Captain Sensible's Women and Captains First
Robert L. Sutton
Captain Sensible's solo stuff is much a departure from his stuff
composed with the Damned it seems.
Incidentally, does anyone have any recent news about the Damned?
I know they did a little mini-tour reunited with the Cap'n. Of course
I missed that, and no one seems to come through the Pacific Northwest.
I recently picked up Captain Sensible's "Revolution now". Does anyone
have any comment on that? It seens to be based around a kind of
global revolution sort of theme. As well as political jabs.
I belive he makes a jab at Robert Maxwell in the song "Kamikaze Millionaire"
Rob.
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Al Crawford
>
> New Musik was a bit like synth pop, but not really. Their music was a
> little frosty, but there were some nice melodies thrown in. (Also New
> Musik appeared before synth pop became the big thing.)
It did? I seem to remember New Musik first making waves in the UK charts
(with the likes of "Living By Numbers" and "This World Of Water") in early
1980. This places them *after* the first sputterings of synth pop (Numan's
"Are `Friends' Electric?" and "Cars" and "Video Killed The Radio Star" by
The Buggles) and makes them contemporary with Ultravox's "Sleepwalk" and
stuff of that ilk. 'Course, I've never really classified New Musik along
with the usual synth pop groups as they were synth POP rather than SYNTH
pop. Emphasis on the pop aspect rather than the synths. Now I'd better lay
off Erland lest he think I'm picking on him (second time I've differed with
him on `synth pop' in a week :-)
Staying on the Tony Mansfield thread rather than the Capt Sensible line,
does anyone know what's happened to Mansfield these days? After the demise
of New Musik (somebody bring out the albums on CD, PLEASE!) he seems to
have gone into production (Sensible, A-Ha etc) but then he's just faded
from view. What's he up to?
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Al Crawford - aw...@dcs.ed.ac.uk
"Breakdown. Splinter. A thousand fragments disperse and die."
Steve Varty
>Side two is less spectacular. "The Man Who's Gotten Everything"
>is synth-pop like,
You should try to get a copy of the original on CRASS records then you will
hear the real song.
Steve.
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Erland Sommarskog
>And lo, Erland Sommarskog (som...@enea.se) spake unto the masses saying:
>> New Musik was a bit like synth pop, but not really. Their music was a
>> little frosty, but there were some nice melodies thrown in. (Also New
>> Musik appeared before synth pop became the big thing.)
>
>It did? I seem to remember New Musik first making waves in the UK charts
>(with the likes of "Living By Numbers" and "This World Of Water") in early
>1980. This places them *after* the first sputterings of synth pop (Numan's
>"Are `Friends' Electric?" and "Cars" and "Video Killed The Radio Star" by
>The Buggles) and makes them contemporary with Ultravox's "Sleepwalk" and
Mea culpa. I had some memories which made me place them in 1977/78.
I just ran a checksum test on my brain. Turns out I have to replace
a 16 MB board. :-)
One reason I don't really think of New Musik of synth pop is
probably that while I didn't care about most of these groups
when they were recent, I got "Anywhere" when it was fairly recent,
caught up on "From A to B" fairly soon, and got "Warp" directly when
it came out.
"Someone said the magic words today..."
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Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - som...@enea.se