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Blancmange Synth-pop 1982 UK
Blancmange - Happy Families flac album
  • Performer Blancmange
  • Title Happy Families
  • Date of release 1982
  • Country UK
  • Style Synth-pop
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  • Genre Electronic / Pop
  • Size MP3 1607 mb
  • Size FLAC 1746 mb
  • Rating: 4.8
  • Votes: 493
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Happy Families is the debut studio album by English synth-pop band Blancmange, released on 24 September 1982 by London Records. It peaked at No. 30 on the UK Albums Chart, aided by the success of the album's third single, "Living on the Ceiling", released the following month and which became Blancmange's breakthrough hit, reaching No. 7 in the UK Singles Chart, was released in 2013.

Happy Families ‎(LP, Album, Promo).

Band Name Blancmange. Album Name Happy Families. Erscheinungsdatum 1982. Labels London Recordings Edsel Records Universal Records South. Mitglieder die dieses Album besitzen1.

Blancmange's first album, 1982's Happy Families, yielded the minor radio hit "Living on the Ceiling," which also received a good deal of attention from early MTV. Though Happy Families can accurately be described as techno-pop, it's techno-pop with a modicum of taste and sophistication, putting it more in the ballpark of genre pioneers like OMD and Yazoo than of annoying '80s anachronisms like Kajagoogoo or EBN-OZN. The duo have a knack for catchy basslines and drum programming, on top of which they strategically deploy guitars, Eastern instrumentation, and female backing vocals. Particular highlights include "I Can't Explain" (not the Who song), "Feel Me," "Sad Day," and "God's Kitchen.

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has been added to your Basket. Love this album,Blancmange have always been a big favourite of mine,and I have to say this album is I think there best ever,new,not remixes but new fresh takes on there best known popular hits are amazingly done and the new songs are just fab,and what cant I say about Neil Arthur,an amazingly talented man with one of. the most best voices ever,I could go on,but I love this album,love Blancmange.

Tracklist

I Can't Explain
Feel Me
I've Seen The Word
Wasted
Living On The Ceiling
Waves
Kind
Sad Day
Cruel
God's Kitchen

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
SH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records SH 8552 UK 1982
90053-4 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(Cass, Album) Island Records 90053-4 US 1982
KSAC 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(Cass, Album) London Records KSAC 8552 UK 1982
SH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records SH 8552 Ireland 1982
OSH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records OSH 8552 Portugal 1982
6399 400 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records 6399 400 Netherlands 1982
SH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records SH 8552 Australasia 1982
200.429 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) Decca 200.429 France 1982
6.25418, 6.25 418 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records, London Records 6.25418, 6.25 418 Germany 1982
SH 8552, PACLZ-3916 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records, London Records SH 8552, PACLZ-3916 Philippines 1982
STAR 5287, SH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records, London Records STAR 5287, SH 8552 South Africa 1982
90053-1, 7 90053-1 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) Island Records, Island Records 90053-1, 7 90053-1 US 1982
ISL 5025 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records, PAX ISL 5025 Israel 1982
DL 13.027, DL 13027 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) Decca, Decca DL 13.027, DL 13027 Greece 1982
SH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records SH 8552 Singapore, Malaysia & Hong Kong 1982
L28P 1070 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records L28P 1070 Japan 1982
90053-1, 7 90053-1 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) Island Records, Island Records 90053-1, 7 90053-1 US 1982
SHPD 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album, Pic) London Records SHPD 8552 UK & Ireland 1982
L28P 1070 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album, Promo) London Records L28P 1070 Japan 1982
DL 13.027 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album, TP) Decca DL 13.027 Greece 1982
LON 101 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records LON 101 Canada 1983
9-56013, 9-56 013 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records, London Records 9-56013, 9-56 013 Spain 1983
6.25 418, 6.25418 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records, London Records 6.25 418, 6.25418 Germany 1983
SH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album, RE) London Records SH 8552 UK 1983
810 123-2 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(CD, Album, RE) London Records 810 123-2 UK 1987
SH 8552 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album, RE) London Records SH 8552 UK 1988
80100397 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(CDr, Album, Enh) Universal Records 80100397 UK 2004
EDSS 1026 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM) Edsel Records EDSS 1026 UK 2008
EDSL0001 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(CD, Album, RE + CD, Comp + CD + Med) Edsel Records EDSL0001 UK 2017
810 123-1 Blancmange Happy Families ‎(LP, Album) London Records 810 123-1 Italy Unknown


Talk about Blancmange - Happy Families


Clandratha
Please list the track times,it would help in identifying the mixes, thank you.
Whitestone
Can anyone verify that a non-remixed version of "Living on the Ceiling" exists? All cds to date have the remixed version.
GWEZJ
P.E.R.F.E.C.T. ALBUM. Never get tired of this...
Felolv
"Waves" is the Weinrich/Williams single remix, as confirmed only on the label, but moving it to the album opener does change the feel of this album, as does the inclusion of an earler mix of "Blind Vision" on Side B. "I Can't Explain" moves to the same side, and these two tracks work very well as a pairing. These changes do give this release a slightly different vibe to the original, and hence as a Blancmange collector this is a 'must'.Canadian/USA release of Shriekback's "Care" had similar changes (more dramatic), which arguably improved the album, so it's an interesting concept that can sometimes really work.
Pemand
Such an awesome LP! Wave density inside! 5/5
Weernis
Only just discovered something after about 27 years - there are two different pressings of the UK edition of this album with a slight difference in the tracks. It has been bugging me that they used the remixed single version of "Waves" on the "Happy Families... Plus" CD reissue that was released in 2008, but it turns out later pressings of the original LP also features this version. The earlier pressing has the original album version of the song which sports a less polished, raw (and, in my opinion, better) production and does not feature the 'lush orchestral arrangement' as mentioned in Crijevo's review. Trouble is both pressings have the same catalogue number and is identical in many other ways, but if you read the credits on the back of the sleeve and it says 'Waves remixed by Denis Weinrich and John Owen Williams. Strings arranged by Linton Naiff.', then it's the later pressing. Another way to tell the two pressings apart is that the early one has the words 'SAD DAY - FOR HELEN' engraved in the lead-out on side two (the side that starts with "Waves"), whereas the later one has 'TY 2.3.83'.
Dorilune
Correct, the engravings and the credits are the only way to check the two versions between them. The pressing containing the orchestral version of waves features "TY 2.3.83" and "Double Brandy" engraved on the LP + the remix credit "Waves remixed by Denis Weinrich and John Owen Williams. Strings arranged by Linton Naiff.'"
Leceri
I've just submitted a second copy of the LP here so you can now move freely between the two - Waves original and Waves remixed!
Shakataxe
Indeed. I bought two copies of the vinyl album at the time because the first one I bought had the remixed version of Waves on it and I preferred the original version so I spent ages looking for an original. They were on at Virgin records here in the UK for £2.49 so I kept both copies (and still have them to this day).
Goltizuru
I believe all CD editions of the "Happy Families" album features the remixed version of "Waves" with the orchestral arrangements. As far as I know, the only way to get the original version on CD is on the 2-CD compilation "The Very Best Of Blancmange" (http://www.discogs.com/Blancmange-The-Very-Best-Of-Blancmange/release/3751678) from 2012. Hope this helps.
dermeco
Hi, do you know which version of Waves is on the original CD [the one that came out in '87]? Thanks. Paul.
komandante
Well spotted sir. I misplaced my original pcture album and managed to replace it recently with the re-released CD and couldn't work out why Waves sounded different.
Tolrajas
Blancmange's debut album is undoubtedly one of the 80s' finest definitions - however, it is also memorable for its overambitious appeal.1982 was a year-zero for many synth-pop bands breaking into the mainstream - albeit still delivering a synthetic beat, they pushed too hard in emulating the real instruments (which, 'ironically' is the finest moment here, on the duo's excellent blend of Eastern and Western sounds - a deserved hit-single "Living on the Ceiling"). Lush orchestral arrangement on "Waves" is as beautiful as it is over the top (think of this as a never announced winner of 'Sanremo' music festival of 1982), while "Sad Day" is equally exaggerated "up-to-date" version that don't hold a candle to the previously available, rough on the edges but stunning "Some Bizarre" version.The album's highlights, besides 'Living of the Ceiling', offer enough to play it on repeat respectfully - "I've Seen the Word" is a stunning song, very close to what would have become of Joy Division, if only Ian Curtis managed to fight his horrific illness)... an excellent, mysterious opener 'I Can't Explain', phenomenal energetic 'Feel Me', moody 'Wasted' and the closing number 'God's Kitchen' - quite nihilistic pre-Blasphemous Rumours type of single Depeche were still a few years away from.Definitely a collection of their finest moments (eventually, subsequent best-of compilations do include almost half of this album's repertoire), despite their later releases delivering decent singles, "Happy Families" remains unbeaten giant in Blancmange's catalogue.
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