Posted by
arsepuppy, 12:28, 14th October 2003:
Grim..., On your Seb Is God page you wrote this:
First Record Brought: 'Landscape' by Einstein A Go-Go
In fact, it's the other way round. "Einstein-A-Go-Go" was the title, Landscape was the group.
And it's "bought" :)
Just trying to help.
Posted by
Grim..., 16:56, 14th October 2003:
Just spotted this.
I have changed the spelling, but I assure you that
Einstein A Go-Go was the group.
Posted by
arsepuppy, 15:52, 15th October 2003:
From allmusic.com:
After leaving the soft rock band Easy Street, Richard Burgess formed a slick synth pop/jazz group called Landscape in 1975. In addition to Burgess, who sang and played drums, Landscape included Andy Pask (bass), Chris Heaton (keyboards), John Walters (keyboards, woodwinds), and Pete Thomas (trombone, keyboards). After building a following through touring, the band released its self-titled debut in 1980, which sold rather poorly. 1981's From the Tea-Rooms of Mars...to the Hell-Holes of Uranus firmly accented synthesizers as the focus of Landscape's sound, and they scored a Top Five U.K. hit with "Einstein A-Go-Go." 1982's Manhattan Boogie-Woogie was the group's most danceable effort, but by the following year, the lineup had been pared down to a trio, and the band broke up for good in 1984. Burgess had already begun a production career, working with artists like Spandau Ballet, Living in a Box, Visage, and King.
I hate to be pedantic again, but it's far more likely that Seb's first purchase was an electronic hit from 1982 rather than a song by a recent skater band which named itself after that song. Otherwise, it'd mean that he only bought his first record recently, which quite frankly would piss away his DJing credentials.
Plus, I own the record, it was the topic of an injoke in my first year at uni :)
(It starts off with a sample which sounds like it'll be a political song, then it suddenly segues into the cheesiest Bontempi synth lift shite ever. Quality)
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Posted by
arsepuppy, 15:53, 15th October 2003:
(that was "fear my skillz" but I don't know how to do the brackety things without it messing up :( )