okay vienna

is pretty fucking great, why did i not know this already? its really really obviously a huge influence on morrissey as a dude (as pertains the literary bent and the detached aloofness and elevation from the work that you see in a certain type of songwriter that i tend to enjoy, same vein as like the first belle and sebastian album or i guess jens lekman a little? i also just listened to those two things in the last month or two) and totally in line with like the entire 80s, like they [ultravox] invented a lot of them[the 80s] i think .

literally cant even try and trace all the influence coming off this thing, ahead and behind, the prospect itself is a lil exhausting. major kraftwerk shit, but with all guitars and such

also western promise makes me think a lot of rush in a funny way. not gonna listen to more rush to see if thats a legit reference, though

got nothin else to say about it, its just a good album and im gonna continue to listen to it

heres a picture of it:
the cover is also a decadal universal without even thinking about it, like i think maybe right as the 80s started people kind of just knew what to do with them and it got muddled by things actually happening, cause they had just had the 70s for 10 years and it was so bullshit and postmodern and acidic(in the sense of corrosive) there was a millenial-almost fresh starting impulse



further reading/consumption/you may also enjoy because it is also good and similar as an idea of constituting a backbone for postpunk-almost synth-type 80s content : the minimal wave tapes


also i listened to the first two harry nilsson albums today and they both ruled, i thought 'you cant do that', in which he spouts a ton of beatles lines all together, was funny as hell. gonna look into some more nilsson, bro has won me over wholly.

on a serious musical roll; listened to some of/ing to now scritti politti's cupid and psyche 85 and it reminded/s me a lot of like michael jackson and prince, was/is good/very compelling as what it is, but almost offputting in how sort of masterminded it seemed, like a little bit of the same deal as how perfect cocaine pop music fleetwood mac rumours is(though in scritti politti's case in light of the marxist foundations i tend to assume the craft of it is at least a little knowing--sort of a devo done straightfaced thing, a 'here is your musicproduct, it is the song you would like to spend money on so as to continue to circulate value around and function our mutual social structures i am emphasizing my shoulders because it indicates that i exist physically and take up an amount of lateral space' like the cover of xtc's go 2)
[this is one of my favorite album covers. it is also what i meant about how cool xtc was in its earlier form, before it got all 'getting hugs from my brain all the time']

--i make the rumours coke70spop reference because i saw the vh1 thing about that album and the bro who stevie nicks was married to or whatever--lindsey graham?--was really obviously on some total "fuuuuck this is exactly the way these instruments sound and are sounding and they fit together to make this song in this particualr way and shit goddamn this is the song i just made it done"