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On Fridays this year, we ask...
( What's in the Box? )
Today in The Box, we have:
London Boys - Twelve Commandments of Dance
Right, let's get the embarassing confession over with: this was the first 'pop' album I ever bought. On tape of course, and you could see the rest of my folk, classical and G&S tapes wincing as they tried to inch away along the shelf.
I remember hearing the single Requiem on the radio and being amazed by it. I have to say that these days is sounds rather more like fairly standard Europop with a bit of Gregorian chant tacked on the front. But at the time, it and London Nights bowled me over and led to this dramatic move into purchasing of popular music[*].
They went on to release practically every track on the album as a single[**], culminating in the lyrically-suspect My Love. ("I'm gonna give my love to you, no matter what you say or do"... because, like, that's romantic.)
According to Wikipedia, the group split up, but then reformed in 1995 and "made a crossover album called Hallelujah Hits which incorporated Eurodance arrangements into traditional religious compositions". Very shortly afterwards both members were killed in an Alpine car accident. I leave it to you to decide whether that was coincidence or Divine retribution.
This album was recently retrieved from my parents house, after languishing there for the best part of a decade. I remember driving home from work, and laughing out loud at it while queueing through Sonning. It's not epic, it's not a very credible thing to have to cite as a first album, but it's a good laugh and it's been allowed to stay in the car.
London Boys - Chinese Radio [link expired]
[Poll #1196262]
[*] Which means the London Boys are also directly responsible for my current CD storage issues.
[**] According to Wikipedia, that isn't even slightly true, but it felt like that at the time.
( What's in the Box? )
Today in The Box, we have:
London Boys - Twelve Commandments of Dance
Right, let's get the embarassing confession over with: this was the first 'pop' album I ever bought. On tape of course, and you could see the rest of my folk, classical and G&S tapes wincing as they tried to inch away along the shelf.
I remember hearing the single Requiem on the radio and being amazed by it. I have to say that these days is sounds rather more like fairly standard Europop with a bit of Gregorian chant tacked on the front. But at the time, it and London Nights bowled me over and led to this dramatic move into purchasing of popular music[*].
They went on to release practically every track on the album as a single[**], culminating in the lyrically-suspect My Love. ("I'm gonna give my love to you, no matter what you say or do"... because, like, that's romantic.)
According to Wikipedia, the group split up, but then reformed in 1995 and "made a crossover album called Hallelujah Hits which incorporated Eurodance arrangements into traditional religious compositions". Very shortly afterwards both members were killed in an Alpine car accident. I leave it to you to decide whether that was coincidence or Divine retribution.
This album was recently retrieved from my parents house, after languishing there for the best part of a decade. I remember driving home from work, and laughing out loud at it while queueing through Sonning. It's not epic, it's not a very credible thing to have to cite as a first album, but it's a good laugh and it's been allowed to stay in the car.
London Boys - Chinese Radio [link expired]
[Poll #1196262]
[*] Which means the London Boys are also directly responsible for my current CD storage issues.
[**] According to Wikipedia, that isn't even slightly true, but it felt like that at the time.
