Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret and Simple Minds - New Gold Dream

Soft Cell's debut album Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret is a seductive lure into sado pop. Frustration hits you with some bouncing synth lines and is fairly upbeat like most of the album. Tainted Love is brilliant. a classic slice of synth pop. Seedy films is pretty groovy with some nice saxophone and female vocals. Youth is good too with some pounding bass and monotone voice. Sex Dwarf is hilarious. a sadomasochism track filled with hilarity. its also the fastest paced song on the album. Entertain Me is good. Chips On My Shoulder is good and very uptempo and melodic. with some pulsating synth lines. perfect synth pop. Bedsitter is good too with the same sort of synth pop lines and grooves. Secret Life is grooving with some descending synth riffs. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye is a ballad and is probably the weakest track on the album. as a whole NSEC is a trip through synth pop and its a memorable trip aswell. 8/10 

Simple Mind's album New Gold Dream is a passage of perfectly executed pop songs. Someone Somewhere in Summertime is a perfect pop song, with hooks and riffs on synth. the vocals are delayed.  Colours Fly and Catherine Wheel is very funky with some nice riffs and hooks. Promised you a MIracle is good too with some ecstatic bass lines and synth hooks. Big Sleep opens with a synth riff and the vocals and band comes in and its very funky.  Somebody up there likes you is an instrumental much like Bowie Low era. New Gold Dream opens with drum machine and synth and the vocals are brilliant. especially when the singer sings ''81-82-83-84'' its a punding relentless beat and its probably the best song on the album. Glittering Prize is the closest they come to a mainstream pop song and its propelled by the bass and drums with little synth hooks splatterred over it. Hunter and the Hunted is good with some nice strings added into the mix. King is white and in the crowd is the closest they come to their older stuff more post punk. this is simple mind's breakthrough album it serves to throw them into the forefront of what was 80's new pop. 8/10

The Stone Roses - s/t and Fuck Buttons - Taro Sport

The Stone Roses Dub s/t shines with a glorious passion nothing can surpass. the opening track I want to be adored sparkles with delight with superb musicianship showing in the first few minutes. soaring guitar lines, stoic bass and blistering drum beats. the second track She Bangs The Drums is pure Mancunian pop, Smithsy Jangle that hits you in the heart with a sweet chorus and nice guitar riff-age. Waterfall is brilliant with great riffs and good lyrics. Don't Stop is a remix of Waterfall and is equally passionate and melodic. Bye Bye Badman offers some new guitar textures and Ian Browns vocals are just stunning. Elizabeth my Dear is the shortest track on the album and Brown sings about Queen Elizabeth losing her thrown and ''Curtains for you'' Song For My Sugar Spun Sister is brilliant and equally passionate as anything on here. Made Of Stone is probably the best track on here with soaring guitar lines and lyrics like ''Sometimes I fantasize/ when the streets are cold and lonely/ and the cars they burn below me'' brilliant stuff. Shoot You down offers a different drum beat and bass line with chiming guitars and deeper vocals. This is the One is superb with chiming guitars and deep bass lines. I am The Resurrection is an 8 minute masterpiece with bridge section and outro, and instrumental breakdown sections. as a whole The Stone Roses debut is a an amalgamation of passionate vocals and lyrics with chiming proggy guitar deep bass lines and funky drumbeats. 10/10  

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Fuck Button's Lp Taro Sport is a brilliant exploration in techno and electronica noise music. first track Surf Solar is a breeze of beats and electronics and it really creeps up on you with its length and also subtle sounds that really get under your skin. Rough Steez is ultimately brilliant and surging in its wake. with the drums coming in its got this pulse along with it. The Lisbon Maru is a shuffle in electronic form as the synth just pierces your Brain and fragments in in two. Olympians is easily the best track on here and is just unrelenting. Phantom Lim is good, Space Mountain and Flight of the Feathers are all good but it definitely decreases in style and substance as the Lp progresses. the first four tracks you could listen to them for years they are perfect. Its unrelenting this album, the size of each track spanning at nearly ten minutes each is a good thing I think because they really draw your attention in and its surging in its wake. if this doesn't get you dancing nothing will. some of the beats on here are just layered jams that pulsate, and the synth is noise y and unforgiving. 9/10   

Lil'B - Hugh Hefner (Instrumental track)

this is a dope ass track.

Blur - 13 and David Bowie - Low

Blur's enigmatic release 13, is trip though American Lo Fi Indie rock and British lo fi. Opening tack Tender is brilliant and a real stomper of a song, ruthless choirs and indie rock guitar make their mark here. Bugman is good. the second track. Coffee and Tv is great as they show their melodic song craft. swamp song is good too as they experiment with different guitar textures, metallic cutting guitar sounds. 1992 is good too a little bit down tempo to what has gone previously in the album. B.L.U.R.E.M.I is great and very pavement esque. Battle is born with keys and synthesizer to start with and when the drums come it turns into pure art rock. Mellow Song is as you guessed it, very down tempo and mellow. Trailerpark is good too with keys and drums opening it up with. Caramel is good too with different guitar textures. it really is a masterpiece by their guitarist Graham Coxon. Trimm Trabb is good and very experimental. No Distance Left To Run is superb and one of the best tracks on the album. Optigan is very experimental with chiming key noises. as a whole 13, is probably their most experimental album to date, and is surely one of the best records to come out of Britain in the last 20 years. 9.5/10 

Opener Speed of love buzzes along to a guitar riff with plenty of synthesizers noises, and it sounds like Roxy Music. More guitar is evident on Breaking Glass and it surges along to a funky beat. with nice synth noises. What in the World is very experimental as the synthesizers bounces of the beat like a ping pong ball. Sound and Vision is probably the biggest 'hit' on the album and is certainly the most pop this album is going to get. Always Crashing the Same Scene is good and gradually builds up into a momentous beat of music. Be My Wife is close to glam with piano and guitars lyrics likes 'Sometimes You get so lonely, sometimes you get nowhere/ I've lived all over the world/ I've lived everywhere''. A new career in a new town is brilliant probably the best piece of music on this album, its very melodic for an instrumental, with even harmonica making an entrance. Warszawa is eery and a doom laden piece with barely what you call lyrics, a mdae up language of gibberish. the finest instrumental track he has ever created by far. art decade is good with some nice synth riffs. Weeping wall has some sort of chime and when the synth comes in its backs against the wall bold instrumental music. This by far Bowie's piece of work and it works on so many levels  it has everything experimental pop, post punk you might call it. its post disco, post glam and it works. 10/10 

New Purchases: Savages - Silence Yourself and Deerhunter - Monomania on Vinyl

I picked up these two beauties today, $35 each. pretty good deal they are beautiful and will take pride of place in my record collection

Coolio - I'll See You When You Get There

Smooth ass track from a swag rapper. I recently saw Coolio perform at the Falls  Festival in Marion Bay Tasmania for New Years last year and this song was fantastic. He had live saxophone on this track and it sounded brilliant as the sun was going down and the fuel of youth was being consumed. a dope track.

Memory Tapes - Seek Magic and Bronski Beat - The Age Of Consent.

Memory Tapes Seek Magic is a polished piece of work. opener Simming Field starts with a dog barking until a slither of guitar comes in and drums foolow, and we hear the lyrics washed in sweet reverb. Bicycle is pretty funky and upbeat. Green Knight is good. Pink Stones is excellent Stop Talking is up tempo and cutting with this synth line that keeps coming back at you. Graphics is funky and uptempo. Plain Material is good and slow. Run out is good. Treeship the closing track is brilliant , nice and long. the whole thing works because the feel varies from track to track its full album of good music, and the music and sounds are funky, disco even, inspired, chillwave, synth pop songs, a bit like if ducktails took pills. it even has nice guitar in the mix, it blurs the line between chillwave and synth pop so well its allmost mysterious. 8/10

The Age of Consent by Bronski beat is filled with synth pop gems. opener Why? is one of them. superb little number. Ain't necessary so is good and down beat. Screaming is good, another downbeat number. No More War is good and downbeat. Love and Money is slightly more upbeat than the rest. Smalltown Boy is amazing. Heatwave is good. Junk is uptempo with cutting synth lines. Need a Man Blues is good. the whole band is openly homosexual and in their lyrics appeal to gay issues and Need a man blues is one of those songs that. theres all passion here in these tracks. I feel Love/Johnny Remember me is brilliant. any fan of Donna Summer or Giorgio Moroder will like what Bronski Beat have done with this track. Smalltown boy ''12 version is amazing, the best track on this album by far. 8/10