Genre: Alt-rock, synth-pop
Places I remember: Marbecks Records
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Perfect Kiss
Gear costume: Love Vigilantes
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: The Perfect Kiss
Gear costume: Love Vigilantes
They loom large in his legend (The Album Collection playlists): Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5
Active compensatory factors: I've never been much of a New Order fan - I prefer Joy Division. When I first met my wife in 1983, she was quite into the band via Blue Monday and Power Corruption & Lies. I wasn't that fussed with the latter.
Active compensatory factors: I've never been much of a New Order fan - I prefer Joy Division. When I first met my wife in 1983, she was quite into the band via Blue Monday and Power Corruption & Lies. I wasn't that fussed with the latter.
Fast forward many years later to the late nineties and Roger was getting rid of vinyl to embrace CDs and DVDs and he gave me this copy of Low-Life - the album that came after Power Corruption & Lies. I kept it and played it quite a lot and while it still didn't get me hooked (sorry) on the band, I did enjoy it.
Side 1, track 1 (Love Vigilantes) does, after all, start with a Beatle homage. Then The Perfect Kiss (some heart in the synth-pop) completes a great one two punch of rock electronica. Yes, it's dated - no mistaking this as an album of the early eighties, but it holds up in 2025.
Where do they all belong? My only New Order album.
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