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Echo and The Bunnymen “Echo and The Bunnymen Mini Album”

sfilzen — Wed, 05 May 2021 17:59:46 +0000

Echo and The Bunnymen “Echo and The Bunnymen Mini Album” aka “The Sound of Echo” 1983, Korova Records. Today, May 5th, is Echo frontman/songwriter/founder Ian McCulloch’s birthday (b. 1959). This 5-song mini album has some of my favorite songs: “Never Stop,” a single from 1983 which went to #15 in the UK, “Rescue” which was their second single (1980, #62 UK) and appears on Crocodiles, “The Cutter,” an exotic, psychedelic rocker from ‘83 (#8 UK, appears on Porcupine) and “Back of Love,” a single from ‘82 (#19 UK) which was also added almost a full year later to ‘83′s Porcupine. The final track on the EP is a raucously killer live version of my absolute favorite Echo song “Do It Clean.” They recorded it live at The Royal Albert Hall in London on July 18th, 1983. “Do It Clean” was never released as a single and did not initially appear on the UK vinyl version of their debut Crocodiles (1980) because a record label exec thought the song had obscene lyrics (more likely he couldn’t understand McCulloch’s thick brogue!), though it was included on the cassette release and was added to the US release of the LP. It also appears on the Echo comp Songs to Learn and Sing (1985).

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Depeche Mode “Everything Counts and Live Tracks”

sfilzen — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:48:44 +0000

Depeche Mode “Everything Counts and Live Tracks” 1983. Vogue Records/Mute Records, French import mini album. Today, August 22nd, is the release anniversary of Depeche Mode’s third album Construction Time Again (1983) and “Everything Counts” was the lead single, hitting #6 in the UK and #17 on the US Hot Dance chart. Side A, or the Studio Side, has two versions of “Everything Counts” – the 7″ original single mix and the 12″ single mix. The B-side, or the Live Side, has four live tracks (recorded at Hammersmith Odeon in October ‘82) including two Vince Clarke songs, one of my absolute favorites, “New Life,” as well as “Boys Say Go!” – both from their 1981 debut LP Speak and Spell. Also appearing are live versions of the Martin Gore-penned “Nothing to Fear” and “The Meaning of Love,” both from Depeche Mode’s 1982 album A Broken Frame. I left the price tag on the Mini Album because this is an acquisition from my friend Jason who bought it and literally imported it from France in early ‘86.

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Trio “Trio – Mini LP”

sfilzen — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 15:55:23 +0000

Trio “Trio – Mini LP” 1982. Six tracks of minimalist new wave German synth-pop, including the hit song “Da Da Da I Don’t Love You You Don’t Love Me Aha Aha Aha” – the EP has the long version which is just a lot longer and even more repetitive than the original, which first appeared on their debut LP Trio in 1981. “Da Da Da” went to #33 on the US Dance chart and to #2 on the UK singles chart. The repetitiveness of that song (as well as several others on the EP) was intentional; Trio’s “main principle was to remove almost all the ornamentation and polish from their songs, and to use the simplest practical structures (most of their songs were three-chord songs). For this reason, many of their songs are restricted to drums, guitar, vocals, and just one or maybe two other instruments, if any at all. Bass was used very infrequently…” (wiki) The other tracks that employ this formula on the EP are “Anna Let Me In Let Me Out” and “Energie” (which has an identical background beat as “Da Da Da” with a spoken-German introduction before layering over some tropical-flavored guitar effects and rather lo-fi bluesy English-language lyrics). The other three tracks that break from the monotony: “Broken Hearts For You and Me,” which is surprisingly straight-forward classic rock, “Sunday You Need Love Monday Be Alone,” which is a pretty great post-punk rocker, borderline gothic new wave in the vein of early The Cure, and “Ja Ja Ja” which is a breakneck psychobilly punk rocker, complete with hoots and hollers (with a German accent).

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