The More You Live, The More You Love

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...

And so we come to the final installment of this compilation series. It really was fun making it and I learned a lot about the Dutch New Wave scene this year. This last installment features a fifty/fifty contribution of new names and names already featured on early volumes. Unfortuantly I still was not able, up till now, to get a complete list of all the bands. I am still searching for bands and artists, so it could be 2018 will offer a new volume. It all depends on the albums that pop up or which I hope to find during my vynil hunt. 01. Rite De Passage - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (3:53)  02. Bolland & Bolland - The Boat (4:28) 03. Shift - Childlike Eyes (3:28) 04. Chambre Jaune - Parallel Lines (5:37) 05. Les Yeux Interdits - Schicksal (3:16) 06. Rotjoch - Another Lonely Night (3:55) 07. Das Ding - Kinheitsmuster (3:23) 08. Yoichi Hara - Vivian Is Happy (7:41) 09. Agents Of Decay - Apartment (3:29) 10. Toni Valen - Mystery 2 Me (3:44) 11. Flank - Untit...

This installment came together after my post on the Dutch New Wave (1977-1988) facebook site, just a day after releasing Volume 20. The post contained the research of nine months, after my fellow admin on this facebook site published a list at the end of January. The reactions were overwhelming and included a list of nearly fifty new names. This installment is the result of the first search for those fifty names. Normally I keep the story behind a Volume global, but for this Volume I want to share some more  background information. Out Of Data was the first band I discovered myself when I decided at first to end this series with Volume 20. It all started with the search for Ben Kamphuis. His bands Brezneff and Nozmas were already known and featured in this series, but Out Of Data was new to me. You can hear the influence of Jan Hammer, who had just broken through that year with his Miami Vice Theme. The second find was the band One Two. My wife has known Tineke Schoemaker fo...

Contrary to what I reported earlier, at least two new volumes may appear. After placing a list of Dutch artists and bands from the 80's on the Dutch New Wave (1977-1988) Facebook site, I got so much response with new names that I can continue with at least two installments. And to give you an idea, those are all names of artists and bands which were not featured before.

The final installment of this series, which took me a great part of this year to create. Although new names still pop up now and then and I am still searching for groups of the list, I call it a day for now. It has been real fun to create this compilation series over the year. I wanted to go out with a real Dutch touch. The original version of this Volume was scheduled as Volume 18, and I had the idea to make it an all Dutch lyrics version, which would include the Dutch Nederpop wave of the eighties with bands like Doe Maar, Het Goede Doel, Toontje Lager, Klein Orkest, Circus Custer, the Scene, Splitsing, VOF de Kunst and Jansse Bagge Band to mention the big names. But in the end I decided not to overstock, moved the installment to the end of the series and made a fifty/fifty solution, dropping all the names mentioned before. The only known name left on this installment is Noodweer, since their first album, which featured the track "In de disco", is cataloged as New Wave...