From the Middle Room

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A Flock of Seagulls - Messages (A Flock of Seagulls - 1982)
Modern English - Someone's Calling (After the Snow - 1982)
Visage - Visage (Visage - 1982)
Talk Talk - Another World (The Colour of Spring - 1986)

DEVO - Gates of Steel (Freedom of Choice - 1980)
Berlin - The Masquerade (Pleasure Victim - 1982)
Ultravox - I Remember (Death in the Afternoon) (Rage in Eden - 1981)
Duran Duran - Night Boat (Duran Duran - 1981)

John Foxx - Night Suit (The Garden - 1981)
Gary Numan - The Image Is (We Take Mystery to Bed 7" - 1982)
Yaz - In My Room (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)
Tears for Fears - The Prisoner (The Hurting - 1983)

Billy Idol - Don't Need A Gun (Whiplash Smile - 1986)
The Tourists - From the Middle Room (Into the Future 7" - 1980)

As an apology for the horrible Duran Duran pun I made in the show, hear a song from the new record!
Duran Duran - Pressure Off featuring Janelle Monáe and Nile Rogers (Paper Gods - Out 9/11)

Future Nostalgia

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Kraftwerk - Metropolis (The Man Machine - 1978)
John Foxx - Underpass (Metamatic - 1980)
Eurythmics - This City Never Sleeps (Sweet Dreams - 1983)
Gary Numan - My Dying Machine (Berzerker - 1984)

Chromatics - In Films (Dear Tommy - Pending)
Blouse - Videotapes (Blouse - 2011)
I Break Horses (Chiaroscuro - 2014)

Goblin Rebirth - Requiem for X (Goblin Rebirth - 2015)
John Carpenter - Fallen (Lost Themes - 2015)
Lazerhawk - Lawless (Skull + Shark - 2013)
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow - Miami Lawmaker (Drokk - 2012)

Gunship - Tech Noir (Gunship - 2015)
M83 - Highway of Endless Dreams (Saturdays = Youth - 2008)

Bonus Video Time(s)! Check out these love-letters to the 1980s by London synth worshippers Gunship.

Post finals exaltation and inclement weather commiseration

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The Smiths - Sheila Take A Bow (Louder Than Bombs - 1987)
The Cure - Fascination Street (Extended Mix - 12" - 1989)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Party's Fall (Tinderbox - 1986)
Echo and the Bunnymen - In Bluer Skies (Porcupine - 1983)

Galaxie 500 - Temperature's Rising (Today - 1988)
Jesus and Mary Chain - Nine Million Rainy Days (Darklands - 1987)
Cocteau Twins - Throughout the Dark Months of April & May (Victorialand - 1986)
Cranes - Rainbows (Forever - 1993)
Love and Rockets - Waiting for the Flood (Earth, Sun, Moon - 1987)

Curve - Coming Up Roses (Come Clean - 1998)
Depeche Mode - Heaven (Delta Machine - 2013)
SPC ECO - Hear Me Now (Art of Pop - 2014)
Slowdive - Country Rain (5 EP - 1993)

Outro - Massive Attack - Weather Storm (Protection - 1994)

Flexipop Retrospective

This week we take a look at the brief history of Flexipop magazine and the colorful 7" singles folded in its pages.

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The Jam - Boy About Town (Issue 02)
Madness - My Girl (Issue 19)
Hazel O'Connor - D. Days (Issue 09)
Bow Wow Wow - Elimination Dancing (Issue 18)

Depeche Mode - Sometimes I Wish I Was Dead (Issue 11)
Fad Gadget - King of the Flies (Issue 11)
Soft Cell - Metro MRX (Issue 12)
B. Movie - Remembrance Day (Issue 12)

Adam and the Ants - A.N.T.S. (Issue 04)
XTC - Looking for Footprints (Issue 16)
Haircut 100 - Nobody's Fool (Issue 17)
The Associates - Even Dogs in the Wild (Issue 20)

Bauhaus - God in an Alcove (Isssue 23)
The Cure - Lament (Issue 22)
Toya - Sphinx (Issue 08)

Marc Almond and Friends - Discipline (Throbbing Gristle cover - Issue 24)

Read an article about the magazine's history written by Flexipop co-founder Tim Lott here.

A colorful, glossy Adam Ant feature from Flexipop No. 4, March 1981:

Postcard from a Small Town

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Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Age of Consent - 1984)
Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Touch - 1983)
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (Into the Gap - 1984)
Tears for Fears - Watch Me Bleed (The Hurting - 1983)

Soft Cell - Frustration (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - 1981)
Depeche Mode - Something to Do (Some Great Reward - 1984)
Ramones - I Just Want to Have Something to Do (Road to Ruin - 1978)
Echo & the Bunnymen - Rescue (Crocodiles - 1980)
The Smiths - Nowhere Fast (Meat is Murder - 1985)

Psychedelic Furs - Book of Days (Book of Days - 1989)
New Order - Elegia (Low-Life - 1985)
Japan - Burning Bridges (Gentlemen Take Polaroids - 1980)
Duran Duran - Edge of America (Big Thing - 1988)
Yaz - Winter Kills (Upstairs at Eric's - 1982)

Bonus video time!
Jimmy Somerville performs a stripped-down, acoustic piano version of "Smalltown Boy" in 2014:

Cigarette Traces

A (very) brief Roxy retrospective. Contemporaries, influences, solo projects.

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Roxy Music - Ladytron (Roxy Music - 1971)
Brian Eno - Mother Whale Eyeless (Taking Tiger Mountain - 1974)
Mott the Hoople - Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground Cover) (All the Young Dudes - 1972)
David Bowie - Look Back in Anger (Lodger - 1979)

Roxy Music - While My Heart is Still Beating (Avalon - 1982)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Sea Breezes (Roxy Music cover) (Through the Looking Glass - 1987)
Japan - Despair (Quiet Life - 1979)
Duran Duran - Tiger Tiger (Seven and the Ragged Tiger - 1983)

Rozz Williams & Gitane Demone - In Every Dream Home A Heartache (Roxy Music cover) (Dream Home Heartache - 1995)
Ultravox - Hiroshima Mon Amour (Ha! Ha! Ha! - 1977)
Bryan Ferry - Loop De Li (Avonmore - 2014)
Bryan Ferry - Avonmore (Avonmore - 2014)

Bonus Link Time!
Learn about Antony Price, the designer who tailored for Roxy Music, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Annie Lennox, Duran Duran, and more!

4AD Retrospective

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Bauhaus - Dark Entries (In the Flat Field - 1980)
The Birthday Party - Zoo Music Girl (Prayers on Fire - 1981)
Xmal Deutschland - Incubus Succubus II (Tocsin - 1984)

Cocteau Twins - Ivo (Treasure - 1984)
Dead Can Dance - Carnival of Light (Garden of the Arcane Delights - 1984)
Modern English - After the Snow (After the Snow - 1982)
Clan of Xymox - Muscoviet Musquito (Subsequent Pleasures - 1983)

This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren (It'll End in Tears - 1984)
Lush - Sweetness and Light (Sweetness and Light EP - 1990)
Pixies - Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf Mix) (Here Comes Your Man - 1989)
The Breeders - Do You Love Me Jr. (Divine Hammer EP - 1992)

Unrest - Teenage Suicide (Isabell Bihshop EP - 1993)
Pale Saints - Hair Shoes (Demo) (Flesh Balloon EP - 1991)
Swallow - Cherry Stars Collide (Blow - 1992)
Mojave 3 - Mercy (Strings Version) (Shoe Pie - 1997)

Check out Martin Aston's new(ish) book detailing the history of 4AD records, Facing the Other Way.