Found Vinyl: The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China

The late 70's and early 80's were just rife with musical inventiveness and reinvention.  Punk and hip-hop and post-punk and new wave and probably dozens of other shapes and styles of music were just pouring out of the ether.  The post-punk scene on its own spewed forth a number of variations and sub-genres, one being a kind of sing-songy, dreamy psych rock thing that broke into the "mainstream" with acts like The Sundays and so on.  But first, there was The Passions, a short-lived group (78-83) out of the UK that blended elements of new wave and punk to pretty and melodic degree.  1981's "Thirty Thousand Feet Over China" captures the band's sound at its peak.  Take a listen to "Someone Special" below.



And here's "The Square."



And here's one more called "Small Stones."  The band sounds almost like a precursor to groups like The Bangles or other bands that came out of LA's 80's psych revival scene.