Boys Brigade - Boys Brigade (1983)

Boys Brigade was a Canadian New Wave band in the 1980s. Formed in 1980 in Toronto, the band consisted of vocalist and keyboardist Malcolm Burn, guitarist and vocalist Tony Lester, bass guitar Wayne Lorenz, drummer/bu vocals Billie Brock and percussionists/bu vocals David Porter and Jeff Packer. Booked by Raymond Perkins, Boys Brigade played an eclectic choice of venues to perform in Toronto. Bars that were not known for live music at the time. Among them, the now favoured Rex Hotel, and the Drake Hotel.

Part of the Queen Street West scene, the band's song "Mannequin" appeared on Q107's annual compilation album of local bands, Homegrown, in 1981. Howard Ungerleider, the lighting designer for Rush, signed a management agreement with the band that year, that was eventually signed over to Ray Danniels' SRO. Geddy Lee was enlisted to produce the band's self-titled debut album in 1983. Engineered by Nick Blagona (Rolling Stones), the sessions were stretched over six months, to accommodate Geddy's touring schedules.
The band's first single from that album, "The Passion of Love" was moderately successful. "Melody", the followup single was a Top 40 hit in Canada, and "bubbled under" on Billboard's US charts, peaking at #104. "Into the Flow" appeared on the soundtrack to the Canadian film Heavenly Bodies starring Cynthia Dale the following year.

However, internal tensions led the band to break up before releasing another album. Burn went on to a solo career, and is a Grammy Award winning record producer.
wiki/Boys_Brigade

01 The Passion Of Love
02 Melody
03 Exodus
04 Saigon
05 The Cut-Up [Breaking Glass]
06 Into The Flow
07 Africa
08 Mannequin
09 Anger [The Hunter]

Sign System - Burning Down (1985)

Projekt poboczny muzyków z niemieckiej grupy Deo. Wydali jeden album Burning Down i dwa single Stay with Me oraz Man on the Run. 

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1 Man On The Run   
2 On Fire     

3 Stay With Me  

4 Game Of Love         

5 You'll Never Change My Mind     

6 Unknown Town    

7 Burning Down    

8 Nobody Knows The Answer     

9 Sweet Love    

10  Hard Work 

Sign System - Man On The Run (12inch)

Sign System - Stay With Me (12inch)
      

Go West - Go West (1985)

 Debiut płytowy zespołu Go West z roku 1985 wciąż zachwyca i ujmuje słuchacza swoją melodyjnością i spójnością  plus głos wokalisty, który staje się tutaj jakby dodatkowym instrumentem. Jest to niewątpliwie znaczący album w muzyce pop lat 80tych. Co ciekawsze, grupa wciaż jest aktywna, gra koncerty i wydaje płyty.

It was 1982 when Peter Cox and Richard Drummie first pulled their artistic talents together to form Go West. With only a publishing deal and a portastudio, but lacking a band or record company, Peter and Richard decided, with the help of their manager, John Glover, to find a producer, go into the studio and record two of their songs for themselves. These songs were 'We Close Our Eyes' and 'Call Me'. Within a matter of days John Glover was negotiating with Chrysalis Records and Go West signed their first record deal.

Their debut single 'We Close Our Eyes' was released in 1985 and reached number four in the UK charts, and became a top ten hit in the USA. The success of 'We Close Our Eyes' was followed by three other top ten hits; 'Call Me', 'Goodbye Girl' and 'Don't Look Down'.
Their debut self-titled album, Go West sold 1.5 million copies worldwide and established the pair not just as a chart force but as one of the great singer/songwriter duos to emerge in the 80s.

They became the focus of media attention, gracing magazine covers and making numerous TV appearances. In 1986 they won a BRIT Award for 'Best British Newcomer of 1985'.
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1. We Close Our Eyes
2. Don't Look Down
3. Call Me
4. Eye To Eye
5. Haunted
6. S.O.S.
7. Goodbye Girl
8. Innocence
9. Missing Persons

Taboo - Ten Hundred Thousand (1986)

Pierwszy album szwajcarskiego Taboo z roku 1986. Drugi album The Same Word jest do posłuchania na blogu nrrules.blogspot.com.

1 Tabu     
2 Demand     
3 Sexy Girl
4 Moving In The Midnight
5 Atomic D.J.     
6 Prego
7 All I Have To Dream
8 Forgotten Faces     
9 Hope

Zee - Identity (1984)

Płyta Ricka Wrighta (Pink Floyd) w duecie z Dave'm Harrisem (Fashion), sygnowana nazwą ZEE. Album nagrano w studiu Rectory w Cambridge w Wielkiej Brytanii. Płyta nie odniosła większego rozgłosu i projekt szybko dobiegł końca. Mamy album, który jest mieszanką progresywnego stylu Pink Floyd z elektroniką New Romantic lat 80tych. Jeżeli miałbym porównywać, to chyba najbliżej tym kompozycjom do wczesnego Japan lub Talk Talk.

Identity is the only album by Zee, a short-lived partnership consisting of Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright and Dave Harris of New Romantic outfit Fashion, released in 1984. Wright later stated that he felt Identity was an "experimental mistake" that should never have been released. The album was written and produced by Wright and Harris and all the lyrics were penned by Harris. The album makes heavy use of the Fairlight CMI, a musical synthesizer popularised in the 1980s. This creates a very electronic sound that persists through every track.

1. Confusion
2. Voices
3. Private Person
4. Strange Rhythm
5. Cuts Like A Diamond
6. By Touching
7. How Do You Do It?
8. Seems We Were Dreaming

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po Malajsku ... Selamat Hari Natal lub Selamat Hari Krismas
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w Suahili ... Sikukuu njema ya Krismasi
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w Urdu ... کرسمس مبارک (Chrismas Mub'arak)
po Walijsku ... Nadoleg Llawen
po Węgiersku ... Kellemes Karácsonyi Ünnepeket lub Kellemes Karácsonyt
po Wietnamsku ... Giáng Sinh Vui Vẻ
po Włosku ... Buon Natale
Wyspy Owcze ... Gledelig jól

Yazoo - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1982)

"One of the things I've learned over the last 25 years," announces Alison Moyet, "is that only once you've performed a song live do you really get the essence of what it is you've written."

For Moyet and Vince Clarke, the 18 month period spanning 1982 and 1983 in which Yazoo formed, released two albums and numerous hit singles, toured the world, and then finally imploded, is still a blur.

Those 18 months tell the story of two 21-year-olds accidentally finding themselves at the centre of a pop phenomenon, soundtracked by boundary-breaking music melding cutting edge electronica with songs which still celebrate the devastation of love at its most beautiful and destructive.
yazooinfo.com/biography

01 - Goodbye 70's
02 - Winter kills
03 - Bad connection
04 - Tuesday
05 - Bring Your Love Down
06 - Midnight
07 - In my room
08 - Don't go
09 - The other side of Love
10 - Only you
11 - Situation