Posts by Simon Grigg
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And I've always thought 'blue monday' was highly overrated. But 'crystal' is a tune...
Gordon flippin' Bennett, those orginals changed the face of popular music. Without them, most of the stuff on that You Tube doco simply wouldn't exist. In a way, New Order were far more important than Joy Division, despite the reputation.
After Blue Monday everything changed.
I like Crystal too, and indeed the whole album it came from, but it was just a good listen, unlike the game changing stuff from the early-late 1980s.
Once you've heard Bizarre Love Triangle blistering out of a huge club PA in NYC, in the midst of a house set, nothing sounds the same.
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@recordari
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Getting Away With It: tune!
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I was surprised to find out that they were an English band 'cos I had been living there for years and had never heard of them.
They were much bigger in NZ than anywhere else. My Spine Is The Bassline was a huge club tune in the early 1980s and charted, as did the next few singles, thanks to Festival Records who prioritized them (mostly because their marketing guy loved them).
Of course their repeated visits to NZ spawned another whole generation of NZ tinged music.
Bad Lieutenant
That album has some great moments, but I feel like such an old fart listening to it.
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Tackhead (in my top 5) & Jesus and the Mary Chain. Is this getting a bit Facebook-ish?
Of course it is, but who cares...yes Tackhead, of course. Huge.
I've got NO doing Atmosphere at the 2002 BDO, and there is an eerie silence before and after the song,
There is an odd disconnect between NO and JD..as if people haven't worked out they are the same band.
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i'd been old enough to see N.O. at Mainstreet at the end of '82
The eighties were a fairly rich time to be seeing edgy live music in Auckland (and much of NZ, although not all toured south), thanks to a new breed to adventurous promoters both in NZ (Terry Condon and Doug Hood) and in Australia (Lees & West, who still do BDO).
Between 1980 and 1987 I can count (and some made it several times): The Knack (playing their one hit for what seemed like forever), The Members, Wreckless Eric, The Cure (to about 30 people at Mainstreet first time), Clash, XTC, Graham Parker, Banshees, Echo & Bunnymen, Magazine (brilliant), Fall, Crammps, Shreikback, New Order, Teardrop Explodes, Run DMC, Residents, Costello (4 times I think), Birthday Party, Ramones, John Cooper Clarke & Nico, John Cale, Billy Bragg, Madness, Blondie, The Police, Talking Heads and I guess many who I've forgotten.
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and if I'm not dreaming, we went to Quay Street for Car Crash Set afterwards. Simon will correct me if I'm wrong ;-)
I went to the '82 gig (and got to spend a fair bit of time with Rob Gretton, who asked if I wanted to distribute Factory..I had no money so declined..the next record was Blue Monday), and the party the day before at the little club underneath Mainstreet, where an Auckland journalist got asked to leave for making inappropriate comments about Ian Curtis not wanting to be seen dead hanging around there (urrgghh). However I was in London so missed the '85 one, where I did see them at, I think, the Royal Festival Hall, in '84. The gulf between the '82 and the '84 band was enormous.
The next time in Auckland was '86 or '87 at the Galaxy, where they famously pulled out Ceremony to a huge response, which meant they could do no wrong after that, and finished with a cover of Sister Ray. I've got a tape of that show somewhere.
Here's a review of the '85 gig from Andrew Niccol who was still a decade from making Gattaca when he wrote it.
I might have to look at ripping the YouTubes if they're better.
They're missing part 8 which is the rather crucial Shoom bit.
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@Rich. I should point you in the direction this site too, no longer updated but archived and a mountain of information.
@recordari
NO in NYC, 1981. Completely fucking wonderful (there are a bunch more songs on YouTube from the same gig if you've not seen them).
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in the spirit of
Heh.. another welcome returnee
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Having watched the truly awful PIL reunion footage on the nets, it occurred to me that Metal Box, which is shurely amongst the most iconic (and impractical) UK album sleeves ever is missing from that stamp issue (kill the Coldplay, add the PIL).
And that bought me to this (or at least provided me with an excuse to post it):
You're sailing very close to the edge there, Alien Lizard.
Indeed, down by the river (which is as near as it gets to me admitting I ever owned a Yes album).
Budgie
The most obscure musical reference point ever on PAS?