[2022-11-25] Various Artists "Music For New Romantics" 3CD box set (Cherry Red UK)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:07 pm

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Description
• 3-CD set celebrating the music played at legendary late 70s and early 80s clubs such as The Wag in London, Pips in Manchester and The Rum Runner in Birmingham – a night-time culture centred around fashion-obsessed individuals, which inspired a youth movement, the New Romantics.

• From the glam, rock and pre-punk of the 1970s through synth pop, punk funk, disco and other groovy dancefloor favourites.

• Featuring Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Donna Summer, Japan, Gary Numan, Human League, OMD, Grace Jones, Spandau Ballet, Tom Tom Club, Visage, A Certain Ratio, New Order and many more!

• Compiled in association with chris sullivan (Blue Rondo À La Turk, Hell DJ, Wag club mainman and founder), with extensive essay and artist biogs and recollections.

• Compiled and produced by the team behind the ‘Musik Music Musique’ series and ‘Shake The Foundations (Militant Funk & The Post-Punk Dancefloor 1978-1984)’.

In the aftermath of punk rock, and inspired by the glamour of the likes of David Bowie, young elites in England’s major cities threw off the shackles of grey, damp and dreary turn-of-the-80s Britain and sought something more refined and cultured than punk’s primal howl. Armed with wardrobes full of colourful and outrageous second-hand clothes, cheap make-up, extensive record collections, their own extroverted imaginations and an urge to dance (not pogo), a collection of DJs, dancers and junkshop fashionistas would frequent clubs such as The Wag in London, Pips in Manchester and The Rum Runner in Birmingham. The resulting scene would famously go on to spawn countless 80s pop scene faces and trigger what became the New Romantic movement.

Curated with help from London boy-about-town and DJ Chris Sullivan (of Blue Rondo À La Turk), and featuring a smorgasbord of glam rock, proto-punk, electronica, disco, funk and camp 60s curios, ‘Music For New Romantics’ captures something of the spirt of a night out at that remarkable, unique nightspot. From the pre-punk rock of Alice Cooper, Iggy and Lou Reed, through the futuristic sound of The Normal, John Foxx, New Order and Visage and into the imported New York cool of Tom Tom Club, Coati Mundi and co, this is a deep dive into the eclectic and eccentric listening habits of a group of people determined not to be swallowed by punk’s gloomy reflections of British society, and to create a fantastical and improbable world all of their own.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Mott The Hoople – All The Young Dudes
2. The Lounge Lizards – Harlem Nocturne
3. Alice Cooper – I’m Eighteen
4. New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
5. Zager & Evans – In The Year 2525
6. Iggy Pop – Nightclubbing
7. Roxy Music – Do The Strand
8. Kim Fowley – Motorboat
9. Lou Reed – Vicious
10. Wayne County & The Electric Chairs – Berlin
11. Nina Hagen – TV-Glotzer (White Punks On Dope)
12. La Düsseldorf – Viva
13. Mick Ronson – Only After Dark
14. Rah Band – The Crunch
15. Fox – S-S-S-Single Bed
16. The Warlord – The Ultimate Warlord
17. Donna Summer – Love To Love You Baby
18. Grace Jones – La Vie En Rose
19. Giorgio Moroder – Chase
20. The Sweet – The Ballroom Blitz
21. Gary Miller With The Barry Gray Orchestra – Stingray

[CD2]
1. Tubeway Army – Down In The Park
2. The Cure – A Forest
3. The Human League – Being Boiled
4. The Normal – Warm Leatherette
5. Suicide – Ghost Rider
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Electricity
7. John Foxx – Underpass
8. Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
9. Visage – Visage
10. Simple Minds – Changeling
11. Landscape – Einstein A Go Go
12. The Flying Lizards – Money
13. Telex – Moskow Diskow
14. Throbbing Gristle – Hot On The Heels Of Love
15. Japan – Life In Tokyo
16. Yello – Bostich
17. Nightmares In Wax – Black Leather
18. Heaven 17 – (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
19. Spandau Ballet – To Cut A Long Story Short
20. Magazine – Shot By Both Sides
21. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Hong Kong Garden

[CD3]
1. Marianne Faithfull – Broken English
2. The Associates – Club Country
3. ABC – Tears Are Not Enough
4. M – M Factor
5. Tom Tom Club – Genius Of Love
6. Blue Rondo À La Turk – Klactoveesedstein
7. A Certain Ratio – Shack Up
8. New Order – Everything’s Gone Green
9. Glaxo Babies – Shake (The Foundations)
10. Heat Exchange – Shake Down
11. Chaz Jankel – Ai No Corrida
12. Don Armando’s Second Avenue Rhumba Band – I’m An Indian Too
13. Coati Mundi – Me No Pop I
14. Gina X Performance – No G.D.M
15. Sister Sledge – Lost In Music
16. Lipps Inc – Funky Town
17. The Barry Gray Orchestra – Captain Scarlet

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Linda · **Posted:** Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:40 pm

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[2022-11-25] Various Artists "Music For New Romantics" 3CD box set (Cherry Red UK)

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