Albums: Ultravox - Vienna (Chrysalis, 1980), Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire (Asylum, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 16, "I Am Woman"
Original air date: Sunday, February 21, 1981
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Sunday, October 6, 2024
Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #94
Albums: Ultravox - Vienna (Chrysalis, 1980), Warren Zevon - Stand in the Fire (Asylum, 1980)
Episode: Season 3, Episode 16, "I Am Woman"
Original air date: Sunday, February 21, 1981
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Thursday, April 30, 2020
Promo posters as seen on "WKRP in Cincinnati" #57
Album: Ultravox - Vienna (Chrysalis, 1980), Eric Clapton - Just One Night (RSO, 1980), The Charlie Daniels Band. Best guess for the poster below Clapton: Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy (A&M, 1980).
Episode: Season 3, Episode 9, "The Painting"
Original air date: Saturday, January 10, 1981
Dr. Fever is holding the August 23, 1980 issue of Billboard, with an ad for the album How to Beat the High Cost of Living on the back cover.
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Ultravox - Mr. X (1980)
Ultravox
| Written by: Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie, & Midge Ure. Produced by: Conny Plank & Ultravox Album: Vienna (Chrysalis, 1980) |
When this piece was recorded, the band had been through some personnel changes; this was the first release with Midge Ure and without John Foxx. The album contained four UK singles: "Vienna" (#2)*, "All Stood Still" (#8)."Sleepwalk" (#29) and "Passing Strangers" (#57). But the lead track on side two of the LP is "Mr. X," a haunting noir piece with definite Neu!/Kraftwerk influences.
Lots of drum machine and synths with the occasional spoken word, provided by the group's drummer/drum machine programmer, Warren Cann:
*The title track was denied the top spot by the novelty hit "Shaddap You Face."
Lots of drum machine and synths with the occasional spoken word, provided by the group's drummer/drum machine programmer, Warren Cann:
I found the perfect picture, of a perfect stranger.There's also a disjunct solo on electric violin from Billie Currie. It's all very strange, especially to a 16 year-old boy growing up in rural Texas (i.e., one of my general height, weight and build). The silliness of the text was overshadowed by the serious, minor key synth pads. I'm not sure I've ever liked this thing but I can't stop listening to it.
It looked as if, it were taken in the forties sometime,
Judging by the style.
He could be a killer or a blind man with a cane,
Perhaps he died in a car crash, years ago.
Right now, it's impossible to tell.
I almost thought I saw him, standing, whistling on a bridge.
I asked him the time, but when he turned around,
I saw it wasn't him at all.
I'm still searching.
I'm still searching.
I saw him in an airport, while he was sitting on a wing.
And I waved to him, but I don't think he noticed me.
I've got a funny feeling I know who he is.
Mr. X
*The title track was denied the top spot by the novelty hit "Shaddap You Face."
Saturday, December 15, 2018
Smash Hits Album Ratings - 1981 [part 2 of 2]
Smash Hits was a British teen music magazine that was issued fortnightly. On a scale of 1-10, here's how the magazine's reviewers rated albums released in the second half of 1981. Hope you find something new that you missed back in '81.
| July 9 issue | ||
| The Models | Alphabravocharliedeltaechofoxtrotgolf | 6 |
| Pointer Sisters | Black & White | 7 |
| Joe Jackson | Jumpin' Jive | 6 |
| Wah! | Nah = Poo - The Art of Bluff | 8 |
| Kiki Dee | Perfect Timing | 6 |
| Polecats | Polecats Are Go | 7½ |
| Henry Badowski | Life is a Grand... | 8 |
| July 23 issue | ||
| Jon and Vangelis | The Friends of Mr. Cairo | 8 |
| The Equators | Hot | 6 |
| Odyssey | I Got the Melody | 5 |
| Angelic Upstarts | 2,000,000 Voices | 5 |
| The Brothers Johnson | Winners | 7 |
| Was (Not Was) | Was (Not Was) | 7 |
| The Ramones | Pleasant Dreams | 5 |
| Kim Wilde | Kim Wilde | 6½ |
| August 6 issue | ||
| Icehouse | Icehouse | 8 |
| Pat Benatar | Precious Time | 4 |
| Evelyn King | I'm in Love | 7 |
| Delta 5 | See the Whirl | 8 |
| Stevie Nicks | Bella Donna | 6 |
| Foreigner | 4 | 8 |
| Kirsty MacColl | Desperate Character | 4 |
| The Pretenders | II | 7 |
| August 20 issue | ||
| ELO | Time | 5 |
| The Go-Go's | Beauty and the Beat | 5 |
| Philip Rambow | Jungle Law | 5½ |
| Dennis Bovell | Brain Damage | 9 |
| Rickie Lee Jones | Pirates | 6½ |
| Any Trouble | Wheels in Motion | 8 |
| Ian Hunter | Short Back N' Sides | 5 |
| David Johansen | Here Comes the Night | 3 |
| September 3 issue | ||
| The Korgis | Sticky George | 3 |
| Blank Slate | Sirens in the City | 5 |
| Hazel O'Connor | Cover Plus | 3 |
| Simple Minds | Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call | 8 |
| Desmond Dekker | Compass Point | 8 |
| Cabaret Voltaire | Red Mecca | 7½ |
| Funkadelic | The Electric Spanking of War Babies | 7½ |
| Devo | New Traditionalists | 7 |
| September 17 issue | ||
| Heaven 17 | Penthouse and Pavement | 8 |
| Ian Dury | Lord Upminster | 8 |
| Gary Numan | Dance | 9 |
| Shakin' Stevens | Shaky | 8 |
| Ultravox | Rage in Eden | 5 |
| Crusaders | Standing Tall | 8 |
| Altered Images | Happy Birthday | 6 |
| The Comsat Angels | Sleep No More | 8 |
| Meat Loaf | Dead Ringer | 9 |
| October 1 issue | ||
| The Police | Ghost in the Machine | 6 |
| Cliff Richard | Wired for Sound | 7 |
| Bette Bright | Rhythm Breaks the Ice | 6½ |
| Tom Tom Club | Tom Tom Club | 6½ |
| Saxon | Denim & Leather | 4 |
| Pete Shelley | Homosapien | 7 |
| Genesis | Abacab | 6½ |
| Godley & Creme | Ismism | 4 |
| Sheena Easton | You Could Have Been With Me | 5 |
| Madness | 7 | 8 |
| The Passions | Thirty Thousand Feet Over China | 8½ |
| John Foxx | The Garden | 5 |
| October 15 issue | ||
| The Human League | Dare | 8 |
| U2 | October | 9 |
| The Slits | Return of the Giant Slits | 6½ |
| Bow Wow Wow | See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy! | 8½ |
| Eurythmics | In the Garden | 7½ |
| Rose Royce | Jump Street | 7 |
| The Cuban Heels | Work Our Way to Heaven | 6 |
| Bob Marley | Chances Are | 5 |
| Fingerprintz | Beat Noir | 7½ |
| Blondie | The Best of Blondie | 9½ |
| Carlene Carter | Blue Nun | 5 |
| UB40 | Present Arms in Dub | 8 |
| October 29 issue | ||
| Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark | Architecture and Morality | 9 |
| Linx | Go Ahead | 6 |
| Gillan | Double Trouble | 7½ |
| Elvis Costello | Almost Blue | 9 |
| Martha and The Muffins | This is the Ice Age | 7½ |
| Vice Squad | No Cause for Concern |
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| Bauhaus | Mask | 4 |
| Rex Smith | Everlasting Love | 2 |
| Rachel Sweet | And Then He Kissed Me | 5 |
| Imagination | Body Talk | 8 |
| Joy Division | Still | 9 |
| The Meteors | In Heaven | 7 |
| Bad Manners | Gosh Its's... | 8 |
| November 12 issue | ||
| Adam and The Ants | Prince Charming | 5 |
| The Bee Gees | Living Eyes | 5 |
| Japan | Tin Drum | 8 |
| Prince | Controversy | 4 |
| Depeche Mode | Speak and Spell | 7 |
| Rush | Exit...Stage Left | 2 |
| Diana Ross | Why Do Fools Fall in Love | 8½ |
| TV21 | A Thin Red Line | 5 |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | Raise! | 7 |
| Fad Gadget | Incontinent | 9 |
| The Sound | From the Lion's Mouth | 5 |
| Stray Cats | Gonna Ball | 7 |
| November 26 issue | ||
| Soft Cell | Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret | 8½ |
| Ian Dury & The Blockheads | Jukebox Dury | 9 |
| The Teardrop Explodes | Wilder | 8½ |
| The Four Seasons | Tonight! | 8 |
| Rainbow | The Best of Rainbow | 5 |
| Skids | Joy | 5 |
| David Bowie | Changestwobowie | 10 |
| The Stranglers | La Folie | 8 |
| Kool & The Gang | Something Special | 6 |
| New Order | Movement | 8 |
| Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft | Gold und Liebe | 5½ |
| Jacksons | Live | 8 |
| December 10 issue | ||
| AC/DC | For Those About to Rock | 3 |
| Modern Romance | Adventures in Clubland | 6 |
| Durutti Column | LC | 8 |
| Boney M | Boonoonoonoos | 4 |
| 10cc | 10 Out Of 10 | 4 |
| Chas Jankel | Chasanova | 7 |
| Various Artists | A Christmas Record | 8 |
| Jools Holland | Jools Holland And His Millionaires | 3 |
| David Byrne | Catherine Wheel | 6½ |
| Tenpole Tudor | Let the Four Winds Blow | 6 |
| Jerry Harrison | The Red and the Black | 7½ |
| Poison Girls | Total Exposure | 4 |
| December 24 issue | ||
| No Album Reviews |
h/t to Brian McCloskey over at Like Punk Never Happened
Monday, June 26, 2017
Vintage Music Pinbacks #10
Tenth in a series.
Buttons, badges, pinbacks - whatever you call 'em, I've got a shoebox full. Here's a few of my vintage music pinbacks from the '70s and '80s:
- 1.5" Billy Idol, 1984
- 1" Joy Division, ca. 1979
- 1" Adam and the Ants, ca. 1981
- 1.25" Big Country, The Crossing, 1983
- 1.25" The Jam, The Gift, 1982
- 1.25" Ultravox, Quartet, 1982
- 1.25" Roxy Music, Stranded, 1973*
- 1.25" The Noise, ca. 1979
*1973 isn't in My Favorite Decade, but I wore this pinback plenty in the early '80s for obvious reasons. I believe it was a gift from my buddy Jim.
Friday, May 26, 2017
Vintage Music Pinbacks #6
Sixth in a series.
Buttons, badges, pinbacks - whatever you call 'em, I've got a shoebox full. Here's a few of my vintage music pinbacks from the '70s and '80s:
- 1" KTSA "Gold & Silver Button" 1981
- 1.25" Police, Ghost in the Machine, 1981
- 1.25" Rockpile, Seconds of Pleasure, 1980
- 1" Shooting Star, ca. 1979
- 1.75" Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good, 1977
- 1.25" Ric Ocasek, Beatitude, 1982
- 1" U2, War, 1983
- 1" AC/DC, For Those About to Rock We Salute You, 1981
- 1" Ultravox, ca. 1980
- 1.25" Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense, 1984
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Classic album cover art #22
Ultravox - Quartet (1982)
Cover design by Peter Saville Associates
Drawing by Ken Kennedy
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