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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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When I bought this Cherry Red compilation record in 1981, it gave me a thrilling overview of British experimental 'rock/pop/alterntive' music, played by loads of people I'd never heard of.
Experimental music can date really quickly but this, largely, doesn't. It's made up of 17 different artists, but it holds together beautifully by compiler Mike Alway.
This is especially surprising because of the genre/age disparity of the time - putting arch punks like the Virgin Prunes and Mark Perry in with Kevin Coyne and Robert Fripp, for instance.
Personally, I was inspired to go out and buy new work by the likes of A.Tent, the Lemon Kittens, Matt Johnson (soon to be The The) and Eyeless in Gaza.
If you listen to it today, even 27 years later, you might also be inspired to check out some new names. Go on, give it a go.
Experimental music can date really quickly but this, largely, doesn't. It's made up of 17 different artists, but it holds together beautifully by compiler Mike Alway.
This is especially surprising because of the genre/age disparity of the time - putting arch punks like the Virgin Prunes and Mark Perry in with Kevin Coyne and Robert Fripp, for instance.
Personally, I was inspired to go out and buy new work by the likes of A.Tent, the Lemon Kittens, Matt Johnson (soon to be The The) and Eyeless in Gaza.
If you listen to it today, even 27 years later, you might also be inspired to check out some new names. Go on, give it a go.
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This is how Cherry Red-now one of the leading reissue labels-began.With totally uncommercial music which bordered on the Avant Garde.Outsider Music before anyone thought up the name.This sonic stew is typical of the label at the time.
It actually begins with a "song" called Bright Waves by one Claire Thomas with one Susan Vezey which is well in Virginia Astley territory and could even be a Christmas song That's followed by matt Johnson who at the time was working for Amphionic Music along with Colin Lloyd Tucker and both would form the Gadgets who went through 3 albums while Johnson cut a solo album under his own name called Burning Blue Soul a year before The The."What Stanley saw" is the future sound of The The with a melody he would recycle at least twice
The Lemon Kittens were really singer Danielle Dax who sounds here like a bersek Kate Bush and nothing like she did on her tremendous cover of the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows while the Virgin Prunes sound as if they are hitting metallic objects.
Lol Coxhill is a name from the 70s as is Robert Fripp-somehow Cherry Red could combine the weirder end of 70s prog rock with punk with no attempt to be commercial.
Eyeless In Gaza-who charted a few times on the Indie lists-sound like Muslims calling the faithful to prayer
Most of the stuff here was too much for the Indie chart
This music came 2 years before Pillows & Prayers which put Cherry red at No 1 on the Indie charts
It actually begins with a "song" called Bright Waves by one Claire Thomas with one Susan Vezey which is well in Virginia Astley territory and could even be a Christmas song That's followed by matt Johnson who at the time was working for Amphionic Music along with Colin Lloyd Tucker and both would form the Gadgets who went through 3 albums while Johnson cut a solo album under his own name called Burning Blue Soul a year before The The."What Stanley saw" is the future sound of The The with a melody he would recycle at least twice
The Lemon Kittens were really singer Danielle Dax who sounds here like a bersek Kate Bush and nothing like she did on her tremendous cover of the Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows while the Virgin Prunes sound as if they are hitting metallic objects.
Lol Coxhill is a name from the 70s as is Robert Fripp-somehow Cherry Red could combine the weirder end of 70s prog rock with punk with no attempt to be commercial.
Eyeless In Gaza-who charted a few times on the Indie lists-sound like Muslims calling the faithful to prayer
Most of the stuff here was too much for the Indie chart
This music came 2 years before Pillows & Prayers which put Cherry red at No 1 on the Indie charts
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Perspectives and Distortions - Cherry Red compilation 1981
26 Oct 2005
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This is of those very rare albums that will stay with you forever.
Whom you were with, where you were, what you were doing, the first time you listened to it.
If you want to hear something that truly will expand your horizons, and change forever what you may think are the boundaries of music, this is the one that will do it.
Your world will never be the same.
It is NOT easy listening.
It is an epic adventure, across vast deserts and oceans of storms, a surrender to what TIMELESS beauty really means.
Open your mind, the reward will be for a lifetime.
Whom you were with, where you were, what you were doing, the first time you listened to it.
If you want to hear something that truly will expand your horizons, and change forever what you may think are the boundaries of music, this is the one that will do it.
Your world will never be the same.
It is NOT easy listening.
It is an epic adventure, across vast deserts and oceans of storms, a surrender to what TIMELESS beauty really means.
Open your mind, the reward will be for a lifetime.
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