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They must have lodged in the deep recesses of my mind for well over two decades , for some strange reason they surfaced Obviously Dusty Springfield fans who were listening into a phone call between Phil Oakey and Dave Ball of Soft Cell, but ace all the same,I'm glad there was something there to remind me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAe31FFHbo

A band I've only just become aware of via a friend's link on Facebook. The Android Sisters released an album in 1984 titled 'Songs Of Electronic Despair'.

Description on internet reads: The concept of The Android Sisters was based on the novel Do the Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, the original inspiration for the fab sci-fi film Blade Runner. Also, they thought it would be a funny play on the Andrew Sisters as androids.[i

I bought a 'Best of' which contains all of 'Songs Of Electronic Despair' plus bonus tracks. Looking forward to receiving it.

ROBOTS ARE COMING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeerjrFjgT8

Depeche Mode - whatever happened to them? Rubbish name for a band, not French at all - silly haircuts too - I thought they were Belgian. No wonder they never made it. I think they were all called Dave except the one called Marvin.

But seriously folks -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvNxUGg-0A4&feature=related

I really did like this band, they should've been huge - but I think mulletRAWK had turned up by this point and they were sent packing.

Not *another* obscure synth-bands thread!?!?!

Anyway, er, Depeche Mode .. you can larf but I was speaking to a 20 year old English lass a few months ago who was into 'indie' and she said she knew U2, The Smiths, The Cure .. but 'Day-pesh Who? are they French?

<sigh>

anyways, here's my penn'orth:

Landscape .. not just wake me Einstein before a go-go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBBwf4I2Cs

Superb! Didn't know that there was a proper video for Norman Bates! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvnYwvJMKE

I haven't heard of these latest postings.
Thanks - but The Android Sisters is rubbish. Meh.

Here's Karel Fialka:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlWY6NqxiEA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CFwK31OPRs

The second track is still good. Strong message

thanks for that Martin, made my day. never heard of this or Fialka before, without getting too 'political' on the peace-loving forum and diverting from the thread, Fialka's song made me feel justified in my unexpected rant at the weekend there when in response to someone complaining to me as we were 'passing by' about how 'unsightly' the dozen or so harmless tents camped out in our bland tiny St Andrews Square are here in our tourist haven city, I retaliated with 'the things which can't be seen by us mere passersby' as being infinitely far more 'unsightly' (investment banks currently speculating and betting their loot on world food prices, thus knowingly hiking up the cost beyond reason and pushing millions of people into poverty and starvation).

Hear, hear. Good to re-evaluate things sometimes.

& Karel Fialka is good?

Dalek I Love You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzdFnOjdjj0

Compass kum'pass is such a superb album.

Thomas Leer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sehOKE4vNGE

Shock

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3al8J3m6HY