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ARTIST
GERRY & THE HOLOGRAMS
TITLE
Gerry & The Holograms
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CACHE CACHE
CATALOG #
CACHE 018LP
CACHE 018LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
4/7/2017
Well-documented as one of
Frank Zappa
's favorite ever groups and instantly recognizable as the blueprint of '80s Mancunian electro pop, the inflated alter-egos of
Gerry & The Holograms
(and their unrivaled brand of conceptual sarcastic synth pop) successfully remodeled, ridiculed, and redefined plugged-in punk before hitting the self-destruct button and burying the evidence under a pile of hand-mutilated microgrooves for over 35 wet summers. Having risen from the electronic embers of Manchester's first genuine psychedelic band, via Vertigo commissioned prog and experimental theater, then refined through the musical mind behind the most inspired vinyl moments of
Martin Hannett
,
John Cooper Clarke
, and
Jilted John
- the discography of the GATH anti-band remains unrivaled as the most idiosyncratic and enigmatic pivotal post-punk artifact from the first electronic entrenchment of pop. The first-and-only listenable two track record by this masked art-rock studio duo, entitled
Meet The Dissidents
, originally appeared in record racks in 1979, selling-out instantly only to be sequel-ized by a totally unplayable situationist-inspired follow-up which was glued into its own sleeve destroying the grooves in the process (rivalling that of
Peter Saville
and
Durutti Column
's
Debord
ist sandpaper re-hash by at least three years). With a life-span shorter than the hours on their studio bill, the band would find bedfellows amongst other incognito groups like
Naffi Sandwich
,
The Mothmen
, and
Blah Blah Blah
within the Absurd Records stable - a daring Mancunian imprint that sat awkwardly between older and younger half-sister labels Rabid and Relentless. With an 11 release library of mostly non-returning faceless atonal electronic punk/DIY industrial bands, Absurd would spearhead and pre-empt the subsequent decades of Mancunian independent record labels that followed in the footsteps of the more commercially successful Factory Records. Despite just one official title to their name however, the true identity behind Gerry And The Holograms would unify those sister-labels and collectively play an important supporting role in Manchester's independent music history with a story which goes back as far as most rain soaked memories can attempt to forget. On Thursday July 2, 2015, The Guardian Newspaper published an article with the snappy title "The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle - 10 Classic Stolen Pop Songs From Saint Louis Blues To Blue Monday" in which journalist
Clinton Heylin
made the claim that "If 'Blue Monday' had a starting point, it was Gerry and the Holograms" illustrating the vivid similarities between the two tracks.
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