4,000,000 Telephones (1985)

This band called 4,000,000 Telephones are really way cool. I'm surprised how good this album is. I guess they're like Medium Medium a bit, but wackier. Check it out at Annie's Animal blog here.

Reposts of My Captains, Gods Gift, Sub Sub

Okay, I've reuploaded three records, now, two of them by request.

Gods Gift 12" EP, 1981 (By the way, Stephen, the nice man I met from this band, tells me Chuck Warner of Hyped 2 Death is now looking at helping them release a Gods Gift CD)

Sub Sub - Coast EP, 1992 (I managed to rip this with NO SKIPS THIS TIME! WOOHOOO!)

My Captains - 7" EP, 1981 (I think this is probably a better sounding rip than last time - thanks Adam for letting me use your record cleaning machine!)

David Sylvian (& Ryuchi Sakamoto) - Forbidden Colours

Who Are You?

Altar Ego - Big Picture 7" ('82? '87?)

Altar Ego - Big Picture/Walls 7" ('82? '87?)

I found this record for dirt cheap at a record convention in '90 or '91. I didn't think I'd ever be able to find anything about this band, and even with the aid of the internet, I still can't. All I know is that this was also released in 12" form on an Australian label, and out of sheer curiosity, I've gone ahead and ordered that so I can hear the other songs on it. The A-side of this sounds a lot like New Gold Dream-era Simple Minds with the synths & bass. The lead vocalist is a man, but they have a lady singing along sometimes, too. The b-side is darker and doesn't even have synths. I like the way the bass sounds. This record doesn't give any indication of what year it came out, but places selling these records online say it comes from 1982 and that the 12" came from 1987! I really can't tell. Maybe when I get the 12" in the post, I can figure it out.

And yes, it is a pretty strange sleeve, isn't it? ;)

A Certain Ratio - "Shack Up" from Part Time Punks Festival 2008

Okay, be prepared because the sound on this clip is horribly distorted, but I think it's worth watching anyway because Denise is so beautiful and it shows how neat "Shack Up" sounded with her on lead vocals. If you look closely there's a short guy directly in front of her in the audience who's head is bobbing up and down faster than other people around. That's me! Haha, you can even see me raise and wave my fist to the music at one point.



This entire gig is available on the internet in audio form with much better sound quality than this, and it's a fantastic gig all around. Their new album is supposed to be out in France any day now and I'm absolutely foaming at the mouth for it.

Deckchairs Overboard "That's The Way" EP, 1982

Deckchairs Overboard - That's The Way EP, 1982

I first heard of this band a few weeks ago due to a certain person I'm not sure if I should give credit to here or not but if wants me to, I will. Anyway a video of "That's The Way" was posted on You Tube and I decided I had to have this record, only I could find no blogs or elsewhere online to find this record. So I bought it and ripped it myself. See what you think. I love the last track especially, "Where Elephants Hide". So DARK. So GOTH. So...weird and subversive.

Here's the video that hooked me in:


They went on to do a whole LP, released in 1985, but I haven't heard that yet.