about time

Passage About Time EP from 1979. 3 songs about time.

Passage - Taking My Time

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in celebration

Lucas Trouble - Miss Syphilis
Ultravox - Quiet Men

BECAUSE

John Maus is playing at Tiny Creatures tomorrow night

and there is a god

John Maus - This Is The Beat

null and void

Very european sounding minimal synth / new wave stuff from Orange County, 1980. Un Sedatif Ce Soir starts with prison fetish queerness - "I saw a guard in a gay bar, drinking water and gin, I saw him dancing with my boyfriend, he drove a volkswagon" - before turning into a faux-french darkwave dance track that is really really good.

From the Happiness and Contempt 12":

Null and Void - All The Old Humans
Null and Void - Un Sedatif Ce Soir

IN LUST

From The Dance's first album, In Lust, 1981. Eugenie Diserio's vocals on the first track remind me of Janet from Softboiled Eggies and vocals on the second song sound a lot like the B-52 girls.

The Dance - Breakout
The Dance - In Lust

play dead

weird out / dance party / german stuff from 1981. (die gesunden track is from 1982)

Die Tanzdiele - Strandgut
Die Kapazitat - Keiner Hort Auf Mao
Die Partei - Fohn In Den Bergen
Die Gesunden - Der Weg Zum Erfolg

Blame it on disco

Cristina's tropical mutant disco debut on Ze Records, 1980. Mostly written and produced by August Darnell, and you can tell too.

Cristina - Blame it on Disco

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When you're a boy

you're hot. Released in 1979 as a publicity stunt, shortly before the original David Bowie version. Billy Mackenzie does it better.

The Associates - Boys Keep Swinging

das kabinette / the cabinet

Their only single, from 1983. minimal synth sex in a basement cigarettes, dart board covered in gay porn rain boots lying on the floor, why do i love/hate cold

Das Kabinette - The Cabinet
Das Kabinette - Fudge It

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oh no, it's you /

The Passions / Michael and Miranda / 1981

i don't know why they aren't more popular. barbara gogan has an amazing voice

songs

The Passions - Pedal Fury
The Passions - Oh No, It's You

full album

The Passions - Michael and Miranda

from other albums

The Passions - Skin Deep
The Passions - Africa Mine


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dance

shake it to the floor / bring it back up

Wibbley Brothers - Der Wawazawa
Can - I Want More
Matthias Schuster - Alles Auf Der Welt
Food and Shelter - I Like Smog

To use you back and front

Faux-misogyny and more more on this Passage EP from 1978. Very great.

Passage - Love Song / Competition
Passage - $lit Machine / New Kind of Love

talk with full mouth

Pizza! used to be the New Motherfuckers. The New Motherfuckers are now Pizza! They make nerdy playful hyper new wave, have two drummers, and play shows in the building I live in so sometimes I hear them from my bedroom.

Pizza! - Repress Yourself!
Pizza! - Houses
Pizza! - Hotlanta
The Avant-Garde Volkpenis (Pizza!) - Blue Moob

These are unmixed recordings from their Myspace, these songs sound better live.

Pizza! at Tiny Creatures last weekend:

It's so

From France, Martin Dupont with with what sounds a little like a subdued Mona Soyoc from KaS Product doing vocals on some tracks. From Sleep is a Luxury (1985):

Martin Dupont - It's So
Martin Dupont - You Are My Jail
Martin Dupont - I Met The Beast



From Spain, Ultima Emoción, very OMD with moments of Power Corruption Lies era New Order. With trademark Spanish lisp. Good but a little overly sentimental sometimes (their name serves as your warning). From Máquinas Románticas (198?):

Ultima Emoción - Máquinas Románticas
Ultima Emoción - Nada Cambiará
Ultima Emoción - La Ultima Fiesta

You are perfect you are sheer

Gina X Performance's first album from 1979, Nice Mover. No G.D.M. references Quentin Crisp 's notable little quote "There is no great dark man" (referring to love, not race, although some probably took it the wrong way) i.e. one doesn't have a soulmate out there who is going to come along and make life perfect. Mr. Crisp also said that AIDS was a fad and homosexuality was a disgusting disease (dry dry dry).

The lineup of synths they used on this album is impressive -- Mini Moog, Polymoog, ARP 2600, ARP Solina, others. I want them all.

Gina X Performance - No G.D.M
Gina X Performance - Black Sheep

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I need a time machine

where is my time machine



i could be happy

Altered Images - I Could Be Happy (from Pinky Blue, 1981)
Altered Images - Dead Pop Stars (Single, 1981)

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Parlour games

Bubonic Plague / Instant Coma sounds like it was made in a Belgian basement in 1980 or something. I once saw them play at the old Parlour Club here in LA (ah memories I miss that place) ad it was great. The album can be purchased from Human Ear Music here.

Bubonic Plague - Polyhedron
Bubonic Plague - Gray Wave City

The Northward Route

Kristian looking sassy

Kristian from Ungdomskulen just sent me a remix he did for fellow Norwegian artist Sissy Wish, whose 3rd album Beauties Never Die is up for a Norwegian grammy. The remix is sexy and nice and good. Kristian does solo stuff as Stockhaus. More songs about phallic items to come?

Sissy Wish - Table 44 (Stockhaus Joggbyksdrama Remix)
Stockhaus - My Banana

Ungdomskulen will be in LA at the Viper room on Feb. 4 and Spaceland Feb. 6.

Flaming Star

It's Elvis Presley's birthday today. I don't really feel one way or the other about Elvis, but I do love this song from Flaming Star, a film he did in 1960. This is one song I can listen to over and over and over again and never get tired of.

Elvis Presley - Flaming Star

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Telephone Operator

This needs to be a gay anthem this year. It's not as explicitly gay as Homosapien (the telephone operator could be a lady) but the only thing this song makes me think of is a sweaty closet full of men. From the 1983 album XL-1.

Pete Shelley - Telephone Operator