Music For New Romantics
Music For New Romantics
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Three CD set celebrating the music played at legendary late 70s and early 80s clubs such as The Wag in London, Pips in Manchester and The Rum Runner in Birmingham. In the aftermath of punk and inspired by the glamor of the likes of David Bowie, young elites in England's major cities threw off the shackles of damp and dreary turn-of-the-80s Britain and sought something more refined and cultured than punk's primal howl. Armed with wardrobes full of colourful and outrageous second-hand clothes, cheap make-up, extensive record collections, their own extroverted imaginations and an urge to dance (not pogo), a collection of DJs, dancers and junkshop fashionistas would frequent popular dance clubs. The resulting scene would famously go on to spawn countless 80s pop scene faces and trigger what became the New Romantic movement. Curated with help from London boy-about-town and DJ Chris Sullivan, and featuring a smorgasbord of glam rock, proto-punk, electronica, disco, funk and camp 60s curios, Music For New Romantics captures something of the spirt of a night out at that remarkable, unique nightspot. From the pre-punk rock of Alice Cooper, Iggy and Lou Reed, through the futuristic sound of The Normal, John Foxx, New Order and Visage and into the imported New York cool of Tom Tom Club, Coati Mundi and co, this is a deep dive into the eclectic and eccentric listening habits of a group of people determined not to be swallowed by punk's gloomy reflections of British society, and to create a fantastical and improbable world all of their own.
Contents and tracklist
Disc: 1
1 All The Young Dudes - Mott The Hoople
2 Harlem Nocturne - Lounge Lizards
3 I'm Eighteen (Album Version) - Cooper, Alice
4 Personality Crisis - New York Dolls
5 In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) - Zager / Evans
6 Nightclubbing - Pop, Iggy
7 Do The Strand - Roxy Music
8 Motorboat - Fowley, Kim
9 Vicious - Reed, Lou
10 Berlin - County, Wayne & The Electric Chairs
11 Tv-Glotzer (White Punks On Dope) - Hagen, Nina
12 Viva - La Düsseldorf
13 Only After Dark - Ronson, Mick
14 The Crunch - Rah Band, The
15 S-S-S-Single Bed - Fox
16 The Ultimate Warlord - Warlord, The
17 Love To Love You Baby (Single Version) - Summer, Donna
18 La Vie En Rose (Album Version) - Jones, Grace
19 Chase - Disco Boys, The / Moroder, Giorgio
20 Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
21 Stingray - Miller, Gary / Gray, Barry Orchestra
Disc: 2
1 Down In The Park - Tubeway Army
2 A Forest (Shortened Edit) - Cure, The
3 Being Boiled (Radio-Version) - Human League
4 Warm Leatherette - Normal, The
5 Ghost Rider - Suicide
6 Electricity - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
7 Underpass - Foxx, John
8 She Blinded Me With Science - Dolby, Thomas
9 Visage (Original Version) - Visage
10 Changeling (Edit) (2013 - Remaster) - Simple Minds
11 Einstein A Go-Go - Landscape
12 Money - Flying Lizards
13 Moskow Diskow - Telex
14 Hot On The Heels Of Love - Throbbing Gristle
15 Life In Tokyo [Part 1] (Special Remix) - Japan
16 Bostich - Yello
17 Black Leather - Nightmares In Wax
18 (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thing - Heaven 17
19 To Cut A Long Story Short (Long Mix) - Spandau Ballet
20 Shot By Both Sides - Magazine
21 Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Disc: 3
1 Broken English (Long Version) - Faithfull, Marianne
2 Club Country - Associates, The
3 Tears Are Not Enough - ABC
4 M Factor - M
5 Genius Of Love - Tom Tom Club
6 Klactoveesedstein - Blue Rondo A La Turk
7 Shack Up - A Certain Ratio
8 Everything's Gone Gren - New Order
9 Shake (The Foundations) - Glaxo Babies
10 Shake Down - Heat Exchange
11 Ai No Corrida - Jankel, Chaz
12 I'am An Indian Too - Armando, Don's Second Avenue Rhumba Band
13 Me No Pop I - Kid Creole & The Coconuts / Coati Mundi
14 No G.D.M. (Dedicated To Quentin Crisp) - Gina X Performance
15 Lost In Music - Sister Sledge
16 Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
17 Captain Scarlet - Gray, Barry Orchestra
