The album was originally recorded in 1979 with sessions taking place for an intended follow up album by Bill’s recently formed group Red Noise. However, EMI Records, Bill’s then record label, declined to release the recordings and the material remained unreleased. Four recordings appeared as the ‘Do You Dream in Colour’ EP on his Cocteau label in 1980. The following year Bill licensed the original stereo mixes of the album to Mercury Records who issued the album in the Spring of 1981. A ground-breaking record, Quit Dreaming and Get On the Beam reached a peak of number seven on the UK charts and is to date Bill’s most commercially successful album.
This limited and expanded edition boxed set features a newly remastered version of…
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From 2007 until 2024, a mystery worthy of Columbo confounded online music lovers on Reddit, Discord, and elsewhere.
…The record has been lovingly remastered and cut from the original tapes by John Baldwin at Infrasonic Sound in Nashville, TN.
…Super Deluxe Edition features the remastered album alongside 11 rarities, including four previously unreleased alternate versions of album tracks. The set also includes a live recording of the band’s August 1978 show at New York’s Entermedia Theatre.
If you’ve ever wanted to search beyond “Just Got Lucky,” the worldwide hit from British New Wave group 
The Bongos’ derived from a vibrant New York City area music and art scene that had given rise to bands like Television, Talking Heads, and Blondie. Hailing from Hoboken, New Jersey and led by guitarist, singer, songwriter Richard Barone, the band played over 300 shows in 1985, and on Memorial Day weekend of that year played the succulent, sun stroked New Jersey shoreline and recorded a live album for RCA records.
After the explosion of punk rock in the U.K., the underground split off in many directions including synth pop, dance punk, post-punk, new romantic, and many others. Most groups, no matter the style they played, were looking to experiment or make a statement, often political, and generally treated the pop charts like a curse to be avoided. Around the time that the 1970s turned to the ’80s, there were a number of groups and journalists who decided the time was ripe to remake pop music, not ignore it, and to storm the charts, not disdain them. Chief among the writers was Paul Morley in the NME and his thoughts helped direct many bands to set aside the gray abrasiveness of their music in favor of something shiny and technicolor that wasn’t built for student bedsits, but for…
Released by Edsel, Toyah’s 1987 studio album 
After Buzzcocks disbanded in 1981, frontman Pete Shelley teamed up with Martin Rushent, embracing the producer’s newly acquired synths and drum machines to rework his tracks, crafting a new blueprint for electronic pop music in the process. A production blueprint that would soon achieve massive mainstream success with another Rushent production; Dare by the Human League.
The hilarious thing to do in schoolyards in Britain when ‘Homosapien’ came out in 1982 was to sing its title line as “you’re homosexual too”. Yet former Buzzcock Pete Shelley was way ahead of the mockers and rockers on this synth pop venture, ‘Homosapien’ being far queerer than playground masculinity patrollers – or the banning BBC – could imagine. It’s not just the lyric’s double entendre, “homo superior, in my interior” but the song’s expansion from the personal to the political: “I just hope and pray that the day of our love is at hand”. A love song hence becomes a demand for liberation, insisting that “homosapien” is the only label that matters: “I don’t want to classify you like an animal in the zoo”. But there was something equally queer about the sound…
Featuring rare tracks of auto-didactic progressive pop music, proto-techno punk, shoot-for-the-stars-land-in-the-gutter chart flops and heralded, underground synth classics, School Daze paints a picture of beautiful failure. Complete with extensive sleeve notes written by King and never before seen imagery, all 24 tracks were remastered by RPM in-house engineer Simon Murphy, many from vinyl copies due to lost master tapes.