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All weekend: 'Closer' & 'Still' by Joy Division

Today: 'Gentlemen Take Polaroids' by Japan

Duran Duran's Red Carpet Massacre

on pod are tracks from M.I.A., moi, conrad schnitzler, david sylvian, john foxx, john foxx & harold budd, bill nelson, richard pinhas, ali farka touré, richard barbieri, steve jansen, moebius & beerbohm, ryuichi sakamoto, roedelius, P5, blonde redhead ...

James Brown - 'It's a Live, Live, Live World..'

Burial - 'Untrue'

Just received New Orders's Everything's Gone Green CD single on Factory Benelux. This time they seem to have got it right. Track 2 is indeed Mesh at 3:25

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/neworder/mesh.html

and the track 3 is Cries & Whispers at 3:00

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/C...82568B90020247A

Mystery resolved!

Chris

Today it's 'Duran Duran's Red Carpet Massacre'...

Same for me.

How are you finding it? It was a pleasant surprise for me, and I've gotten quite addicted to it in a short time.

hey Chris .. where did you get that????

"Marche ou Creve " Trust
Early 80's French agit punk/Rock band led by Bernie Bonvoisin
Try and imagine The Manics at their lyrical height (circa Holy Bible) in French backed by AC/DC with Angus in top form . Sublime . IMHO . they make The Clash sound like a Sunday League outfit
All the tracks have aged well apart from "Misere" which gives Thatcher a good verbal bashing , name checks Bobby Sands and speaks of "Desolation on the streets of Mon chest errr " Given what's going on in France at the moment it sounds weird , contradictary and dated
But as they say on Bernie's home turf "Plus ça change ...