Acquired from Indoor Market in Canterbury 28 December 2010
Ref: BZS 6 - Edited by Some Bizarre in England in 1981
Support: 45s 17cm
Titles: Bedsitter - / - Facility Girls
Oh, they pranksters are the English with their peculiar logic. I knew that among them, the holiday of Christmas is followed by the holiday of Boxing Day, but I had not imagined that this year, both days fall on a weekend, they would be followed by a Bank Holiday Monday and a Bank Holiday Tuesday.
Fortunately for me in this particular case, but unfortunately in a broader perspective, the Liberal England deregulated and the twenty-first century, where some stores are open all day Sunday and hypermarkets 7 days on 7 and 24 to 24, most buses were operating and more than half the stores were open on that Tuesday, especially in Canterbury , a city used to welcome tourists.
So even if several charity shops were closed, I could do some shopping, especially at this record store, Indoor Market, which had several boxes of 45 rounds at 50 pence albums and even £ 1, I n ' have not taken the time to watch all.
I will certainly have the opportunity to return, but Soft Cell for me it and it will remain primarily the maxi Tainted love with the sequence with Where Did Our Love Go then raging in booms and Persuasion opposite B. I even went to buy the maxi The soul inside to recovery, always disappointing to lose Born to B side and I got a few things here and there by the way since then, but looking their discography, I realize that there are only two songs that I really retain more Tainted love, the two singles that followed, Bedsitter and Say hello, wave goodbye.
latter, I did not always. Bedsitter , I already had on the first album, but a day of scarcity as it is in good condition and with an unprecedented B-side, I finally take the plunge and buy it.
Jon Savage in an article on Bedsitter for Guardian, Sparks speaks about Soft Cell. In their new wave generation, the formula duet with a singer and instrumentalist deleted exuberant I would rather think Suicide , even if musically the two groups have nothing to do, Soft Cell is more akin to their colleagues promoting English Depeche Mode. I'd still also a parallel with Associates, also based in a duet with a musician and a singer diva dark rather camp.
Bedsitter tells the story of a bored guy alone in his room sublet a Sunday after leaving the previous day. To stay in England, but from Leeds, the home city of Soft Cell, Manchester, one could say that this song, very dark in tone from the early 80's, anticipates a cocktail of unlikely New Order dancing to the next student that explodes in box, and Smiths self-pity, for the next " Oh, I'm miserable now " the same the next day ("Waiting for a visitor , though no one knows I'm here I'm waiting (...) for something, I'm only passing time ). A
like a This Is The Day of The The is not really gay and it looks the navel, but thirty years after that always pleases me.
In style, Facility girl, I do not know anything and that is the portrait of a secretary is not all bad either.
Two 45 rpm to 50 pence. Not bad ...
The video Bedsitter , the first video directed by Tim Pope . It tells the story on its website.
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