4CD SET EXPLORING THE EVOLUTION OF THE ‘NEW POP’ MOVEMENT, 1979-1983. FEATURING THE HUMAN LEAGUE, FUN BOY THREE, SOFT CELL, SCRITTI POLITTI, THE STYLE COUNCIL, HEAVEN 17, THE CURE, EURYTHMICS, TEARS FOR FEARS, ALTERED IMAGES, ART OF NOISE AND COUNTLESS OTHER BIG NAMES AND LESSER-KNOWN GEMS. COMPILED AND CURATED BY THE TEAM WHO BROUGHT YOU ‘SCARED TO GET HAPPY’, ‘THE SUN SHINES HERE’, ‘MUSIK MUSIC MUSIQUE’ AND OTHER CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED COMPILATIONS.
A term forever associated with tastemaker NME scribe turned Svengali Paul Morley, ‘New Pop’ came to describe any forward-thinking British music of the early 1980s which wasn’t ‘rockist’ (macho men with guitars, etc.) or overtly punky and anti-establishment in outlook. New Pop was an aspiration. Punk had shaken up the UK music industry – and more importantly, had inspired a generation of art students, budding musicians and others with a sense of what was possible. By the end of 1979, while many artists continued to forge a futuristic vision for guitar-based rock music, others saw the potential of reinventing Pop. But this was not chintzy, tacky pop of the kind that had survived punk’s great reset. Instead, credible, progressively minded artists sought to “bring back life to the radio, to make the single count” as Morley himself put it. Taking its cue from 1979’s big three – M, Flying Lizards and The Buggles – ‘Heaven Sent’ explores five seismic years that saw aspiration and success replace anti-success, DIY culture for many. Covering a broad musical palette packed, image conscious, highly curated and too sharp for anybody over twenty-five to understand, this was in many ways as much an overhaul of pop music as punk had been of the tired rock scene. Subtler and less anarchic certainly, but always fresh and inventive. Conceived and curated by the team behind many of our most critically acclaimed post punk, pop and electronica compilations, ‘Heaven Sent’ is a time capsule period piece, framing perfectly that period between the post-punk aftershock and the mid-80s dominance of Thatcherite High Street pop. A must for collectors and musical historians alike.
1.1 M - Pop Musik (Full Length Disco Mix)
1.2 The Flying Lizards - Money
1.3 Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
1.4 Godley & Creme - An Englishman in New York (Single Version)
1.5 The Korgis - Young & Russian
1.6 New Musik - Living by Numbers
1.7 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Red Frame/White Light
1.8 Toyah - Bird in Flight
1.9 Grace Jones - She’s Lost Control
1.10 Pauline Murray and The Invisible Girls - Dream Sequence (One)
1.11 The Clash - Hitsville U.K.
1.12 The Passions - I'm in Love With a German Film Star
1.13 The Human League - Boys and Girls
1.14 China Crisis - African and White (Inevitable Version)
1.15 Fad Gadget - Make Room
1.16 Department S - Is Vic There?
1.17 Japan - The Art of Parties
1.18 Altered Images - A Day’s Wait
1.19 Heaven 17 - I’m Your Money
1.20 Thomas Leer - Letter From America
1.21 The Associates - - Q Quarters
2.1 Eurythmics - Never Gonna Cry Again
2.2 Thomas Dolby - Urges
2.3 The Slits - Earthbeat (7” Version)
2.4 Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (Indipop version)
2.5 Hazel O'Connor - Hanging Around
2.6 Anthony Moore - World Service (Single Version)
2.7 A Flock of Seagulls - Telecommunication
2.8 Simple Minds - Sweat in Bullet
2.9 Soft Cell - Bedsitter
2.10 Chaz Jankel - Questionnaire
2.11 The Creatures - Mad Eyed Screamer
2.12 Tears for Fears - Suffer the Children
2.13 Haircut One Hundred - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
2.14 Dexys Midnight Runners - Liars A to E (Single Version)
2.15 The Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children
2.16 Rip Rig + Panic - Bob Hope Takes Risks
2.17 Mari Wilson - Beat the Beat
2.18 TV21 - All Join Hands
2.19 The Undertones - Beautiful Friend
2.20 Blue Rondo a la Turk - Klactoveesedstein
2.21 John Cooper Clarke - The Day My Pad Went Mad
3.1 ABC - Poison Arrow
3.2 Fashion - Streetplayer-Mechanik
3.3 Fun Boy Three - The Telephone Always Rings
3.4 Culture Club - White Boy (Extended Mix)
3.5 Scritti Politti - Faithless
3.6 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - You Little Fool
3.7 Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy
3.8 The Apollinaires - The Feeling's Gone
3.9 Weekend - Past Meets Present
3.10 King Trigger - River
3.11 Swamp Children - Taste What's Rhythm
3.12 Dead or Alive - The Stranger
3.13 Paul Young - Iron Out the Rough Spots
3.14 Wide Boy Awake - Chicken Outlaw
3.15 The Comsat Angels - After the Rain (Single Remix)
3.16 The Higsons - Tear the Whole Thing Down
3.17 The Pale Fountains - Thank You
3.18 Set the Tone - Dance Sucker
3.19 The Jam - Shopping
4.1 The Cure - Lets Go to Bed
4.2 Malcolm McLaren and the World's Famous Supreme Team - Buffalo Gals
4.3 The Stranglers - European Female
4.4 Madness - Tomorrow's (Just Another Day)
4.5 Tracie - The House That Jack Built
4.6 Hey! Elastica - - Suck a Little Honey
4.7 Paul Haig - Heaven Sent
4.8 Eyeless in Gaza - New Risen
4.9 The Style Council - Headstart for Happiness (Single Version)
4.10 JoBoxers - Johnny Friendly
4.11 The Kane Gang - Brother Brother
4.12 The Specials - Bright Lights
4.13 Dislocation Dance - Show Me
4.14 Friends Again - State of Art
4.15 Ian Dury - Really Glad You Came
4.16 Colourbox - Shotgun
4.17 Furniture - Robert Nightman’s Story
4.18 Swallow Tongue - Animation
4.19 Art of Noise - Moments in Love
