A Flock of Seagulls: Telecommunication EP

Telecommunication / Tanglimara / You Can Run

Modern Love is Automatic / D.N.A.

 

Format: 12" EP

Label: Arista

Country: US

Year: 1981

Price paid: $1.50

Location purchased: My Mind's Eye, Cleveland OH

"Laser beam coming through the night, to my TV screen, to my color eye."

This EP contains tracks that would later appear on their 1982 self-titled debut LP 'A Flock of Seagulls.'  The track 'Tanglimara' is unique to this EP, however.

I find the band's music overall to be pleasant, if somewhat unengaging. But I suppose that 's the point- cold, expansive soundscapes filled with laser-filled smoke clouds where time has no meaning.

I love the bright dreamy colors on the sleeve and how jarringly inappropriate they are to the nightmarish image. Scenes this disturbing should be shunned to a twilight world...

Chart Wars

 

Format: LP 

Label: Ronco 

Country: UK 

Year: 1982 

Price paid: $8

Purchased at: The Record Archive, Rochester NY

Yay, it's another cheesy Ronco compilation from the UK!

I bought this one JUST for the cover... and oh what a cover it is. Lightsabers, ample doses of neon, pink and blue color-scheme, pseudo punks with bad boots. Delicious. Marvelous. 'To ensure the highest quality reproduction the running times of some titles as originally released have been changed' proclaims the small print on the back- who the fuck cares when the cover is this rad?!?!?

Duran Duran – Rio
Kid Creole And The Coconuts – Stool Pigeon
Bauhaus – Ziggy Stardust
Classix Nouveaux – The End Or The Beginning
Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
Sharon Redd – Never Give You Up
Boys Town Gang – Signed, Sealed Delivered (I'm Yours)
Scarlet Party – 101 Damnations
Wham – Young Guns (Go For It)
Piranhas, The Featuring Bob Grover – Zambezi
Eddy Grant – I Don't Wanna Dance
Japan – Life In Tokyo (Special Remix)
Toto Coelo – Dracula's Tango
Carly Simon – Why
A Flock Of Seagulls – Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
Talk Talk – Talk Talk
Tight Fit – I'm Undecided
Dollar – Videotheque
Gwen Guthrie – It Should Have Been You
Renee And Renato – Save Your Love