Where Is The Love For Gloria Mundi? (My New Favorite 70's ArtPunkProgNewWaveWhatever Band)

LOVE THIS BAND! why hasn't dan selzer reissued their two albums yet? Both albums are so indescribably epic and dramatic and every song is some sort of monument to everything cool going on at the time in the weird pop art universe. but all very accessible too. Gloria Mundi featured Eddie Maelov and a guy named Sunshine and i'm pretty sure i had a post-Gloria Mundi album by them, but i think i sold it and now i wish i hadn't. they are my fave mix of pub and glam and punk and artiness a la doctors of madness and early ultravox and the usual suspects like bowie and roxy. oh, and magazine too. definitely magazine. listen to them if you haven't before!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38SoHKo-8Dw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtIzOw4ZwKg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYowvQetz-Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-V35V_rTc&feature=related

My sister thad that "Fight Back" single. Didn't know they made any albums. Sunshine was a woman?

oh and THIS song. you have to listen to this one. early goth. probably my favorite track by them. first track on their first album. awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUg9hGO3tRg

i don't even know if sunshine was a woman. never seen pictures of them. a woman sings the b-side of the first single up there. so maybe that's sunshine.

i'm guessing SOMEONE in bauhaus was playing that first record in 1977.

Yes, I think they carried on after Gloria Mundi, I vaguely remember them going electronic

Here we are

Jeez, i saw them once, on a snowy night when the buses had stopped running and there was maybe 30 people in a big student restaurant/ venue. Had the first LP too, and remember next to nothing about it....

OMG! THIS is where i know them from:

Martyrwell Records, Fools rush in where Angels fear to Tread ( Cabaret Futura compilation )

that is a weird comp. i bought it cuz it has kissing the pink on it.

I remember seeing Gloria Mundi at least once at the Marquee, and maybe elsewhere (eg supporting someone else), but really disliking them. They seemed not quite punk, more post-Bowie, and at that time I'm afraid wanted full-on punk, or if not that then something slightly different (eg Siouxie & the Banshees, The Fall, Art Attacks, Talking Heads etc., who were different but seemingly in a 'post-punk' not 'pre-punk' way).

I like Gloria Mundi...but I LOVE Eddie and Sunshine! A few of the songs at least. Electronic, dancey, cabaret-esque. Really fun. Check out the videos for Somewhere in Europe and People Talk.

I did once talk to the people behind Survival Records, who released some/all of the Eddie and Sunshine stuff about reissues, but mainly about their main band Drinking Electricity. They focus on Celtic music and mentioned that they were maybe going to do it themselves:

http://www.survivalrecords.co.uk

The Eddie and Sunshine material ended up on iTunes, I think E+S did that themselves.

the gloria mundi albums also have great great sound/production. really love playing them loud. man, i just adore "the pack"! magazine + bauhaus in 1977.

but, yeah, if you were expecting a punk band when you saw them...i'm sure they confused people.

they totally belong on this thread i started:

a thread for great bands (and artists) that just didn't...quite...fit.

and i finally got a copy of the 2nd Burlesque album! so excited when i got that. love that band too. should post about it on that other thread. such a good album. even better than their debut.

I wouldn't say GM confused me. I just didn't like what they were doing, because of the constraints of my taste at the time. As I say, it had a kind of glam feel to it, with a punk rock sound grafted onto that sensibility. Early Adam & the Ants were a bit like that as well, although I quite liked them.

Interesting other thread. I remember the name Burlesque, but never heard them. (I remember associating the name of the band with the early '70s Family album of that name, which I used to have a copy of).

Actually it was a single, I think, off the 'Bandstand' album.

Just spent the last hour listening to Eddie & Sunshine youtubes. Think I'm in love.