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:

Friday the 13th!

Happy Friday the 13th. Unlucky you, I'm uploading this one early.

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Harry Manfredini - Theme from Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Pseudo Echo - His Eyes (Autumnal Park - 1984)
A Flock of Seagulls - Nightmares (Listen - 1983)
Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask) (Constrictor - 1986)

The Damned - Born to Kill (Damned Damned Damned - 1977)
Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear (Nothing to Fear - 1982)
The Ramones - Makin' Monsters for my Friends (Adios Amigos - 1995)
The Misfits - Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight (Walk Among Us - 1982)

The Cramps - Eyeball in My Martini (Look Mom No Head! - 1991)
Adam and the Ants - Killer in the Home (Kings of the Wild Frontier - 1980)
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses (Goodbye Horses - 1988)

John Carpenter - Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley Remix) (Lost Themes - 2015)
Mogwai - Re-Remurdered (Blanck Mass Remix) (Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. - 2014)
Golden Boy feat. Miss Kittin - Rippin Kittin (Or - 2002)

I love this interview (it's probably the best thing about Jason Takes Manhattan). I asked Kane Hodder last summer about it and he said before the interview, Arsenio was visibly spooked so Kane just had to mess with him. The sheer terror is especially evident near the end during the handshake. Watch and you'll see what I mean.

Waiting for Winter's End

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The Clash - Red Angel Dragnet (Combat Rock - 1982)
Soft Cell - Chips On My Shoulder (Non Stop Erotic Cabaret - 1981)
Adam Ant - Here Comes the Grump (Friend or Foe - 1982)

For Against - Stranded in Greenland (December - 1988)
Ultravox - Vienna (Vienna - 1980)
Duran Duran - Mediterranean (All You Need is Now - 2010)
The Smiths - Suffer Little Children (The Smiths - 1984)

Comsat Angels - After the Rain (Fiction - 1982)
Psychedelic Furs - Shine (Book of Days - 1989)
Talk Talk - Such A Shame (It's My Life - 1984)
Tears for Fears - Memories Fade (The Hurting - 1983)

Bryan Ferry feat. Todd Terje - Johnny and Mary (Avonmore - 2014)

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:

Dead and Re-Buried, the Final BtWoS

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Birthday Party - Deep in the Woods (Mutiny! - 1983)
Alien Sex Fiend - Dead and Buried (Dead and Buried 7" - 1984)
Tones on Tail - Movement of Fear (POP - 1984)
Christian Death - Figurative Theater (Only Theater of Pain - 1982)

Adam and the Ants - Killer in the Home (Kings of the Wild Frontier - 1988)
Oingo Boingo - Dead or Alive (Good for Your Soul - 1987)
Fat Boys - Are You Ready for Freddy? (Coming Back Hard - 1988)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Nightmare on My Street (He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper - 1988)

Misfits - Horror Business (Horror Business 7" - 1979)
The Cramps - I Ain't Nothing But A Gore Hound (Smell of Female - 1983)
Ramones - Chain Saw (Ramones - 1976)
TSOL - Dance With Me (Dance With Me - 1981)

The 13th Chime - Coffin Maker (Cuts of Love 7" - 1981)
The Cure - A Forest (Seventeen Seconds - 1980)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Night Shift (Juju - 1981)

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 08-17-2011 - Living in the 80s

80s Extravaganza, here. Stream or Download.

The Cure - The Kiss
Comsat Angels - We Were
Psychedelic Furs - Torch
The Field Mice - End of the Affair
Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Puppet
Book of Love - Still Angry
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - I Let Love In (live)
Joy Division - Means to an End (live)
Depeche Mode - It's Called A Heart
ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
Tubeway Army - Every Day I Die
Oingo Boingo - Skin
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rhapsody

Beyond the Wall of Sleep 09-05-09 Deathrock Episode

Smear on your Kohl folks, 'cause this one's got bat wings.
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Gothic Archies - City of the Damned
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (Peel Session)
Gang of Four - At Home He's A Tourist
The Soft Boys - Old Pervert
Bone Orchard - Kicking Up the Sawdust
Station Break - 45 Grave - Surf Bat
Sad Lovers and Giants - Alice (Isn't Playing)
The Dancing Did - Squashed Things
Joy Division - Komakino
The Damned - Fan Club
Misfits - Cough / Cool
45 Grave - Violent World
Station Break - Tones on Tail - Instrumental
Tones on Tail - Twist
Suicide - Johnny
Southern Death Cult - The Crypt
Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper
The Chameleons - Turn to the Vices
Station Break - This Mortal Coil - Fyt
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Jigsaw Feeling
The Cure - The Hanging Garden
Sisters of Mercy - Poison Door
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Lovesong
Ausgang - (You Got the) Hots for Christ
Station Break - Brian Eno - Energy Fools the Magician
UK Decay - For Madmen Only
Sex Gang Children - The Crack Up
Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T. (Trip to the Moon)
Station Break - The Cure - The Weedy Burton
Death in June - Heaven Street (mk II)
Attrition - To the Devil!
X-Mal Deutschland - Orient
Christian Death - Figurative Theatre
Burning Image - Burning Image, Burning
The Cramps - The Strangeness in Me (Runabouts cover)

Bonus Video Time!



Specimen - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang