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01. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Monochrome Set (I Presume)
02. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Lighter Side Of Dating
03. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Expresso
04. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Puerto Rican Fence Climber
05. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Tomorrow Will Be Too Long
06. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Martians Go Home
07. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Love Goes Down The Drain
08. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Ici Les Enfants
09. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Etcetera Stroll
10. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Goodbye Joe
11. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Strange Boutique
01. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Love Zombies
02. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Adeste Fideles
03. MONOCHROME SET, THE - 405 Lines
04. MONOCHROME SET, THE - B-I-D Spells Bid
05. MONOCHROME SET, THE - R.S.V.P.
06. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Apocalypso
07. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Karma Suture
08. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Man With The Black Moustache
09. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Weird, Wild And Wonderful World Of Tony Potts
10. MONOCHROME SET, THE - "In Love, Cancer?"
01. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Jet Set Junta
02. MONOCHROME SET, THE - I'll Scry Instead
03. MONOCHROME SET, THE - On The 13th Day
04. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Cloud 10
05. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Mating Game
06. MONOCHROME SET, THE - March Of The Eligible Bachelors
07. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Devil Rides Out
08. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Fun For All The Family
09. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Midas Touch
10. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Ruling Class
11. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Great Barrier Riff
01. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Jacob's Ladder
02. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Sugarplum
03. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Cargo
04. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Take Foz
05. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Letter From Viola
06. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Don't Touch
07. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Twitch
08. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Wallflower
09. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Starry Nowhere
10. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Boom Boom
11. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Cowboy Country
01. MONOCHROME SET, THE - He's Frank
02. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Alphaville
03. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens
04. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Lester Leaps In
05. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Monochrome Set
06. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Mr. Bizarro
07. MONOCHROME SET, THE - He's Frank (Slight Return)
08. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Silicon Carne
09. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Fallout
10. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Surfing S.W.12
11. MONOCHROME SET, THE - 405 Lines
12. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Fiasco Bongo
01. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Ten Don'ts For Honeymooners
02. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Straits Of Malacca
03. MONOCHROME SET, THE - J.D.H.A.N.E.Y.
04. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Cast A Long Shadow
05. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Bridge
06. MONOCHROME SET, THE - The Jet Set Junta
07. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Love Goes Down The Drain
08. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Noise (Eine Kleine Symphonie)
09. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Andiamo
10. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Le Boom Boom
11. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Yo Ho Ho (And Three Bottles Of Rum)
12. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Big Ben Bongo
13. MONOCHROME SET, THE - Wallflower (Saloon Bar Mix)
ARTIST
TITLE
1979-1985: Complete Recordings
FORMAT
6LP+6CD BOX

LABEL
CATALOG #
TR 393LP TR 393LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/9/2018

6LP boxset edition. Includes CD versions of each album; Edition of 700. Emerging at the end of punk era, The Monochrome Set's estrangement from society came from a more arty angle. This boxset is the full account of their frantically productive early period, the perfect document of an under-appreciated chapter of British pop history. Though widely unknown, they are one of the most influential British bands of the last 40 years, with the early Morrissey and Marr, Blur's Graham Coxon, and Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos among their admirers. Though Ganesh Seshadri, aka Bid, never went to college, The Monochrome Set are often seen as an archetypal art school band. In 1979 they released a string of snappy, now highly collectible singles on Rough Trade, followed by early masterpieces Strange Boutique (1980) and Love Zombies (1980). In 1982 they released their third LP Eligible Bachelors on Cherry Red Records. Their major label effort The Lost Weekend (1985) contained their biggest hit "Jacob's Ladder".

"... the early Monochrome Set sound betrayed a fondness of Lou Reed and American psychedelia, and though they shared their generation's sense of estrangement, they certainly weren't part of the punk revolution. . . . [the Hornsey School of Art] was where lead guitarist Tom Hardy, later to be known as Lester Square, studied with a certain Stuart Goddard aka Adam Ant . . . The Monochrome Set's lack of breakthrough success is usually attributed to their inability to churn out the hits, but in hindsight their now highly collectible first four seven inches for the Rough Trade label, united here on one disc with all the singles from the early eighties period, prove that they started out as bona fide masters of pop's ultimate format. Released in February 1980, their first album Strange Boutique, featuring the band's percussion-heavy theme song and the Johnny Marr-anticipating 'Love Goes Down The Drain', caught the Monochrome Set in full flight, quickly followed by the equally taut, funny and adventurously dynamic Love Zombies. 1982 saw them move to Cherry Red Records on their third LP Eligible Bachelors, with the catchy lead single "The Jet Set Junta" promptly banned because of its non-existent connection to the Falklands War. . . . After a financially disastrous American tour, the band were resigned to taking the major label shilling with The Lost Weekend (1985), scoring their biggest airplay hit with 'Jacob's Ladder'..." --Robert Rotifer, Canterbury 2017