What? You mean it's NOT overlooked? Well, most of these songs ARE. But they're really fun!
01 - ADSR - Mo 1982 (2:21)
02 - Ayatollah - The Swingers 1981 (3:37)
03 - Everybody Wants to Work - Uncanny X-Men 1984 (3:11)
04 - At the Village Gates - White Glove Test 1986 (5:17)
05 - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden) - Renaissance 1981 (4:00)
06 - China - Red Rockers 1983 (4:00)
07 - The Hots for You - Brian Brain 1981 (1:53)
08 - As Forever as You - Face to Face 1988 (4:10)
09 - She Goes Out with Everybody - The Spongetones 1982 (2:27)
10 - Touch - I'm So Hollow 1981 (3:51)
11 - Pumping Iron - The Flatbackers 1980 (3:04)
12 - We Are Frank Chickens - Frank Chickens 1984 (4:41)
13 - Tell Yourself the Truth - Skank 1985 (4:24)
14 - No One's Girl - Unit 5 1981 (3:40)
15 - All Day Long - X-Teens 1984 (3:44)
16 - Starlight Jingles - Radio Heart 1987 (4:11)
17 - Dancin' on the Power Lines - Jim Foster 1986 (4:44)
18 - Pull Me - Jenson Interceptor 1983 (3:15)
19 - Suit of Nails - 17 Pygmies 1985 (3:34)
20 - Hello, I Am Your Heart - Bette Bright and the Illuminations 1981 (3:09)
21 - Still Life in Radio - Age of Mirrors 1987 (4:12)
There's a lot of distinctiveness (some might say oddness) here, along with some pretty stuff.
Track 1 is a wry observation on the way that music synthesizers with their multiple capabilities might soon put life performers out of business. ADSR is a term relating to the musical performance of synths.
Track 2, of course, relates to that hairy guy whose followers in Iran took all those hostages in November, 1979.
Did you know that the lead singer for Radio Heart, the group behind the glittery pop confection of Track 16, was later-miminal-synth guy Gary Numan?
I hope you can unpack a tithe of the fun I get listening to this mishmash of silly, sincere, and oddball charm.
MA-94 - It Encroached from the 1980s -- 2021 LINK
See you on Monday, friends!
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