Does This Obscure Record Sound Like New Order’s “Blue Monday” to You?

Did New Order blatantly cop the groove for “Blue Monday” from obscure minimalist Manchester new wave novelty act, Gerry & the Holograms?
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Championed by Frank Zappa during a 1980 BBC Radio 1 guest disc jockey stint (as well as 1979 radio spot on WPIX in New York and The Dick Cavett Show), Gerry & the Holograms (who consisted of a guy named John Scott, and CP Lee of Manchester-based 70s comedy-rock group, Alberto y Lost Trios Paranoias) put out this Residents-influenced piss-take on the synthpop bands that would have been emerging then, like Soft Cell or The Human League.

Zappa referred to Gerry & the Holograms as “the hottest thing to come out of Manchester in at least 15 minutes.”

Here’s Blue Monday for your comparisons.

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Who Pays For Music? - The Dish

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Which Cities Are the Musical Trend Setters?

The chart below (from their study) shows the “leader-follower network” for the 20 most active cities in Canada and the United States for popular music overall, indie rock, and hip-hop.

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Classic Drum Sequences

Designer Rob Ricketts has created an amazing series of posters displaying notable drum sequences from classic electro songs programmed on the Roland TR-808.

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Just reached 20000 scrobbled artists on Last.fm

Unfortunately there is no official Last.fm badge, reward or gamification “system” so I can only share a screenshot of my Last.fm counter.

Mari Kvien Brunvoll - Is This Love (Bob Marley cover)

She’s a Norwegian singer, and she works the same sort of routine as Merrill Garbus: lots of close attention to the voice and a real home-made sound. But in another sense, she’s much closer to the coolness of the ECM aesthetic, especially with in live performance where she uses a sequencer to accompany herself, and also to the control of someone like Meredith Monk. Here she is singing Bob Marley’s Is This Love from the 12 Points festival from 2010, and despite any musical pointers I might give, there really is nothing else like this. Come on, there’s only one Mari Kvien Brunvoll and I’m guessing she’s already got her own gear. I’m sure we could get something good done for under 10 grand.

 via Doklands music blog

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Geography of Pitchfork’s Top 100 Tracks

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Man, Baltimore is totally underrepresented.

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“Χάρτης” με τα 40 Άλμπουμ του 2011 από την εκμπομπή “Από τις 4 στις 5”

ΥΓ Αργεί λίγο να φορτώσει.