I start the bidding with the fantastic Instinction by the Spands. Anyone else wish to pay homage to the boldly bespectacled Buggle?
Feeling Horny
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The “bleeding obvious” answer is ABC and the album Lexicon Of Love.
So, never on to avoid the obvious:
Yep. An absolute meisterwerk.
A literal thread answer here.
See, i was immediately drawn to Derek and Clive’s masterwork, but thought better of it.
back in the mid to late 80s a friend of mine with a serious hifi habit had a thing for PROPAGANDA.
he was one of the first CD owners I knew….a proper “early adapter”…if you will.
his demo disc of choice was a album by the above.
a horn produced all singing, all dancing, all digital from front to back speaker buster.
as I recall it was the first….and only disc I can recall having copius recording notes even down to specific points on the playlist where noise and digital artifacts could be heard.
I HATED IT.
FISH.
Ah those sleeve notes would almost certainly have been the work of the Stockport Sartre – Paul Morley 😉
You must be referring to the album A Secret Wish.
I’ve just listened to this track, to see if I still like it, and by jingo, I do!!!!
Here’s Dr Mabuse
Many other mixes were (possibly/probably still are) available.
The music can be enjoyed without recourse to Morley.
I love that but THE Propaganda track is Duel and it must be the 8 minute remix. It’s proper name and link eludes me right now but I’ll post in a while
It is perfect in every sense and still Horny, of course
Are you thinking of the Duel/Jewelled remix?
If so, it are brilliant.
Now you see that one is a bit too messy for me.
Two things stand out with Trevor Horn – melody and always a fantastic bass sound, regardless of whether or not it’s real or electronic. No surprise he’s worked so much with Norman Watt-Roy down the years.
This one. Play as loud as you can
https://youtu.be/y3K7TxY_s1I
yes, that’s it……still hate it mind.
but bloody hell its PRODUCED!!!
FISH.
I bought this very record today! Not for me though (I already have it) but for one of my sisters. Not bad for 50p.
This is great.
https://youtu.be/jBJErPnVStc
This was also the work of the Specmeister
Belle and Sebastian – I’m A Cuckoo
Owner of a Lonely Heart
Yes!
Two Tribes – that irresistible adrenaline rush towards a vision of the apocalypse that seemed highly probable at the time and remarkably prescient today.
This is the one: in particular, the Annihilation Mix.
(“Oh yeah, well ‘ard!”)
Agreed but Relax was so thrilling and to think he created that from the snippet we all saw on The Tube. A rag tag bunch of scouse scallies with a charismatic lead singer with a strange noise of a song and be fore we knew it BANG! there was Relax. In fact the whole of “Pleasuredome” is a masterpiece of production, image, sound and 80’s.
Here’s that demo from The Tube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVJMMT9nXRI
A bit obscure but this is a band called Captain from 2006 and I’d completely forgotten Trevor Horn produced it – one of the great lost bands of relatively recent times – go and find ‘This is Hazelville’ it’s magnificent – up there with Prefab Sprout’s Steve McQueen – they were on EMI and there is a lost 2nd LP which is still shelved with whoever owns EMI’s catalogue now – which is a travesty. Saw them live a couple of times and they were utterly wonderful – if there’s an early 00s Nuggets comp they’ll feature heavily
https://itun.es/gb/S1ouP?i=693169521
In circumstances too boring to relate here, I spent half an hour chatting to Mr Horn at what we can now call the-turn-of-the-century… his favourite album at the time was the Cocteau’s “Heaven Or Las Vegas”…
Anyway, I could happily post a dozen great TH productions here, but will give some other posters some room… I’ll settle for “Slave To The Rhythm”, still fantastic after all these years, and also a good candidate for the recent “sounds great on headphones” thread…
I think I must be the only person in the world who bought the Das Psych-oh Rangers EP.