It's worth noting the two 12" records here have an extra song the 7"s omit. Both End of a Dream, and Moscow Motion are great Positive Noise tracks. Ditto for Love Like Property, and Give Me Passion. All are similar in style to Heart of Darkness. Both Ghosts, and ...And Yet Again were on the LP, the latter being the only early Positive Noise song I don't have much love for. Charm finds them trying on some more danceable sounds, with a horn section. Pretty cool, but it's not really my thing. I also included the 7" edited version of Charm, and Give Me Passion from the 7", because it's a slightly better rip.
There's also two live tracks on the Cabaret Futura comp I put up here. Mutant Sounds has the Second City Statik comp also with two songs. So that's the entirety of the Ross Middleton era Positive Noise recorded works. After which the band changed it's sound quite a lot. Ross would go on the form the synthpop duo of Leisure Process, with occasional Positive Noise contributor Gary Barnacle.
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Many thanks for these!
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ReplyDeleteFANTASTIC! The original incarnation of this group, with Ross Middleton at the helm, was one of the absolute greatest of the post-punk bands. Their one album under his tutelage (Heart of Darkness) has been criminally neglected over the years. I'm almost certain it has never been released on CD. What an incredible shame! I have a near mint copy on vinyl, but as I no longer own the equipment to play records, it sits in my collection on a shelf, like a cruel joke, mocking me. May the powers that be one day see the error of their ways and release this near-masterpiece from the original master tapes (if they still exist) onto CD
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