Artist	Song
Television Personalities	The Painted Word
The Tea Set	Parry Thomas
Tanz Der Youth	I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry
Echo & The Bunnymen	Villiers Terrace
Teardrop Explodes	Passionate Friend
The Undertones	The Love Parade
Miles Over Matter	Something's Happening Here
The Soft Boys	Underwater Moonlight
The Marble Staircase	The Long weekend
The Mood Six	Just Like a Dream
The High Tide	Electric Blue
The Barracudas	Watching The World Go By
Naz Nomad & The Nightmares	(Do You Know) I Know
Nick Nicely	Hilly Fields
The Dukes Of Stratosphear	25 O'Clock
The Times	I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape
Monsoon	Tomorrow Never Knows
This Heat	Sleep
Sir Aleck & the Phraser	Nursery Chymes

Comment:

One of the post-punk developments overlooked by Simon Reynolds in his "Rip It Up & Start Again": the early 80's ersatz psychedelic revival.

Sure it was ultimately a dead-end but it was fun and added a bit of day-glo technicolor to the peredominantly faded to grey of much of the music that surrounded it.

If nothing else it deserves comemorating for being the seedbed of the peerless "Rubble" series and a taproot of the true psychedelic revival a few years hence -Acid House.

Here's some precursers,a few well- & lesser-known pasticheurs plus at the end, a coupla experimenters for whom the sonic explorations of 65-67 was an irriducable part of their conceptual DNA.

Download:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/qx2scx

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