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Haunting track from their masterpiece "154"

This song is taken from the first album of the band and I found gorgeous both the music and its lyrics, especially the second strophe (I love dolphins!)

The sand whispered heat and burned the feet

Of gulls landing on the shore

In the motel pool the waitress cools

She doesn't ask for more

She makes a wish she takes a risk

She opens up her door

Through human eyes she's a dolphin in disguise

It's the last night of the war

From his masterpiece "Dreams of reason produce monsters" (1987), here Mick Karn doesn't play bass but instead keyboards and all kinds of wind instruments. Percussionist is former Japan bandmate Steve Jansen.

Once again, in this song (and video) you can admire Mick Karn and its absolute mastery of the fretless bass.

Enjoy.

Another anniversary, it seems: today in 1982 Talk Talk issued their first album.
Still today Mark Hollis' voice resonates different from any other.

Take a look at the kids
I've been losing track
This crime of being uncertain of your love
Is all I'm guilty of

Went to see Duran Duran a couple of days ago and I am still "recovering" from a very emotional evening. One of the most beautiful concerts that I have seen in my life, ideally closing a circle started almost 40 years ago when I was 14 and my parents didn't allow me to see them live (at that time they had just issued "Notorious").

I am very happy that they have played almost all their hits, including The Chauffeur that is my favorite of their songs. While Rio is some sort of "party record", this song is quite crepuscular and in my opinion is heavily influenced from the musical mood of that era.

I am happy I can still be amazed by music.

I "inherited" my love for Mick Karn from my brother who, when I started to lose myself in darkwave and post-punk, used to listen to Japan and their side-project and beyond (Sylvian, Karn, Jansen + Barbieri, and later Rain Tree Crow).

Still today I think that more than a musician he was an alien visiting our world... completely self taught musician, playing the fretless bass like no other man, and wind instruments as well.
This track is taken from his first LP named "Titles" (1982), short after Japan disbanded.

Sadly, he left our Earth in 2011. May he rest in peace.

From their LP Priest = Aura (1992), I consider this instrumental song their most "Cure-like" track.

This record, an absolute masterpiece, features the band at their best.

Great track performed live by Shriekback, remembering us the role of the bass in post-punk music!

It seems that Juju was released today 45 years ago.

My favorite track of the album (and possibly my favorite of all their catalogue) is Into the light, where McGeoch's guitars shine.

Enjoy.

Seeing Andy McKlusky singing, moving, holding the scene alone and making everybody dance while playing is a real joy! And he seems not to suffer the weight of his bass!

I have heard this beautiful album named Ceremonial for the first time many years ago thanks to a guy in a record store.

All the tracks on this CD are instrumental and minimalist in composition and arrangement, somehow echoing Joy Division, with hints of psychedelia and a really interesting use of guitars – which in some tracks are tuned to a single note.

I have never heard the original LP featuring also the vocal parts.
Enjoy.

This song is taken from their 23rd album that is called "Untitled #23", issued in 2009.
It is hauntingly beautiful and shows how this band has always been capable of make awesome music, maybe not reaching stardom but staying uncompromising and coherent.

Enjoy.

A recent post about this band made me think about their first record named "Only a lad", a fantastic album.

While they during the 80s became more commercial, in their first incarnation were a strange blend of pop rock and ska.

Enjoy!

Stunning track from the first album by The Church.
While they seldom appear in "classic" post-punk playlists, this band should deserve more attention from who loves the music of those years, either for their albums in the 80s and for their more recent work (they have never stopped making records).

At home they think we must be fools
The sky or street, they're both as cruel
When you're running low on fuel
And I ran out books ago
Last night I overheard your prayers
It's emptiness that scares
Or disappearing in thin air
To a lost place down below

(when Steve Kilbey screams "You never know!" I got always chills all over my body!)

Probably REM at that time were still looking for their sound but I love their IRS era.
Have also always admired Mike Mills' basslines.

A great song from that era. I have always admired bassists who can also sing.

Apache gunman in the boiling crowd
Who never got to meet you last time
We're interrupted by the telephone
You didn't think they were invented then

Oh Lord we need miracles
We need more wine and gold
We need slaves and roads and personal favors
We need microphones and manifolds

One of my favorite song by EC, and a good one to fall in love with the gorgeous basslines made by Bruce Thomas

Originally this song was the b-side of "See you" but I have heard it in the 80s from a cassette named "People are people" and I have loved it ever since.