Stockholm Monsters Discography of CDs

Stockholm Monsters music CDs THE LAST ONE BACK consists of live and unreleased tracks including the Stockholm Monsters' last studio demo. 20 track compilation of mainly unissued material from the Manchester indie act's archives, includes studio demo and live vrsions with full sleevenotes. 2002. The Stockholm Monsters were active between 1980 and 1987.

Stockholm Monsters discography All tracks have been digitally remastered. Liner Note Author: James Nice. Recording information: Strawberry Studio, Stockport, England; Suite 16, Rochdale, England.

Stockholm Monsters songs Alma Mater, the Stockholm Monsters' only full-length release in seven years of existence, sounds like nothing that came before or after it in the group's catalogue. Instead, it bridges 1984's two defining U.K. musical trends, the somber guitar jangle of the post-Smiths indie poppers and the dancefloor-bound electronics of post-"Blue Monday" New Order and the rest of the Factory Records raincoat brigade. The songs are mostly in minor keys, even the faster ones, and they're built on a twin-size bed of skittering electronic drums and brightly chiming arpeggiated guitar chords. Lindsay Anderson's trumpet, so much a part of the group's early singles, is downgraded to an occasional blat here and there, and Tony France's newly melodic vocals sound so different than before that it's almost hard to believe they're by the same guy. The doomy post-punk of earlier songs like "Miss Moonlight" is here transformed into a low-key melancholy with a much ...

Stockholm Monsters CD discography Track Listing of songs: Digital; Baader Meinhof; Glass; Electricity; She's Lost Control; Time Goes By So Slow; Transmission; Sketch For Summer; English Black Boys; Love Will Tear Us Apart; Girls Don't Count; Sex Machine; As You Said; Night Shift; Ceremony; Dolphin's Spurt; It's Hard To Be an Egg; Deaf; Dirty Disco; Everything's Gone Green; Watching the Hydroplanes; Messidor; Art On 45; Taste What's Rhythm; Temptation; Cool As Ice; Blue Monday; Yashar; Love Tempo; Talk About the ...