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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..