My Seventies Music

Tag: Slow Motion

  • Magazine – “Rhythm Of Cruelty”, “Believe That I Understand”, “I Wanted Your Heart”, “Talk To The Body”, “Permafrost”, “The Thin Air”, “Feed The Enemy” and “Back To Nature”

    Magazine album "Secondhand Daylight" (1979)

    Magazine is another of those UK New Wave bands whose music I first heard played by the house band (Snatch) at the Majestic Hotel in Palmerston North, New Zealand, prompting me to buy their album “Second Daylight” with songs like “Rhythm Of Cruelty”, “Believe That I Understand”, “I Wanted Your Heart”, “Talk To The Body”, “Permafrost”, “The Thin Air”, “Feed The Enemy” and “Back To Nature”.

    Listening to some of the tracks now I’m not so sure why I bought it, but I think it might have been “Rhythm Of Cruelty” I heard at the Majestic (though I don’t recall the women at the pub being dressed like this…):

    “Believe That I Understand” might have been another one I heard in Palmerston North:


    Not sure about “I Wanted Your Heart”:


    Here are some more tracks from “Secondhand Daylight”, some of them seem a bit obscure for a “post punk” band, but you might like them, so I’ll let you make up your own mind…

    “Talk To The Body”:

    “Permafrost”:

    “The Thin Air”:

    “Feed The Enemy”:

    “Back To Nature”:



    That last one wasn’t quite what I was expecting, think I confused it with “Slow Motion” by Ultravox…

    Paul

  • Ultravox – “Vienna”, “Slow Motion”, “Maximum Acceleration” and “I Can’t Stay Long”

    British New Wave band Ultravox had a hit in 1980 with “Vienna”, but except for the singing of the title, to quote the song itself, “this means nothing to me”.

    What I do recognise, however, is “Slow Motion”, from their 1978 album “Systems Of Romance”, which I have.

    I haven’t played it for ages, but I remember “Slow Motion” because the band Snatch at the Majestic Hotel in Palmerston North, New Zealand, used to play it when I went there regularly around that time as a student.

    I just listened to several of the other tracks from that album, most of them didn’t really resonate, but there were a couple that brought back memories.

    Apparently the album didn’t sell that well at the time, but I bought it, on the strength of hearing the tracks that Snatch played.

    Here’s “Vienna”, their first mainstream commercial success it would seem, just out of the Seventies in 1980:

    This one’s more like it, “Slow Motion”, from 1978 album “Systems Of Romance”:

    From the same album, “Maximum Acceleration”:

    And another one from “Systems Of Romance”, called “I Can’t Stay Long”:

    Gotta go now.

    Paul

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