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The acerbic post-punk outfit About half Man About half Biscuit was formed in Birkenhead, Britain in 1984 by singer/guitarist Nigel Blackwell, his guitarist brother Si, bassist Neil Crossley, and drummer Paul Wright. While still languishing in comparative obscurity, they joined the studio room in 1985 to record their debut LP, …

Within the mid- to later ’80s and early ’90s, the London-based team of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman was to Euro dance-pop what L.A. & Babyface and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis had been to urban modern: a slick, well-oiled making/songwriting group that acquired a popularity for cranking …

Zero came jointly in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1984 because the brainchild of guitarist Steve Kimock and drummer Greg Anton. Both achieved musicians, both fulfilled while playing jointly in the Center of Gold Music group which later progressed into Spirits. In the first years, Zero’s lineup was rather liquid …

The theory behind the Thrown Ups was to truly have a band where nobody ever practiced no one ever wrote songs. At their 1st show starting for Hüsker Dü in Feb of 1985, the group brought uncooked oysters to toss at the target audience if the response was bad. The …

Regarded as a part project from commercial music gods Skinny Pup, the short-lived Hilt actually got roots predating the beginning of that strap. Vocalist Al Nelson and multi-instrumentalist cEVIN Crucial first worked collectively in Vancouver’s early punk picture via the music group Illegal Youngsters in the past due ’70s. Following …

Early compatriots of Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle in Britain’s experimental/commercial scene, 23 Skidoo pursued an improvisational fusion of cultural drumming and post-punk dance on the few recordings of the first ’80s. Named following a slang expression in the 1920s that acquired originally made an appearance in the task of …

Given birth to in 1984, L’Aura (a play on her behalf initial name, Laura) started taking part in the piano in age six, picking right up the violin in 11, and performing the entire period. At 14 she fulfilled Andrea Bariselli, the person who would later on become her supervisor, …

Driving the wave of MTV-friendly synth pop from the mid-’80s, Animotion required the coldly catchy “Obsession” to the very best Ten initially of 1985. From then on, achievement was elusive — the follow-up, “Allow Him Proceed,” barely damaged the very best 40 simply four months later on. In 1988, over …

Dalis Car were doomed almost right away. A seemingly good notion when first recommended to previous Bauhaus vocalist/lyricist Peter Murphy that he collaborate with ex-Japan bassist/composer Mick Karn, the group almost self-destructed before it had been disbanded. Their singular recording, The Waking Hour, released in 1984, arrived in a lot …

Shaped in Nottinghamshire, England, Witchfynde had been one among many early-’80s teams to become conveniently lumped in to the New Influx of British ROCK, but they had been nowhere close to as sonically extreme as their exaggeratedly satanic picture and references indicate. Actually, despite displaying an abundance of rock affects, …