The Monochrome Set - 1979-1985: Complete Recordings flac album

All official releases 1979-1985: Albums and singles (A & B sides), liner notes, photos and discography. CD 1: Strange Boutique 1980 CD 2: Love Zombies 1980 CD 3: Eligible Bachelors 1983 CD 4: The Lost Weekend 1985 CD 5: Singles (I) 1979 - 1980 CD 6: Singles (II) 1981 - 1985. 2018 Tapete Records. Label Code: LC 12227. Other Versions (1 of 1) View All. Cat.

Artist: The Monochrome Set. Album: Complete Recordings. CD1: 01 – The Monochrome Set (I Presume) 02 – The Lighter Side of Dating 03 – Espresso 04 – The Puerto Rican Fence Climber 05 – Tomorrow Will Be Too Long 06 – Martians Go Home 07 – Love Goes Down the Drain 08 – Ici les enfants 09 – The Etcetera Stroll 10 – Goodbye Joe 11 – The Strange Boutique. CD2: 01 – Love Zombies 02 – Adeste fideles 03 – 405 Lines 04 – B-I-D Spells Bid 05 – . 06 – Apocalypso 07 – Karma Suture 08 – The Man With the Black Moustache 09 – The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Tony Potts 10 – ‘In Love, Cancer’

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It’s really nice to hear the band still making vital rock music. But just so you know, on my first day of teaching, a really long time ago, I was nervous and told my class everything I knew in about nine minutes. I pretty much figured I was losing the kids’ attention when I told them to never take candy from strangers in a car. I feel the same way about this six-disc set, 1979-1985: Complete Recordings, that covers the group’s early career

Each album has its own charms and it's fun to track the band's changes over the few years the set covers. The singles collections are highlighted by their timeless classic "He's Frank," but the rest undeniably ranks with the best sophisticated pop of the time. It's great that Tapete reissued all this wonderful material, but even more impressive that they did it the same week that the Monochrome Set released Maisieworld, an album that shows they haven't lost a creative step over the many years that have elapsed since they first began recording

-+-+-+-+ CD1/LP1 Strange Boutique 1. The Monochrome Set (I Presume) 2. The Lighter Side Of Dating 3. Expresso 4. The Puerto Rican Fence Climber 5. Tomorrow Will Be Too Long 6. Martians Go Home 7. Love Goes Down The Drain 8. Ici Les Enfants 9. The Etcetera Stroll 10. Goodbye Joe 11. The Strange Boutique CD2/LP2 Love Zombies 1. Love Zombies 2. Adeste Fideles 3. 405 Lines 4. B-I-D Spells Bid 5. . 405 Lines 12. Fiasco Bongo CD6/LP6 Singles II 1. Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners 2. Straits Of Malacca 3. 4. Cast A Long Shadow 5. The Bridge 6. The Jet Set Junta 7. Noise (Eine Kleine Symphonie) 9. Andiamo 10. Le Boom Boom 11. Yo Ho Ho (and three bottles of rum) 12.

The Monochrome Set are an English post-punk band originally formed in 1978 from the remnants of a college group called The B-Sides (whose members had included Stuart Goddard, later known as Adam Ant).

6 album boxset featuring Strange Boutique, Love Zombies, Eligible Bachelors, Lost Weekend and Singles 1 and 2. Emerging at the end of punk era, The Monochrome Set's estrangement from society came from a more arty angle. Though Bid never went to college, The Monochrome Set are often seen as an archetypal art school band. Their name alludes to Yves Klein's monochrome paintings while song titles like Alphaville and Eine Symphonie des Grauens nodded to Godard and . In 1979 they released a string of snappy, now highly collectible singles on Rough Trade, followed by early masterpieces Strange Boutique and Love Zombies. In 1982 they moved to Cherry Red Records with their third LP Eligible Bachelors whose lead single The Jet Set Junta was banned for its non-existent connection to the Falklands War.