Who is not there, Spandau Ballet or Ultravox – thank God. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Joan of Arc The News – which I do not remember at this remove, and Fashion. Gary Numan had to be there, Landscape (natch!), the aforementioned Visage. It was a reasonably broad ranging selection of music, OMD, Japan, Human League, Heaven 17, Depeche Mode, Simple Minds, John Foxx, even a Cure track. Even the typography sticks in the memory, though I hadn’t seen it probably in a quarter century until this week. And the materiality of it, that great garish airbrushed cover with androgynous faces on front and back. John Foxx and ‘Europe After the Rain’, ‘She’s Got Claws’, ‘Quiet Life’. I can still remember listening to individual cuts from it. Somehow it found its way to my house where it was played exhaustively. A K-Tel compilation, probably lashed out as quickly as possible to cash in on the brief popularity of what was sometimes called ‘futurist’, better known as New Romantic, or that area of synth pop. It’s odd, I hadn’t thought of this album in years, though the death of Steve Strange of Visage brought it right back. This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… “Modern Dance”, a futurist/New Romantic/Synthpop compilation, 1981 FebruPosted by WorldbyStorm in This Weekend I'll Mostly Be Listening to.
