New Gold Dreams - Post Punk & New Wave 1979-1983
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New Gold Dreams - Post Punk & New Wave 1979-1983
[ Virgin Records / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 8 November 2013
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'New Gold Dreams' is a phenomenal overview of 40 songs that explore the story of Virgin Records at the turn of the '80s. The sense of adventure that had been the label's central tenet since its inception in 1973 was in rude health. Diversity was key and pop was getting strange, interesting and exciting. Off the wall as some of them may be, these tunes represent an exhilarating awakening for the label and music in general.
We marvel at how bands matured and indeed often the very nature of a 'band' as had been known was challenged. Duos, trios and machine-driven drums and synthesisers all became part of pop's new language. Both sides of the original Human League had become hit factories; Japan took ambient poetry into the charts; and in Boy George, the former cloakroom assistant at the fabled Blitz nightclub and leader of Culture Club, Virgin had a bona fide superstar.
Change was in the air. Strange was going overground. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark sounded like Kraftwerk singing on the Mersey estuary. Martha and the Muffins were on 'Echo Beach', far away in time; Simple Minds straddled art and prog and added some pop gloss, that would reach its apogee in their 1982 album, New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84). Tales of pasts catching up with you ('Ghosts'); Dostoevsky set to post-punk ('A Song From Under The Floorboards'; songs sung by established artists in their infancy (Neneh Cherry as part of Rip, Rig and Panic; Waterboy Mike Scott in Another Pretty Face).
New Gold Dreams is a canter through yesterday's future - an embracing of possibility and technology; an examination of the methods of dance.
Tracks:
Disc 1
1.Public Image Limited - Death Disco 12" Version (June 79)
2.Magazine - Permafrost (Apr 79)
3.Fingerprintz - Dancing With Myself (Jan 79)
4.Essential Logic - Wake Up (May 79)
5.The Men - I Don't Depend On You (July 79)
6.Jah Wobble - Dan McArthur (Disco Dummy) (Aug 79)
7.OMD - Electricity (Sept 79)
8.The Human League - Empire State Human (Sept 79)
9.Public Image Limited - Careering (Nov 79)
10.The Flying Lizards - TV (Jan 80)
11.A Song From Under The Floorboards (2007 Digital Remaster)
12.Another Pretty Face- Whatever Happened To The West? (Feb 80)
13.Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach (Mar 80)
Disc 2
1.The Ruts - Staring At The Rudeboys (Apr 80)
2.Jah Wobble - Betrayal (Apr 80)
3.The Ruts - West One (Shine On Me) (Sept 80)
4.The Professionals - 1-2-3 (Sept 80)
5.Fingerprintz - Houdini Love (Sept 80)
6.OMD - Enola Gay (Sept 80)
7.Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Oct 80)
8.Public Image Limited - Flowers Of Romance (Mar 81)
9.Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing (Mar 81)
10.British Electric Foundation - The Decline Of The West (Mar 81)
11.Simple Minds - The American (May 81)
12.The Human League - Love Action (I Believe In Love) (July 81)
13.Rip Rig And Panic - Go, Go, Go! (This Is It) (Aug 81)
Disc 3
1.Simple Minds - Love Song (Aug 81)
2.Japan - Ghosts (Mar 82)
3.Culture Club - White Boy (Apr 82)
4.Tina Turner/British Electric Foundation - Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) (Apr 82)
5.Rip Rig And Panic - You're My Kind Of Climate (June 82)
6.Mick Karn - Sensitive (June 82)
7.David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto - Bamboo Houses (Aug 82)
8.Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Sept 82)
9.China Crisis - Christian (Jan 83)
10.Heaven 17 - Temptation (Apr 83)
11.Howard Devoto - Rainy Season (June 83)
12.David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours (June 83)
13.The Flying Pickets - Only You (Nov 83)
14.China Crisis - Wishful Thinking (Dec 83)
