Some Bizzare Album

Infobox Album |
Name = Some Bizzare Album
Type = compilation
Artist = "Some Bizzare Artists"


Released = 1981
Recorded =
Genre = Alternative rock
Length =
Label = Some Bizzare
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album =
This album = Some Bizzare Album
(1981)
Next album = If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul
(1985)

"Some Bizzare Album", Some Bizzare's first compilation album, was released by Some Bizzare in 1981 (see 1981 in music).

Information

In 1981 Some Bizzare launches with the compilation the 'Some Bizzare Album' of then unsigned new wave groups including future alternative icons Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The The and Blancmange. The compilation saw the first ever released recording of Depeche Mode. [Redefining the Prologue booklet, 2006] The Some Bizzare Album was Stevo Pearce’s vision. He believed in the music that was included on the album as opposed to the fashion or style aspects. [Page 100, Marc Almond, Tainted Life, Sidgwick & Jackson] Other artists that Stevo wanted to include on the album included The Normal, Cabaret Voltaire, and Throbbing Gristle [Page 20, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode Biography] The Some Bizzare Album was re-released on CD format in 1992 for a limited time. It is due for re-release again in 2008 with bonus extra tracks. [Plastic Head/Some Bizzare Records]

oft Cell - The Girl with the Patent Leather Face

After meeting with Stevo Pearce, Soft Cell decided to include one of their tracks on the new 'Some Bizzare Album'. They recorded "The Girl with the Patent Leather Face" at a studio owned by John Darling. [Page 100, Marc Almond, Tainted Life, Sidgwick & Jackson] Almond describes the song as a “tinny-sounding, trashy synthesizer song that owed much to “Warm Leatherette”, a track by The Normal. The Normal was really Mute Records boss Daniel Miller. [Page 100, Marc Almond, Tainted Life, Sidgwick & Jackson] The song was partly inspired by the J. G. Ballard book Crash. This book also inspired other artists including John Foxx, Throbbing Gristle and Gary Numan. [Page 100, Marc Almond, Tainted Life, Sidgwick & Jackson] The track cost twenty pounds to make and was almost erased by accident at one point, half the song went missing but nobody noticed. [Page 100, Marc Almond, Tainted Life, Sidgwick & Jackson]

Depeche Mode - Photographic (Some Bizzare Version)

Depeche Mode were cautious when first approached by Stevo, they were indecisive about being included on a ‘Futurist’ compilation album. They first decided to take their demo tape to various other record companies, only to be rejected by everyone. [Page 14, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode Biography] After a bad first meeting with Daniel Miller of Mute Records (Miller was in a bad mood due to a problem with some Fad Gadget artwork) [Page 18, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode Biography] the door was left open for Stevo to include Depeche Mode on his Some Bizzare Album. [Page 18, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode Biography] During an evening at the Bridgehouse, in Canning Town, Stevo chatted with Depeche Mode about his new label and compilation album. At the time, the band had been supporting Fad Gadget. It was decided that Depeche Mode would record a track for the Some Bizzare Album. Stevo had then recommended that the band work with Daniel Miller at Mute Records [Page 20, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode Biography] In 1980 Depeche Mode went into an east London recording studio and recorded the track ‘Photographic’. Daniel Miller wanted to put a good track on the compilation album, but not their best track. Miller acted as informal producer on the recording of the Some Bizzare version of the ‘Photographic’ track. [Page 20, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode Biography] The band set up their equipment in the studio and ran through some of their tracks live in the studio. ‘Photographic’ was recorded and mixed in one day. [Page 21, Steve Malins, Depeche Mode Biography]

Track listing

#Blancmange - Sad Day
#Soft Cell - The Girl with the Patent Leather Face
#Neu Electrikk - Lust of Berlin
#Naked Lunch - La Femme
#The Fast Set - King of the Rumbling Spires
#The Loved One - Observations
#Illustration - Tidal Flow
#Depeche Mode - Photographic
#The The - (Untitled)
#B-Movie - Moles
#Jell - I Dare Say it Will Hurt a Little
#Blah Blah Blah - Central Park

Personnel

*Stevo Pearce – Compiler
*Steve Bush - Designer

References

External links

* [http://www.somebizzare.com Some Bizzare Records]
* [http://www.somebizzare.co.uk Some Bizzare Records Shop Online]
* [http://www.myspace.com/somebizarrelabel Some Bizzare Official MySpace Page]
* [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/julia.nagle/archive/1979.html Page about Illustration and the track 'Tidal Flow']