were Brothers

When Your dream of Perfect beauty Comes True ( instrumental )

Flaming Desire (promo video)

The October man

The Passion (instrumental)

Jesse Jackson3 said:Frankie Goes to Hollywood ‎– Welcome to The Pleasuredome (1984)

Tracklist

1 The World is my Oyster / Snatch of Fury ( Stay )
2 Welcome to The Pleasuredome
3 Relax ( Come Fighting )
4 War ( and Hide )
5 Two Tribes ( for The Victims of Ravishment )
6 The Last Voice
7 Born to Run
8 happy hi
9 Wish ( The Lads Were here )
10 The Ballad of 32
11 Krisco Kisses
12 Black Night White light
13 The only star in Heaven
14 The Power of Love
15 Bang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-mv...rRiDBI&index=2

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...honestly, if you look at the 2CD Deluxe edition from 2010, the absolute standout is The Ballad of 32 (Mix 2). It’s nearly 11 minutes long. That's where the magic happens. You can really hear the instrumentation take flight and go full Pink Floyd on you. It's spectacular.

FGTH - The Ballad of 32 (Mix 2)

Romeo Void was truly such an unconventional "assembled" band... featuring an even more unusual (non-traditional looking) lead singer...

Some other "waves"—as a concept—have become pretty trendy lately, but unfortunately, our "new" scene is still... well, just kind of stalling out right now.

.....here’s a little something to get you warmed up......

New Wave Alternative Mix....Vol.10

TRACKLISTING:

B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
Propaganda - Duel
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Rational Youth - Holiday In Bangkok
The Danse Society - Heaven Is Waiting
The Cure - How Beautiful You Are
Iggy Pop - Candy
Ultravox - One Small Day
Aimless Device - Shellshock
Underworld - Underneath The Radar
Chalk Circle - What Counts
White China - Smiles And Jokes
The Clash - Time Is Tight
Images In Vogue - Save It
Depeche Mode - A Photograph Of You
The The - That Was The Day
X-mal Deutschland - Der Wind

.....honestly, one of the best mixes of this kind you can find online......

@Arthur Brown6/">@@Arthur Brown6

.....huge props on those 23 Skidoo entries......👍👍👍

.....honestly, whenever I run into expert suggestions like these, it makes dealing with the harsh reality of a forum like this just a little bit easier to stomach......

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cosmiccobra2 said:Anita Baker - Rapture (1986)

Back in the late '80s, Anita Baker was a massive African-American superstar. She had all the right ingredients to really break through and dominate the mainstream pop charts—it was practically written in the stars.
Unfortunately, that major crossover moment just never quite materialized for her.