Tag: 1982

April 11, 2024

Peter Godwin – Images Of Heaven (US 12″ EP)

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“Images Of Heaven” was the second 12″ EP released by English new wave musician Peter Godwin. The EP contained different track listings depending on the country of release. The song “Images of Heaven” became a “cult favorite on New Wave radio stations. None of the songs contained on this EP appeared on Godwin’s only full-length studio LP “Correspondence”. Neither this EP nor the LP “Correspondence” have been released on CD.

Mix titles on Side A are not listed on the release.

Two music videos were released for “Images Of Heaven” a censored and uncensored version.

SIDE A:
Images Of Heaven (Dance Mix) 4:59
Torch Song For The Heroine (Extended Version) 5:40
Producer – Midge Ure

SIDE B:
Emotional Disguise (Vocal) 4:15
Emotional Disguise (Instrumental) 4:15

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Polydor – PX-1-504, Polydor – 2141 604
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM, Stereo
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop

CREDITS:

Bass – Gary Twigg
Costume Designer [Clothes] – Antony Price
Drums [Simmons Drums] – Warren Cann
Engineer – Graham Dickson
Guitar – Colin Wight
Management – Daylight Robbery Management Ltd.
Photography By – Peter Ashworth
Producer – Georg Kajanus (tracks: A1, B1, B2)
Written-By – Peter Godwin

NOTES:
“Nobody blessed me with power to reach my love one cheap illusion can still be divine”

Printed in U.S.A.

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Turntable: Technics SL-1200MK7
Cartridge/Stylus: Ortofon 2M Black PnP MkII
Turntable Isolation Platform: ISO-Tone™ Turntable Isolation Platform
Platter: Pro Spin Acrylic Mat
Stabilizer: Pro-Ject Record Puck
Phono Pre-amp: Pro-Jec Tube Box DS2
Tubes: Genalex Gold Lion 12AX7 ECC83/B759 Gold Pins Vacuum Tube – Matched Pair
DAC: Alpha Design Labs GT40a USB DAC
Record Cleaning: VPI HW 16.5 Record Cleaning Machine
Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

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February 8, 2024

Olivia Newton-John – Landslide (Video Mix) (US Video Cassette)

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So today is my birthday, and I wanted to try something different—sort of an experiment, but also fun. I have been tinkering with the idea of recording audio from some of my VHS tapes, which are analog and fit perfectly with my audio transfers of 12″ vinyl and cassette tapes. The tracks I chose to work on today are, of course, ONJ. These two tracks did not make it to the remastered Deluxe Edition of her 1981 LP “Physical,” which I helped work on back in 2021. I dusted off my Emerson Hi-Fi 4-head VCR, and the results turned out rather well.

The video mix of “Landslide,” which was also featured on Olivia’s 1982 ABC TV Special “OLIVIA PHYSICAL,” which also aired on my birthday, February 8, 1982, The video mix includes an extended synth and drum intro lasting about 20 seconds. There are also some sound effects at around the 2:30 mark (sword fighting) and glass breaking. The track also has an earlier fade than what appears on the LP and single versions. The video was directed by Brian Grant and also features Olivia’s first husband, Matt Lattanzi. “Landslide” was released as the third single from the LP “Physical.” peaking at #52 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The second track, “Rolling,” is an instrumental written by Olivia’s longtime producer, John Farrar. This instrumental plays during the opening sequence of the Physical TV special showing Olivia running and working out on the beach.

The TV special was later edited down to just include the music videos, mostly from the Physical album, and released on home video. Olivia was a pioneer in making this full-length video album, which was one of the first of its kind. This was pre-MTV and won Olivia the 1982 Grammy for best long-form video album.

Said to cost half a million dollars to produce, it was filmed in California (at Olivia’s Malibu home), London, and Hawaii.

In addition, I also created custom artwork for this special post. I know many ONJ fans will be delighted to finally have both tracks digitally.

SIDE A:
Landslide (Video Mix) 4:28

SIDE B:
Rolling 1:17

VIDEOCASSETTE GRADE:
Video Cassette: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1982	Landslide	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#52

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: MCA Home Video – 55050
Format: VHS, Compilation, Stereo, NTSC
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Pop
Style: synth-pop

CREDITS:

Producer, Written-By – John Farrar

NOTES:
From the video album OLIVIA-PHYSICAL

Artwork: DjPaulT

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VideoCassette Deck: Emerson EWV601 Hi-Fi 4-Head Video Cassette Recorder
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Artwork Scans: Epson Workforce WF-7610 Professional Printer/Scanner

SOFTWARE USED:
Recording/Editing: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Recording)
Down Sampling/Dither: iZotope RX Advanced 2
Artwork Editor: Adobe Photoshop CS5
Click Removal: Manual
FLAC/MP3 Conversion: dBpoweramp
M3U Playlist: Playlist Creator

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October 26, 2023

Icehouse – Icehouse (UK 12″)

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“Icehouse” is a song by the Australian rock band Flowers, later known as Icehouse. It was released as a single in Europe in 1982 by Chrysalis Records from the band’s first album, Icehouse after the band changed its name to Icehouse. In the United States, the song peaked at number 28 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in 1981 even though the song was not released as a single in the U.S.

“Icehouse” was written by founding member Iva Davies when he lived at 18 Tryon Road, Lindfield in an old, cold flat of a two-storey mansion—across the street was a dishevelled house which had its lights on all night peopled by short-term residents. Davies only learned that it was a halfway house for psychiatric and drug rehab patients after he wrote the song. Russell Mulcahy, an expatriate Australian living in London, directed the music video for “Icehouse”.

SIDE A:
Icehouse 4:09
Producer – Cameron Allan, Iva Davies
Written-By – I. Davies*

SIDE B:
All The Way (Live) 4:08
Producer –Paul Zullo, Bob Kaminsky*

Written-By – . Davies*

Cold Turkey (Live) 4:16
Producer –Paul Zullo, Bob Kaminsky
Written-By – J. Lennon

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1982	Icehouse	U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	#28

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Chrysalis – CHS 12 2577
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM, Single
Country: UK
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Pop
Style: Synth-pop, Indie Rock, New wave

CREDITS:

Lacquer Cut By – Tone*

NOTES:
Tracks on B-Side are live tracks and were originally recorded for the ‘King Biscuit Flower Hour’

Taken from the LP “ICEHOUSE”

Made in the U.K.

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September 28, 2023

After The Fire – Der Kommissar (US 12″)

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Originally posted December 12, 2012

“Der Kommissar” (German: [deːɐ̯ kɔmɪˈsaːɐ̯]; “The Commissioner”) is a song originally recorded by Austrian artist Falco in 1981. The song was written by Robert Ponger and Falco.

In mid-1982, British rock band After the Fire recorded an English version, also titled “Der Kommissar”, and released it as a single, but the record floundered. Coming off a tour opening for Van Halen, After the Fire was working on material for a new album when in December 1982, the group announced onstage during a concert that they were disbanding. Both the After the Fire and Falco versions were rising on the Canadian charts at the time, but neither had cracked the US pop charts. Around that time, American singer Laura Branigan began working on her second studio album, Branigan 2, and she recorded “Deep in the Dark”, a new song written over the melody and arrangement of “Der Kommissar” which was prepared for release. Then the After the Fire version finally hit the US Billboard Hot 100 on 22 February 1983, and started rising. Though its version barely nicked their home country’s Top 50, in 1983 the song’s music video received extensive airplay on MTV propelling its popularity on US radio. The song entered the US top 40 on 5 March 1983, peaking at No. 5, and spending a total of 14 weeks in the top 40. The single was released under the Epic Records label. Amidst all this renewed attention to the composition, Falco’s own version, which had done well in some US markets but not charted nationally, was re-released, but the German-language record remained essentially a novelty hit there, charting concurrently with the After the Fire version but not rising above No. 74 on the Cashbox chart.

In Canada, Falco’s version had peaked at No. 11 the same late-January week that After the Fire’s version peaked at No. 12. After the Fire’s record company, CBS, pleaded with the band to regroup, but to no avail. While UK promotional singles for “Deep in the Dark” were pressed (the After the Fire version missed the UK top 40 and the Falco version failed to chart there), Branigan’s record company, Atlantic, officially released “Solitaire” in the United States, where that song peaked at No. 7.

SIDE A:
Der Kommissar (Special Extended Remix) 5:43

SIDE B:
Der Kommissar (Dub Remix) 4:50
Engineer [Remix] – Michael Frondelli
Remix [Remix By] – Bruce Harris, Gregg Winter, Jane Brinton

VINYL GRADE:
Vinyl: Near Mint
Sleeve: Near Mint

U.S. CHART HISTORY:

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1983	Der Kommissar	U.S. Billboard Hot 100	#5
1983	Der Kommissar	U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks	#4
1983	Der Kommissar	U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play	#17

RELEASE INFORMATION:
Label: Epic – 49-03490
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 33 ⅓ RPM
Country: US
Released: 1982
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: New Wave, Synth-pop

CREDITS:

Mastered By – Janos*
Producer – ATF*, John Eden
Written-By – Falco, R. Ponger*

NOTES:
Special Version From The Epic LP: ATF

Though not specifically labeled as such, side A is an extended remix and side B is a dub with chorus vocals only.

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