maomao
普費斯
And Daniel Johnston was just continuing where the Beatles left off.
Urban75 Album of the Year 1983
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
One of my faves from that year - absolutely loved it
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
There's a lot of influences and ideas going on with Swordfishtrombones, and Kathleen Brennan was probably the biggest influence.
‘All these bulletproof songs, one after another’: remembering Tom Waits’s extraordinary mid-career trilogy
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andysays
Love and solidarity
I was thinking about mentioning it.
IMO it's a good album, not a great one, not as good as either Fear of Music or Remain in Light. It will probably make my top twenty, but not my top ten.
And I'll bite - what is the "best song in the world" you're referring to?
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Yeah, it's not one of the Talking Heads albums I'd think of first. And This Must Be The Place. I do like my hyperbole and would never actually be able to pick a single favourite song, but that's got to be up there.
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Been giving this Alan Vega album, " Saturn Strip", quite a few plays this week.
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ska invita
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i know nothing about punk really but i know what i like 
via a stray youtube comment came across this great label
www.discogs.com
Roster includes Subhumans/ Instigators / A-Heads / Organized Chaos / Wild Youth and more....
Looking at the 83 albums (there were 4) only this one has youtube audio
www.discogs.com
ITs really great IMO
Would like to hear the two live Subhumans albums ....will dig later...
via a stray youtube comment came across this great label
Bluurg Tapes
Explore releases from the Bluurg Tapes label. Discover what's missing in your discography and shop for Bluurg Tapes releases.
Looking at the 83 albums (there were 4) only this one has youtube audio
Lost Cherrees - Nothing New
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1983 Cassette release of "Nothing New" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
ITs really great IMO
Would like to hear the two live Subhumans albums ....will dig later...
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ska invita
back on the other side
found this
www.discogs.com
available here
www.anarcho-punk.net
todays the first time ive ever heard subhumans - love them - proper! opening up a new world to me tbh...its a fine line for me but theyre way on the right side of it
Subhumans - Subhumans Leeds
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1983 Cassette release of "Subhumans Leeds" on Discogs.
www.discogs.com
Subhumans - 1983 - Live @ Leeds, England
Subhumans - 1983 - Live @ Leeds, England 01. Subhumans - All Gone Dead.mp3 02. Subhumans - Drugs Of Youth.mp3 03. Subhumans - Not Me.mp3...
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todays the first time ive ever heard subhumans - love them - proper! opening up a new world to me tbh...its a fine line for me but theyre way on the right side of it
ska invita
back on the other side
grew up on that record, my mum loved it, i love it too i guess
ive totally come around to full commercial ub40
not enough to vote for it though, theres enough other contenders for me
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Think Bluurg was the Subs' own label - lots more non-tape stuff here: Bluurg Recordsfound this
available hereSubhumans - Subhumans Leeds
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1983 Cassette release of "Subhumans Leeds" on Discogs.
Subhumans - 1983 - Live @ Leeds, England
Subhumans - 1983 - Live @ Leeds, England 01. Subhumans - All Gone Dead.mp3 02. Subhumans - Drugs Of Youth.mp3 03. Subhumans - Not Me.mp3...
todays the first time ive ever heard subhumans - love them - proper! opening up a new world to me tbh...its a fine line for me but theyre way on the right side of it
1983 seems to have been a very busy year for them!
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
No thanks . First album was good though
ska invita
back on the other side
googling about i see theres a new Subhumans book coming out on PM Press
Looks like its a bit late
pmpress.org.uk
Looks like its a bit late
Silence is no Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans
by Ian Glasper The definitive account of the much-loved band.
pmpress.org.uk
Spectralism was a tendency in modern classical music to explore sound via the harmonic series integrating timbre and harmony, it's a collection of compositional techniques that gets applied across a range of schools and compositions but from the mid 60's there were a couple of definite schools of thought. It shares a lot with minimalism but whereas minimalism is generally associated with America, the spectralists were associated with French composers (key figure - Gérard Grisey) and some less formal Romanian composers (key figure Corneliue Cezar) some of whom were exiles from Ceausescu's regime.
This is some of the most sonically rich music you will ever hear but then to be fair, that's exactly what they were going for. Concepts around melody don't really fit in, but it's not necessarily especially difficult to get into.
Around 1983 Tristan Murail's orchestral composition Désintégrations was composed and performed. It's a significant work I believe but you won't find it on any album - and this is one of the less talked about limitations of looking at albums.
However we do have an important album in the shape of Ocatvian Nemescu's Graeatia - Natural which according to its bandcamp is the first fully electronic album to be released in Romania. It's actually really likable - you could mistake parts of it for early Tangerine Dream.
This album of (more choral) compositions from Călin Ioachimescu and Şerban Nichifor is also really great.
On the French side there is an album of music composed by Allain Gaussin Éclipse / Eau-Forte / Ogive
This is some of the most sonically rich music you will ever hear but then to be fair, that's exactly what they were going for. Concepts around melody don't really fit in, but it's not necessarily especially difficult to get into.
Around 1983 Tristan Murail's orchestral composition Désintégrations was composed and performed. It's a significant work I believe but you won't find it on any album - and this is one of the less talked about limitations of looking at albums.
However we do have an important album in the shape of Ocatvian Nemescu's Graeatia - Natural which according to its bandcamp is the first fully electronic album to be released in Romania. It's actually really likable - you could mistake parts of it for early Tangerine Dream.
This album of (more choral) compositions from Călin Ioachimescu and Şerban Nichifor is also really great.
On the French side there is an album of music composed by Allain Gaussin Éclipse / Eau-Forte / Ogive
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Might be worth thinking about a deadline of Friday and then if any Pink Floyd like stuff is gaining momentum bring the deadline forward to Thursday
unexpectedly and with no warning.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Looking through the discogs page I've got a couple of Bluurg tapes (not from '83) by gothy punks Funeral Party and punky ska act Blue Meanies. It was proper DIY distribution - they sold the tapes at a stall at gigs and the only other way to get them was mail order from a place in Warminster (I've also got a Mad Professor live show on tape I ordered from them). Love those photocopied covers.i know nothing about punk really but i know what i like
Bluurg Tapes
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Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
While I'm thinking about Bluurg and Subhumans I've got a question about the release date of From The Cradle To The Grave.
It was released as a cassette in 1983:
but it didn't get a vinyl release til 1984:
Do we get to vote for it in both years? Or just 83 or just 84?
Love the A-side of this, have to 'be in the mood' for that long track that fills up side B.
It was released as a cassette in 1983:
but it didn't get a vinyl release til 1984:
Do we get to vote for it in both years? Or just 83 or just 84?
Love the A-side of this, have to 'be in the mood' for that long track that fills up side B.
ska invita
back on the other side
Just got recommended Bluurg TV on youtube
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Weekend ( with Keith Tippet) - Live at Ronnie Scotts
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's Dazzleships is actually really good. Don't think I've listened to it since 1983 and godknows if it sounded futuristic then but it sounds almost like an album made in the 2023s trying to sound like a futuristic album made in 1983. Underated.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Released 31st March 1984
"Nothing ever came of it but Greater Manchester Police had a go at banning this album along with others by CRASS and the DEAD KENNEDYS. Beyond attempts to use the Obscene Publications Act, raid shops and seize copies, some record shops - HMV for one - just refused to stock it. Their objection was both the title and the artwork by CRASS guitarist Andy Palmer. Later reissues use different cover art."
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Dick stuggled to get a word in with Steve in full flow
I know 1983 is a long time ago, but I was surprised to see the writer of Ashtray Dirt chuffing away on fags throughout that video.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Never going to get a look in in all the clutter but The Go Betweens - Before Hollywood has some lovely subtle moments
Dr. Furface
One small step for me
I played Rickie Lee Jones' Girl at Her Volcano a lot back then. It's mainly live versions of covers, including my fave ever version of My Funny Valentine. Officially an ep, released on 10" vinyl with 7 tracks, but the cassette version (which I had) had a great bonus track, Something Cool, which pushed the running time to about 30mins, which is an LP for me.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
That would explain why it hadn't been mentioned on this thread before! OK, I officially retract my not-that-enthusiastic-in-the-first-place vote for it. Will have to remember to vote for it in the 84 poll, along with Too Many Humans by No Trend, which my media library also insists is from 83.
