Button badge goodness: Public Image Ltd [Part 1]

February 14th, 2020

Who could tire of the humble button badge? A staple adornment of the era, these badges in Part 1 all hail from 1980/81, when I first took to the charms of Public Image Ltd. ‘Flowers of Romance’ the focus of the first few, pretty sure these are likely to be ‘Better Badges’ designs, though couldn’t say for sure – anyone?

Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance button badge from 1981 - design 1

^ Public Image Ltd – Flowers of Romance button badge from 1981 – design 1

Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance button badge from 1981 - design 2

^ Public Image Ltd – Flowers of Romance button badge from 1981 – design 2

Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance button badge from 1981 - design 3

^ Public Image Ltd – Flowers of Romance button badge from 1981 – design 3

Public Image Ltd - Paris au Printemps button badge from 1980/81

^ Public Image Ltd – Paris au Printemps button badge from 1980/81

Public Image Ltd - Death Disco button badge, bought 1981

^ Public Image Ltd – Death Disco button badge, bought 1981

Public Image Ltd - PiL button badge, bought 1981

^ Public Image Ltd – PiL button badge, bought 1981

Public Image Ltd - PiL button badge

^ Public Image Ltd – PiL button badge

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He Said – ‘Could You?’ versions

January 28th, 2020

Some while back I posted about the wonderful (though of its time) He Said album, ‘Take Care’. The supporting single release for the album was the uneasy ‘Could You?’. Who knows for sure what the ‘text’ by Graham Lewis really alludes to, but for me it has always leaned towards some cryptic confession of murder/mercy killing. Despite the opaque nature of the lyric, it looks like there were high hopes for its commercial success as a single and it provides rich pickings for version craziness to be uncovered, with no less than six mix variants across the ‘Could You?’/’Could You (Too)’ main variants.

He Said - Could You? - UK 12 inch single front sleeve design.

^ He Said – Could You? – UK 12 inch single front sleeve design.

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Siouxsie and the Banshees – ‘Cities In Dust’ (Bob Rock Remix) US 7” (Wonderland/Geffen, 7-28813, 1986)

January 14th, 2020

This little curio has passed me by until recent times I must admit, since to my knowledge this particular remix has never been re-issued on CD format at all. For its release in the United States, Geffen Records had a remix of ‘Cities In Dust’ made and it found its way on to this 7” single as well as a regular edition 12” EP edition and promo-only 12” single. Given that the sleeve and label credits quite clearly namecheck the ‘Tinderbox’ LP, I would wager that this single release is from 1986 rather than the UK’s original late 1985 debut – but as I say, this particular variation passed me by altogether, so anyone else who knows for sure is more than welcome to comment.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - ‘Cities In Dust’ (Bob Rock Remix) US 7” - front sleeve design

^ Siouxsie and the Banshees – ‘Cities In Dust’ (Bob Rock Remix) US 7” – front sleeve design

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Side by side: New Order – ‘Ceremony’ 2019 12” reissues and 1981 originals

December 28th, 2019

Rounding off 2019, time to look back to earlier in the year and also 1981, with New Order’s ‘Ceremony’ re-issues and originals (at least the UK 12” ones anyway).

New Order - Ceremony - 2019 UK 12 inch version 1 re-issue front sleeve design.

^ New Order – Ceremony – 2019 UK 12 inch version 1 re-issue front sleeve design.

Accompanying the super deluxe box set re-issue of the ‘Movement’ album, the bands first four 12” single releases were re-pressed and issued afresh in March 2019 to support it. Let’s not get into the whole debate on whether this was a rather odd way of going about things, given that the super deluxe box set did not include any of the recordings from these 12” singles… Ho hum. And when I say the first four… well, two of these are versions of the one song, ‘Ceremony’, of course. Read the rest of this entry »

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Button badge goodness: More Siouxsie and the Banshees

December 14th, 2019

Once again, 8 years on from the last such helping, further new wave button badge goodness to tide over the festive season… this time around, in true ghosts of Christmas past fashion, some more vintage goodies from Siouxsie and the Banshees’ imperial period of 1981-82. And as before, these are from back in the day, not later reprints.

Siouxsie and the Banshees 'A Kiss In The Dreamhouse' era badge

^ Siouxsie and the Banshees ‘A Kiss In The Dreamhouse’ era badge

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