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woops

woops

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stray thought while reading all the Coil interviews in the wake of the recent Coil thread

they claimed to be doing mdma in the early eighties well before it caught on with the '88 summer of love. made music with marc almond; soft cell were also early mdma adopters.

it's as if rave were prefigured musically/chemically 5 or so years earlier - by the darkside - soft cell's hits are all claustrophobic / melancholic / regretful

dave ball went on to make comedy/paranoid rave hit swamp thing... just a buzzing fly
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
mere 23 minutes later i open my facebook and see soft cell have a new suite of tunes ready
 
william_kent

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woops said:
stray thought while reading all the Coil interviews in the wake of the recent Coil thread

they claimed to be doing mdma in the early eighties well before it caught on with the '88 summer of love. made music with marc almond; soft cell were also early mdma adopters.

it's as if rave were prefigured musically/chemically 5 or so years earlier - by the darkside - soft cell's hits are all claustrophobic / melancholic / regretful

dave ball went on to make comedy/paranoid rave hit swamp thing... just a buzzing fly
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Drunken Rant: I don't doubt it! Soft Cell were shoving it in our face with the "Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing" LP (1982!), featuring Cindy Ecstasy, MDMA dealer to the stars - Marc Almond flaunting his Temple Ov Psychick Youth tattoo, Marc & the Mamba's LPs graced with Val Denham artwork ( TG & TOPY associate ) , Marc guesting on Coil's Horse Rotorvator album, Dave Ball featuring on Psychic TV's "Jack the Tab" fake acid house album - I can remember Martin from 808 State when he was behind the counter at Eastern Bloc telling me "don't buy that, our album will piss all over that shit" ....it's time the crap about some soul boys going to Ibiza was revised..even Weatherall had a psychick cross tattoo until his girlfriend made him remove it...
 
woops

woops

is not like other people
william_kent said:
Drunken Rant: I don't doubt it! Soft Cell were shoving it in our face with the "Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing" LP (1982!), featuring Cindy Ecstasy, MDMA dealer to the stars - Marc Almond flaunting his Temple Ov Psychick Youth tattoo, Marc & the Mamba's LPs graced with Val Denham artwork ( TG & TOPY associate ) , Marc guesting on Coil's Horse Rotorvator album, Dave Ball featuring on Psychic TV's "Jack the Tab" fake acid house album - I can remember Martin from 808 State when he was behind the counter at Eastern Bloc telling me "don't buy that, our album will piss all over that shit" ....it's time the crap about some soul boys going to Ibiza was revised..even Weatherall had a psychick cross tattoo until his girlfriend made him remove it...
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Mr. Tea

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william_kent said:
Dave Ball featuring on Psychic TV's "Jack the Tab" fake acid house album - I can remember Martin from 808 State when he was behind the counter at Eastern Bloc telling me "don't buy that, our album will piss all over that shit"
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I remember idly perusing the blurb on the back of that compilation in a shop years ago and thinking "WTF? Surely nobody was actually making acid house in 1981?"

Turns out I was right.
 
william_kent

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mixed_biscuits said:
ahem

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Still, maybe better than Dave Ball's first foray into redneck territory? A friend of mine was a huge Soft Cell fan - I can remember the look of horror on his face when he first listened to this best forgotten solo album from 1983:


Dave Ball - Rednecks
( this is just awful, only posted for comedy value )

( Fun fact -the album cover features John Balance from Coil playing percussion on Bee from Getting The Fear .)
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

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I mean maybe it's just a pastiche of the genre of the whole, a lot of them look like that.
I also really like this track

 
william_kent

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IdleRich said:
I mean maybe it's just a pastiche of the genre of the whole, a lot of them look like that.
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Yeah, I think you're right. I've just been checking all the Martin Denny and Les Baxter album covers on Discogs and I can't findt any that I can point to and say "that's the one".. although I'm sure the TOPY crew dug further into the realms of exotica than I ever have...
 
william_kent

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IdleRich said:
I mean maybe it's just a pastiche of the genre of the whole, a lot of them look like that.
I also really like this track

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Side one of that album is a lot better than side 2 - I just remember my friend's face by the time we got to that rednecks track on the first listen...
 
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