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Have been revisiting the Mainframe album 'Tenants Of The Lattice Work', a british synthpop concept album from 1983. Some definite traces of prog in their dna, makes me think of stuff like the Buggles, New Musik and Freur. Lots of very lovely moments, don't know why it's not more well-known tbh - probably came out a bit after this sort of stuff had peaked...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RtoQModEBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs6wQmMYNwY
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:08 (one month ago) link
"don't know why it's not more well-known tbh"
because i've never seen or heard of it, that's why. if i had ever seen that cover i would have bought it, trust me.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 April 2024 11:18 (one month ago) link
well, no wonder. i see they put it out themselves. not every privately-pressed record is going to make it over here.
you would think someone would have reissued it by now but maybe its a case of the people behind it owning it/wanting to put it back out themselves. and then never doing that. it happens.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 April 2024 11:22 (one month ago) link
One of the things they did was their first couple of singles had software on the b-side that you could load onto your home computer so you could have graphics to go with the music. kind of a vinyl precursor to the whole enhanced cd thing. I know there are other examples of that, kind of blanking on who else did it though
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 25 April 2024 11:28 (one month ago) link
Those tracks aren't really the best ones on the album btw, just not many of them on youtube
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 25 April 2024 11:31 (one month ago) link
My heroes Kissing The Pink did that! and also The Thompson Twins, i think.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 April 2024 12:02 (one month ago) link
all the nerds! Just remembered i've got this single by Chris sievey from before he became Frank sidebottom where he does the same thing:
https://www.discogs.com/release/3178528-Chris-Sievey-Camouflage
Don't know what the software is like but the song is pure garbage
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:33 (one month ago) link
God I had that Mainframe album, I'd guess those guys went into software development and made a mint. Tragically they're not listed on Progarchives, but googling them uncovered a Mainframe website!http://mainframe-music.info/index.html
― prog ain't no religious cult (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 April 2024 13:52 (one month ago) link
Pete Shelley also had some kind of program on an LP iirc
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:03 (one month ago) link
I know they ended up doing music for some amiga games. Thanks for the link btw!
xp yes indeed!
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 25 April 2024 14:04 (one month ago) link
are those two Gadgets albums a dime a dozen in the U.K.? i never see them here. i only see The Blue Album. which i like a lot.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 April 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link
not something I've seen around, but I have picked up a Jeremy's Secret LP and a Colin Lloyd Tucker solo album in the last few tears
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:31 (one month ago) link
EVERYONE HERE should listen to The Gadgets just in case they have passed you by. that stuff is awesome.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 April 2024 17:38 (one month ago) link
I can't decide if the Doug and the Slugs vibe is more Kids in the Hall or Barenaked Ladies
https://imgur.com/a/xbNBCjM
― sox concrète (bendy), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:01 (one month ago) link
i think just "Canadian" will do.
― scott seward, Friday, 26 April 2024 20:07 (one month ago) link
Could a Canadian help me parse the tam-as-comedy-signifier? Or am I overfitting connections between D&TS, BN Ladies and Nardwuar?
― sox concrète (bendy), Friday, 26 April 2024 20:08 (one month ago) link
im obsessed w this one right now ... such a cool vibe, amazing video, feels so on trend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeufM5V1iGg
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:02 (one month ago) link
also may I recommend the 'rubble mix'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v88H6OSdOQ
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Friday, 26 April 2024 22:03 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-1wqx7sJPY
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:29 (one month ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezzz0CQUlEY
― scott seward, Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:35 (one month ago) link
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:07 (one month ago) link
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:08 (one month ago) link
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:09 (one month ago) link
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:10 (one month ago) link
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― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:11 (one month ago) link
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Oi! and crust punk were so much more popular than anyone wanted to admit. Nice to see GG at #6 in the hipster chart though.
― a fatal dose of irony (Matt #2), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 12:45 (one month ago) link
Amazing snapshot in time. Reminds me of trying to gym class that winter as the teacher tried to get us to properly rotate nine-person vollyball teams. Is this from Sounds? How long did/could the rockabilly chart last I wonder. "Nutbush City Limits" as a metal standard. I guess the New Pop New Romantics erased all that oi and crust a few months later.
― sox concrète (bendy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 13:26 (one month ago) link
* reminds me of gym class that winter as the teacher tried to get us to properly rotate nine-person vollyball teams.
― sox concrète (bendy), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:04 (one month ago) link
"when our love passed out on the clash"
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:00 (one month ago) link
that american albums list is some serious 8th grade flashback stuff. its a lot of what kids were listening to where i was. i had bought kings of the wild frontier in 1980 so i was already well on my way to becoming whatever the hell i became. new wave/punk/metal fan of the 80s.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:10 (one month ago) link
1980 was that weird year where my favorite bands were judas priest, the kinks, and adam & the ants.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:11 (one month ago) link
yeah the american lists are so "what i talk about when i am talking about the 80s."
it was utterly immersive omnipresent and hard to avoid. there's like 20 other charts posted above and there were like 8 ppl hearing that lol.
― well below the otm mendoza line (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:15 (one month ago) link
Great post, Scott. Kinda wild that the Geordie cover of Ike and Tina would end up being an AC/DC audition around this same time. Wild to see the Misunderstood archival album in the indie chart.
― BlackIronPrison, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:21 (one month ago) link
cherry red and john peel were misunderstood super fans.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:41 (one month ago) link
this is certainly handy to have online.
https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Misunderstood
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:43 (one month ago) link
i actually read that book-length story of the Misunderstood that Mike Stax wrote for Ugly Things magazine. it could be a slog but the Peel stuff was always interesting.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 16:44 (one month ago) link
Weird thing was that IIRC there was still one last part of that story to go about what happened after the band fell apart and I don't think that ever got published?
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:11 (one month ago) link
i don't remember. i thought it went on to Juicy Lucy and the move to England and all that and someone dropping out and going to India...? its all a blur. that thing was very very long.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link
i was a teenage Shop Assistants and Fuzzbox fan but i didn't know about Chin-Chin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nBX1qVGDd4
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:53 (one month ago) link
chilly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlUx5cPLAM0
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 May 2024 15:54 (one month ago) link
do i need to listen to Will & The Bushmen or The Windbreakers?
― scott seward, Monday, 13 May 2024 15:31 (one month ago) link
Trouser Press was hot on the Windbreakers, but the one record I bought never warranted a second listen. I think I mentally file them with Dwight Twilley: meat and potatoes, straight ahead, workmanlike rock that I don't get what the big deal is.
― enochroot, Monday, 13 May 2024 23:47 (one month ago) link
this one's for you, ILM.
https://i.discogs.com/Di3DC6jffrS6iEmPzXDzXRa7ZXwH2X_3G8EVGHB19lY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:594/w:376/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA5/MTE1LTE1ODgxMzA2/OTUtMTM3MS5wbmc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:24 (one month ago) link
https://i.discogs.com/T0vLIOZvEiwjHeOvBOqoQdpr5bkeoVystZ6raP8mNwI/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:598/w:374/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MjA5/MTE1LTE1ODgxMzA2/OTctMjE3NC5wbmc.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:25 (one month ago) link
original title. because, yes, there are have to be different versions.
https://i.discogs.com/ghpzI7-ZFgy-3Rs1vLUqURdtneGvCEoErn8SrTBDK0c/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:585/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjY5/Nzg1LTE1MDA3OTMw/MjctMTI0Ni5qcGVn.jpeg
https://i.discogs.com/EGS_ezCzE-pe1msJqEJbXFS_JAoN65rQOcnNCugHwkk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEwMjY5/Nzg1LTE1MDA3OTMw/MzEtMTg1OC5qcGVn.jpeg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 15 May 2024 17:27 (one month ago) link