This is a delightfully odd sampler from the delightfully odd mid-80s record label Zang Tumb Tuum. Yes, they of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. So you’d expect to find Relax here, right? Nope, we get a non-album track called Disneyland, and then a Bruce Springsteen cover.
We have a couple of “spoken word” interludes, which is Paul Morley telling jokes, like why the first Art of Noise album has a spanner on the cover: “Because a spanner is intrinsically more interesting than the lead singer of Tears for Fears.” And that’s not even the punchline.
It’s also got Anne Pigalle, Andrew Poppy, Propaganda and, er, Instinct, and it just flows so well… I’ve listened to probably a hundred times over the years.
Here’s the entire thing, or broken into separate tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8FGuAvtHFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL2xiyUKeMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqRo_dGFKvg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_L5zR1kJw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQs7Rg9K1JI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZM07is8vYM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZtEe-cG1QM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0zG4dVQtzo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy8bLIgy4gI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF65sgx0uV0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5lMRzPLZw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rYlZN9vTW8
This blog post is part of the Record Label Samplers series.