What? You mean it's NOT overlooked? Well, most of these songs ARE. But they're really fun!
01 - ADSR - Mo 1982 (2:21)
02 - Ayatollah - The Swingers 1981 (3:37)
03 - Everybody Wants to Work - Uncanny X-Men 1984 (3:11)
04 - At the Village Gates - White Glove Test 1986 (5:17)
05 - Faeries (Living at the Bottom of the Garden) - Renaissance 1981 (4:00)
06 - China - Red Rockers 1983 (4:00)
07 - The Hots for You - Brian Brain 1981 (1:53)
08 - As Forever as You - Face to Face 1988 (4:10)
09 - She Goes Out with Everybody - The Spongetones 1982 (2:27)
10 - Touch - I'm So Hollow 1981 (3:51)
11 - Pumping Iron - The Flatbackers 1980 (3:04)
12 - We Are Frank Chickens - Frank Chickens 1984 (4:41)
13 - Tell Yourself the Truth - Skank 1985 (4:24)
14 - No One's Girl - Unit 5 1981 (3:40)
15 - All Day Long - X-Teens 1984 (3:44)
16 - Starlight Jingles - Radio Heart 1987 (4:11)
17 - Dancin' on the Power Lines - Jim Foster 1986 (4:44)
18 - Pull Me - Jenson Interceptor 1983 (3:15)
19 - Suit of Nails - 17 Pygmies 1985 (3:34)
20 - Hello, I Am Your Heart - Bette Bright and the Illuminations 1981 (3:09)
21 - Still Life in Radio - Age of Mirrors 1987 (4:12)
There's a lot of distinctiveness (some might say oddness) here, along with some pretty stuff.
Track 1 is a wry observation on the way that music synthesizers with their multiple capabilities might soon put life performers out of business. ADSR is a term relating to the musical performance of synths.
Track 2, of course, relates to that hairy guy whose followers in Iran took all those hostages in November, 1979.
Track 5 is a charming fantasaical romp.
Did you know that the lead singer for Radio Heart, the group behind the glittery pop confection of Track 16, was later-miminal-synth guy Gary Numan?
I hope you can unpack a tithe of the fun I get listening to this mishmash of silly, sincere, and oddball charm.
MA-94 - It Encroached from the 1980s -- 2021 LINK
See you on Monday, friends!
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