New Musik - This World of Water

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

YSI: New Musik - This World of Water

This, my fellow poptimists, emerged from my naughty ID about a week ago. I'm not conscious of hearing it in over 20 years (the album came out in 1980 and the singles around 81) and i have NO IDEA what prompted it's re-emerging from the grubby depths. I found myself humming the rythmn on the main chorus and then slowly i zero'ed in on it using the wonderful internets, and finally wikipedia which came up trumps with a 30-second sample of the song. Cor. Then Amazon marketplace got me a copy that just popped up in my pigeonhole. This is the modern world. P2P is for suckers.

Great vo-coder stylings, and an xtc pop stylee that was obv big at the time. The other single "Living By Numbers" is still well remembered by some, and did better in the charts, but tiny synthpop-enthralled Alan obviously had his ear infected with this one. Love it. A great sensation to hear the whole thing again.

Comments

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of this, let alone heard it, but you dropped the secret code-word and I couldn't resist. The missing link between the Buggles and XTC. Not bad at all.