Fade to Grey: The Best of Visage Fade to Grey Mind of a Toy Visage We Move Tar In the year 2525 The Anvil Night Train Pleasure Boys The Damned don’t Cry Love Glove Fade to Grey mix

I was heavily influenced by the new romantic music movement of the late 70s and early 80s, bands like adam and the ants, abc, duran duran, omd and visage all were big influences on me when I was young. Lately I cannot get enough of it. Going back and listening to some of these old records has really made me happy. New music just lacks the sound and the magic these old records have.

First was the punk movement, then once punk ran its course, the new romantic new wave movement came. From this scene, the whole entire look and feel of the goth and death rock movements was forged, and a lot of people really don’t know the history of the late 70s and early 80s. Its sad.

Visage blows me away. Still, I knew this band when I was really young, saw the videos on my pbs tv station here, fm tv, and mtv in 80s. Forgot all about it, and was more into bands like duran duran for a while. Now, after a fan posted a video on my forum, it brought back a ton of memories and I went out and bought this greatest hits off amazon mp3. I have been listening to this non stop ever since. I am so in love with this right now.

New wave music, new romantic. POP but inventive, weird, strange and interesting. Analog and warm. Steve Strange is a great vocalist, severely underrated. I think this band is shunned in the usa and had more success in europe. Steve Strange is doing music again and playing shows last i checked, with visage mk ii.

My favorite song on this LP is “The Anvil” It is so old school industrial sounding. Love the metal percussion and the menacing bass line and strange synth leads. My second Favorite is Mind of a Toy, I love the lyrics, and how the song builds, reminds me of old pink dots, I love when the chorus goes up and a voice at a hight octave doubles the chorus. So cool. I also love their cover of “In the year 2525″ the visage version is by far the best, the spooky sound of it, the synth strings and vocoder are amazing. Cannot forget Fade To Grey, and the music was written by Gary Numan’s band and Visage, the bouncy main riff reminds me of Metal from Gary Numan, so cool.

I only skip love glove, and sometimes night train I love Damned don’t cry, the stabby vocoder rhythm thing and high strings and choir sounds are so good in that song. I really like We move as well, its a fun pop song that reminds me of oingo boingo. Visage is it’s own thing, very unique, and i can tell a lot of musicians in the ebm, future pop, and electro clash have stolen riffs and sounds from this act shamelessly. Still, none of the new stuff sounds this good.

If you like good electro pop, 80s, and retro stuff, electro clash, and ebm, you should like this, it has a lot of those elements embedded in it while having it’s own strange pop sound.  I give this lp a 10 out of 10. Click here to buy Fade to grey: The best of Visage on mp3.