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Two bands I wish made available recordings.

And as for the "name that tune" thread -- turns out it was the band
Facedancers, who recorded one eponymous LP for Paramount (US) in
1972. Whether the WGTB radio live track on the mp3 link was a cut on
the LP originally, I don't know. Someone better reissue this one now
that the floodgate rush is on from the progressiveears crowd, that's
all I've got to say.

New Musik...I sure remember the silly elementary lyrics, and the
great synth-wave-pop songs like "They All Run After The Carving
Knife" which was big in the dance clubs, and "Sanctuary" which was
big on radio. Seems I have five of their albums--could be wrong--
four of them being imports. Listened to the imports all just once,
and filed them away. Columbia had this brief marketing spurt for
those 10-inch "Nu-Disk" EP's stateside--of the handful of them that
were released, I still have a weakness for the Nina Hagen!

What is it about bands that sound like New Musik--like early OMD,
Naked Eyes, Kajagoogoo, Limahl, Fiction Factory, A Flock Of
Seagulls, Erasure, Tubeway Army, Visage, Thompson Twins--the neuro-
snubby vocals and the power synths & mechanical drums that were part
of yet another British wave that saturated hit radio and nightclubs
in the early '80s? I got caught up in that ∗scene∗ back then, but
don't really envision bringing this stuff up from the cellar thirty
years after it's heyday like I always am with lots of psyche and
prog.