Kissing The Pink - classic or dud

So, for this far-sighted precursor to the "DVD album", I say- classic!!!!

I'm voting for Pink Military.

The Beloved had definitely heard them hadn't they? What an amazing record!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoSrNG4vB4

Does anyone in the USA actually own anything by this mythical band?

i own everything they ever made.

great input from old fart!!!

hey! oh, right, that old fart...

I never heard their debut album until tonight. Mutant new wave, brings to mind The Associates in the all-over-the-map feel though not as mad, I dig it!

one of my favorite bands ever. all time. very inspiring to me.

Pretty extensive fan site here:

http://www.jeffgrote.com/ktp/ktp.html

How's their second album, "What Noise", compared to the debut?

i had a 12" of love lasts forever in the early 80s and i can't remember the b side.

Underage?

Love the name of the band; don't care for their music. (at least the little i've heard)

It is VERY much of its time.

you know what's funny is that i bought naked when it came out cuz the college radio station played last film all the time and i loved it so much and a couple of years later i bought what noise? and i thought THAT was their debut! it sounded older to me. i had no idea. and i have absolutely no memory of it coming out in the states after naked. and it only came out a year later. i like them both but naked is perfect to me. still love it just as much now. though i don't play it that much anymore.

and i lied about owning everything they did. i don't own the ktp stuff. just the kissing the pink stuff.

one of those groups i'm just totally bimble about. no real rational thought involved. they are just permanently in my teenage brain.

i think the cabaret futura comp was their first appearance on vinyl? i may be wrong. from 1981. a spotty comp, but some good stuff on it if you see it for a buck or two.

A1 Eddie Maelov & Sunshine Patteson* – Man For Sale
A2 Eddie Maelov & Sunshine Patteson* – Echo
A3 Richard Jobson – Daddy
A4 Monkey House Blues – Dutch Wives
A5 Monkey House Blues – The House I Built With Sticks
A6 Distractions* – Leave Me
A7 Capalula – The Pure Voice
B1 Positive Noise – Love Like Property
B2 Positive Noise – Treachery
B3 Everest The Hard Way – Consumption
B4 Richard Jobson – India Song
B5 Kissing The Pink – Don't Hide In The Shadows
Producer – Martin Hannett
B6 Richard Strange And The Party* – Lets Flatten Manhattan

The 12" for 'Big Man Restless' is one of my favorite 80's records along with 'Shake The Mind by C Cat Trance. Certain Are Likely isn't as good as Naked, but it's worth buying if you like the band as much as I do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLjCktqeT_c

Certain Things Are Likely I meant.

yeah i don't know why i never picked it up. i've seen it for a dollar a zillion times.

I finally tracked down the expanded CD of their debut for less than $30, hurray! It's like Kraftwerk and Depeche Mode had a baby and this was it, so awesome.

And that fansite linked to above sourced me a rip of "What Noise" and it's not even close, it's missing the sheer oddness of the debut. Enjoyable as synthpop but not as unique.

I hate you. /sarcasm. When I can get one for under $15 it will be time to rejoice. Still boiling hot mad this stuff flopped in the US.

I am listening to this lot for the first time, the debut, and looking at pictures of them on their FB page, half the band look like chemistry teachers. It is all very weird, but rather fun, schizophrenic listening. They should have been on ZTT really.

this mix of “certain things are likely” is so amazing, I think it’s on that one enormous History of House box set.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoSrNG4vB4

I didn't know they did more than one album (the first one). I like that one though

i dug back through my KTP records last month, that first album is so good, like a better version of the thompson twins with a bit of thomas dolby sprinkled in for good measure.

this is the one that really grabbed me this time round, the club mix of 'watching their eyes', made me think of anne clark...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTIU7bErIo

Both TOTP performances of The Last Film are among my favourite things.

Listened to the first record twice and it's pretty good, I like bands that are hard to figure out. It makes sense that some of them were RAoMusic students, the production is great too, big. Horrible cover, like some grim industrial band from the early 80s :)

"Big Man Restless" sounds ahead of the curve in a way I can't quite pin down. More 1990 than 83. Is this the track referred to above re:the Beloved?

Classic!

oh they were ahead of their time alright:

https://i.discogs.com/P1W2pYc_5_9xfVdNyY1OwadsmYyo_2rVmYcj2j_YGWE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM0NjYy/OC0xMzM4MTc1Njgz/LTgyMDkuanBlZw.jpeg

Track B1 is a program for the BBC Model B micro-computer. To run the program, it must be recorded onto audio cassette and then loaded from the cassette to the computer. The program is a video to accompany track A1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLlc-IYr2c

I love stuff like that!

The album sorta reminds me of Bill Nelson at times - esp the +8 speed robonoodle Frightened in France - but they're a tricky band to box. That 50-second droning trail off at the end of the hymn version of The Last Film, I can't think of anything else quite like that up to '83!

I think "All for You" is my fav atm, 'cus I love vaguely baroque beatless ambient pop of the period like so.

i feel like you could have created a separate new wave band to go with every track on Naked. its like a 12 band comp.

and yet the album holds together as one thing. they had a lot of ideas.

No I was referring to this remix of Certain Things Are Likely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twoSrNG4vB4

Although I maybe hadn’t heard AR Kane by that point which is the much more obvious influence.