Re: Magazine - Real Life (1978)

by Nightjar Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:06 pm

The Joker dancing down those stairs...

by Guest Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:06 pm

It jerks out of me, like blood.

shifty

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:07 pm

by Guest Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:07 pm

Where they a GR8 singles band?

scared

by Nightjar Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:07 pm

Parade.

This could be the best track on the album.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:07 pm

Last track - Parade.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:07 pm

Piano.

by Nightjar Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:09 pm

Swelling string synths...

Pete Shelley-esque lyrics.

by Nightjar Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:10 pm

Saxamaphone. happy

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:11 pm

by Guest Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:11 pm

"It's so hot in here
What are they trying to hatch?"

doom canary

by Nightjar Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:12 pm

Getting quite Bowie-ey.

by Guest Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:12 pm

It is over.

Hmm...

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:13 pm

It is over.

It was OK but lacked a certain spark and swagger needed to bring it fully to life.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:14 pm

I shall give it 3 stars.

by Guest Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:15 pm

Knew we should have done Secondhand Daylight

shifty

by Nightjar Thu Dec 31, 2020 9:15 pm

Well, what a terrific album.

Lots of stuff to keep the ears and brain on its ear/brain-toes and entertained.

Devoto clearly had to leave Buzzcocks because the short power-pop format didn't suit his already elderly Roxy/Bowie/general art rock ambitions.

I can't give it less than...

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