Remember hearing this for the first time on my family's brand new Sony stereo system that our father bought us in 1982. Have to think my big brother for introducing me and my sister to Heaven 17. Still sounds amazing!
I owned all 3 albums mentioned. I just finished listening to Cupid and psyche before putting this on. Lexicon of love definitely is in the rotation.. Mantrap was a masterpiece
One of the most memorable albums of my undergraduate years. One of my girlfriends loved it, too. The cassette player rewound to the beginning over and over.
Just found this down one of the many rabbit holes you tube offers. Loved these guys in the 80's. Memories of the arcades on Felixstowe seafront and the crappy jukeboxes. Aged very well.
Omg so true it's depressing, it was yesterday when I was 15 '16 in HS when this came out and now it's 40 yrs later and I am 56 so bummed out about were the time went. Where did it go. God bless
Tantastic album, together with the new gold dream best albums of that time , for me ad least. OMG they where good, they still good 😀. Great voice great ritmic , great band !!!!!!!
Can you imagine both Phil Oakey and him standing side by side today. They’d pass up as brothers. Lol! These were the same guys that were originally members of The Human League before they went their separate ways to form Heaven 17.
Remember trying to get this album back in the 80's, no one had it. Finally found it at Colony Records in Times Square, hard to get imports. Kick ass bass going on here, band sounds really good.
Really? In New York? I was in Southern California and every independent record store had this (and many other) cassettes/albums from the UK thanks to the KROQ influence. The Face magazine kept us in the know but the order was London, New York and the the rest of us (L.A. included).
To correct an earlier comment, although Angie Brown has worked with Heaven 17, the exceptional blonde singer at this performance is Billie Godfrey, who's been a member of the band since the mid 90s.
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This was and IS a badass base line!! As much as I love this song, and as tight as it is...that bass line drives it! Thanks for sharing! So much for electronic music being push button no effort junk. TIGHT band!!
Billie Godfrey is sensational. The rest of the band aint bad either. That bass and drum combo is spotless, super funky, super clean, super groovy. Amazing performance.
I have the album, so great to see them perform it live. 'Witchita Lineman' really surprised me. It's a beautiful song by Glen Campbell, and they did a wonderful rendition of it...that, and 'Boots' showed they're not afraid to step outside of their 'box' and try different things. I liked the fact that they gave the bass player the role of 'lead guitar' as it worked well and he was fantastic, as were the others. Wished I could have seen them live.
@@darrenlee1938 thank you for knowing about John Wilson. He played both guitar and bass on this album and has never really received the recognition he deserved.
I would've liked to have seen John Wilson the wicked bass slap master here but, Jules Crampton keeps the spirit true, great stuff! fantastic big respect many thanks
Brilliant. The only problem is trying to match 80's production live. Difficult. And nobody can get close enough to Carol Kenyon on Temptation. Never head anyone match that vocal.
Wow, I just saw this and OMG -where have you guys been?! Love this performance..please come to NY!!!! Glenn's vocals have always give so much presence to the group!! He's amazing as ever (I get chills!)
What a terrific performance from a band I grew up with in my youth, so pleasing to see all well, and performing such a masterclass act of this great album :) Glen has lost his hair, like me, lol!, but all good :D
Hy! My name is Cassiano, from Brazil, i'm very very fan of Heaven 17, does anyone here have the full dvd of this show and could post in full dvd with the original menus in rutracker or some other torrent? because the original is out of print already and would love to have this item. a hug to all |
Brilliant maximum rating.. But hey, they could have used that sax on the Penthouse & Pavement song... Nevertheless very very close to all the originals!!
Don't they look tall!? Don't they look thin? Ah. That's because this video's aspect ratio has been squashed from the correct 16:9 to an unwatchable 4:3. What a shame.
