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Various Artists - Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983 '2024

Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983
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Album name Heaven Sent: The Rise Of New Pop 1979-1983
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Date 2024
GenreNew Wave,Pop,Rock
Play time 53 min
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 342 mb
PriceDownload $2.95
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A term forever associated with tastemaker NME scribe turned Svengali Paul
Morley, ‘New Pop’ came to describe any forward-thinking British
music of the early 1980s which wasn’t ‘rockist’ (macho men
with guitars, etc.) or overtly punky and anti-establishment in outlook. New Pop
was an aspiration. Punk had shaken up the UK music industry – and more
importantly, had inspired a generation of art students, budding musicians and
others with a sense of what was possible. By the end of 1979, while many artists
continued to forge a futuristic vision for guitar-based rock music, others saw
the potential of reinventing Pop. But this was not chintzy, tacky pop of the
kind that had survived punk’s great reset. Instead, credible,
progressively minded artists sought to “bring back life to the radio, to
make the single count” as Morley himself put it.

Taking its cue from 1979’s big three – M, Flying Lizards and The
Buggles – ‘Heaven Sent’ explores five seismic years that saw
aspiration and success replace anti-success, DIY culture for many. Covering a
broad musical palette packed, image conscious, highly curated and too sharp for
anybody over twenty-five to understand, this was in many ways as much an
overhaul of pop music as punk had been of the tired rock scene. Subtler and less
anarchic certainly, but always fresh and inventive.

Conceived and curated by the team behind many of our most critically acclaimed
post punk, pop and electronica compilations, ‘Heaven Sent’ is a
time capsule period piece, framing perfectly that period between the post-punk
aftershock and the mid-80s dominance of Thatcherite High Street pop. A must for
collectors and musical historians alike.



1.01 - Anthony More - World Service (Single Version) (3:50) 
1.02 - Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (Indipop Version) (3:44) 
1.03 - Hazel O'Connor - Hanging Around (4:13) 
1.04 - Toyah - Bird In Flight (2020 Remaster) (4:04) 
1.05 - Mari Wilson - Beat The Beat (3:47) 
1.06 - TV21 - All Join Hands (3:55) 
1.07 - Blue Rondo A La Turk - Klactoveesedstein (3:49) 
1.08 - Weekend - Past Meets Present (3:40) 
1.09 - Dead Or Alive - The Stranger (4:23) 
1.10 - Tracie - The House That Jack Built (3:24) 
1.11 - China Crisis - African And White (3:49) 
1.12 - Eyeless In Gaza - New Risen (2:50) 
1.13 - Swallow Tongue - Animation (4:18) 
1.14 - Thomas Leer - Letter from America (4:03)

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