The More You Live, The More You Love

tracklist: Oil On Canvas Sons Of Pioneers Gentlemen Take Polaroids Swing Cantonese Boy Visions Of China Ghosts Voices Raised In Welcome, Hands Held In Prayer Nightporter Still Life In Mobile Homes Methods Of Dance Quiet Life The Art Of Parties Canton Temple Of Dawn The year is 1983. At a time when the new wave and the synthsound are the order of the day, Japan is there, a group averse to the entire music scene, which occupies a separate place. Not when one looks at the genesis of the group, which in the early days mainly propagates punk or derived musical styles. And although those musical indulgences do not weigh the group in the country with the same name, the rest of the world still looks at the band with a strange look. Because whatever the group in Europe is trying to do, they seem, partly because of their androgynous image, not to get a firm ground under their feet and after the third album Quiet Life, which notes the first steps towards the ...

tracklist: Drowning In The Sea Of Love Broken Land You Don't Have To Cry Anymore The Trip To Bountiful (when the rain comes down) Heaven Knows Which Way Hold Me Now The Sound Of Summer When Your Heart Was Young One Step From Heaven The Adventures was a Northern Irish rock band founded in Belfast in 1984 by singer Terry Sharpe and guitarist Pat Gribben. They already knew each other from the punk band The Starjets. At their first concert in February 1984, the band further consists of Gribben's wife Eileen (vocals), Gerard Murphy (guitar, percussion, vocals), Tony Ayre (bass) and Paul Crowder (drums). The group manages to score a record deal with Chrysalis, moves to London, and after four singles, all of whom have reached the lower reaches of the UK Singles Chart but do not make a major breakthrough, the group debuts in 1985 with the album Theodore And Friends. It is released in a period that the band is on the world tour of Tears For Fears as suppo...

If there is something I have learned over the years than it is "never say never". With the year just six weeks on the run, I have to admit the hunt on Dutch New Wave vinyl has intensivite. At the moment the counter is already on more than 25 purchases (7" singles included). In January and February I bought a large portion on Discogs (Blue Murder, Boom Boom Mancini, Castilian Drum, De Steile Wand, Dreams Die First?, Hedda Gabler, I Spy, Piu Piu, Ricochet, Sens Unique, Shift, Slauerhoff, Spotlight Kids, The Clear, Top Dogs?, Trespasser W and Zsa Zsa). Another part of these purchases I obtained during a nice weekend in Amersfoort, where my wife and I stumbled by chance on a free vinyl fair (One Two, Tent, Ad Visser).  We were attracted to the fair by a sixties compilation played just in front of the doorstep. Afterwards I was able to score the Crystal Fire album of I Spy at the local record store Velvet Sound. Besides that I found some nice other stuff as well (...

tracklist: Intro The Big Money Subdivisions Marathon Turn The Page Manhattan Project Mission Distant Early Warning Mystic Rhythms Witch Hunt (part iii of fear) The Rhythm Method (drum solo) Force Ten Time Stand Still Red Sector A Closer To The Heart I became familiar with Rush in 1982 when I got a tape with a copy of the double lp "Hard Rock Live. The first album I bought from them was "Grace Under Pressure", an album that leaned heavily on the new synthesizer sound of the band and can be described as one of the darkest if not the darkest album in the history of the band. The numbers are heavily influenced by the increasing tension of the Cold War and the thread throughout the songs is "pressure" and how people act under the influence of it. Despite the dark themes, the group experiments with reggae and even returns to the classic hard rock sound.  Although "" Grace Under Pressure" certainly belonged to ...

tracklist: Dream Within A Dream The Murder Of Love Jewel Duel P–Machinery Sorry For Laughing Dr. Mabuse (first life) The Chase The Last Word / Strength To Dream A Secret Wish of Propaganda is, by BMG, seen as one of the most influential debut albums of the eighties. The band, founded in 1982 by Ralf Dörper, Andres Thein and Suzanne Freitag, with, for that time, progressive hard electronic beats. These are provided with dark texts, reminiscent of the work of Edgar Allen Poe and William Shakespeare. By attracting the classically trained Michael Mertens and singer Claudia Brücken, the line-up is complete and after signing a contract with Trevor Horn's ZTT label, they debut in 1984 with the single "Dr. Mabuse". Although the singles, after "Dr. Mabuse" follows "Duel" and "P: Machinery", reaching the highest levels of European and American charts, even the number one spot here and there, the album does not offer commerci...

tracklist: Wonderful Life Everything's Coming Up Roses Sometimes For The Asking Finder Paradise I'm Not Afraid I Just Grew Tired Blue Just Making Memories Sweetest Smile Colin Vearncombe, Dane Goulding and Greg Leyland make their debut in 1981 as Black with the single "Human Features". A second single, "More Than The Sun, follows, after which the duo reduced group is signed by WEA. Black will be the solo project of Vearncombe, while fellow member Dave Dix will act as his producer from that moment on. The first single for WEA is called "" Hey Presto", which, partly due to the frequent running on MTV, is well known outside the United Kingdom. However, when a reissue of "More Than The Sun" flops, WEA dumps the group. Vearncombe, plagued by car accidents, confronted with a sick mother, a divorce and living on the streets, writes as a sarcastic reaction "Wonderful Life", released on Ugly Man Records, wit...

tracklist: The Hurting Mad World Pale Shelter Ideas As Opiates Memories Fade Suffer The Children Watch Me Bleed Change The Prisoner Start Of The Breakdown In 1981, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith leave the Graduate, a group influenced by the mod subculture, and set up Tears For Fears. During the decade the duo scored three platinum albums, after which their roads separated in 1991. Smith is trying a solo career in the US, while Orzabal releases two more albums under the flag of Tears For Fears, before the curtain seems to fall. However, in 2000 the duo comes together again, releases an album in 2004 and tours again, resulting in a live CD / DVD in 2006.  Again a period of silence follows that recently was broken with a new collector and actually a new single, "I Love You But I'm Lost". To top it off,  they will play the AFAS Live (fromer HMH) in May.  The album I want to talk about is "The Hurting. An album that in every era would...

tracklist: Someone Somewhere In Summertime Colours Fly And Catherine Wheel Promised You A Miracle Big Sleep Somebody Up There Likes You New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) Glittering Prize Hunter And The Hunted King Is White And In The Crowd Music is emotion for me. It has to bring something into yourself. I became interested in Simple Mind when I, as a frantic listener, recorded their 1982 Paradiso concert from the Dutch radio show Rock Tempel. A year later I finally went for the ax with the registration of Pinkpop and Werchter and since then I have followed the band closely. Their top album from the eighties is for me "New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)". And to keep the atmosphere of those years I choose "Someone Somewhere In Summertime" and then explicitly for the version of Newcastle 1982, which can be found on the double DVD "Seen The Lights (a visual history)", which I once and only bought the Late Night In Concert registration, where...

already more than six weeks on it's way, 2018 has brought me back to my musical roots: the eighties. I am a member of the Dutch Facebook Site "De Plantenkast 2.0"and since the start of this year each week I present a self chosen top album of the eighties. This site is in Dutch, but to bring in a regular base to this blog again, will offer the chosen album of the week to this blog as well. each entry is accompanied by a Youtube video of one of the songs from the album. So this mean to bring you the first six entries in a rush. Some of the early entries contained text accompanied with a mood of the day, but with from the fourth entry I started to bring some background information. A last thing to mention is that these entries are offered to you in no particular order. It is just what brings me to an album during the week. Although I have to confess that a list created in 2012 is my guideline. So to start the first entry I bring you Fra Lippo Lippi with Songs. trackl...