Andy Bell Featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother Remixed

I just posted about Andy Bell, Dot Allison, and Michael Rother covering The Passions on the upcoming new Andy Bell solo record, and the artist has also released a 12" single version of the song featuring extended remixes by Justin Robertson and GLOK.  Check out "I'm in Love...(Justin Robertson's Deadstock 33s Remix)" below (i might actually like it better than the album version) and download the whole thing here from Sonic Cathedral (again, the vinyl is already sold out).

Andy Bell Featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother

Ride's Andy Bell is prepping his new solo album, "Pinball Wanderer," for release next month, and the first single is a whopper.  Getting a vocal assist from the lovely Dot Allison and a guitar assist from Michael Rother of legendary krautrock band Neu!, the artist covers The Passions' post punk classic "I'm in Love with a German Film Star."  The new version, shortened to just "I'm in Love..." plays like a daydream.  It's wonderful.  Listen below and pre-order the album here from Sonic Cathedral.

(As is wont to happen with most Sonic Cathedral releases, the vinyl is already sold out.)

Daily Jam - I'm in Love with a German Film Star

Today, we're moving in a soft post punk new wave kind of direction, so here's The Passions' 1981 single, "I'm in Love with a German Film Star," our Daily Jam.

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.