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As it happens I was playing 'Into The Valley: The Best Of The Skids' earlier. Punch-the-air anthemic rousers with an edge. Some good synth work too, including some from Midge Ure, which may ameliorate it for some who find it otherwise too punky.

Systems Of Romance is for me one of the most important albums ever. It accomplished EVERYTHING.

I know what you mean M. If it was not for SOR the musical connections would have been so much different today. Some may have never happened at all.

Funny you should say that - I almost said the same thing word for word, in the review of SOR that I wrote and uploaded to Quiet City at the weekend!

Yeah I think its main musical importance is that bridge between 'synth', 'rock', 'emotions', and 'machines'.

Don't overlook Billy's classical influences either.

True. It really does bridge many genres then! Rock, punk, pop, classical and electronic.

Gary Numan today... tracks from Replicas, Telekon, Sacrifice and The Pleasure Principle so far this morning...

Siouxsie & The Banshees - 'Juju' and in the evenings Harold Budd 'The White Arcades' - just beautiful.

Now playing Ultravox live at Boston Paradise Theatre 1979...