Monochrome Set: Monochrome Set 1979 1985 Complete Recordings
Monochrome Set: Monochrome Set 1979 1985 Complete Recordings
Format: VINYL LP
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Artist: Monochrome Set
Label: Tapete Records
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 4015698013788
Genre: Rock
6LP boxset edition. Includes CD versions of each album; Edition of 700. Emerging at the end of punk era, The Monochrome Set's estrangement from society came from a more arty angle. This boxset is the full account of their frantically productive early period, the perfect document of an under-appreciated chapter of British pop history. Though widely unknown, they are one of the most influential British bands of the last 40 years, with the early Morrissey and Marr, Blur's Graham Coxon, and Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos among their admirers. Though Ganesh Seshadri, aka Bid, never went to college, The Monochrome Set are often seen as an archetypal art school band. In 1979 they released a string of snappy, now highly collectible singles on Rough Trade, followed by early masterpieces Strange Boutique (1980) and Love Zombies (1980). In 1982 they released their third LP Eligible Bachelors on Cherry Red Records. Their major label effort The Lost Weekend (1985) contained their biggest hit "Jacob's Ladder"."... The early Monochrome Set sound betrayed a fondness of Lou Reed and American psychedelia, and though they shared their generation's sense of estrangement, they certainly weren't part of the punk revolution.... [the Hornsey School of Art] was where lead guitarist Tom Hardy, later to be known as Lester Square, studied with a certain Stuart Goddard aka Adam Ant... The Monochrome Set's lack of breakthrough success is usually attributed to their inability to churn out the hits, but in hindsight their now highly collectible first four seven inches for the Rough Trade label, united here on one disc with all the singles from the early eighties period, prove that they started out as bona fide masters of pop's ultimate format. Released in February 1980, their first album Strange Boutique, featuring the band's percussion-heavy theme song and the Johnny Marr-anticipating 'Love Goes Down The Drain', caught the Monochrome Set in full flight, quickly followed by the equally taut, funny and adventurously dynamic Love Zombies. 1982 saw them move to Cherry Red Records on their third LP Eligible Bachelors, with the catchy lead single "The Jet Set Junta" promptly banned because of it's non-existent connection to the Falklands War.... After a financially disastrous American tour, the band were resigned to taking the major label shilling with The Lost Weekend (1985), scoring their biggest airplay hit with 'Jacob's Ladder'..." -Robert Rotifer, Canterbury 2017
Tracks:
1.1 Strange Boutique (1980):The Monochrome Set (I Presume)
1.2 The Lighter Side of Dating
1.3 Expresso
1.4 The Puerto Rican Fence Climber
1.5 Tomorrow Will Be Too Long
1.6 Martians Go Home
1.7 Love Goes Down the Drain
1.8 Ici Les Enfants
1.9 The Etcetera Stroll
1.10 Goodbye Joe
1.11 The Strange Boutique
2.1 Love Zombies (1980): Love Zombies
2.2 Adeste Fideles
2.3 405 Lines
2.4 B-I-D Spells Bid
2.5 R.S.V.P
2.6 Apocalypso
2.7 Karma Suture
2.8 The Man with the Black Moustache
2.9 The Weird, Wild and Wonderful World of Tony Potts
2.10 In Love, Cancer?
3.1 Eligible Bachelors (1982): The Jet Set Junta
3.2 I'll Scry Instead
3.3 On the 13th Day
3.4 Cloud 10
3.5 The Mating Game
3.6 March of the Eligible Bachelors
3.7 The Devil Rides Out
3.8 Fun for All the Family
3.9 The Midas Touch
3.10 The Ruling Class
3.11 Great Barrier Riff
4.1 The Lost Weekend (1985): Jacob's Ladder
4.2 Sugarplum
4.3 Cargo
4.4 Take Foz
4.5 Letter from Viola
4.6 Don't Touch
4.7 The Twitch
4.8 Wallflower
4.9 Starry Nowhere
4.10 Boom Boom
4.11 Cowboy Country
5.1 Singles I: He's Frank
5.2 Alphaville
5.3 Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
5.4 Lester Leaps in
5.5 The Monochrome Set
5.6 Mr. Bizarro
5.7 He's Frank (Slight Return)
5.8 Silicon Carne
5.9 Fallout
5.10 Surfing S.W.12
5.11 405 Lines
5.12 Fiasco Bongo
6.1 Singles II:Ten Don'ts for Honeymooners
6.2 Straits of Malacca
6.3 J.D.H.A.N.E.Y
6.4 Cast a Long Shadow
6.5 The Bridge
6.6 The Jet Set Junta
6.7 Love Goes Down the Drain
6.8 Noise (Eine Kleine Symphonie)
6.9 Andiamo
6.10 Le Boom Boom
6.11 Yo Ho Ho (And Three Bottles of Rum)
6.12 Big Ben Bongo
6.13 Wallflower (Saloon Bar Mix)
