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Years: 1978-83
Best song: "XOYO" and "Taboos"
Origin: Manchester, England
Driving force: Dick Witt's mastery of the English language is showcased
via the Passage's innovative (ab)use(?) of synths and acoustic instruments.
Witt's prior success as the percussionist in an acclaimed orchestra leads
to obvious allusions to his classical arrangements and an orchestral majesty
to the songs; but getting down to brass tacks, it's also just some great
electro-pop!
PH.D
Years - 1981-
Best Song - I Won't Let You Down (#1 in UK - 15/5/82,
#3 in Melbourne)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - Pioneering synth duo - Polyphemus, Hymas, Diamond.
Years - 1980-88
Best Song - Dangerzone Colony Earth
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - Cyberpunk pioneers
Years - 1976 to 1981 (record debut in 1979 from Rough Trade)
Best Song - "Copy", "Top Secret Man"
Origin - formed in Harajyuku, Tokyo, JAPAN
Driving Force - They started as a party band and created their own
fashionable and kitsch techno pop style. DEVO and B-52's are the bands
which are said to have some similarities while I am not sure if they agree.
Some of the band members like Talking Heads.
Years - 1976-97 (at least)
Best Song - When Love Breaks Down (#32 UK - 10/11/84)
Origin - Durham, Ireland
Driving Force - A habit of re-issuing singles until it charts
Years - 1985-1991
Best Song - Crash (released 2/88, reached #5 in the UK )
Origin - Coventry, England
Driving Force - The Primitives were one of best results of a British
pop genre that first gained notoriety around 1986, in the wake of the Jesus
and Mary Chain (but with a backwards nod to early Blondie). Characterized
by self-consciously naive vocals and distorto-guitar backing tracks, they
wore their influences on their sleeves; a love of melody and the Sixties
(the Monkees, the Velvets and the Byrds), fast Ramones-influenced guitars,
and the pop innocence of the Buzzcocks and Orange Juice. The band peaked
early and disbanded in 1991.
Years - 1983-86 and 1989 and currently recording with OMD
Best Song - Dr. Mabuse (#27 in UK - 28/4/84)
Origin - Dusseldorf, Germany (moved to England to start career)
Driving Force - Deceit and propaganda are inseparable. A community
in which the leader and his followers come together through propaganda
- whatever the merits of it's context - is a community of lies. Truth itself
becomes merely a means of enlisting support and is falsified in the very
utterance. This is why genuine resistance knows no propaganda. Propaganda
in misanthropic. It assumes that to say that policy ought to spring from
mutual understanding is not a basic principle but conveniently empty phraseology.
Years - 1983-87 (live 1998-99)
Best Song - Listening (#8
in Melbourne)
Origin - Melbourne, Australia
Driving Force - Seeking commercial success
Formed - Edmonton, Alberta Dec.13, 1982
Best Song - Unveiling The Secret, Murder
In Your Love
Origin - Darrin and Stephen Huss, Canada/
Per-Anders Kurenbach,Germany
Driving Force - Our brains and our hearts
and some synthy noises
Years - 1977-91
Best Song - Love My Way (#29 in UK - 7/8/82, #16 in Oz,
#12 in Melbourne)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - Pretty in pink, black or yellow - definitely not pstchadelic
Years - 1978 (Live debut December 14th in Paris)-91
Best Song - This is Not a Love Song (#4 in UK - 15/10/83,
#16 in Melbourne)
Origin - London, England
Driving Force - "I've learnt to manipulate the music business. I have
to deal with all kinds of stupid, sycophantic people. I've just learnt
to understand my power. Everyone should learn that, otherwise they lose
control." Mr. Lydon later in his career.
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