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If memory serves me right it was .......drum roll .....


GET DANCIN' DISCOTEX AND HIS SEX O LETTES

closely followed CAM AP AND MIKE ME SMILE * STEVE HARLEY

What about you fellow Foxxheads ?

*I'm a thick Northerner ; I can't really do Southern !!!

First ever:
- casette Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
- 7" Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To ****
- LP Kraftwerk - Die Mensch Maschine
- CD Ultravox - Vienna
- DVD Ultravox - The Collection

LP was Abba - 'Greatest Hits'

Cassette was Blondie - 'Plastic Letters'

7" was Gary Numan - 'Cars'

CD Gary Numan - 'Exibition'

And first DVD also Ultravox - 'The Collection'

My memory does not serve well for very first ever but I can list what was among the very first ever:

45: something too embarrassing to mention, really
album: Led Zeppelin (yes, with Stairway to Heaven)
cassette: Ultravox: Vienna
cd: Ultravox: Vienna (the first in the great "update the album back-catalogue")
music vhs: Ultravox: the Collection
music dvd: Led Zeppelin (newvox: I bet you thought I would say Depeche Mode )

see below I messed up the editing !

Very embarrassing this but probably being the oldest member here my first album was by the Glitter Band and first singles were Children Of The Revolution - T Rex, Love Train - O Jays and Killer Queen - Queen.
Can't recall ever buying many cassettes prefering vinyl.
Peter

I think (as I started buying music when I was about 4!) that my first single could have been
"Number One Song in Heaven" by Sparks.

LP was possibly "The Pleasure Principle" by Numan.

Still got them, and they still play as good as new!!

Sarah B

The first record I ever bought was "I Can Do It" by The Rubettes.

It was 1975 and I was 11. :rolleyes:
Didn't take me long to learn the error of my ways.

I didn't buy an album until 1978, when Kate Bush released The Kick Inside. As I've said before, it was a vulnerable age for a shy, innocent young man...

The first records were a few and presents in effect,too embrassing to mention!

When I first started buying records it was in 1981 and the first 3 LPs were in this running order :

Architecture And Morality - OMD
Visage - Visage
Vienna - Ultravox

The height of synth pop and the New Romantics!

In the spring of 1983 I bought my first John Foxx record, The Garden LP, the rest is history....

Chris C

Did it go a little something like this, Martin?

I can do it
I can do it
I can really move
From my head right down to my blue suede shoes

I can do it
I can do it
I can really move
From my head right down to my blue suede shoes [/QB][/QUOTE]

SUGAR BABY LOVE was ace (or it seemed so at the time. I've no intention of driving past 1974 tho , to see if it's stood the test of time !

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sarah Bradshaw:
["Number One Song in Heaven" by Sparks.

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MORODERTASTIC SARAH !

Originally posted by Mr.Ilektrik:
Did it go a little something like this, Martin?

I can do it
I can do it
I can really move
From my head right down to my blue suede shoes

EXACTLY like that...

I still have it. Played yesterday, for the sake of nostalgia.
Never forget your roots…

first cassette: boney m - nightflight to venus
first lp: adam & the ants - kings of the wild frontier
first 7": positive noise - love like property (one-sided, it came as a bonus with their lp)
first cd: joy division - substance

These are what I bought, not what I was given (which are far too embarrassing to mention!)

Cassette: Modern Dance (K-Tel compilation; Foxx, League, Japan, H17)
Album: Human League - Dare
7": Blondie – Heart of Glass
CD: Sisters of Mercy - Floodland

My first 45 : Soft Cell - Tainted Love

First LP : barring childish things and Muppets albums, I think it was The Beatles - Sgt Peppers...

First cassette : Seal (debut)

First CD : Simply Red - Stars

Absolutely!

Sugar Sugar- The Archies + I'm The Urban Spaceman - Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

I didn't actually buy these. My mum bought me a red Dansette record player for my birthday for £10 when I was 10 & the man in the shop said I could choose a few singles, so I chose the above because I liked the look of the record label designs on the centre of the vinyl.

"Sugar sugar,
Ahh honey honey.
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting yoouuuuuuuuu."

Mr. Ilektrik grooving.............

My friend had "Modern Dance" LP. That was the first record I heard a John Foxx song from, an edited version of "Europe After The Rain". I had forgotten that until now..

Is that the one with Can on it also,great track!!

Without a shadow of a doubt -
Are friends Electric - Tubeway Army

ps - to radio beach.......
Cassette: Modern Dance (K-Tel compilation; Foxx, League, Japan, H17)

My bro had this cassette too, it had a girls face on the cover (black, pink, purple colours?) and it was all 'modern'. I'm sure thats the one.
Thanks for bringing back a very fond memory.

There it is......

What a beauty!

So c'mon then, what was the playlist so's I can re-create it at home??

Cheers guys! It was one hell of a compilation album - life-changing on reflection when I look at the tracklisting;

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; Joan Of Arc
Japan; Quiet Life
Human League; Love Action
Heaven 17; Penthouse And Pavement
Depeche Mode; New Life
Simple Minds; Sweat In Bullet
John Foxx; Europe After The Rain
The Cure; Charlotte Sometimes
Gary Numan; She's Got Claws

Visage; Fade To Grey
Landscape; Einstein A Go-Go
Fashion; Move On
Japan; Visions Of China
The News; Living in A World Without Love*
Simple Minds; Love Song
Heaven 17; Play To Win
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; Enola Gay
Human League; Open Your Heart

Many of the tracks were edited - 'Quiet Life' from memory was very heavily edited.

*I know nothing about The News and I've never, ever managed to find the original 7" of this track (I don't even believe anymore that it exists). I tried many years ago to get info on it and all I could find out was that it was members of Classix Nouveaux before the were Classix Nouveaux - so presumably not the members of X-Ray Spex who became Classix Nouveaux! I really love this tune and the tape disappeared some time ago so (PLEA FOLLOWS:)does anyone have an MP3 of this lost electro-pop track?

Garry

Thanks for that Garry - actually it's weird that we should be discussing this cassette as I also had a copy of it at the time but lost it (mysteriously) along the way (I still have many cassettes which I jealously safeguard) .... so this one sort of 'haunts' me because every now and then I think about it ..grrrr.
Fantastic but pretty bizarre tracklisting..Joan of Arc for example seems a strange choice to start off a 'Modern Dance' compilation! or perhaps made in an ironic way, i.e. you can't 'dance' to it - at least not in the conventional sense but perhaps in a 'modern' way.???

But coming back to the original topic:

45: J.M. Jarre - Equinoxe V , with specially autographed B side - a collector's item to this day!
LP: Abba - The Album (or perhaps ELO Out of the Blue)
Cassette: Visage - Visage and Spandau Ballet Journeys to Glory - bought at the same time
CD: Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
DVD: New Order - 511 (I think it's called), the one with the Taras Shevchenko gig and the more up to date one with Gillian on keyboards.

NOTE - made me smile because but all the above are related to birthdays, i.e. getting record tokens or money (of course to be spent only on records!) - it was the only time I was really allowed to do what I wanted with 'my' money!

Cheers D!

I know what you mean about ‘Joan of Arc’ LOL! I swear there was a New Romantic dance compilation out in the mid-90s that had ‘Vienna’ in the middle of it – I bet that was a floor-stopper!

I really wish I still had that damn ‘Modern Dance’ tape! I’ve done a bit of digging and turned this up – ‘Modern Dance’; the edition sold in Finland! There’s a lot of Euro Electro-pop on this one which also features two Ultravox tracks.

Human League; Open Your Heart
Depeche Mode; Just Can't Get Enough
Japan; Visions Of China
Secret Service; Flash In The Night
Heaven 17; Penthouse And Pavement
Ultravox; The Thin Wall
Bagarre; Lemonsweet
Adolphson-Falk; Flashing Blue

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark; Joan Of Arc
Ultravox; The Voice
John Foxx; Europe After The Rain
Simple Minds; Theme For Great Cities
The News; Audio / Video
D.A.F.; Have You Decided What To Wear Tonight
Fun Boy Three; The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum
Strasse; Crash Slowly

I’m intrigued by what ‘Flash in the Night’ by Secret Service, ‘Audio / Video’ by The News and ‘Crash Slowly’ by Strasse sound like! Those last two sound a lot like Foxx titles!

Garry

Cheers Beach!
wow, this one seems a lot better in terms of 'flow', Joan of Arc starting off B side as per Arch & Moral although I bet even A McCluskey can't even dance to it!
..and what about Adolphson-Falk; Flashing Blue !!! sounds brill!
Don't quite know what Funboy Three are doing there tho....!?!?

so the finnish edition was different? weird... and i never had that, maybe i should keep my eyes open in the future... good stuff though. i don't think i've ever heard about the news, but i remember 'flash in the night' by secret service, it was a swedish band, and a big hit here. i never was that fond of it though, i prefered their earlier hit 'oh suzie'... as for strasse, i think i had that on tape that i recorded from radio. i have a feeling the band was from germany but i'm not sure really.

EDIT: judging by the tracklisting the original version must have been better, and unfortunately there was no visage and landscape on the finnish version.

45 - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Dury & Blockheads

LP - Equinoxe - Jarre

CD - Empires and Dance - Simple Minds

DVD - bootleg of Hamilton Accies winning promotion at Forfar in 2004

Yes, I was given some real crap, too:

• Suzi Quatro - If you knew Suzi
• ELO - Out of the Blue..

Nuff said..

First 7":
(ramble)
After the Fire - Laser Love (Orange vinyl, with slits in the cover - looks like lasers when held up to the light! Tacky, but good. I actually wanted YMO - Cosmic Surfing, but the record shop didn't have it. Both tracks were on TOGWT, the night before..) (/ramble)
(Second 7":
John Foxx - Underpass (Here we go..))

First Album: Not sure. Either:
The Pleasure Principle, or Vienna. Probably Vienna.

(ramble)
I tried explaining TPP to my then-girlfriend, Dawn. Hmm. Didn't "get" it at all. Ended up working in Woollies. (Her, not me) Serves her right.
(/ramble)

First CD:
Gary Numan - The Numa Years (boxed set).
Only one worth listening to is Sacrifice..

re: ELO Out of the Blue

- it ain't crap.

Perhaps not, but I certainly wouldn't have bought it..

Yeah, I've still got that on Vinyl.
John Foxx, Japan, Simple Minds, and err... can't remember..

I did...with a record token! Also painstakingly transferred it from vinyl to mp3 last year, and then they issued the 30 year re-master or whatever, which I didn't buy....yet.

Greetings everyone, this is my first visit/post on the Metematic site.

Well, I don't own this Finnish K-tel compilation myself, but since being from Sweden and a synthpop/new romantic addict I'm familiar with most of the tracks you ask about:

Secret Service: "Flash in the night":
Secret Service was a pop/disco/synthpop band in the 70s and 80s. They did a bunch of hit singles like "Oh Susie", "Ten O'Clock Postman" and "Flash In The Night", selling 4 million records just outside Sweden. They were big in most European countries and South America. Ask your mothers if you dont believe me...
The Singer of Secret Service, Ola Håkansson, is one of Sweden's greatest pop song composers/producers with numerous of hits (also international) for different artists.
Flash in the night is a rather catchy synthpop/disco tune, and one of the best songs by the group.

Strasse: "Crash Slowly":
The band Strasse is not very well known (even in Sweden), but they're in my opinion one of the best bands ever from Gothenburg (2nd city of Sweden).
Strasse only released one LP and some singles in the 80's.
The music style is a bit hard to explain, but I would say new romantic/new wave/rock with quite an arty touch.
...Or as some journalist once tried to review the band (in their early days):
"...it's not punk, it's worse!"
Crash slowly is the english version of the single "Långsam krash", also available on the album.
I prefer the swedish lyrics, but Crash slowly is also great.
Oh, I almost forgot to mention:
Crash slowly, as well as the whole album "Följa John" are produced by no one less than Midge Ure!
Also worth checking out by Strasse: The singles "A stairway to you", "Hunger Hunger" and the album track "Kamouflage (du tänder mig)", which is one of my favourites.
Strasse did a comeback in the beginning of the 21st century, with the surprisingly good CD Transylvanian flower.

Adolphson-Falk: "Flashing blue":
Another great swedish synthpop single translated and released in english.
I guess the duo (Thomas Adolphson and Anders Falk) tried to make an international career.
Well, they never managed to be as successful abroad as they were in Sweden.
Adolphson-Falk is one of Sweden's most well known 80's bands.
They have made six albums (if i count correctly) plus a couple of compilations, and a bunch of singles. Most releases are sung in Swedish.
In the 80s they were quite synthpop-sounding, as their engineer Greg Fitzpatrick was the leading importer of high tech electronic instruments in Sweden.
Greg is unofficially considered as the third member of the band, creating all the electronic sounds.
Flashing Blue (or Blinkar blå) is one of their finest moments, a slow electronic tune with a cold feeling.
A-F also wrote the christmas tune "Mer Jul", with an humorous/ironic(?) text about wanting more christmas.
This song is a swedish classic, being played EVERY christmas in shops and on the radio for the last 23 years and will do so forever I guess...
A-F have been touring some the last couple of years, doing an acoustic show.
I guess they wanted to prove that theis songs are good enough to manage without all the electronic sounds. I can agree, the show were actually quite good, although I prefer the synthetic versions.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MemberD:
and then they issued the 30 year re-master or whatever, which I didn't buy....yet.

You should do this.
It's a masterpiece.

I think it comes with a pop-out spaceship too.

I'm a long way from being a fan of ELO, but this is a classic, innovative album - a shining example of a band at the height of their form really hitting that magic spot.

aaaaaargh!

Hi Galliano! Many, many thanks for this! The intrigue continues - really want to hear that Finnish Compilation now!

I had a copy of Modern Dance and as I recall the song by the News was "Living in a world without love", closely followed by Simple Minds and "Love Song"

Maybe different versions...

H

That's the one I have.